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In fact, I think a good well coached mesh concept is actually something you want to utilize if you don't have speed, because the way that you utilize it, because you're using different things to get guys open. If I have a slow receiver part of being savvy is like, you see that official, you run right in front of his toes. Use them. Yeah. You know what I mean? Like that's just got to get open brother, you know what I mean? And that's why you run mesh is because you're trying to create confusion in the middle of the field and it's all and it's it's not in place of speed. That's not what I'm saying, because if you want to run a crosser and you want to get your guy in full speed and get him the football because he has to be, I get that, but the mesh concept is more about creating confusion to get your guy open as well. Yeah. Yeah. Now, does doing mesh when you have speed provide you with more big play opportunities? Absolutely. I would say I don't know that meshes really what I would want to go with speed is I would actually do more levels because the reason I say that is is levels allows me to do things to clear to get my fat fast guys sort of in space. So I would do something like Sarkeesian randomist concept a lot in 2020 with with Devontay Smith. It actually put Devontay backside and he would take us to frontside receivers and run some sort of vertical concept, double post, double seam, you know, deep smash. You know, I'm talking about events where you do like the 15 yard comeback and then a deep corner that kind of clears everything out, different things like that deep out, a vertical than a deep out. And then what he would do is he would bring Devontay Smith sort of on a, on an over concept. So he'd let that stuff clear. And by the time Devontay hits full speed, they've cleared that stuff off and now you're chasing him across the field like that to me, whereas a mesh, if you're well coached against a mesh and you see that stuff coming, Hey, stand your ground, pass it off. And then you kind of take over the mesh, right? It's a lot harder to defend the levels because it does more, you've got to cover him. You've got to cover him. You've got to cover him even in zone because now we've attacked all your zones and you've now got to take someone. Now it's my guy against your guy going across the field. So I think more levels concepts and things along those lines would be more effective than let's say a pure mesh concept where you've got a lot more of the guys. Now mesh is also a levels concept because you've got the two loves and then you usually got like a deep end cut and like a poster out behind it. So there's go to the levels to it. But I mean more of the, of the horizontal levels because the mesh concept is more of a verticals level verticals as a, as a concept is, you know, you're reading it vertically where a horizontal concept is more, you're reading it across. So that's why four births is actually a horizontal concept because it, it talks to the type of read you're making. What I'm referring to Vince is more of like the horizontal stuff where I'm, I'm reading the clear outs and then you've got something coming on where mesh, true mesh is more of a, a vertical concept. So there's levels to it, but that's not what I'm referring to in this instance. So a theater, like big picture, it is a, it is a levels concept, but it's a different type of what I'm referring to. I'd rather see stuff like that with speed. And we saw that last year. I mean Notre Dame hit a play like that last year. Remember the touchdown and pass against Wake Forest. They use Jordan Faison to run a backside post route to clear out that safety and they brought Jaden Gray House from across the field on a deep over route. Boom, hit him across. That guy couldn't run with him touchdown. And so that kind of stuff is what I would like to see with the team that can, and sometimes that is going to look like a mesh because it's a shallow cross. You do something to get a stack delay running off. And now it's my guy versus your guy across the field and, you know, but, but mesh is good too. It's a good part of that too, depending on how a team is playing, especially if you're getting a team that plays a lot of man, I'm going to motion and mesh you all day. Yeah. Man is what you want to run mesh against because zone doesn't really mesh doesn't really work very well with zone because you're basically running from one zone to another and there's just going to be a defender. They're waiting for you for the most part. So, but against man. Oh my gosh. 