Notre Dame head coach Marcus Freeman’s weekly press conference began with a postmortem of the Ohio Stare loss. Freeman spoke about the lack of execution on both sides of the ball in the final four minutes, most notably the 10-men-on-defense error.
“Great teams find a way to execute when it matters the most. That’s what great teams do and we didn’t. We needed to execute and the end of the game and we didn’t, Ohio State did, and we have to learn from the critical mistakes we made.”
Freeman confirmed that by the time knew there were only 10 men on the field it was too late and took full responsibility for the failure in communication.