2025 Fall Practice Thread

[NotKoon]

Holy shit please tell me he didn't actually say this

No just my reaction to the nonsense he actually posted

 

[ab2cmiller]

"From the first practice through the last practice Minchey has been better and Carr has been arm punting throughout camp. Any rational coaching staff, would've chosen Minchey and therefore me proclaiming him the starter made perfect sense"- John Brice

Proclaiming him the starter or predicting he would be declared the starter?

 

[Irish du Nord]

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Get this man a proper fitting hat

 

[Huntr]

No fuckin way he actually said that.

Bridges burnt, Earth salted.

No way.

 

[Hautian Domer]

Are the sites in spin mode?

I'm only interested in what Irish Breakdown (for laughs) and Irish Illustrated (my "go to" source) has to say.

 

[Irish du Nord]

The inside baseball on all of this is that under Kelly there were massive leaks from both players and coaches. It was, at best, symbiotic... and at worst you had people pushing their agendas through certain "friendly" beat writers.

Freeman has changed that dynamic and does not tolerate leaks. The people who still have access maintain it by not spreading stories / rumors except when they have the green light. So there are a lot of people in the dark.

Any chance two of those guys are Tommy Rees and Malik Zaire? Any others we would be surprised to hear?

 

[FightingIrishLover7]

"NOW you guys know how I felt getting faked out!" - Kirby Smart to the beat

 

[FDNYIrish1]

Which one of you did this. Well done

 

[Huntr]

hamburlar

 

[FightingIrishLover7]

Pete and Fortuna are live if anyone wants to ask how Liverpool and Penn State are looking this year.

 

[SeekNDestroy]

I can't believe we're finally starting a big-arm QB with accuracy. Not only this year but likely next, and maybe even the year after. Big accurate arm, I can't recall the last ND starting QB that had that.

Kizer

 

[IrishLion]

Any chance two of those guys are Tommy Rees and Malik Zaire? Any others we would be surprised to hear?

I honestly don’t think Zaire has connections at ND aside from the random current player here and there.

He’s too volatile and erratic with his takes and responses to the program in the moment, not the behavior of a dude that would wait patiently for his sources to tell him what’s going on.

 

[MacIrish75]

Biggest takeaway:

This was the wrong day to actually have fucking shit to do at work.

 

[NDPhilly]

Pete and Fortuna are live if anyone wants to ask how Liverpool and Penn State are looking this year.

Man they are just so monotone. Tough listen. Still haven’t found a ND pod I love.

 

[NDohio]

Fair. He was 62 in net so his hang time made up for his lack of distance. There were very very few punts returned against us.
I know it's attractive to latch onto a single stat but don't you think it's better to consider everything?

I would like him to punt better. If he adds 3-5 yds avg to his net, he's in the top quartile, maybe even top 15. That seems doable.

Of course it’s better to look at more than one stat. That’s why I used three stats to just the one you used.

But, who cares, WE GOT A QB1 BABY!!

 

[FightingIrishLover7]

 

[Dale]

Fortuna - “me you and everyone else in the media talks to a lot of people who are (at practice) and I have not heard a single soul say CJ Carr has been the better QB in camp than Kenny Minchey”

 

[Crazy Balki]

Fortuna - “me you and everyone else in the media talks to a lot of people who are (at practice) and I have not heard a single soul say CJ Carr has been the better QB in camp than Kenny Minchey”

And are those people who were at practice in the room with us right now Matt?

 

[GoldenAura]

Fortuna - “me you and everyone else in the media talks to a lot of people who are (at practice) and I have not heard a single soul say CJ Carr has been the better QB in camp than Kenny Minchey”

The entire beat is actually worthless.

 

[NDohio]

Fortuna - “me you and everyone else in the media talks to a lot of people who are (at practice) and I have not heard a single soul say CJ Carr has been the better QB in camp than Kenny Minchey”

Interesting. The people on this website that were either at practice or know people that were at practice tell a different story. Matt needs better sources.

 

[greyhammer90]

Fortuna - “me you and everyone else in the media talks to a lot of people who are (at practice) and I have not heard a single soul say CJ Carr has been the better QB in camp than Kenny Minchey”

See this sort of thing smells like total bullshit. Why was everyone saying "50/50 but leaning Carr" up until 5 days ago if eVeRyOnE out there was telling them Minchey was outplaying Carr everyday?

 

[Dale]

Basically the long and short of this seems to be:

- the media is not at practice
- the media gets someone to tell them the INT tally at each practice
- they assume Freeman would choose the one who threw less
- That was Minchey


Every beat writer comes back to the INT tally as the core point of their assumption.

 

[lefty5258]

Pete and Fortuna are live if anyone wants to ask how Liverpool and Penn State are looking this year.

I can't take Fortuna seriously most of the time and even moreso with that fedora behind him

 

[MacIrish75]

 

[FightingIrishLover7]

Do we need to start a slush fund to keep Arrow here? I feel some companies may be sending him offers...

 

[BauerOutage]

Ryan Roberts article is similar to Brice where it’s just talking about how Minchey should have been named QB

 

[mrmcgrail]

Was there just one source they all had who was just really on the minchey bandwagon or trying to mess with the beat? If it was a troll job by a source bravo

 

[FightingIrishLover7]

Ryan Roberts article is similar to Brice where it’s just talking about how Minchey should have been named QB

And Driskell wanted Carr - no wonders RR got fired...

 

[IrishSpartan]

lol that weird dude from twitter was right

 

[Steds83]

Something that I wish people (media) would discuss more in this is that we all have been made aware of Carr throwing picks but seemingly nobody know the context behind these picks… interceptions in camp and practice aren’t always a *bad* thing! If a QB is just testing his limits and trying to push the envelope to improve himself while knowing he can’t always do that in games, that isn’t always a point of evidence against him. Not to say that Carr never threw a bad interception, but clearly no one knows what any of them looked like at all. I can’t imagine if they were all terrible Freeman would have chosen him to lead the team to start the year.

Basically the long and short of this seems to be:

- the media is not at practice
- the media gets someone to tell them the INT tally at each practice
- they assume Freeman would choose the one who threw less
- That was Minchey


Every beat writer comes back to the INT tally as the core point of their assumption.