I am here with audric estimate of the Notre Dame Fighting Irish and look not gonna lie Saturday seemed like it was pretty brutal for you guys how do you when when you’re in a situation like that where you’re just heart gets ripped out how do you recover how do you get back
Going when you you know you got to work yeah so like obviously that was a pretty hard game for us that was something that we all wanted but that’s part of the sport we play that’s part of the life we play that’s this is a lesson that we’re
Going to take with us for the rest of our lives coach Freeman always uh prize one day one life one game on life and like you said yesterday might be with us for a whole season of back our heads but we got to flush that we gotta learn from
That game like that game we fall short due to a little details that weren’t executed but that’s something that’s going to help us like coach Freeman said in today’s team meeting like what are you gonna do with that you gotta when you lose a game like that you gotta look
In the mirror and see what you could do and how you can get better as an individual and that’s what we will do does it help that you go right into another challenge this week I mean this is this may be the biggest game in Duke football history they’ve got college
Game day coming uh I know when you’re at Notre Dame a lot of times you’re the other opponent’s biggest game but this is this seems especially big yeah like you said we’re at Notre Dame every every game for us is a big game and definitely a big game for them
So we know they’re going to come out with all they got but so are we we’re going to come out on fire we have We’re Not Gonna it’s not gonna we’re not saying that we’re gonna take what happened to Ohio State out on them but like this is the game after we just
Gotta keep on showing and proving while we’re one of the top teams in the country and this is a opponent that’s gonna have to face it how was the mood in that that team meeting coach Freeman was was telling me this morning he said wasn’t even sure what he was going to
Say to you guys but the words almost didn’t matter it was more the vibe than anything else so what was the vibe in there so yeah this team um we’re kind of taking it pretty well like no one’s dragging around no one’s being lazy no one’s putting their head down our
Message just just flush it um it was hard on Sunday Sunday was a pretty hard day for us all even the coaches but it’s Monday it’s a new week we got a new opponent and we just gotta keep on going we’re gonna come back tomorrow on Tuesday have a great practice and just
Keep on taking steps forward in the right direction so we got to talk about you I I saw you on McAfee and they’re going they’re like how are you this big and I’m I’m curious too like how does anyone ever tackle you I don’t know I mean your shoulders take
Up the entire camera shot here oh my bad no no no no you’re good you stay right there foreign we’ll be right back with more from Notre Dame running back audric estimate but first I want to tell you about row back my birthday is this week and I’ve told
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Can still do everything you need me to do yeah so I’m honestly I’m in high school and even younger older popular years I was getting a little bigger but um I was still fast I was still able to move and people are like yeah we could see playing linebacker and most of my
Fam everyone in my fair Max played the defensive side so like yeah you’re gonna go play Big Time ball for linebacker and I’m like no I like scoring touchdowns I like running I like I’m gonna be running back they’re like all right but the years went past I got bigger but even
Though I got bigger I got faster and I got better at running back and that’s what I was gonna say because I mean like you hurdle people yeah and that’s you don’t get to do that as a linebacker you don’t that part I love I love being a
Dynamic guy I love to be able to make people Miss I love to be able to run through people I love you to run past people and that’s something you do at running back I’m interested you brought that up with your family saying maybe play linebacker with the way things are
Going in the end NFL was there any thought just from an economic standpoint or from a draft standpoint of maybe not going on as a running back um no honestly this just with my first love um I knew ever since I was a kid at
Four years old that I was gonna be a running back I was gonna be a division one running back I was gonna be NFL running back and that uh mission that goal never changed so you are one of the more fun people on this team I they
They cast you in the starring role for the green jersey video where you’re basically it’s the scene from Jerry Maguire which by the way came out before you were born making me feel very old had you even seen that movie I I didn’t pry to it but like after
After I shot this film I had to watch it do you feel like you I mean I felt like you you really embraced that role oh yeah definitely I I hit a spot on it yeah the show me yeah you sold it yeah so how was Sam
During that he was good he was a good height man like people don’t really see because in the video he’s just in there but like between seats he’s going crazy like after like we had a lot of bloopers seems like I cut out that he was just
Going crazy he’s a great height man so this other video that I’ve seen though is that you’re actually the best Irish dancer on this team okay what do Catholic schools in New Jersey teach that like where does that come from ah this is just that footwork that I got it
