No one took my responsibility for Notre Dame's loss last Saturday than captain and offensive lineman Mike McGlinchey.

The 5th year senior leader was the one who was unable to block his man in the final minutes, leading to Brandon Wimbush getting blindsided, the football coming loose and Georgia recovering to seal the win 20-19.

"I blew it," McGlinchey said bluntly after the game.

So you have to imagine, no one is more eager to get back on the field and play a game than McGlinchey.

"We're going to play our hearts out," McGlinchey said on Wednesday of Saturday's game at Boston College. "Everybody's kind of angry, kind of pissed off and ready to get back out and see another team again, but we've got to take it day-by-day first."

That's when a round of applause came from the door way.

"I love it," Irish coach Brian Kelly said after he stopped clapping.

"Thank you," McGlinchey replied.

Asked what that was like to have his head coach interrupt his press conference to cheer him on, McGlinchey started to smile and laugh.

"I saw somebody out of the corner of my eye but I do not know it was him," McGlinchey explained. "But thank God I answer that okay."

More laughter.

And while McGlinchey felt responsibility for the loss to Georgia, linebacker and captain Drue Tranquill felt the Irish let the game slip away. He's fired up to play again as well.

"We really want to get back out there,' Tranquill said. "We're disappointed with the outcome because we know what we've put in since this thing kind of started back in January. So we're disappointed."

"Losing is losing and it's unacceptable around here. We could make any excuse in the book, none of them are valid, and so we are just looking for an opportunity to get back on the field, build our traits and continue building this thing into what we know that it can be."

Now both Tranquill and McGlinchey as captains look to steer the ship back on track.

"I think a captain's job is just to keep the message consistent and keep guys moving forward," Tranquill said. "I think a lot of guys can sulk in the fact that we lost and that we lost the way that we did, and guys minds can maybe even drift back to last year when we lost a lot of close games."

"But I think our captain's job is to bring guys back into the present moment. Make them trust their training and make them realize what we've done to get to this point."

For McGlinchey, he believes the captains can't have a mindset of 'trying to make sure this doesn't happen again.'

"I think that's where we screwed up last year in the fact that we tried to do too much," McGlinchey says. "When you mess up a play or when you mess up a game as a team, you wind up on the losing side of things; it's normally just a couple small things here and there that you've got to alter, that you've got to change. Where we're going to be a lot different is we're not going to go into panic mode.

"We're not going to go into anything that's too drastic because we know we are a good football team. We've got a lot of talented players and a lot of great leaders, and we're going to just be as consistent as we can, as possible, to get our jobs done and to eliminate the mistakes that were made."

McGlinchey says it's the coaches' jobs to point out the mistakes and the players job to fix it and as a captain its their job to fix their own mistakes and then help out wherever else is needed.

Notre Dame and Boston are set for a 3:30pm kickoff Saturday afternoon at BC. The game will be broadcast on ESPN.