Podcast Host (2:15)

He said, he said, you got It. So I'm gonna go with you. Got it.

Jeremiah Love (2:18)

Yeah, I remember that, too.

Podcast Host (2:20)

Yeah. That reminds me of one other play that, like, you know, big, big, long run, highlight run, and it just must be nice, man. This might be in the comic books that you read or something, to have the. The superpower to be able to just turn to the sideline and. And who were you looking for in that moment?

Jeremiah Love (2:40)

I was looking for my coach, because right before that play, he was like, I bet you won't take it, like, 98 or 96, whatever the yardage was. He was like, I bet you won't take it. I was like, all right, bet. So whenever I broke off, I was looking for him on the sideline, but I couldn't find him. So.

Podcast Host (2:58)

Yeah, it must. It must be nice, brother. That's. That's living in a different air that we can't. We can't relate to, that you can run and turn your head sideways and still outrun everybody. When you talk about this team, this year, like, Riley Leonard obviously was a huge part of last year. Like, this year, starting 0 and 2, figuring each other out, man, like, what have you seen from. From cj? Because. Because I watched him week one and Jeremiah, I was like, man, that dude's got something to him. Like, he. Because he didn't. He. Like, you didn't trust him early. Like, everything was out quick, but then it got. The game got a little bit away, and you're like, all right, this dude's got to make some plays. And he's. And he's. What did you think about his, like, twirly. Twirl. Twirl 65 times, you know, near the goal line. But just. What about cj, man, and just his development in this offense throughout the season?

Jeremiah Love (3:46)

I feel like CJ's grown a lot just with his intelligence as a quarterback. He's. He's always had the skill. He's always had the competitiveness that he needs to go out there and perform, but CJ just needed the experience, and I feel like he got that throughout this whole season. He's just. He's just been improving ever since week one. And I kind of seen, like, the type of guy he was, like, when he was in Miami, he's doing that little toilet twirl down the end zone. Like, I was in that play, and, like, when he was running to my side trying to throw the ball, I was right there, and, like, cj, like, looked this way, threw it like that, and hit Mike in for the touchdown. It was crazy. I was like, man, that boy. Nice. And from that moment on, I knew the type of guy that CJ was. He's an elite competitor, the guy that's going to do anything for his team to win. And he's just been growing a lot, man. He's way smarter than he was when he first started playing, and he's only getting better, man. So the future's bright for cj. I feel like sooner or later he'll be recognized as one of the best quarterbacks in college football, and, you know, he's earned that. So CJ's been doing great, man. Lots of improvement.

Podcast Host (4:53)

That's good. And that's why this offense probably is taking that next step. When you play for a guy like Marcus Freeman, I think it's kind of cool to flashback now and watch all the guys, like, go absolutely nuts with. With him getting, you know, awarded the job. And now you see him, man, like, I just. He's one of the cooler cats. I love to watch him, like, in the way he just. The way he talks is just different. Like, he doesn't. It doesn't seem like. He doesn't seem like he talks like a coach. It seems like he talks like a guy that's in the locker room playing, and obviously he played at a high level, but that. That's what it seems like on the outside. Is that what it feels like for you guys?

Jeremiah Love (5:32)

Oh, yeah. I feel like a lot of times for me, Coach Ruman doesn't even seem like he's my head coach. Like, obviously you got that respect of the head coach, but, like, the way that he presents himself allows us to connect with him more. You know, he doesn't present himself as. All the time that he's the head coach, he's the highest of the highest on the team. A lot of times, like, he's just trying to connect with us and make sure that we're understanding him and he's understanding us, and he's a very young coach, so I think he has a better ability to do that than other head coaches because he's younger and he understands more and he's been in our. In. In our shoes, and. And that just allows him to connect with us more, man. And. And a lot of times he don't even seem like getting my head coach. He's. That. He's that cool little guy to me.

Podcast Host (6:20)

That's awesome. That's. That's cool. What's. What's your best. Like, when you tell people and you talk to folks about Marcus Freeman, like, what's the Best story, like whether. Whether talking to the team, whether behind the scenes, something crazy. He said, to motivate you. Do you have a good market story.

