Today's Rapid Fire topics include:

* Fill-in the blank....The word that best describes Notre Dame football right now is BLANK.

* Buy or Sell the Northern Illinois loss being worse than the Marshall loss? 

* Comments from Freeman on the usage of Irish running backs in the Northern Illinois loss and we debate whether they should have passed on 2nd and 1 when Leonard threw his second interception as well as more thoughts on the Irish running game. 

* More comments from Freeman on whether or not the Irish had a timeout remaining at the end of Saturday's game and on his analytics director Anthony Treash. 

* We also answer some listener questions about Freeman and the team as well including his future at Notre Dame if the Irish don't make the College Football Playoff this season.

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