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IB Nation Sports Talk: Marcus Freeman Talks Notre Dame Football Fall Training Camp

Notre Dame football fall training camp is here and Irish Breakdown is talking about it! We have comments from Irish head coach Marcus Freeman, who talks about Jeremiyah Love, the Irish offensive line, cornerback battles and more. Shop for Irish Breakdown gear at our online store: https://ibstore.irishbreakdown.com/  Join the Irish Breakdown premium message board: https://boards.irishbreakdown.com  Stay locked into Irish Breakdown for all the latest news and analysis about Notre Dame: https://www.irishbreakdown.com​ Subscribe to the Irish Breakdown podcast on iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/irish-breakdown/id1485286986 Like and follow Irish Breakdown on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/irishbreakdown Sign up for the FREE Irish Breakdown daily newsletter: https://www.subscribepage.com/irish-breakdown-newsletter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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01 Aug 2024
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Notre Dame football fall training camp is here and Irish Breakdown is talking about it! We have comments from Irish head coach Marcus Freeman, who talks about Jeremiyah Love, the Irish offensive line, cornerback battles and more.

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(upbeat music) - Happy Thursday, Ivy Nation Sports Talk, up and running, along with Jesse Steyers. I'm Sean Steyers, and I tell you what, Jesse, I thought this was already a great week. Good morning football came back this week. After like four months away, we've got the return, of course, of Notre Dame football, day two of Notre Dame fall training camp, and we're gonna have a bunch of comments from both Marcus Freeman and Mike Dembrock in today's show. We just hired two new guys at Ivy, Trevor Drobridge and Joe Everett. And Father David wants to know if I'm gonna be including these guys in my next Ivy employee ranking. Now remember, those are co-host rankings. So they haven't co-hosted the show yet. I don't know, like if and when that might happen. But on top of all that, also, special guest appearance in today's show by my favorite character from Roadhouse, Wade Garrett is here, ladies and gentlemen, so. (laughing) - I wondered why you had that highlighted. I was wondering where that was going. - Why, why I had Wade Garrett highlighted here there. Have you seen the original Roadhouse? I don't even know if you've probably-- - Probably haven't. - Yeah, you probably haven't. Patrick Swayze, Sam Elliott, I mean, come on. Give her the times. They just did a remake within the last year or so with Gyllenhaal, I heard it wasn't that great. Roadhouse is a classic, you've got to see it sometime. Probably a little cheesy for you would be my guess, but classic Swayze, classic Swayze. You wanna talk some football? - Yeah, I mean, I haven't, I've been excited to talk about the beginning of camp. Obviously you and Brian were on yesterday, but-- - We were. - I have some things that I thought were pretty exciting about-- - Things to get off your chest? - Yeah, about Marcus Freeman's press conference on Wednesday. All right, John says you need to watch Roadhouse. You're coming home this weekend. I don't know if there'll be time for you to watch Roadhouse this weekend, but that needs to happen at some point. I thought you'd be bigger. All right, so Notre Dame finished day two of fall training camp this morning. We were able to be there for the first five periods of practice, we saw the full practice yesterday. - Let me guess those first five periods, individual drills? - A lot of individual drills. - Ask me how I know that. - How do you know that? Did you read the French football? - Let's just, let's not even go there. - Whoa! - Let's-- - Come on, Cal. - Come on, Cal, Brent. Slow your roll now. - Your favorite NFL network guy, Cal, Brent, calling it out. I've actually got a little bit of footage for you from practice this morning. You wanna watch it? - Yes, I do. - All right, so I took the sound out because there was like some background commentary going on that I wanted to make sure it didn't slip, that kind of stuff. So, it was nothing that players or coaches or anything like that were saying I just didn't want, there were some people around me talking and I didn't want that to kind of get out there basically. So, in all fairness. So, here it is, putting it up here. Now, I know it's hard to see. This is Riley Leonard throwing first and you can see him throwing to Notre Dame receiver. Steve Anjelli will be throwing second. Riley Leonard's still throwing. Now, Steve Anjelli steps to the plate. - Little four-yard slant route. - I guess I'm slants. Slants seem to have been lost in football. - In recent years. - That's man beater out there. - I think so too, slant crossing pattern. Yeah. So. - How has, I know this is, you know, down towards the bottom of the things to be worried about, but have you seen Tyler Bunder catch any passes yet? - I know. (laughs) That's not to say that he hasn't. I mean, he's in there with the wide receivers and stuff. And now we see him kind of throwing a little bit longer at the other end of the field. Tyler Buckner, I don't know if you were paying attention yesterday, but we did get to see Mitch Jeter kick several field goals and Tyler Buckner was the holder. - Nice. - The