Live updates: Notre Dame coach Marcus Freeman Navy week press conference

Notre Dame is off to Ireland this week. The Fighting Irish begin the 2023 season against Navy at Aviva Stadium in Dublin this Saturday at 2:30 p.m. ET.

Head coach Marcus Freeman will speak to the media at 12 p.m. ET Monday to give updates on the Irish five days ahead of the season opener. Watch live via the link below and follow along with written, real-time updates as well.

WATCH: Notre Dame head coach Marcus Freeman Aug. 21 press conference

What Freeman is saying

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• Freeman says “time flies” to start things off. It is pretty surreal for everyone that game week is here.

• Notre Dame had less soft tissue injuries and concussions this fall camp per Freeman. The team was also 79 percent does in dehydration.

• What’s going to be Notre Dame’s edge in 2023? “Leadership,” Freeman says. He is really pleased with the four team captains the players chose; Joe Alt, JD Bertrand, Cam Hart and Sam Hartman.

• Notre Dame is treating today like a Tuesday practice. Then the Irish will practice Tuesday and Wednesday, too, before leaving Wednesday night for Ireland. The Irish will also have a practice Thursday in Ireland. A “jet-lagged” session, Freeman admits.

• Freeman expects to see an aggressive, talented Navy team. He has a lot of respect for head coach Brian Newberry.

• Freeman shouts out Notre Dame walk-on offensive lineman Brennan Wicks, who is in the Navy ROTC here in South Bend. The plan is to serve in the Navy after graduating.

• Notre Dame offensive lineman Michael Carmody had hand surgery. Tight end Kevin Bauman and Aidan Gobaira had successful surgery on their knees.

• Freeman says starting center Zeke Correll should be fully ready to go after missing some time last week with a bum ankle.

• Freeman says “overall execution” is what won Pat Coogan and Rocco Spindler the starting offensive guard positions.

• Freeman credits less injuries in this year’s fall camp to the ability to be adaptable in creating practice schedules and in recovery.

• Freeman says there is difficulty in going against the triple option offense because you just don’t see it often at the college level. “We have to prepare for a lot of different things we might see. It will be a challenge.”

• Freeman on the Notre Dame offense: “We cannot have negative plays. And we cannot go three and out.”

• Notre Dame had intentional unscripted periods in fall camp to help Gerad Parker get used to being in the fire as a play-caller.

• Notre Dame will stay the night in Ireland Saturday after the game and get up early to board a flight for South Bend.

• Freeman says he would be lying if he said he wasn’t a little bit surprised to see how well the Notre Dame defensive line, especially on the interior, performed in fall camp.

• Freeman says running back Gi’Bran Payne earned the No. 2 spot on the depth chart through consistency. Notre Dame grades ball security and dependability after every practice, and Payne was very often at the top of the chart among running backs.

• Freeman on Jaylen Sneed: “He’s going to help us in a lot of different ways. He is a talented, talented football player.”

• Freeman says there is “100 percent” an advantage to Notre Dame playing Navy in week one and not in the middle of the season. More prep time for a unique opponent. Get it out of the way and go from there.

• Freeman says there is no substitute for experience and for Notre Dame to be trotting out a quarterback like Sam Hartman who has started 45 games, it’s invaluable.

• Freeman preemptively gives Chase Ketterer the scout team player of the week nod. Ketterer is the scout team quarterback having played in the triple option offense in high school.

• Freeman says this could be one of those rare games in which the pass opens up the run for Notre Dame and not the other way around. Navy stymied the Irish rushing attack last year. Freeman understands it might be difficult to dictate game flow via the run again.