The Notre Dame Football Mailbag was jam-packed with a ton of great questions about the Fighting Irish! We had to break it into four shows! Here is part one.

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The Notre Dame Football Mailbag was jam-packed with a ton of great questions about the Fighting Irish! We had to break it into four shows! Here is part two.

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The Notre Dame Football Mailbag was jam-packed with a ton of great questions about the Fighting Irish! We had to break it into four shows! Here is part one.

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Bryan Driskell of Irish Breakdown and Bill Bender of Sporting News preview the biggest games of week six. They talk about the two Friday night games between Oregon and Michigan, and UNLV and Syracuse. They also talk about the following games on Saturday:

#9 Missouri at #24 Texas A&M

SMU at #22 Louisville

Iowa at #3 Ohio State

#12 Ole Miss at South Carolina

#10 Michigan at Washington

#4 Tennessee at Arkansas

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Today's Rapid Fire topics include:

* We each make one bold prediction for Notre Dame for this season.

* We do Underrated/Overrated/Properly rated for Irish assistant coaches Al Washington, Deland McCullough, Joe Rudolph, Max Bullough, Mike Mickens, and Mike Brown.

* Fill-in the blank...With no Notre Dame football game this Saturday you will be doing BLANK.

* Buy or Sell Miami as the team to beat in the ACC? 

* Will you stay up for the ACC after dark matchup between Miami and Cal at 10:30 Saturday night?

* Start/Bench/Cut these Quentin Tarantino movies: Jackie Brown, Inglorious Basterds, The Hateful Eight.

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There are several reasons why we believe Notre Dame’s defense can get better, and at the beginning of this segment Bryan and Trevor discuss why fans should expect this defense to be even better. Of course, there are also some areas of concern, which they also discuss

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Bryan and Trevor break down the specific areas where Notre Dame must improve on defense, and several of those areas tie together. If the Irish can get some improvement in these aspects the defense will be truly elite in the final seven games.

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Notre Dame has been really good on defense so far this season, but there’s still room for improvement. If they do that the Irish defense could be scary good to finish the season

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Irish Breakdown's Sean Stires and Trevor Trowbridge answer We In/We Out questions submitted by IB subscribers. Some of today's questions include:

* We In/We Out the staff will continue this class without adding a QB and/or QB in the upcoming Portal season?

* We In/We Out: Will Mike Denbrock help Marcus Freeman hold coaches accountable after season? Do we think Denbrock will help push Freeman to dump dead weight? Chansi Stuckey was easy but a Gino Guidugli, or Joe Rudolph or Al Washington might be a tough sell job. Feel like with Al Golden and Denbrock they will not hold back their opinions.

* Bye weeks are BOOORING! We in or we out?

* Must move Jaylen Sneed & Preston Zinter to vyper … we in/out

* We in,We out: Guerby Lambert starts at left tackle vs. Stanford, then starts every game for the next three years

* We in/ We out? Georgia loses to Tennessee, and Texas. Finishing 9-3 they are not in Atlanta on championship weekend.

* In/Out: There will be zero teams undefeated by the time playoffs rolls around?

* This season, 3 of the power 4 conferences have a conference champion who has never won the conference before. We in or we out?

* We in or We out: Jonathan Taylor masked the coaching flaws of Joe Rudolph.

* We in / We out: If (God forbid) Riley Leonard gets banged up and can’t play for “a game or two”, Kenny Minchey would be the best temporary replacement because his game most replicates Leonard’s style of play (to compensate for the porous pass blocking of the offensive line).

* ND will finally figure out that play action passes are still legal in college football. They are allowed to run the ball and use play action to help control teams crashing the line of scrimmage…. We in/ We out

* We in We out: ND runs the table on remaining schedule and gets in the Playoffs barely.

* We in We out: ND will have the same coaching staff they currently have in 2025. No one forced out or leaves on their own for another gig.

* We In or We Out: Part of the negativity surrounding this years team is even when winning it hasn’t been that fun to watch.

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