field goal unit. I mean, I think that's a good spot for a guy like him. A former varsity quarterback. You expect him to have pretty good hands. He's a good athlete putting back there as the holder on the field goal unit. USM87 says he's starting slip and fall on a wide receiver, you know. All right. - Some nice outrouts here. - Yeah. - Roll out. - You notice on that one, they faked the RPO on that one. - Mm-hmm. - That kind of, that mesh RPO look. - I would have zoomed in a little bit more, but you don't know if they're going to throw long or throw short and it just gets too herky jerky. You know, like if you've got it. - Yeah, you don't want to keep messing with stuff. You want to find kind of one angle and leave it at that. - Right, a little bit of a low throw there, but that's just a little bit, some of the quarterbacks thrown. I thought the quarterbacks look sharper today, like right from the start. Look like maybe, because we talked a little bit yesterday about Riley Leonard starting a little bit slow, but then as the team period came along, he was throwing the ball better and jelly had his ups and downs and we don't need to rehash that. We got into that on yesterday's show and it got a little bit heated, but I thought that they all looked better today, what we were able to see. And, you know, again, we weren't there for a whole practice. We didn't get to see him, you know, do team drills or even seven on sevens or anything like that. It was like that that I just threw up there with some of those routes, really one of the highlights of what we saw today. They did do a little bit of tempo type stuff, you know, that kind of thing with the offense, moving down field against air. That was probably the other highlight. But I think that the young quarterbacks, getting as many reps as possible at this stage, still pretty important as camp goes on because once they get into the season, the majority of the reps were for the guys basically on the too deep. And something Brian and I touched on a little bit yesterday. I wanted to get your take on, they had a unique practice structure yesterday. And again, we didn't get to see if they repeated this again today. I assume they would have, but during both team and the seven on seven periods, they split the fields. They put the first and second team units on one field. They put the third and fourth team units on the other field. So like, yeah, Riley Leonard leading the first team offense, Steven, Jelly leading the second team, meant you with the third team car with the fourth team on different fields going up against corresponding defenses. Third, third units, fourth units, that kind of thing. So, you know, again, getting the team a lot of work early on. What do you think about splitting it up like that early? Football season may be over, but the action on the floor is heating up. Whether it's tournament season or the fight for playoff home court, there's no shortage of high stakes basketball moments this time of year. Get down on the excitement with prize picks. America's number one fantasy sports app, where you can turn your hoops knowledge into some serious cash. Prize picks is the largest daily fantasy sports platform in North America. We are the easiest and most exciting way to play daily fantasy sports. It's just you against the numbers. 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Download the app today and use code Irish for a first deposit match up to $100. Again, download the app today and use code Irish for a first deposit match up to $100. Prize picks, pick more, pick less, it's that easy. Yeah, I think split it up like that is a tremendous idea. It's something that our coach never really did during our fall camp, but the reason why it makes sense is you have less guys just standing around, right? That's what it kind of turned into, once we got to certain seven on seven in team periods, if you're not basically in the three deep, you're just kind of standing around waiting to get your turns in, right? And so the more that you can split these guys up and get them moving and active during practice and still be kind of constructive learning at the same time, really that's all that matters because the third and fourth string guys are probably your younger guys, guys who are still probably struggling to learn the playbook, those sort of things maybe line up fundamentals, technique, that kind of stuff. So the more that they get the opportunity to practice, obviously the better that they're gonna get. And like I said, it prevents people from kind of standing around. And that seems to be kind of the main thing I think Marcus Riemann wanted as he didn't want. You know, the least amount of people, you know, standing around as possible. And he even said yesterday in the press conference, you know, even though there weren't as many coaches actively down there, it's still being, you know, recorded and videoed. There's always an eye in the sky, right? And so they'll go back and they'll be able to watch those, you know, third and four teams and see if anything of, you know, particular stands out good or bad. So a B feeder and DOA'd ask him who he has to pay to get a video of Thor kicking a few 80 hard punts. Well, the problem with that was when he was doing the punting yesterday, they weren't 80 yards for one. But when he was doing the putt, basically it was cameras off time. We weren't allowed to have the cameras rolling at that point. So you want