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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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Notre Dame women's basketball coach Niele Ivey joins Irish Breakdown to preview the upcoming 2024-25 season. Ivey talks with Sean Stires, who is also the radio "voice" of ND women's basketball, to discuss several topics, including: the impact of NIL on recruiting and roster retention, the return of point guard Olivia Miles, how Miles and Hannah Hidalgo have looked together at practice, an update on the injury of forward Maddy Westbeld as well as her thoughts on Sonia Citron, KK Bransford, Cassandre Prosper, and Emma Risch and the additions of Liza Karlen, Liatu King and freshman Kate Koval.

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Irish Breakdown had a full Buy/Sell/Hold segment that was loaded with great submissions about Notre Dame football, recruiting and college football. Bryan and Trevor went through all the submissions for this week's episode. This is part three of the show.

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Irish Breakdown had a full Buy/Sell/Hold segment that was loaded with great submissions about Notre Dame football, recruiting and college football. Bryan and Trevor went through all the submissions for this week's episode. This is part two of the show.

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Irish Breakdown had a full Buy/Sell/Hold segment that was loaded with great submissions about Notre Dame football, recruiting and college football. Bryan and Trevor went through all the submissions for this week's episode. This is part one of the show.

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The Irish Breakdown team discusses the commitment of 2025 athlete Antavious Richardson to Notre Dame. A dynamic high school quarterback and defensive back, Richardson was recruited to Notre Dame to play wide receiver

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Today's Rapid Fire topics include:

* Fill-in the blank... Riley Leonard being named the Senior Bowl offensive player of the week as well as being named to the Great 8 list by the Davey O'Brien Award for his play against Louisville is BLANK.

* Leonard currently has 374 rushing yards...which is one more yard than Jeremiyah Love’s 373. Which of them will have more rushing yards at the end of the season?

* Notre Dame and NBC determine the home game kickoff times before the season starts and they stick with them. But we know that when the Irish go on the road the other TV networks have a two-week window to determine their game times. Would you want Notre Dame and NBC to wait like ESPN and ABC does or do you like just knowing what the game times are going to be and sticking with them?

* NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell was once the personal driver for then NFL commissioner Pete Rozelle when his career was starting in 1986.

-What NFL figure...past or present...would you want to chauffeur for a day?

-What Notre Dame figure would you want to chauffeur?

* Fill-in the blank...Army and Navy are tied for the American Conference lead and it’s BLANK that they could play each other in their conference championship game a week before they meet in their annual Army-Navy classic?

* New York Yankees radio announcer John Sterling retired earlier this season. But now that the Yankees are in the playoffs, they have brought him out of retirement to call postseason games. Do you Buy or Sell the move? 

* We finish with a tribute to former Notre Dame baseball player Ross Brezovsky, who passed away this week after a long battle with cancer. 

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It's Mailbag Day on IB Nation Sports Talk and Irish Breakdown answers listener questions about Notre Dame football and more on today's show. Some of today's topics include:

* Will the Notre Dame offensive line be the same after the bye week?

* Will Irish wide receiver performance improve if pass protection improves?

* Will any starters change coming out of the bye week?

* How good would the offensive line be if not for all the injuries?

* What's our confidence in offensive line coach Joe Rudolph?

* What's up with Jaylen Sneed?

* Thoughts on Rylie Mills after he was named the Outland Trophy Player of the Week. 

* Will the Irish reopen the battle for the No. 2 quarterback job during the bye week?

* Was Riley Leonard being the only offensive player named captain a red flag?

* How good is Marcus Freeman and staff's ability to scout and recruit defensive players?

* Is there a correlation between Notre Dame's playing surface and the rash of injuries players have had this season?

* More!

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