Notre Dame football defeated previous No. 1 Miami 31-24 on Saturday evening, and when head coach Marcus Freeman met with the media on Monday, he still seemed like his team could have plenty better.

In his opening statement, he’d go on to talk about the self-inflicted penalties, which the Irish made plenty of against the Hurricanes. Notre Dame was flagged seven times for 56-yards, many of them giving Miami automatic first downs in crucial moments of the game.

When speaking on the issues, Freeman was pretty straight-forward in his response, “the challenge we have is how do we eliminate the plays that are self inflicted?” What was great to hear was that he didn’t blame the players, as it seems like the it was across the board as to who should take blame including the coaches. He talked about players alignment, technique, along with being in the right position to do their job.

Freeman didn’t mince words on how to fix the issues also, as “it’s really just being consistently disciplined in what you have to do.” It very much seems like Notre Dame can fix these problems over the next few weeks as it hopefully is preparing for an extended run in the College Football Playoff.