NEW YORK (WNDU) – Notre Dame football made its media-day rounds in New York City on Thursday, with quarterback CJ Carr and the Irish using the platform to signal expectations for the 2026 season.<\/p>\n
The visit carried an undercurrent of motivation. Notre Dame missed the College Football Playoff last year<\/a> \u2014 a fact the program said has driven its offseason approach.<\/p>\n Carr addressed the team\u2019s mindset during an appearance on The Rich Eisen Show, pointing to a phrase the program has adopted heading into the year.<\/p>\n \u201cYou know, this year, we have the phrase, \u2018leave no doubt,\u2019 and so we\u2019re going to try and come into the building every day and be the best version of ourselves, our 2026 Notre Dame football team,\u201d Carr said. \u201cAnd we\u2019re going to use some of the pain that we had from last season and being left out and losing two rough games at the beginning of the year, tough ones to lose. But, you know, we\u2019re going to use all those lessons that we have learned to propel us forward this next upcoming year.\u201d<\/p>\n Carr added the team is currently in summer workouts with a focus on incremental improvement.<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019ve been working. We\u2019re in summer ball right now, just trying to get, you know, 1% better every day,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n The Irish enter the season pointing to talent and depth as reasons for confidence in a playoff run.<\/p>\n Notre Dame opens the season on Sunday, Sept. 6, against Wisconsin at Lambeau Field in Green Bay.<\/p>\n Stay up to date on local news with WNDU<\/a> on-air and online. Be sure to download the 16 News Now App<\/a> and follow our YouTube<\/a> page as we continue to bring you the latest news coverage.<\/p>\n Copyright 2026 WNDU. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK (WNDU) – Notre Dame football made its media-day rounds in New York City on Thursday, with…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":939997,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,106985,378455,405,403,5226,5225,22886,378456,378457,5228,5227,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,42036],"class_list":["post-939996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-america","tag-cj-carr","tag-cj-carr-notre-dame","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkcity","tag-notre-dame-football","tag-notre-dame-football-2026","tag-notre-dame-media-day","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa","tag-wndu"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116932554992387906","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=939996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939996\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/939997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=939996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=939996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=939996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}