Translated from the football field to the dancing floor whatever I could do it all because like you were with you hit a live band you had the Violet the fiddles are there and yeah that’s that’s impressive I mean that’s just just from picking up and watching and then the
Natural yeah it’s just just embracing the atmosphere in an environment and Dublin Ireland they have a great atmosphere environment great culture over there and I’m a big culture guy and I love experiencing new cultures and stuff and now it’s just great experience and I get to show off my dancing skills
And you got to go you got to go to Dublin for the game you got to go earlier in the summer too right I went in the springtime what was that like yeah it was a great experience it was definitely um different from from the game opposed to when we went in the
Spring because in the spring we had a lot more time a lot more free time we had time to actually explore the whole whole um whole country of Ireland and it was just great atmosphere that people were there amazing the food there was great music it was just great atmosphere
And I’ll definitely be back so you want to be a lawyer that was I’ve heard you in several interviews talk about how you’re planning on law school after the NFL how how you said you knew you were running back at four years old when did you when did you realize you were a
Lawyer I knew I was a lawyer probably a little couple of years after um I have older I have older brother I have older cousins and I’m always arguing with them I always know I’m right even though they don’t think I’m right I know I’m right that’s something that I just have a
Strong passage for is um arguing and um getting my point across and that comes with a lot of work and I feel like that’s a work some work that I’m willing to embrace so you’re a poli SCI major which is kind of the path to law school
Is is the plan you know you got you get that degree you’re playing in the NFL you take your LSAT and then you kind of figure figure it out from there yeah so I plan to play on uh play football for as long as possible and whenever that
Day comes to end I’m gonna get right back into it I’m gonna uh hopefully uh I put I put myself in position right now to be successful and be able to get into a good law school so hopefully when football’s all said and done I can just
Hop right into it what is this Notre Dame Network like in turn not just in terms of Notre Dame football players but Notre Dame grads I mean how many people kind of reach out to you and say hey I can help you get get where you want to
Go yeah Notre Dame has the best network in the country I feel like that’s part of the reason why I came here and especially times like this uh when your team’s doing really well and everyone’s right everyone on campus like Ohio State game like you had everyone everyone like
A big time name come on campus and just let’s just put in order to improvise the opportunity that other schools might not have and guys some guys take advantage of it and I’m trying my best to take advantage of that Network so let me let’s let’s talk about this offensive line of yours
Because this is a luxury to run behind a group like that but who is the funniest member of your offensive line I’d probably say Zeke so Z that’s your Center yeah yeah what what is what is it about Zeke that makes him the guy everybody is laughing at uh everything
Honestly just he’s just he’s such a hard worker and just when he’s off the field like no way that’s Z Corral like nowhere that’s the guy that’s banging heads for four quarters straight he’s just a guy that um he’s always cracking jokes and he’s just a guy he always has his shirt off
Um he’s a big deal you gotta love the big dude who always ripped his shirt off always respect your confidence right there that’s the ultimate confidence he’s this type of Dude to have um he’ll take out his cleats will be the last thing he takes off like if you think
About that that’s your cleats are usually the one of the first things so you got him doing that you got him the cleats are the last thing that comes off you got Joe alt yeah who’s eating hot dogs with just just ketchup on him yeah and and defending that
I mean you do have a bunch of straight psychos blocking you know that’s beautiful Blake Fisher he’s also a clown he’s my roommate so yeah I get to see the the other side part wherever a lot of people don’t see but he’s messy clean what are we talking about here a little
Bit of both okay A little bit of both it was wow how can you be both he cleans up nice he dresses nice he has a good Style haircut every week type of guy he cleans up but then sometimes uh he’ll leave Chick-fil-A on the table for like three days
I hope not if he doesn’t or um blew his dog will that my when I was at the college newspaper we had someone who just left a uh McDonald’s cheeseburger on a desk just to see how long it would stay there without decomposing and it was it was
Several months so that’s funny so he let it stay there for several months yeah well it was it was an experiment that’s all it was in the name of science I don’t know that Blake’s actually committing any science how much fun is is it being on this team
Oh it’s great I wouldn’t want to be on any other team uh I feel like just the Brotherhood we have is like no other I feel like we’re kind of like a cult like a fraternity like even though our main goals our main objective is to win
Football games it’s deeper than that I feel like we’re more about reaching our full potential together as a unit and doing that it just brings us together and forges a type of bond that like Noah you wouldn’t you wouldn’t be able to find that in another place what’s it
