​Notre Dame coach Marcus Freeman opened fall camp with a news conference Tuesday at Notre Dame Stadium, addressing a number of topics for a team that checks in at No. 5 in the preseason coaches poll.Here are six things we heard from Freeman, safety Adon Shuler and linebacker Drayk Bowen as the Irish prepare to dive into practices this month.1. “Leave No Doubt” continues to be a mantra the Irish follow.Freeman instituted the motto in the winter when Notre Dame missed the College Football Playoff despite finishing with a 10-2 record. Bowen said the players understand that means they “can’t leave your future in the hands of others” — and that is driving how they work.While “Leave No Doubt” links back to the CFP snub, Freeman said he tells his team to stop thinking and talking about the playoffs — to lock in on the moment instead.“When your mind is thinking about something that isn’t right in front of you, you create bad habits,” Freeman said. “You create complacency, and it’s important that every time we think about last year, 2024, the future, it’s a trigger to remind us to take care of what we have right in front of us, and that’s this moment.”With the longer offseason the Irish had while not playing in a bowl game, Freeman said the team is physically ahead of where they were in previous years — bigger, stronger and more explosive. Couple that with the Irish returning all three of their coordinators, starting quarterback CJ Carr and a ton of talent on defense, and Freeman said his team is starting camp in a good spot.“The foundation is higher, but we’ve got a tremendous amount of work and not a lot of time to get that foundation to where we need it for Sept. 6,” he said.2. Freeman said the Irish have made “enhancements” to try to avoid early-season missteps.Freeman said he evaluated everything his program has done in the offseason as he tries to make sure his team is ready in the early season. The Irish have struggled early in seasons under Freeman, including starting 0-2 last year with losses to Miami and Texas A&M, and in 2024 losing a September game to Northern Illinois.He called it “a January through August issue.”“How do you evaluate everything you’re doing from the minute the last game ends to the minute the first game begins?” Freeman said. “And we’re not changing everything we’ve done, but we’re evaluating everything we’ve done, and we’re enhancing little things we’ve done in terms of how we practice, in terms of which days we practice, in terms of how much meeting time.”He said he’s confident in the changes he has made as the Irish look toward their Sept. 6 opener against Wisconsin at Lambeau Field.“We have to challenge everything,” he said. “If you continue to just rent and recycle and repeat, I think you’ll get passed by. You have to continue to adapt to the changing times and to the different ideas that are out there.”3. Freeman called quarterback CJ