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The Shamrock: A show about the Notre Dame Fighting Irish

The Irish rally late to beat Toledo

The Shamrock: A show about the Notre Dame Fighting Irish

The Athletic

Sports News, Sports, News, Football

4.8524 Ratings

🗓️ 12 September 2021

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Pete Sampson and Matt Fortuna give their immediate reaction to Notre Dame's win against Toledo. Does Jack Coan deserve more credit? Plus, the guys dive into the 2-QB system and which areas of improvement need to be addressed.

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0:00.0

Welcome to the shamrock brought to you by Direct TV stream. Get your TV together with the best of live and on demand. Learn more at directTV.com. I'm Pete Sampson,

0:22.3

joined as always by Matt Fortuna. We were talking about a game that we didn't think we would

0:26.3

spend more than five minutes hatching out afterwards. But there is, man, there is a lot to get to

0:33.7

and not all of it on a 90-second delay. Notre Dame 32, Toledo 29. Matt, where do you want to

0:40.7

start? You, I was there. I have thoughts. I have peacock. I have thoughts. Yeah, you have thoughts

0:47.0

that are just 90 seconds later than mine. What did you make of that? It was really one of the more

0:53.9

bizarre Notre Dame games. I've covered it. I've covered many, many bizarre ones. There are a lot of thoughts. There are a lot of numbers. There are a lot of takeaways. The one that really is like seared into my mind right now is Nerdym just played a Mac team. A good Mac team, but I mean, they've not won the MAC title yet under Jason Candle as good as they've been.

1:14.9

And they played them to a draw on the ground game, 132 to 132.

1:19.0

That's not supposed to happen.

1:21.8

It's been so much time, I feel like in the preseason kind of dismissing Cincinnati and some other not quite upper echelon teams on

1:30.5

Notre Dame schedule thinking they just can't hang physically with Notre Dame and my God like

1:35.8

that narrative got flipped completely on its head today like last week was one thing Florida

1:41.8

State which as poor as they've been in recent years, has really good players, had national TV, sellout crowd, emotional moment. This was a Mac team that, frankly, I didn't think played all that well. They were terrible offensively. I mean, Polito should have won this game. Like, a halfway decent offense would have won this game against Notre Dame today.

2:02.0

And Toledo just couldn't do it.

2:03.9

I mean, they're probably sick on the bus ride home right now.

2:06.6

I know it doesn't affect their place in the Mac race,

2:08.5

but like that was a golden opportunity.

2:10.3

Toledo let slip away.

2:13.2

And if you're Notre Dame and you're on the other side of that,

2:18.3

hearing that losing Mac team being described in those terms when they came into your house and nearly knocked you off.

2:19.5

I mean,

2:20.0

I guess we got to get used to this because this is two weeks where we're having

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