Breaking down the pressures, bad throws and bad run blocks that led to #NotreDame's lack of production against Northern Illinois.

Place Your Bets is back for the 2024 season, and we’re starting a week early with a special preseason predictions edition.

As I detailed in another thread, subscribers can compete individually for a chance to win free subscription months to Inside ND Sports. The top subscriber will get a year's subscription for free. The second-place subscriber will get six free months.

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The first Place Your Bets this season allows you to make predictions for how Notre Dame football’s regular season will play out. We have 10 prop bets for the regular season, which will allow us to have the results in hand ahead of whatever bowl game/playoff game ends ND’s season. That way we have a clear race at the end in the postseason.

Here’s our first set of prop bets for Place Your Bets 2024:

• Over/Under 27.5 passing touchdowns for QB Riley Leonard in the regular season

• Over/Under 1,149.5 yards of total offense for Jeremiyah Love in the regular season

• Who will lead Notre Dame in receptions during the regular season?

• Over/Under 650.5 rushing yards for Jadarian Price during the regular season

• Over/Under 1.5 starting left tackles for Notre Dame during the regular season

• Who will lead Notre Dame in tackles during the regular season?

• Over/Under 3.5 sacks for NT Howard Cross III during the regular season

• Over/Under 5.5 interceptions for S Xavier Watts during the regular season

• Will Notre Dame return a kickoff for a touchdown during the regular season?

• Over/Under 3.5 missed field goals by Mitch Jeter during the regular season

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It's time for Game 2 of Place Your Bets for the 2024 season. We're making prop bets for No. 5 Notre Dame's home opener against Northern Illinois on Saturday (3:30 p.m. EDT on NBC).

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@Eric Hansen and I share our weekly picks the Friday before every game this season. I will share the results next week in this thread and we’ll have an updated standings thread throughout the season.

Here are the Game 2 prop bets for Notre Dame-Northern Illinois. Voting is open now and closes at kickoff on Saturday (3:30 p.m. EDT).

• Who will have Notre Dame’s longest rush of the game?
• Over/Under 15.5 completions for ND QB Riley Leonard
• Will Northern Illinois throw an interception?
• Over/Under 60.5 rushing yards for NIU RB Antario Brown
• Will ND QB Steve Angeli take a snap before the third quarter ends?

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From the Tuesday night media availability of Notre Dame football coordinators and players, we’ve provided full transcripts of both offensive coordinator Mike Denbrock and defensive coordinator Al Golden.

We also wanted to give you some content from the other interviews. So, here are the greatest hits, or at least the most intriguing quotes, from TE Mitchell Evans, LB Jaiden Ausberry, DT Rylie Mills, RB Jeremiyah Love and special teams coordinator Marty Biagi:

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Notre Dame women's basketball recruiting will be ramping up over the next couple of months, and the Irish are hosting a five-star wing prospect this weekend.

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Denbrook offense is the worse i have seen at Notre Dame in a long time . Its inexcusable what a mess he put on tge field . Markus is a defensive guy - i think we should if build on the offense we had in the bowl game rather creating a whole new system

How do you think Tom did? Cowboys at Cleveland.
Do the Cowboys have a great FG kicker? I wish we had him.

beat defending champ pitt...lost to ole miss in a reenaction of the civil war...third game, losing to purdue by double digits...brought in a third stringer......

As some of you may have seen, there are reports out there that Notre Dame quarterback Riley Leonard injured his labrum in his left (non-throwing) shoulder during Saturday's loss to Northern Illinois and underwent an MRI.

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Notre Dame defensive coordinator Al Golden met with local media Tuesday night after practice ahead of Saturday's road game against Purdue. Here's everything Golden said during his session with print reporters.

Answers are largely verbatim. Questions may have been edited for brevity and clarity.

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…I can’t even rn

Let’s be honest in this thread, ND is not who we thought they were. They are an average football team. Let’s start with grading positions groups to illustrate my comment above:

QB: C-
WR: D+
RB: B+
TE: C
OL: D+

DL: C
LB: C-
DB: B+

Special Teams: C-

Coaching, game planning, leadership: C-

This is an average football team. I expect another 2, perhaps 3 loses when the season ends. That’s realistic expectations after 2 weeks. Is it overreaction? Maybe, this offense is terrible. The game plan and schemes are just as bad as the players executing them.

ND doesn’t have 5 starting LB’s….Mitchell Evans isn’t 100%…the WR room isn’t improved….Riley can’t throw. That’s reality folks.

Notre Dame offensive coordinator/tight ends coach Mike Denbrock met with the media on Tuesday evening after Irish football practice. Here's everything Denbrock had to say. Answers are largely verbatim. Questions may have been edited for brevity and clarity. No. 18 ND (1-1) visits Purdue (1-0) on Saturday.

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The Notre Dame Club of Northwest Indiana is holding our club tailgate on the 28th before the Louisville game.

Our tailgate host has a Joyce pass. I have a Bookstore pass, but I'm looking for a Joyce pass so we can have a second car there to bring stuff in for the tailgate.

I can trade my Bookstore pass for your Joyce pass, or I can buy your Joyce pass.

Please PM me if you can help.

Notre Dame football head coach Marcus Freeman will hold his Monday press conference at 12:30 p.m. EDT.

We'll have updates from his press conference posted in this thread while it's happening.

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Unbelievable. No wonder the kid stopped running the ball. I had an injured labrum in my non-throwing shoulder, and it can definitely negatively affect how you can throw the football - see Baker Mayfield's poor play with the Browns after he tore his left labrum. It would also be extremely painful to take a hit.

Why didn't Freeman replace Leonard after he hurt himself? Bad judgement on the part of Freeman.

Wednesday at noon ET, but the question queue is already open, so you can submit your question(s) early. PLEASE include your name and hometown along with you question in that format. You can use your code names on the regular board posts. I'm going to relax the "no drinking" rule, so buckle up (not that anyway ever necessarily followed it). Here's a shortcut to the question queue and the chat itself:

https://live.jotcast.com/chat/notre-dame-football-live-chat-sept-11-2024-19136.html

Notre Dame just laid a big ol steaming pile of deuce......cmon on down man the future is so bright here in South Bend for a high powered offense and rising program. Oh, if you could bring some of those highly ranked WR's as well, oh wait all those highly touted WR's said phuck it, ND is a place to die as a WR.......Deuce looks like you are on your own with a couple midlevel 3 star WR's so continue to cmon on down. Whats that Deuce, you are waiting to see how the offense performs under our new OC......well Deuce we are 118 out of 121 in the nation and schools are using ND as an example of what not to do so yeah Deuce just walk by the big pile of steaming shit called Notre Dame football.......Auburn is calling, Ole Miss is calling.