Shane & I hold one last therapy session in talking about what went wrong during the Fiesta Bowl and what hopes we have for the future.

Be sure to stay around post-credits for Eddie and I to pick the national championship and send off the HLS podcast in quite literally the most fitting way possible.

Enjoy our final show!

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Sadly, the no touchdown November streak died, Jack Coan had a bad interception, and the turf monster probably robbed us of a long TD or two. Despite all that, Notre Dame did what they needed to do to make their case to the playoff committee.

Shane and I spend the second segment of the episode talking about the playoff picture, what we think needs to happen in order for the Irish to find themselves at the #4 slot (as well as what absolutely doesn’t need to happen), and how we feel about this 11-1 effort by ND.

It’s hard to believe we’ve come to the end of regular season recaps, but we have at least one more to do!

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Sure, gushing is fun, but we get to spend the majority podcast having ourselves a ball with a host of other topics. We talk preparing for a heel turn when the College Football Playoff Committee inevitably shoves ND into the top four and plan a literal marshmallow war for the senior section next season because, with NBC highlighting it, the University’s efforts to halt it are now completely hilarious.

In short, the theme to end the season is to lean in to being the obnoxious, arrogant college football heels. I can think of no better way to go out!

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Thankfully, Notre Dame was forced to play more of the depth chart than we’ve seen all season thanks to injuries and illness this week. With that look at the future of the Irish, Shane and I spend the second half of the pod talking about what we see as the big picture for this season and beyond.

Oh, and there’s a story about how I blacked out for charity and completely missed this game live.

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Yet there were still some incredible highlights, mostly centered around Navy not scoring a touchdown which might be one of the wilder things we’ve seen in this series in some time. Apparently this was driven by Marcus Freeman making sure the scout team made life hell for the defense, which is some next level coaching evil.

The offense largely did their job against a bad defense, leading to one of the shortest recaps of anything all time.

Not going to lie: will not miss covering/recapping this series ever again–and it’s going to keep going for at least another decade. Y’all have fun with that!

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We also fangirled over Kyren Williams’ 91-yard touchdown run that looked like it came straight out of a video game.

Even though the defense struggled, we don’t have too much concern, especially considering the games remaining. We project a bit on what our defense will look like against Navy and also ponder if we perhaps jumped the gun on expectations for Marcus Freeman pulling off a lockdown defense in year one.

The Irish just keep on winning and making these episodes very easy. It’s hard to complain, even though we try.

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Overall the game was great, yet still contained a mix of things that have frustrated the hell out of us all season long. Shane and I air our grievances, but celebrate that all the headaches mattered not in a game that was never in doubt.

We also discuss the stadium atmosphere and some of the potential scenarios that could await the Irish in the postseason that we’d like to see.

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We had the full range of emotions while the Irish escaped Blacksburg with a victory. BK apparently experienced some too as he came out firing in his post-game presser about the negative press of his starting, but totally not flavor-of-the-week, quarterback.

We had a wild one and there’s tons to talk about. Thank God we’ve hit the bye, we all need a deep breath after this one.

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This episode got us so heated that even the Homefield Apparel ad read wasn’t spared a rant inclusion.

We are red, mad, and nude online.

Thank Christ this is an audio format.

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While the offense still has some things to work through, particularly Jack Coan having some odd accuracy issues, there are signs of an explosive offensive ready to break out. The offensive line, despite considering you, yes you, for LT, performed admirably.

Marcus Freeman and the defense continued their path to improvement, featuring an actual smart us of the three lineman dollar formation that gave Purdue fits. Better yet, the whole giving up multiple 60+ yard plays each game died a wonderful death.

All sides of the ball still have some work to do, but the positive signs are there. Come join Shane and I as we give our thoughts on Notre Dame’s first spread-covering victory.

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