JotCast | Notre Dame Football Live Chat Sept. 13, 2023

Notre Dame Football Live Chat Sept. 13, 2023

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Eric Hansen

12:19

Hi Len. Dam Hartman has been doing it since the Navy game, and some of those plays have turned into touchdowns. That's the luxury of having a very experienced QB versus a first-time starter, in Drew Pyne, last season, who didn't have that skill set or at least to the point that former offensive coordinator Tommy Rees trusted it.

Len from the Jersey Shore

12:17

Hello Eric, I thought the NC State game was the perfect game for ND. Every player made a coachable mistake. I even saw Joe Alt get beat on a running play. ND needed a game like this for the coaches to emphasize the need to get better. And despite all those errors ND won by 21 points. My question. In football coaches develop these detailed game plans. NC State D has a way of making teams go away from their game plan. Teams cannot sequence plays as they had planned. At this point in the season with Spring Football, preseason practices and three games completed, do the coaches have the faith in Sam Hartman to allow him to check a play at the line if he sees a situation where that play will not work as expected?

Eric Hansen

12:16

Hi Tim. Here's hoping the hurricane cuts to the right, like Audric Estimé, and heads out into the Atlantic without making landfall. ... So the answer to your question is sometimes you can advance a blocked field goal and sometimes you can't. Here's the rule: If the kick if blocked and lands in the neutral zone or behind the line of scrimmage, it is treated like a live ball/fumble. So, either team can advance it. That didn't happen in the Tennessee State game. The ball landed beyond the line of scrimmage/neutral zone and therefore is treated like a missed field goal. In that case, the ball comes out to the 20 or the original line of scrimmage, whichever is further down the field for the team taking possession.

Tim Thompson

12:12

Nantucket, Ma. Hello all, awaiting Hurricane Lee’s visit. Hope the cable tv holds up. So going back to the Tenn. st. game and the blocked field goal. No one on either team attempted to recover and advance the ball. I believe it is legal to do so. The same thing happened in the Clemson game the same day. Am I missing something? Is it ND philosophy to not attempt, in case of fumble? Ba ck during the Holtz era we blocked a kick against Michigan and they picked it up and scored a TD.

Eric Hansen

12:10

Manny!!!!!!!!! I think for Sam Hartman to be in the group of finalists for the Heisman Trophy, Notre Dame would have to win two of the three (Ohio State, USC and Clemson) and not trip up against anyone else. That, to me, is also a résumé that should be good enough to get the Irish into the playoff, at 11-1. Insightful of you to realize team success and an unexpected storyline play into Heisman voting. You nailed it.

Manny from San Pedro

12:07

Eric!!!!!!!!! Hopefully we will win this week and fight osu as two undefeateds!!! It’s too early for bronze statue love for Hartman but for him to be in NY come December. Will we have to make the playoffs!?!?!?!?

Eric Hansen

And off we go ...

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12:06

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As far as this week's chat goes ...

► And, finally, thanks to all who have been listening during my return to WSBT radio as a co-host with Darin Pritchett on Weekday SportsBeat (960 AM, live streaming at wsbtradio.com) on Wednesdays and Thursdays during the 2023 Notre Dame Football season. I'm also co-hosting the pregame shows with Darin and Tyler Horka (which is not a clever stage name for Tyler James). The weekday shows run from 5-6 p.m. ET. This week’s pregame show starts at 9 a.m. ET. You can download episodes as podcasts.

12:05

► On this week’s Inside ND Sports Podcast, we caught up with Bob Morton, a former Notre Dame offensive lineman (2002-06) and one of the best O-line play connoisseurs around. In probably my favorite podcast of 2023, Morton discussed his grade for the Irish offensive line through three games, the downside of potential personnel switches on the line, how much time the line should be allowed to iron out its issues, how quarterback Sam Hartman compares to Jimmy Clausen and Brady Quinn, the advantage of an unbalanced line, what he's liked about offensive coordinator Gerad Parker, ND's defensive pass rush, his confidence about the Irish going into the Ohio State game and more. The podcast can be listened to via SoundCloud or on your preferred podcast platform including: Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Podbean and Pocket Casts.

► If you missed the last episode of our aspiring-to-be-viral Notre Dame Football YouTube show, Football Never Sleeps, it keeps its shelf life long after the live presentation. I think it’ll be worth your while to play catch-up. We’ve moved into our Monday night 7 ET. Remember, if you miss the live show, you can catch up anytime on YouTube. Tyler James and I are also doing a live postgame show of our takeaways after every game. Here’s what last week’s show looked like.

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