Notre Dame Fighting Irish College Football Pregame Quote, 01/07/2025

On offense:

I think we’re very confident with what we can do offensively. It doesn’t always appear as a well-oiled machine, but I think the players have a lot of confidence in each other. They have a lot of confidence in what we do. We got to quit shooting ourselves in the foot and execute a little bit better, but we’re fully capable of doing that. And then some of it’s on me. I think I gotta cut loose and let these guys play football a little bit too.

I think we are a true, balanced offensive unit. There’s a lot of talk, and obviously about our run game has been kind of what leads us and should be. But the improvement that we’ve made throughout the year in the passing game, and our ability to do that when we’ve needed to has what has really kind of helped us become more consistent overall offensively. And there’s a lot more there in the tank that hopefully we can tap into here down the stretch.

Question: How’s Jeremiah Love doing?

Very well. I mean, he practiced the last couple days. Obviously, we want to get him to the game so we weren’t running his wheels off the last couple days. But every day it gets a little bit better. Moves a little bit better. I know he feels like he’s gonna be ready to go.

Question: If we say that Jadarian Price is the guy, what changes, if anything, and how has he improved throughout the course of the season?

Yeah. I look at JD, he is really like a close One B, as good as Jeremiah is. I mean, the things that Jadarian has done offensively for us overall as a unit, making explosive plays when he got opportunities, and in picking up the team at times and I think of Texas A & M pops to my brain. And there’s a bunch of other ones too, that where he just where we were a little bit bogged down, he gave us a spark. And I know he’s anxious to prove that he’s that type of guy that can be that consistent on every snap, and he has that ability. I don’t know that it would change us offensively all that much. Obviously, you don’t want to not have Jeremiah Love, if at all possible, but we feel confident with whoever we put in there.