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I'd probably lean towards A&M and I think A&M has a little bit more young talent than Louisville and overall just athleticism than Louisville. I think Louisville has a little bit more experience. The other thing too is I think the physical talent quarterback is a little bit of a difference to me. There are certain spots where Louisville is better, Louisville has a better receiving core in my opinion. A&M is going to have a good receiving core but Louisville is better. Louisville has a better offensive line than Texas A&M. They have a better secondary than Texas A&M so it's close but I think A&M has just got the better athletes at quarterback, running back, they've got more defensive line, linebacker, just overall more athleticism. It's close. If somebody wanted to say Louisville, I wouldn't argue with them. I just personally would go with Texas A&M as far as just because I think their top level is better than Louisville's top level. I would say Louisville might have a little bit more depth because they're older of guys to come play but I think A&M has more depth of just pure athletes where I would kind of go with this. So yeah, that was Vince, you kind of same page there. All right, let's get down to, I want to get to some folks. We haven't gotten a lot of Iden Bonami so let's get to him again. I think you might have mentioned this but true or false, Rubio getting hurt will be a huge boost for us, the last four to five games. If he's able to come back healthy, I think so. These are tough questions to answer Vince because my answer is yes, it should give them a boost because he comes back second half of the year, he's healthy, he's got fresh legs and all that kind of stuff but it's only a boost once that happens. It's not a boost in the first seven or eight games when you don't have him. It's not a boost then. So overall, I'd rather he not be hurt but with him being hurt, it will give them a little bit of a boost late if that makes sense. So yes, I will say that in that in that regard, it does. Salty Virginia peanuts, when a committed player seems to be wavering and this is apropos, I suppose what is the role of Chad Bowden and his staff regarding player retention. Do what you can to try to keep to get in the class. If you think that's right, for who the player is on the route that you're going to take but you kind of put it into overdrive but if you're already recruiting him hard, then you continue to recruit him hard. Right. Yeah, I mean, it's simple, you try to keep him in the class, assuming it's a guy that you want to keep in the class, that's their role, that's their job. So how that happens is going to determine kind of, it's going to be determined by the player but yeah, that's the job of him and his staff is to make sure that they do everything they can to retain a player. So a good question, Salty, let's get a couple more from Salty, they haven't got him right. What is your impression of freshman corner Leonard Moore in fall practices long athletic, talented, great ball skills and smart football player for his age? Very good player. He could be a dude, for Notre Dame at some point, time down the road, absolutely. Absolutely. Do you think he is the leading freshman right now for that maybe fourth corner spot? Oh, I mean, he's, well, he's leading freshman for sure because Carson Hobbs is playing nickel. So he's the only freshman, he's, but is he in the conversation for that fourth corner spot? Yeah, I think so. More work to do to beat out Chance Tucker, but yeah, he's going to have it, he's going to, he's going to be in that conversation. Yeah, he's going to be in that conversation. Another one from Salty, you Brian bumped into coach Madison as Thursday's practice. Can you give some more detail on him? No, I mean, there's nothing that I didn't put on the board other than just nice, super nice guy. So Vince, I told you about that I bumped into him. He was going to Notre Dame practice and he was asking somebody there if they knew kind of where the practice was. And I was like, a coach, you know, I'm heading that way. Come with me. Just a super nice guy, real friendly, bubbly, you know, like, man, I don't have as much energy as you do now. Like I'm 46 and you're in your, I think 70s now and you got away. I'm like, coach, can you slow down a little bit? I'm out of trouble. I'm up, man. And by the way, the dude looks jacked too. Like he's in still really good shape for his age, like there's, I wouldn't want to meet him in a dark alley, you know, like super kind, like super kind, super decent and very high on Marcus Freeman, very high on Marcus Freeman. And then of course we reminisce a little bit because he's talking about, you know, he's talking about, you know, where their offices were and all that other kind of stuff. And, you know, that was, that was cool. And he's like, man, when we, when I was here and he starts pointing at the joys, like our offices were in there and, you know, it's like, I mean, this stuff and, you know, so just a really nice guy, they were in the joy center when, when he's here. There was no, I mean, the goog wasn't built until Charlie was here. Yeah. Yeah. So, um, yeah. Yep. That was good stuff. Good stuff. He was really, really kind, really good dude. Never met. I'd never met him before. So I had no, no idea what to expect. And you think D line coach, you think like, you know, gruff and tough guy and, you know, I'm expecting to like, you know, have like a big thing of chewing the back and his mouth, you know what I mean? Like just kind of what you expect from a D line guy, you know, like, you know, how you doing today coach, I, you know, just kind of what you growl at me a little bit. Not at all. How he was just super nice and super decent Tyler long break. You have to pick a new OC and DC for the other day, but your only options are ACC head coaches. Who do you pick? Hey, you know, let me think about, let me go to the ACC and my, my, I'm leaning towards it is