to see some of that, you might have to slip fighting average media a couple of times over there, see what they can work out for you, see if they can put some of that up on their highlight video and stuff like that. Like I saw Leonard Moore with a nice interception from practice today with one of the videos that they put up this afternoon. So that was a nice young cornerbacks. Yeah, that's right. We'll be talking about them here in a few minutes. Want to talk about some offensive line here from Marcus Freeman on the offensive line? Seems to be a hot topic of conversation. Yeah, I think that we have an interesting kind of dynamic across the offensive line. I think it's kind of mixing and matching, you know, what guys are going to fit in where. I like that. And this is kind of the main thing I took away from listening to the press conference yesterday because it felt like Marcus Freeman was a little, you know, I wouldn't say defensive. But he wasn't elaborating on a whole lot, right? He was given the Heisman on a lot of questions, all right? He was stiff farming that stuff. He didn't seem to want to dig deep into a lot with his answers. The biggest takeaway I took from the press conference yesterday is Marcus Freeman is not getting caught up in who is one in two. He's getting caught up in what groups of players that have to see the field. And so what kind of rotation that looks like maybe amongst the offensive line, the wide receivers, the cornerbacks, you know, the defensive line. It's not, I think people have to get out of their head that these guys are one in two, rather than this is a group of players and they're going to find ways to contribute. And so how they're going to do that across the offensive line is something that I'm very intrigued about. 'Cause I think you have potentially six or seven guys that you could say are going, that are starters. But obviously there's only five offensive line positions. So how are they going to kind of, you know, what's that, what's that going to look like, essentially? - Yeah, I mean, the most telling thing that we saw yesterday was a meal Wagner at the top of the depth chart. You're at least coming, come out at right tackle right away. While we saw Pat Coogan at left guard, Ashton Craig, of course, at center, Jagger saw at left tackle, Billy Schrauth still at right guard. And then Rocco Spindler yesterday was the number two right guard. But today he was the number one left guard, at least for, you know, again, periods or two, whereas Coogan was over on the right as the backup over there. So I think that it is interesting when you kind of look at some of that movement and what you just talked about. And here's Marcus Freeman, when he was asked about that competition. You know, the big, 'cause that is the biggest competition. He didn't go into, you know, to detail about them, but the details that he did give were more about what he wants at the line of scrimmage. - I think, yes, there's ongoing competition at the old line positions, especially with Rocco Coogan and some of the guards. But, you know, we still have an identity on offense of still being able to run the ball. And we have to be able to run the ball. And one of the challenges we've had for all this line is to create a new line of scrimmage. We wanna play football on the defensive side of the line of scrimmage. And so that's what I wanna see more than anything. Can we get movement against our D-line? And, you know, I feel like if we have the ability to do that, we'll be able to ability to get movement on any defensive line we play. But that's the challenge, right? That's the mindset and the challenge is we have to be able to create movement in the run game to make sure we can run the ball effectively. And then the second part will be to protect the quarterback. We have to protect the quarterback, we know that. But the mindset of this offense, we just have to be able to move the ball and run it. - Move the ball and run it. Move the line of scrimmage is what Marcus Freeman is looking for. So like when you listen to that stuff, does it say anything specifically to you? - For generally, I guess even. - First I gotta clear, whoever the tapper was, the entire press conference. - It was like the whole thing. I have no idea what that was. - Yesterday I listened, it was on the YouTube, like Notre Dame football channel as well. So it was like literally the entire interview. I was like, whoever is this tapper needs to be no longer allowed. I was about to lose my mind. - I don't remember hearing it sitting in the room, either. No idea where it came from. But anyway, every Marcus Freeman cut that you're gonna hear is gonna have that. - So tapping noise into it. - You ready for it, yeah. - So what that says to me, and you know, this is, it's funny because, you know, it's still very evident that Marcus Freeman has his, you know, hands on this offense in some way. I'm sure it's going to be, you know, less than what it has been the last couple of seasons because you have an experienced offensive corner like Mike Dimbrock. But it's still very clear that the number one Golden Marcus Freeman is establishing the line of scrimmage, right? And he talked about basically being on the plus side of the line of scrimmage or being on the defensive side of the line of scrimmage. And so, you know, when you talk about this offensive kind of battle between, you know, maybe five to seven guys, you know, Rocco, Rocco Spindler stands