Notre Dame Must Get Its Deep Pass Game Rolling

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00:00 There was something that Marcus Freeman said during his press conference, Ryan, that if

00:09 if again, I don't put a lot of stock into press conferences, but I will just say I'm

00:17 going to say this.

00:19 He made a comment.

00:22 That he was referring to Tobias Merriweather, and he says, you know, we talked about this

00:26 today in our meeting.

00:27 We have to try and find ways to get him the ball and take some shots down the field with

00:31 Tobias's body length and speed.

00:33 We have to try and continue to find ways to truly take shots and not look for the wide

00:36 open perfect play.

00:38 That's what at times we can end up doing.

00:40 We have to take shots and believe he'll make a play on a 50/50 ball.

00:43 We have to have full faith that he will.

00:45 And it's not even just Tobias.

00:47 This needs to be more of what just they're doing in general.

00:51 You know, it's it's take that that one on one shot to Jaden Greathouse on third and

00:55 six against USC.

00:56 Right.

00:57 And my hope my hope is that the last few series we saw from the offense, the shot to Rico,

01:03 they ran a play action looking to get a corner route for a touchdown on that next play.

01:07 You've got the post route to to to Chris Tyree on the touchdown.

01:11 You hope that we see more of that.

01:13 Like, hey, look, guys, let's take a shot.

01:15 Let's be aggressive.

01:16 Let's put this game away.

01:17 And my hope is that that's a sign of things to come.

01:20 And then when you talk about what Coach Freeman said about, look, it's that right there, right?

01:24 You're always looking for that perfect play.

01:27 And if it's not there, I'm just going to take the quick route or the short route to the

01:30 check down or whatever.

01:33 And it's almost kind of like they've they've overcorrected Sam Hartman.

01:37 Now it's about to what you broke down earlier.

01:39 Let's find that happy medium.

01:40 Yeah, because if you just go out there and have a three turnover game against one of

01:44 these teams, you get yourself beat.

01:46 Right.

01:47 So I'm not looking for that.

01:48 But you also can't average what they've done the last four games, which is six point nine

01:52 yards per pass attempt.

01:54 Can't do that either.

01:55 Yeah.

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