Mike Norville leaning towards who would, would be my, my offensive coordinator. I think he was a very sharp offensive mind. But I don't want to definitely say that because I want to look through everybody first. Definitely would have him over Bill O'Brien, uh, see Justin Wilcox, my leading early contender for defensive coordinator, nobody, Dabo, no, Dabo might be my receivers coach, but no, many D as Mike. He was not a coordinator, right? I mean, he went, didn't he? Yeah, but I mean, he could do it, you know, but yeah, I would, I wouldn't have him as my coordinator. I don't like their offense. Norville's my offensive guy, Brent Key would be my old line coach, Jeff Brom, Jeff Brom would be my OC. He'd be my OC. That's a given. He's my offensive coordinator. Uh, defensively, am I still there, Dave Dorn, maybe my decordinator, you know, I can't stand the guy. Vince, I don't like him personally. He's just bothers me, but Pat in our doozy was a heck of a defensive coordinator, man. What would you want your staff? No, I wouldn't want to have to deal with him all the time, but it's like, dude, um, you know, man, it's a tough one. That's a tough one. But I'm probably going, I'm probably going to stay with Justin Wilcox as my decordinator and then have Jeff Brom is my offensive coordinator. Maybe Mike Norville, if you wanted more of a balanced offense, you know, but that would be my, those would be my picks. Those would be my picks. We have a very important question up next fence. Brian Barry, very important question. What's the plan for Ivy tailgates and which games for this fall? So that's still up in the air to a degree. We are definitely doing our big tailgate for Florida State. That's the one where my mom caters everything and she's going to do all that with them. Cause it's a night game. Right. Exactly. Exactly. However, my parents are talking about maybe coming up for a couple more games this season than they have in the past and we would still do some get together. So like we might, you know, we tailgate, but it would be more about like, um, you know, we'd go get sandwiches and fried chicken and stuff like that. Smaller action. Yeah. And not have my mom do as much. And then just kind of get out there early cause you know, you don't have as much time to do that stuff when the game's at two 30 or three 30. So, but we're, we're, they're thinking about probably Louisville or Stanford and prop, you know, it just depends on one of those two. And then they're, they're also contemplating coming up for the Northern Illinois game. Kind of the home opener. So whenever they come up, like if I don't, I, I've tried to tell my parents, I just come on town for a game and I'm, and they're like, okay, fine. And then they get him like, Oh, and by the way, we're tailgating, like that. They just, they'd love to do that stuff, man. They, they really do. So, uh, so it'll either be Stanford or, or, or Louisville right now, most likely will be the second one, but there's a chance of third, maybe they're for the Northern Illinois game. It just depends on what the parents are excited to do. Again, that's, they, they're business owners. They're also in the process of moving. So like they say that now, but I don't want to commit to it for sure, because who knows what they're going to be able to, but they'll definitely one of those three weekends, they'll definitely have a second tailgate or it would be the first, but it won't be the big one. So we'll see. But that's where we're at, Brian, for now, no, don't regret is happy Friday. How hard is it as a staff to say, quote, we're going to go with the veteran guy, Taj for A&M on the road, play the high upside guy, Lambert for the next four get right games to prep. It's very easy, Vince just said it. It's easy to say it's hard to make that decision because if you think the young guys, the better player kind of want to play the young guy, I think Notre Dame actually did this once. I think this is exactly what Notre Dame did in 2018. I believe that Notre Dame always intended to eventually go to Ian book a quarterback in 2018. Absolutely. But they knew that Ian book cannot beat Michigan. They knew they were going to need Brandon when Bush is running ability to beat Michigan. That's why you saw a completely different offense in that game than what you saw the next two games and then Brandon struggled in those two games where they were running an offense, not geared for him. And then all of a sudden Ian books brought in to be that guy. I think that was always the plan is we need Brandon to beat Michigan. And then eventually Ian's going to take over. So it's not that hard. It's just I just have always felt like if you think that guy is ready to play for you in week two, then you need to figure out a way to get him ready for week one also. Even if that just means events, he's rotating in, you know, like every third series, see how he does. And if it moments too big for him, okay, Josh, you got this to rest of the way. But I would, that's what I would do if I thought he was that ready. I have a hard time with, well, he'll be ready game two, but he's not ready game one. Like I have a hard time with that mentality. Unless it's an injury timeline, correct. Right. You're right. Of course. I agree. Did you want to elaborate on that or just just in