out because he's a very physical offensive lineman. He is going to push the offensive line to the other side and he's going to establish that offensive line. And at the guard position, you want a physical player because that's the guy who's going to be pulling around the corner and trying to blow up, you know, whoever's in front of him. So when you talk about physicality, when you talk about getting a push and establishing the line of scrimmage, you know, and kind of specific to Coogan and Spindler. Spindler's more physical guy, but Coogan's more of the technician, right? He's probably going to be a better pass blocker. He's going to be more consistent, you know, those sort of things. But Rocco Spindler is going to be more physical and he is going to drive that line of scrimmage. It's just a matter of, I think, if he can consistently do that day in and day out. - The point that I made yesterday and the point that I've made before is the offensive line that they came out with practice one last year. - Completely different. - Was not the same offensive line that started the season against Navy and that continued through the rest of the season. And that's why I think that we'll continue to kind of see some of this swapping around. We're going to hear some more of it from Mike Denbrock a little bit later when he's talking about the wide receivers. He'll get into detail on that. But, you know, like, we're going to have a chance. Let me see. I'm not supposed to say exactly when this is going to happen, but let me look at mine. - So the other part of this-- - We're going to get a chance to talk to Joe Rudolph within the next week. So let me just put it that way. So I think one of the questions is potentially, could all three of these guys actually see time at a game of some fashion? And I've talked about it specific to, obviously you don't typically rotate offensive linemen. But, like, if you look at the Texas A&M game, heat a factor, all those different things and the fact that they're moving these guys around from playing on both the left side and the right side, could all three of those guys conceivably play in a game? - So what this-- what it kind of says to me is it kind of becomes match-up driven, right? And the best analogy I have for that is when a manager is kind of putting together a batting lineup. That's what it kind of feels like with Notre Dame and the offensive line right now is they're kind of moving guys around in the batting lineup and going to see, you know, what's going to be the most efficient or the most productive, right? And so that's exactly what fall camp is for. To move guys around, see how different groups of guys respond together, how they perform together. And then I think it could become, you know, match-up driven. Are they looking, you know, against Texas A&M? Like I would right now probably lean towards Rocco Spindler just because of how aggressive and physical that defensive line is going to be for Texas A&M. And I know that Rocco Spindler can match that intensity in physicality just more so than Coogan, right? And so like, is that kind of what it's going to become? Is match-up driven type of, you know, kind of platooning along the offensive line? I don't know, but that's what it kind of feels like right now. - Right, yeah, yeah. And again, you know, just what you were talking about with Spindler, his asset is the physicality and the ability to move. And like when you hear Marcus Freeman talking about that being a priority, that seems to signal that, you know, one, we're only on day two of training camp, but in the first two days, we've already seen some different swapping around. And I'll be curious to see what we see when we roll out there tomorrow morning as well. We'll get one more chance before the end of this week to see that. So I think that's going to be interesting. And again, like, I think it could change quite a bit. And I'll be really curious to see exactly what they do with those two spots. But you know, like I said, I didn't feel like, you know, like it's hard-headed Joe Rudolph. He's not going to change his mind and that kind of thing. He was obviously swayed last year. He was swayed enough that he, you know, he played a guy at Left Guard all season that caught a lot of people off guard. Different results, but as Brian and I talked about yesterday, Coogan is more like his ceiling and floor are more compact. You know, there's, there's, it's kind of in the middle where his Rocco Spindler, that ceiling and floor can separate a little bit, like a, you know, really high ceiling, but, you know, the floor at times can kind of hit the bottom as well. So other side of the ball, Jaden Mickey and Christian Gray, they're battling for the cornerback spot, opposite of Benjamin Morrison, who it was good to see was out there yesterday and out there again today. Here's what Freeman said it comes down to for those two guys. Continue to build trust. It's how you earn play in time is trust. And, you know, can you do exactly what your coach tells you to do over and over and over? Like everybody has ability, but, but we will play the guys that we trust more than anything to get their job done. And so that's what you want to see over the course of now to the end of fall camp, who at every position is going to continue to build that trust within their position coach. - Nocky McKnockerton is still knocking around there in the background as well. Feels like, I mean, just what he said