Podcast Host (6:37)

A good Coach Freeman story.

Podcast Host (6:41)

Recruiting stories, sidelines.

Jeremiah Love (6:44)

Ghost Woman has a lot of, I feel like a lot of funny moments in the team room.

Jeremiah Love (6:51)

I would take it back to this, this, this Thanksgiving, we were in a team meeting room. Like, everybody was like, like happiest Thanksgiving, all that type of stuff. And.

Jeremiah Love (7:03)

We go. We go by whenever we're doing, like, our practice during the week. We do like, bloody Tuesdays, working Wednesdays and stuff like that. And I think it was a Thursday. Um, and he was like, it ain't Thanksgiving. It's. It's whatever. So and so Thursday, like, basically just blowing off, like Thanksgiving, like, don't worry about Thanksgiving. He cares more about, you know, being here for practice and being in a facility rather than going to celebrate Thanksgiving. So that's the type of guy Coach Freeman is.

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Jeremiah Love (8:14)

50.

Podcast Host (8:15)

Thank you. He's thankful for the pad popping. Let's go. I'm thankful we get to practice.

Jeremiah Love (8:19)

Forget.

Podcast Host (8:20)

Forget the other stuff with the. With the championship weekends coming up. Like, are you going to watch those or do you get away from. From football for the week? Like, how will you approach the chant this weekend?

Jeremiah Love (8:34)

I think I'll get away from football. Like, I'll probably, you know, keep tabs on it, but probably not going to watch a full game. Just want to get a. Get away from you, you know, let the. Let the football guys handle whatever's going to happen, you know, and I'll just be there to keep tabs on it. Well, some of the guys might get together, watch the game. But I don't think that I'll just. I'll just sit there and watch. I don't watch football really, in general, so ever, unless it's like film or whatever. Yeah, I don't really watch sports. I'm. I'm around it too much to, like, outside of this, be like, I'm gonna watch a football game. No, I want to do something else. So probably not going to watch too much of the games. Probably gonna do other things. I got finals to study for, and I want to play the game, too. I'm into playing 2K right now. So.

Podcast Host (9:25)

So what does. What does. What does Jeremiah love watch? What do you like to watch? How do you get away from ball, man? Like, how do you get away from all the grind?

Jeremiah Love (9:34)

So whenever it comes, like TV or whatever, I watch lots of anime, a little TV series. I've been watching. Now it's welcome to dairy on HBO. Watching that pretty good.

Jeremiah Love (9:48)

Play the game. I play 2K, Call of Duty. Pretty simple. I'm a pretty simple guy, man. Off the field, like, I do all the stuff that other, you know, guys my age, I play the game. I don't get out much. Like, outside of football. I probably won't leave the house. Like, I'll probably play the game the whole, whole day for like eight hours maybe if I got time, I'll probably play the game for that long. That.

Podcast Host (10:08)

That is. That was my major in college. It was video games, dog. It was absolutely that. Like, yes.

Podcast Host (10:16)

Yeah. But you can't. You can't tell me you're the normal guy when. When you've taught yourself Japanese and you've taught yourself how to play the piano. Like, that's not normal, Jeremiah.

Jeremiah Love (10:29)

Well, I got a lot of time on my hands sometimes. And.

Podcast Host (10:32)

Yeah, how did you do that? Like, what. What made you think, like, what made you do that? Or how does that. What. How does that pop into your head? Like, oh, you know what? Like, I want to learn different things like that.

Jeremiah Love (10:43)

Oh, I think I just. Growing up or never I was in high school, I had a lot of time on my hands. So with that time, you know, I'm watching lots of anime. I watch anime in Japanese. So, like, why not try to learn more about the language, learn more about the culture and that. That's. That was Japanese. But as far as the piano and stuff like that, like, it really came from my love of anime. I wanted to play the music that was in the anime, so taught myself how to do that. I just go on YouTube, look up the song, and really Just play it. So it's lots of free time, man. And now, you know, whenever something piques my interest, you know, I go all in and, you know, I want to find out how to incorporate into my life or do it better, you know?