general have a hard time with that? No, I just, I mean, there's nothing really like in general, I have a hard time with that. I don't like and plus what does that say to the guy that you're starting in game one that you're eventually planning on taking out? Like are you having that discussion with him? Like if that's your plan as a staff, like I'm all about transparency. I'm not going to play a guy and with the with the thought that he's going to get one game and then I'm going to pull him. You know what I mean? How do you even have that conversation like, well, look, man, you're good enough for this really good team up front, but then we're going to get the younger guy in there now with these games that aren't as big of a deal. You know, I just, that's not the right message that I want to send to my players if I'm being perfectly honest with you. Now you can maybe have that thought in the back of your mind, like maybe, you know, this guy is good enough and we have the most trust in him right now and then we'll see kind of how things go, okay, fine, but I just don't like that being the act, the actual plan going into week one. I just, yeah, like I said, it's not the right message to send, in my opinion. That's not how I would do it as a head coach. I just, I don't think you're instilling the proper confidence in your players at that because then what are other guys going to start thinking like, oh, is this a one game deal for me to like, you know, just because you brought in this four and a half five star guy behind me, you know, am I just a placeholder, like I, I want my guys playing with confidence. That's my biggest thing. I want my guys playing with confidence and if you're not instilling confidence in your guy that you're my guy, then that they're not going to play with confidence. So I just don't like that as a plan as a, as a, as a whole. Isaiah layman, which non starter on the 24 roster, do you think has the biggest impact on the 25 season? Well, that's a good question. CJ car. Okay. That's, that's fair. That's a really good one actually. I mean, I don't, I don't know what non starter could potentially have a bigger impact than the guy that's probably going to be your starting quarterback next year. Kirby Lambert, I mean, you know, like seriously, who, who could have one thing in your quarterback? No one. So yeah, I mean, it's a good question, Isaiah, but it's, it's for me, it's a CJ car. Like it's, that's an easy one for me. Unless the only exception would be, can't even see beats about. I mean, like that would be the only, the only other option would be quarterback. Yeah. Yeah. Well, if it's one of those two, yes. If it's not one of those two, then you know, a little different, a little different deal, but if it's one of those two discussion too. So yeah, if it's Kenny or CJ, my prediction is Kenny or CJ wins that job, but I'm still not right in Kenny off at all, because Kenny's a, I mean, we've, we've seen him in practice. He looks a lot. He looks a lot more assertive. So we'll see if he can continue building and growing, but you know, it's, it's whoever, those two guys wins that job at that's who it'll be for me. Absolutely. Who it would be for me. Tyler Aldney, knowing that A&M will likely stack the box against Notre Dame, you think Dan Brock will dial up a deep shot down the field for the first offensive play. Oh, I don't know about that. I don't, first of all, I don't know that A&M is going to do that on the first set drive, because I don't know that you want to necessarily commit yourself to how you're going to defend a team when you don't really know how they're going to use that personnel for the exact reason that you are asking the question. Like, I don't know that you need to put eight nine guys in the box in the first play. Because, I mean, especially, I mean, think about what, what LSU, how LSU started the season last year, Florida State kind of put a lot of guys close to the box and they ran a boot wheel and I'm running back. I think I'm pretty sure that was the first play of the game, Vince against Florida State. I'm actually going to look that up because I got to my play by play chart here. But yeah, I, I'm not going to expose myself to potentially getting smacked that way. Yeah. First play of the game. Here's the play. Left, invert, off right, FQ jet, S wheel, it was a pass, run to the left, drop back was boot caliber. The target was a running back complete for 15 yards ahead of S wheel. So that was first play of the game last year when you do that because the team's being aggressive or, you know, that's what you do. You think they're going to be aggressive reacting to this. And so with LSU was more of receivers, they were going to overplay a receiver running an over route or some kind of vertical route. And so they took advantage of that. So do you really want to put eight in a box and then you missed a hole and the next thing, you know, Jeremiah loves off for an 80 yard touchdown run. Is that really how you want to start that game or, you know, your corners who are okay, but not great. You really want to put them on an island on the first play of the game and hopes that Riley Leonard's not going to throw the ball over your head. You know, play your base D field Notre Dame out and kind of see what they're going to do. Because I don't know that the other thing too is you got to be careful loading the box against a quarterback that can run right like Riley Leonard. 