there's just pretty much applicable across the board, regardless of what position you're talking about. - You know, it's really funny. As soon as I heard Marcus Freeman say that, it took me back because I could just hear the echoes in my ears of our defense, of coin energy screaming at us. I can't play you if I can't trust you. I can't play you if I can't trust you to be in the right spot, to be in the right alignment, to be, you know, based on this formation, your seven yards off the ball or this formation, your four yards off the ball and on the inside or shade of the tackle or maybe the outside shade of the guard. You know what I mean? It's like you can't, and it sounds so cliche like you're saying, but they're going to play who they trust. And it might not be the most talented guy, but if they can go out there and consistently do the right thing, be in the right spot, that is more important than the guy who maybe messes up two or three plays, but then has a big, you know, interception or something like that, right? So it's like, it's got to be who they can consistently trust across the board, but, you know, kind of a side note on the cornerback situation, it's just so relieving to hear that Benjamin Morrison is out there. He's practicing, you know, that was a big fear for a lot of people, will he be ready? Or the two, you know, young corner is going to have to start on the road at Texas A&M. Now it's just down, you know, to one corner and then, you know, he even went on to say that doesn't change anything in terms of we probably need, you know, one more corner and it's going to have to be a younger guy to step up. So that was really interesting to hear. - No, exactly. And we'll kind of save some of that talk for a little bit later as well in rapid fire. We got just a loaded like, like rapid fire. We got Mike Denbrock from earlier today. We've got some more Marcus Freeman from yesterday. And by the way, DK, DK is the guy who like, you can tell when he's being sarcastic, right? Like you can read the sarcasm from DK. You don't have to wonder, is he being sarcastic? Is he not being sarcastic? You just know. I mean, it's pretty much because it's like 99% all sarcasm. - But just like when he says the lions are a good team. - Whoa! - Is your chat still working, by the way? - I haven't got a chat since 5.15 and that doesn't feel right. - Okay. I know. It was pretty-- - 10 minutes ago. - Pretty active, pretty wild there. - Someone puts something in the chat if you're out there. - Yeah. I don't know how well no, if they do or they don't, but oh, oh, there he is, there he is. - Good. - He's enthralled with your, with your breakdown. - Oh, nope. - Of Mickey and Greg. Oh, there they are. - I appreciate the spamming on the side trick. - What does, what does this say? - I think he just started hitting buttons until, you know, button, enter, button, enter, button, enter. - Yeah, I think so. Bee feeder, oh, he loves the lamp. All right, cool. That's, I think that's the first mention of the lamp. - That's anchorman. - My wife, I love lamp. Oh, yes. I didn't even think about that. (laughing) - Brick, where'd you get a hand grenade? (laughing) - So many one liners from that movie. - Loud noises, yes. Okay, so Jeremiah love. Got a lot of love, got a lot of love this off-season. We, you know, we haven't seen a whole lot from the running backs the first couple of days since the team hasn't been pads yet. You know, we've obviously seen them out there. They, you know, move well, all that different stuff every once in a while, we get to see a little bit of a run play, even though again, you know, like the linemen aren't in pads and stuff like that. They're not gonna get taken to the ground. But here is what Marcus Freeman had to say about Jeremiah love. - You have to find ways to get Jeremiah love the ball. And that's where we have a creative offensive coordinator and a creative offense that will do that. And so as we get towards, you know, game week and those type of things, we'll game play specifically how we get the ball into his hands, but I mean, you don't have to be a rock-sized, you know, on our offense, you got to find ways to get Jeremiah love the ball. - You don't have to be a rocket scientist to find ways to get Jeremiah love the ball. - Doesn't this feel like Booby Miles, like Booby got to get the ball? - That's right. - The guy can pour the Gatorade. Would have, would have, would all, would have came to you. Catch the pass, throw the pass. - Yeah. - Run the ball, fill up your Gatorade cooler. - That's what it feels like though, right? Like listening to him say that. - He can, but you know, look, I, you know, said for two years that Chris Tyree basically the same thing about Chris Tyree, like, you got to find ways to get Chris Tyree the ball. How imperative is it that it actually happens with Jeremiah love now? - You know, it's funny you bring up Chris Tyree 'cause I feel like Marcus Freeman and, you know, maybe Mike Dembrock looking back, 'cause I'm sure Mike Dembrock has watched film on the offense the last season or two seasons, right? To kind of see, you know, what type of players he has that are still kind of around. It wouldn't be shocking to me if Marcus Freeman and Mike Dembrock have kind of sat down and said, you know, we kind of wasted what we could have done with Chris Tyree and we can't do that again with Jeremiah love when talking about probably the best athlete on the field, you know, for the