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Yeah. Notre Dame weekend everybody's very excited about it Irish trojans now coach. You never really get involved in the greatest -- sectional rivalry in the history of college football as far as talking of the guys about the tradition you're going back to -- why does that coach what's the philosophy.

Well at that it has tremendous impact in the fans and in alarms and everybody that follows the program. But to us we've got to put the football game like we always play and -- to change our approach or mentality of the things that we do that have been successful on the state and violence of that's huge opportunity in for the program but yet we we prepare exactly we prepare for everyone else.

They're coming off a bye week approaching the midpoint of the season let's go into kind of a state of the union thing talk about your offense and the development of an identity for your. But they couldn't find it.

It's it's been work in progress and everybody should've understood that this young quarterback is gonna take time I don't know that everybody did but it will we had to work their way through it and even in -- we've just -- five games and rebel group. Feel like got a chance really. Comfortable by using their office as we always. Matt has done a fantastic job making that happen. -- and a great job and get through the process of getting us there we have one. Who -- what we didn't know. Didn't work. Fluid on Washington -- that everything will open it is Matt Barkley really the best quarterback that you've seen here at this point know what what -- went in on didn't. Question about that but he's as he can do everything and everybody is done. And even at this early age were able to throw stuff -- that we've thrown throughout the years in the program he's going to be the most productive -- Just because as a freshman starting. In that regard. He has throws is that the awareness he just needs more time did you think the defense would be as strong especially in the front seven this early they've really developed chemistry. Ended didn't seem like it was gonna happen that fast but it it well do. Everybody thought that it couldn't if you go back to how we talked about these guys coming out of spring football we were playing just as well as we head -- We saw. The play's been made the activities be. Awareness of -- just because the local and Mike Morgan. Have been playing. So wasn't in transition wasn't nearly as big as the expectation was going to be -- so. The guys played great second there's played beautifully and because of front of the very active so it's we were hoping we can be this and we were we set the expectations abuse and and went --

Now we love music Pete Carroll loves music when you travel to Notre Dame always like to listen to the polls -- or something Irish is azeris on the week coach for the people. No I don't the -- bonds knows there's this long for the week and we were lucky to get -- for the day let's get one for the day. Where we're at what day is today. It is it is the first day of the week that was stud crescendo you know by the end of the week we're in the pretty hard usually so I think I'd probably start the week off -- old club level -- in OK -- there you know and and a make sure wouldn't know that are young guys gonna get caught up in the game and in the wrong. By the end of the week. You know it depends on how crazy -- so we -- we might even have a little.

Well amenities. That make you very much -- good luck this week.