100%. Because if he gets on the outside, I mean, there's a clip Notre Dame put out yesterday. You know, they put it out so we can talk about it, but you can't show it because they'll be monetizing us, but we can talk about it. But it was a it was a read option, essentially, then he kept it and he went around the corner and it was a red zone play. So I mean, it wasn't like he went 80 yards, but he could have. I mean, he got to that edge pretty darn quick and he looks pretty darn healthy and I don't mind seeing him run with the football. So yeah, he was. I mean, he looked if he gets that little shake he had on rod hard and then just race. And you're like, okay, that's that's the Riley Leonard that we saw before their injury. Look, Notre Dame's not stupid. They put that out for a reason, right? They put that out there for a reason. Well, I think the thing was like good to see it, meaning because I think it was like healthy healthy. Yeah. I think that's what they meant by that. Mine's not what I read into it. There's a lot of layers for me. It was like, okay, clearly, Riley Leonard's healthy and then clearly he is an absolute weapon on this offense. Like, I think it was two days ago, they put one out of him, just throwing a bomb, right? And then today they put one out of him getting the corner and scoring a touchdown. Like, okay, it's Riley Leonard's world. We're all just living in it. Let's go play ball. Yeah. Like I'm ready. I think that was a real bomb, even though they didn't show the whole play. It wasn't a Colorado darts only. Have you seen that Vince? No, I have no idea what you're talking about. Colorado put this thing out the other day and it was a picture of Shador Sanders throwing a ball and then they cut to the guy, a guy catching the ball on the corner of the end zone. You're like, that's not the same play. Like, they clearly showed that and then put this other play on it and it's like, it's not saying, it was like clearly like garbage. So like, they got trolled by like almost every team in college football. Wow. Like, there was one where it was like Montana or something like that did something where they showed a quarterback and practice on a ball and then they throw it and then they clipped it like someone catching a ball in like a real game. And there was another one where somebody put a play from college football 20, 25 and it was a quarterback thrown a ball into the stands, you know, and then they show a guy catching it deep, you know, it's just, they got trolled hard. Awesome. Troy pulled one out. Like we actually show completions here, like it was something like that like where they showed the whole play and it just was like, Oh my gosh, like they keep doing this to themselves. Like it was so clearly not the clip that that you're showing it's like, it just makes no sense. Like, what? I mean, should our standards is very good. You don't need to fake a play like that. I was just going to say he hasn't made any plays in ball camp that you can't show the play exactly. Why do you do it? So it just was just dumb and they got trolled hard like, and it was just like darts only like, yeah, maybe, but that ain't it, you know, like the, and the thing is where the guy caught the ball, if you'd have shown us that play, that would have been impressive because that was a rope, you know, but it's just like, it ain't. It wasn't that throw. I mean, you could just, it's so obvious it wasn't the same play. It was. It probably wasn't. It should do it through it. That was the, you know what I mean? Maybe, I mean, it probably was though. I mean, that guy can spin it. You know, I mean, but maybe, but to your point though, maybe it wasn't him, but you're telling me there's no other throws he's made against that secondary, you know, you know, they filmed everything because they're all about social media and everything, they filmed every single play. You got nothing else apparently. Yeah. Yeah. It just didn't make any sense. That's, but that's hilarious that everybody jumped on board with the troll. Oh, it was great. It was great. I'm going to have to look for that stuff, man. It was. It's awesome. Iden Manami bold prediction, Burnham will be top one to three best defensive linemen this year. That's bold, but I, it's possible. It's bold, but it's not out of the realm of possibilities. Not crazy bold. It's not like, here's my bright prediction. Bryce Young. Yeah. 15 sacks is a true brain. Oh, yeah. Pretty bold. That's pretty, you know. Yeah, I could see that. I could too. Look, I'm super high on Josh. I know you are as well. I mean, I earlier, I was talking about moving him to a different position so he can start, you know what I mean? So like I'm super high on Josh. Top three is a very bold prediction because you figure, you know, the two interior guys are going to be in the mix for that honor. And so that takes away two of those spots and then you're saying Burnham is the next guy. So there's going to be some competition for that third spot. And so that's a bold prediction, but it would not overly surprise me if it came true. Yeah. He's going to be good, man. Couple other prediction ones, Vince. Here's another one. Tommy