offense and maybe in a given game, right? So I think it's super imperative and Marcus Freeman knows this that he can't, he can't waste away, you know, all of the ability that Jeremiah love can provide to this offense. And so, you know, when he says, you know, we're going to game plan basically a way to get, to maximize the touches for Jeremiah love. I mean, that just shows that he is again, your best offensive weapon. And it's not enough for him just to run the ball. We can find ways to throw him up the ball quickly, you know, maybe on screens, quick kind of RPO type routes that gets him into open space because that's what we asked for for Chris Tyree is just get the ball in his hands and let him go to work in open space. And they failed to do that really the last, you know, season or two or maybe not even fail, just didn't maximize to the full potential of what Chris Tyree can provide. And that's something you can't not do with Jeremiah love because I think he's better than Chris Tyree and he has, he can provide more than what Chris, Chris Tyree was able to. - Yeah. And like you look at him, he's already, like this, the speed is right there. And you can see that he's already stronger, more physical right now than he was a year ago at this time. And like, I think he could even go back who was just thinking about it to Braden Lindsey from like even before. - Exactly, another speed guy. - Yeah, another speed guy who when Lindsey first broke on the scene, you know, kind of in his breakout, the guy was averaging almost 20 yards per touch because they were handing him the ball at times. They were throwing him the ball and between those two, he had like, I think it was, you know, like around 30 total touches, maybe something like that for the entire season, but he was averaging 20 yards almost every time he touched the ball and then the next season, they didn't do it. And then you've got a guy like Chris Tyree with the speed that he's got and the receiver skills that he's got, they didn't do it. Now again, you've got a completely different offensive coordinator who has a completely different philosophy than the offenses that really that we've seen. What since, since 20, at least 2019? - Yes. - Probably. - That sounds right. - You know, when it was, when it was Tommy Reese and then into Jared Parker. And, and I go back to what I started the week off with, maybe it's not a coincidence that we're not getting to see a whole lot more, you know, than what we're going to get to see this fall camp. When you've got a new coordinator, you've got a new quarterback, you've got all these new faces at wide receiver and you've got a guy like Jeremiah Love. - I mean, Jeremiah Love is the X factor on offense. - Keep the conceal. - And so you can't be showing how you're going to use, you know, what I would call like Jack Knight's ability, right? Like his ability to kind of do all sort of things. And I think, you know, DK brings up a good point, Jaredari and Price needs more love. Kid is going to be great too. The reason why they're comfortable with expanding Jeremiah Love's role is because you have to have someone like Jadarion Price to kind of take off some of the load from Jeremiah Love at the same time, right? Like if you're going to expand him out and give him some wide receiver duties, okay, then you've got to kind of lessen that load at the running back level and you can only do that if you have someone like Jadarion Price to pick up that extra weight, essentially. - By the way, while you're hanging out in the chat, I did mention, of course, the token mentioned, hit the like button, if you would. But we didn't do a mailbag show this week. We're not doing, we did a we in, we out on Monday. That was a little bit different. We've been doing we in, we out on Thursdays, obviously, we're not doing one today because we've got actual practice the last couple of days and comments from the coaches that we can talk about. But if you have, whether it's just a mailbag question or we in, we out type stuff that you want to throw in there, go ahead and throw it into the chat and then we will, we will get to those in a little bit as well. Feel free to do that if you'd like to do that. So, Anthony O's Cubs Cardinals this weekend. I mean, I don't think Jesse's gonna concede, but the Cubs obviously went into cell mode. So, you've already got that. - Whoa, you mean? - You got that. - Did they sell? - Didn't they, didn't they trade a couple pitchers? - They traded one pitcher and then they just like swaps third baseman. - Yeah, well, that's Christopher Morel, that's what I was thinking of. - But they got Paredes back in return. - I think Paredes back, yeah, the guy that they've had before. - I think it was a weird deadline because like, I think it's depending on who you ask, like someone say they buy, some would say they sell, some would say I have no clue, like what is the overall plan? They signed some big deal with Motorola today, but they're, you know, their GM is a great up nine figure contract. - That'll get 'em, that'll get 'em some wins. - Yeah, exactly. - Stuffed the corporate teet, once again. - Well, I didn't realize that that series was starting tonight. - Is it a four game series? - I'm pretty sure it is. - It's in St. Louis, is it? - I think it's in Chicago actually. - Is it? - Yeah. (upbeat music) (upbeat music) (upbeat music) (upbeat music) (upbeat music) (upbeat music) (upbeat music) (upbeat music) (upbeat music) [BLANK_AUDIO]