Like playing for Coach Freeman because he’s obviously knew at this head coaching thing but it seems like he’s so recently removed from actually playing football it feels like it might be easier to connect with yeah definitely like you would think you’d be coaching for a couple of years but he’s just a
Great people’s person he’s all about what what’s good for the players what do the players need opposed to other coaches are like are they like to take the headlines like he’s a guy who’s after a big loss like that he’s a guy that was tickets to the tin he’s a guy
Who’s like put it all on him so that’s something that great uh to see as a player and that’s something that we need to lead his team and he’s doing a great job leading Us in the right direction so we all saw that scene when he got named
The head coach what was it like before that camera rolled when you guys found out well I honestly no one knew honestly those that couple of days and those couple days were full of uncertainty and we all thought were we had a practice so we’re all just in the locker room
Waiting we’re like what are we waiting for and then when coach Bayless came out and told us this new head coach it was just kind of sense of relief like because we knew who coached Greenwood is we knew his personality and we knew it was just a great hire for this program
That’s what’s so interesting is you guys had only been with him for a season at that point but you you could tell already Yes we definitely know already so what is the advice that you would give your younger self now that you’ve been here a while and and you understand how everything works
Um The Trusted process uh never try to rush anything everything happens for a reason and just time a short time time goes by fast not gonna lie and some people get a complacent and um they like to push things aside but no you gotta attack it day by day and every day
Because once you attack it every day you’re gonna look up and you’re already Junior like I am yeah how do you tell that to those because you got some good young running backs that just got here do you tell them that hey you’re gonna blink and and you’ll be a junior too yes
Definitely I tell them that and they already see it happening like one more game already halfway through the season so they’re already seeing it take place can you believe that no I cannot you know I just said I’m like today it just it feels like it just started gay number six
So do you feel like this team is what it can be or or how where is the ceiling on this team yeah we have a really high ceiling but every week you got to keep on trying to reach that ceiling like coach Freeman prize uh prize herself is to reach our full
Potential and this team has a very high potential but it’s all about reaching that full potential sometimes you can uh have a setbacks but no matter what you just gotta reach that full potential and this team is really special so one fact can be football related or not about
Audrick estimate that you feel like the world needs to know that maybe it doesn’t know yet I know it’s not that you can sing I’ve seen you sing on video yeah I’d say I could say uh um I just I just love life honestly everything that comes with life I feel
Like when football’s done I feel like I’m still in love with life as much as I do now you see the world you see the world experience it just get to live get to see things change you get to see people grow get to see uh relationships being
Forged I just love that part that is a very old soul answer have you always been like that I think so yeah so you you were was it your parents always say well you know he he acts like a 40 year old yeah so I was I I always have been
Premature for my age honestly y’all it’s just I feel like the life we live as football players especially elite football players as we are I feel like you’re kind of forced to um see y’all see the world in a different different lens well and it’s interesting because
Everybody talks about the nil stuff and yeah well how are they going to handle it are they going to know how to pay taxes and but I feel like especially now the way recruiting gets covered the way everything is like you’re thrust into that kind of adult role even in high
School yes definitely I feel like especially with nil this opening doors that a lot of people have a couple years ago and that’s definitely that’s definitely another responsibility that you got to add to the table and not and there’s I think this is something that’s
Going to help us in the long run so I know you’ve got some nil those going is there a dream in il deal is there a company that that you’ve always wanted to work with that you would be the perfect pitch man for that’s a hard one
I don’t think so right now if I find one I’ll let you know okay what’s your favorite one you have right now my favorite one is probably um I I’d say rollback because um hey they sponsor the show yeah oh they do well yeah we got the road back out running today that’s
Perfect yeah they take care of me they take care of me they take care of my family every time I get home I feel like every week I got a new book oh those boxes are amazing when it’s on your doorstep that’s just right on the doorstep so okay I’m not wearing it
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Perfect they made it softer so I don’t know how they did it I don’t know they did it right though and that’s your row back five minutes with Audrey Hey listen other companies can do this too throwback’s the one that stepped up listen out shout out thank you so much
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