Podcast Host (11:29)

Yeah, that's pretty cool, man. When it. When it comes to. To you on the field, I. I see this year, and I, I could be wrong, but, like, the hurdle has been obviously something we've talked about for a while. And as a defender, I can tell you, as a defensive guy, like, I was, I'm gonna try to time that up and I'm gonna try to catch you and smash you. Like, that's just what I would do. But it seems like, you see, I. I try to. I try to look at ways. I'm like, how would I get him to the ground? So, so, like, you've got the hurdle where now that takes away the ability to go low. But now it feels like the spin move. It feels like you've been working on the spin move a little bit more this year. So now you're. You're getting people just whiffing with the spin move. So how do we decide which weapon we're going to deploy? Well, we got the speed, we got the spin, we got all that stuff.

Jeremiah Love (12:15)

Really comes down to situation. Like, and it just happens on the fly. Like, a lot of time I want to hurdle people, but, like, since last year, like, I. I made a name for myself and hurdling people. Like, people don't go low as they, like, as low as they used to. So, like, I've tried to hurt, hurdle a couple people this year. I was successful one time or a couple of times. And the other times, like, the guy's just, like, standing straight up trying to attack me. Like, what are you. Like, what are you. It's throwing me off. Like, what are you doing? Like, because I literally could run past you or I could do something else, but you're just standing up. Like, it's not proper tackling technique. It literally makes me mad every time I see it on film. Like, you're not tackling the right way. So. Because people do that, you know, I just started finding different ways to make people miss. And a lot of times, you know, guys are coming like bullets, you know, trying to smack me. So I use their momentum and my momentum to spin around them. And it's been working pretty well so far. And every situation that I've been in has, has. It's been really a successful spin. Know. Take it back to pit, you know, that guy was. They just completely caught off guard. So. Yeah.

Podcast Host (13:25)

Does when you, when you look at, when you look at Notre Dame and the playoff conversation, does it make you feel any kind of way when people say they, they've lost two games they don't deserve to be in? Or do you just, do you just say like, we're a playoff team? And like, how do you, how do you approach that?

Jeremiah Love (13:44)

I really just say, like, we're a playoff team. I mean, yeah, we lost two games in the beginning of the season, week one and week two, but, you know, look at all the other teams that have. That you're comparing us to and look at their, their schedules and who they've lost to. We've lost at the beginning of the season. A lot of other people lost in the middle or towards the end of their season. And then you got to just take it back to the guys that we have on our team. I feel like we got a lot of playmakers, a lot of guys that can do some great things. So if we were to get into that setting, like, our ability to grow to do great things, I feel like would only elevate. So, like, I feel like we're a must see team, like people want to see us, but a lot of times, you know, people don't like Notre Dame, but, like, I just feel like we're a playoff team. If you look at our team, like, there's no doubt in anybody's mind. I feel like that we're not a playoff team or that we are a playoff team. That's just how I feel. You know, I feel like we got the guys, we got the coaches, and, you know, we got the experience as well.

Podcast Host (14:45)

You said some people don't like Notre Dame and that that will be something that goes into the equation sometimes. You, you, you were getting recruited by everybody in the country. Why did, why did you go to Notre Dame?

Jeremiah Love (14:57)

It was a different place. I feel like Notre Dame was independent. You know, they weren't bound to a conference. You know, Notre Dame made their own rules, I feel like, and I like that. I also like the people here. Like, the people here are great. Like, I felt way better here than I did at any other place in regards to the people that I'm surrounded with. And it's really just the right decision for me, man. Like, I'm the type of guy that, that likes small communities and small spaces. So it was just right fit for me. You know, I wanted to come in and into college and lock in and do the things that I needed to do to get to get to where I want to get to. Notre Dame is just the right place.

Podcast Host (15:39)

Well congratulations on you guys success. Congratulations on your individual success and look forward to following you guys man as you get closer to the playoff and just it's fun to see a kid like you man. And I know you're not a kid, you're a grown man. But like it's fun to see a kid like you that appreciates things and is willing to speak up and be different. I love that man. Like we got a lot of people out there that shy away from different and I like that you you do you man. Like great job doing you. It's a good example for others man. Thanks for coming on.

Jeremiah Love (16:10)

Thank you. I appreciate you have a good one bro. You too.

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