Guns, who will have the longest play from scrimmage? I'm going with Harrison. I'm going to go with Jadarion Price. I'm going to surprise. I think people do think Harrison or Jeremiah Love. I'm actually going to go with Jadarion Price because normally it's that it's that you're backed up at your own five, one cut inside zone guy that creases the defense and he's out the gate. Like you think of Josh Adams with an off tackle play and in 2006, 15 gets Wake Forest. Remember that? For 98. You think index on the counter play, I think it might have been Buck Sweet against Virginia Tech back in 2018 and went for 97. It's usually like that's usually, you know, Kyron Williams, 90 something yard run. So a lot of times in recent years, the longest place from scrimmage have been that. I think no name's longest play from scrimmage last year was, was Audrey's 80 yard touchdown run against NC State. Correct. I know Tyree had a 75 yard touchdown pass to bias had a 76 yard touchdown pass, but I'm pretty sure nobody had longer than Audrey's 80 yard run last season. So I'm just history is going to tell us it's a running back and, and, and especially since the name has two pretty dynamic explosive running backs. And I think the easy answer is Jeremiah Love, but I'm going to be a little bit different here and go with Jadarion Price. I just see him in somebody, you know, coming in person 10, 12 personnel inside zone, back side safety makes a wrong fit and, you know, ban starts playing like the 50 because it's like, ain't nobody catching him, you know what I mean? So, yeah, that's my prediction Vince. I, I'm going to go a little outside the box as well. I'm going to go with Jordan Faison. I think he's got a chance to maybe get the ball in his hands and maybe make, you know, you have a little shifty shift and make a couple guys miss and then just go to the house. Because I think if you're ordering the guys that you're worried about on the game plan, if you're a defensive coordinator, right, Jordan Faison's a good player, but he's not going to be at the top. And so I think he might get forgotten a little bit here and there and maybe when you're backed up against your own end zone and, and all the attention's over here and you got number six over here doing something special, maybe getting to the end zone. So I, you know, we're going outside the box. I'll say Jordan Faison. I dig that. I dig that. Let's go here. All right, Johnny, one when Notre Dame wears shamrock uniforms and still have the gold helmets, but with a shamrock emblem on them. Do you love it or do you hate it? I liked it. They did that in 2011. I don't normally, I said this, I don't mess with the helmet. I said the one exception was when they just put the shamrock on it. That's the one exception. And you know, what Vince, I'll tell you what, man, like normally I don't like that. But that 2011, those alternates with the green stripes on the jerseys and the shams were in London too, and when they were at Michigan, like those were the cleanest. I really like those. I, I, I'm with you. I was there for those and I liked the helmets and I thought the, it was just very clean. I liked that with the green stripes and everything. I, I dug it. I, I dug those uniforms for sure. And again, I don't like them really messing with the helmet. Some of the helmets have been way too much, you know, and they had the two different tones on each side and they're doing some crazy stuff with the helmet. That's too much for me. But keep it, keep it, keep it simple. If you want to just put a shamrock on there, cool, you know, but other than that, like, you know, every uniform will look good with Notre Dame's gold helmets. And if you don't think so, then you're probably not as big of a fan as you should be. People allowed that difference of opinions without them being less of fans. Nope. Not allowed. Yes. Yes. Yes. Remember what you said earlier, Vince? It's my show. I make the rules. All right, fine. Oh, there's another one up here. Here's another question. We're not done. I was too busy. My feel is about the fact that I just got shut down on my boss. Sorry. And PR. I watched the Bush push game the other night. Why do you do that to yourself? I was also at the OSU game last year, two brutal, brutal outcomes. Which one do you think was harder to swallow? Is the Ohio State game for me? Oh, really? Yeah. Here's why. Because USC was the better football team. Notre Dame played out of their minds that day. Like USC was better than Notre Dame. They had more talent. They just were better than Notre Dame. Notre Dame just put everything right for the most part. Now, there was some, you know, Anthony Fosano getting stripped from behind. But like, even in that game was just kind of like, wow, you know, you guys really brought it. And, and I look at last year's win. That one was harder. So I was like, you're not, they were not better than you. Like, you should not have lost that game. Like the USC game was like, dude, that was a phenomenal game. Like, you know, what can you do? They got had Reggie Bush and you didn't. I mean, you know, they had a, they had two Heisman Trophy winners on the field that day, Vince. You know, Reggie won it that year. And then Matt Liner won it the year before. Yeah. And, you know, just like you think of all the big