Rakes Report: A Notre Dame podcast

Jessica Smetana joins to discuss the Fighting Irish's demolition of the Boilermakers in West Lafayette. Topics include a dominant run game, dominant defense, concerning injuries, if there's a quarterback controversy and some (well, maybe more than some) lingering thoughts from last weekend.

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Jessica Smetana joins to examine the wide world of takes — including fair critiques, honest questions, sizzlers and some creative fan-fiction — that resulted from Notre Dame's loss to Northern Illinois. Understand if you auto-delete this but it's not overly gloomy or whiny.

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Michael Bryan of 18 Stripes joins to recap his Saturday at Texas A&M. Also included: Marcus Freeman's fourth down decisions, what one game affirmed/undercut as far as preseason expectations and what we're looking for in Week 2.

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Jessica Smetana joins to discuss the monster win in College Station. Sorry this is very loopy and rambly and not edited, we'll be more coherent next time. Buy Golden-Denbrock 2024 merch here.

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Jessica Smetana joins to select the things we're most excited to see this Fighting Irish football season. Also: Big-picture thoughts, predictions, advice for Notre Dame fans traveling to College Station and the debut of campus' newest statue, Hot Dog Jesus.

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Alex Herrmann and Andrew Smith of Notre Dame, Our Blogger join to preview all 12 opponents on this fall's Fighting Irish schedule.

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Jamie Uyeyama of Irish Sports Daily returns for Part Two of this year's Frosh O series to talk about every scholarship freshman on the Notre Dame defense. Included:

• Can Kyngstonn Viliamu-Asa really be Manti 2.0?
• Tae Johnston has upside at safety, but Kennedy Urlacher could be in the mix on special teams from the jump.
• Leonard Moore's stock continues to rise as he appears to in the cornerback rotation.
• Bryce Young is a monster at defensive end.
• Jamie's overall thoughts on a big 2024 season for Marcus Freeman and the Fighting Irish, including a thin margin for error.

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Jamie Uyeyama of Irish Sports Daily joins for Part 1 of this year's Frosh O series to talk about every scholarship freshman on the Notre Dame offense. Included:

• The present and future of the line arrives in Anthonie Knapp and Guerby Lambert.
• Which tailback has the best chance to contribute this season between Kedren Young and Aneyas Williams.
• An exciting trio at wide receiver, including Cam Williams and Micah Gilbert.
• How Jack Larsen fits into the legacy of Irish tight ends.
• C.J. Carr's tremendous upside potential.

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Irish Sports Daily's Greg Flammang and 18 Stripes' Michael Bryan dive into the nitty gritty of nine position groups. There's unanimity about who's first and who's last (with some breaking news on the latter) along with a promising amount of gray area between them.

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A run through of where things stand as we enter a month where the Fighting Irish will play a real (and real important) football game.

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