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The Shamrock: A show about the Notre Dame Fighting Irish

What we've learned about Marcus Freeman through four games & Notre Dame's early-season MVPs

The Shamrock: A show about the Notre Dame Fighting Irish

The Athletic

Sports News, Sports, News, Football

4.8524 Ratings

🗓️ 30 September 2022

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

In this bye-week edition of The Shamrock, Pete and Matt take a step back to glance a full look at the Irish's season so far. What have we learned about Marcus Freeman through the first four games of the year? What do we expect to learn in the remaining eight matchups? Pete and Matt share their offensive, defensive, and special teams MVPs at the quarter mark. Plus, the pair forecast how ND will fare in their final eight contests.


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0:00.0

Welcome to the Shamrock by week edition.

0:12.9

I'm Pete Sampson, joined by my co-host, Matt Fortuny.

0:15.6

We were going to have Dan Rolofsky from ESPN, but decided too good of hair to come on this podcast.

0:24.6

He's way too big time for this.

0:26.4

He's the most popular man at every level of football this week after Jimmy Garoppelow, let him off the hook.

0:31.3

As soon as Garapolo walked out of the end zone, we knew we were going to have a hard time getting Dan to recap sort of calling Notre Dame's

0:37.7

game against North Carolina. And we actually tried to record this last night, which was National

0:42.3

Coffee Day. And there are a few people more caffeinated on screen than Arlovsky, who I think does

0:47.2

an awesome job just so we're clear. But maybe we'll have him on some time down the road when he's not

0:52.5

so in demand. I mean mean the gropolo stuff the

0:57.6

toa stuff from thursday night i mean it's if you think covering notre dame is exhausting i can't imagine

1:03.3

covering the NFL in college i mean he's got NFL live every day he's doing Notre Dame

1:08.8

Carolina and he has another college game every week.

1:11.6

That is a very busy man, and I think, you know, obviously I'm biased. He's been a multi-time guest

1:17.2

of the show. I think he's one of the best of the business. I really do. He's a, he can break down

1:22.6

film and convey it to the common man in ways that very few people in that business can. You would almost not know he was an NFL quarterback.

1:31.5

And I mean that like in a very complimentary way.

1:34.2

Like he's not like a meathead.

1:35.6

He doesn't talk down to people.

1:36.8

He's he's really,

1:37.5

really good.

1:37.9

No,

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