time in, in just state, it was an amazing game. It sucked. The ending sucked. You just watch it. Like, dude, I'm glad I watched that game. That's a phenomenal game. I felt such disgust coming out of the Ohio State game because you're like, yeah, no business lose in that game. None. So that's why, to me, the Ohio State game is harder to swallow. And the other thing too is Notre Dame was still undefeated when they lost Ohio State. They still controlled their own destiny. Like, it's wild, but they let little, who knows if they, they might have been up more up for the Louisville game if they were still undefeated. They might have been more up for the Texas game if they were coming off of a win or I say, we don't know the answer to that. But I do know that they had already lost a game in '05. They'd already lost a Michigan State at home. And that team had flaws, in my opinion, that we're going to keep it from winning the ultimate prize. That was a heck of a football team, man. But last year, just watching them lose that game to a team that they just flat out should have beat was just pissed me off. The USC game was disappointing because you had that chance to win the game. It was heartbreaking to lose that game. Last year's game pissed me off, and that's why, for me, it was harder to swallow. You know, the gut punch was more so in the USC game because, again, I was more of a fan at the time. I wasn't covering the team, but like harder to swallow, definitely Ohio State last year for me definitely was. I play with my emotions. I'm an emotional dude and I was on the sidelines at the end of the USC game when all that went down. You know, the team rushed the field when they thought that Notre Dame won when Matt Liner, you know, rolled to the left and the ball out in the air, and you're like, game over. This is fantastic. They just did it. This is unbelievable. It was an unbelievable crowd. It was one of the first night games, like, you know, it was a night game atmosphere. I mean, it was unbelievable. I was probably out to the hash before, you know, they started blowing whistles and telling everybody to get back on the sidelines. So like going from a complete elation to then going back on the sideline and then watching the Bush push and how that ended to just utter despair, I, my, my young heart at the time couldn't handle him, you know what I mean, and like that one has lived with me since that moment. You know, so that's why it was harder to swallow for me because I was too, not too emotionally invested, but more emotionally invested. Now, if you would have said that like two years, whoops, two years ago, Ohio State game, like that one hit me to the core too. I mean, you, I mean, walking out of Ohio, yeah, but that was, that was as much because of what we had to go through to get into the stadium as far as anything else. You know, you're pretty, you were pretty grumpy going out of the game. I was salty. Yeah. There's no doubt about it. But I don't think it was as much. I mean, they're lost by 11 points. Yeah. You know, I still felt like they had a chance to win that game, but either way, it's the USC game still, regardless of which Ohio State game we're talking about. And I was like, that one stung. Like I knew the date of that game for like a really long time and like it will, that one, that one. I get that. Lots. Yeah. I get that. This episode is brought to you by our good friends at NFL Sunday ticket on YouTube TV. I'm sure by now you've all gotten back into your Sunday routines, but they could be even better with NFL Sunday ticket in YouTube TV. You get the most live NFL games all in one place every game, every Sunday, and you can even watch up to four different games at once with multi view, one of my favorite inventions of this decade. It's exactly what you need to catch all the action. Make your Sundays more magical and also YouTube TV is great. I got it this year. It's awesome. Sign up now at YouTube.com/BS device and content restrictions apply local and national games on YouTube TV and if I'll send a ticket for out of market games excludes digital only games. Jewelry isn't a gift you give just once. It's a way to remind your loved one of a beautiful moment every time they see it. Blue Nile can help you find the gift that says how you feel and says it beautifully with expert guidance and a wide assortment of jewelry of the highest quality at the best price. Go to blue Nile dot com and experience the convenience of shopping blue Nile, the original online jeweler since 1999. That's blue Nile dot com to find the perfect jewelry gift for any occasion blue Nile dot com. Tyler Evans, thanks for the super chat. I really appreciate you. Is it harder to block pass rush on the outside or inside in your opinion and why? I mean, it depends on the player you're going against. Look, my answer would say, OK, edge, OK, but we're playing the Rams this week and we've got to block Aaron Donald a little different, you know, or it's inside. But OK, we're playing, you know, trying to think of modern players, JJ Watts still in the NFL. I don't watch it. If I know Aaron Donald retired this all season, but like TJ Watt, how about that TJ still in the NFL? Yeah. Or a Vaughn Miller in his heyday. It just depends on the player. To me, I would say probably lean towards outside because I just feel like outside there's more things you can do to protect against an outside rush, move the pocket, chip, have the back help fan slide where it can be harder to kind of handles a really good inside pass rush because of everything we can do off of it. You know, look, I have trouble while you can double team that guy. But yeah, then how do you handle the the stunt? How do you handle, you know, that guy's crashing into your double team and they're bringing a really athletic guy around or he's crashing a double team, you're having a hard time blocking him and they're they're having to run through from their mic of their will or safety or something like that. It's just, you know, it's just it's a challenge for me. If they're if a team's good at it, I think an inside a really good inside pass rush can be more challenging than an outside pass rush. And I think Al Goldens figured that out because that's why they very much bring a big chunk of their pressures right up in the face of quarterback. So yeah, that would be it's harder to deal with as a quarterback, I think, when it's right in your face, you know, and they talk about the blind side all the time and it's super important. Don't get me wrong. But the blind side is blind. You don't see it coming. So you at least have an opportunity to make a play and push the ball down the field or get rid of the ball and things like that. When that rush is in your face, you're automatically bailing and trying to figure stuff out. You know what I mean? And so I agree. I think for a quarterback, an interior rush is so much harder to deal with. Agree. Mark one, thanks for the super chat, ma'am, really appreciate it. See the coaches high on love have you seen his prep his past catching ability plus routes see why didn't the first home game flying? Oh, because he's coming in for the first home game. So he wants to know if love is going to be good catching them up got it. He's very good catching the ball. I'm not going to get into routes that we've seen him run. It's just not going to not going to get that away. But yes, he's we've seen him catch the ball quite a bit. I mean, that's all you need to know is the fact that they haven't had him work at slot as well. Not just not in fall camp. Not so far. Okay. Right. But they have done it in the past and so they obviously know he can catch that. That's all that's the only point that I was making on that. Yeah. Is that he has the ability to catch the ball for sure. Yep. I'll be shocked if he's not catching the ball in the opener. For sure. Me too. Big down. Yeah. Yep. Sol to Virginia peanuts is blue cord triore on pace to have starter minutes. And if not, what is holding him back? This overall consistency being more than just a pass rusher. You know, like right now, Vince, there's no doubt he's going to be a pass rusher. The question is, are you going to have men on first and second down as well? That's the question. Just this being a more consistent and complete player, you know, does he have repertoire to do more than just rush off the edge with speed, you know, or straight, pure power move? Does he have a does he have counters? You know, his game is still evolving in a lot of ways because he was hard to senior year didn't play a whole lot of senior year either. So he has played a lot of football last two years. And so I just think it's it's the nuance and the consistency as a player. I think those are key. That's fair. That's fair. Yeah. Henry has asked what you're doing for the Georgia Tech Game B. I don't know yet. Henry, be honest with you. I hadn't really thought about it. I normally don't do stuff on on road games. Yeah. It's just because, you know, traveling and getting work done. But if it's a night game, you know, I'm I'm more open to it. Now, here's how I'm at road games. If y'all are doing a tailgate at a road game, I'll come by. It's just it's there's no way I can coordinate that kind of thing. And and we'll do like get togethers for bowl games because I have a lot more time to prepare for it. Oh, yeah. When we're down there for more days, usually for a bowl game, you know what I mean, it's more of an opportunity. And that stuff's a lot of fun. But I haven't planned anything. If you guys are doing something, let me know. And yeah, I'll let I'll let you guys know I'll I'll try my best to be out there. And especially if it's a night game, like those noon games are tough because it's like you know, I'm a pretty much like 10. Yeah, you know, you know, I mean, yeah, yeah, for sure. All right, let's go here guinea pig clips out of the receivers on the roster. Who is most likely to be the go to guy this year? I don't know that that's established yet guinea pig. Honestly, I mean, you could make a case for both Collins and Chris Mitchell, one of those two transfers, you can make a case for Jaden Greathouse, honestly. And I think it's going to be more of they don't have a go to, but the ball gets spread around a lot more. I hope that's the case. I think it's going to be more of that than it will be like, like last year, Brian Thomas and Malik neighbors both put up great numbers, but it's very clear that Malik neighbors was the go to. I don't know if anyone's going to emerge like Malik neighbors did. Well, Fuller did in 2015, I don't know if they're going to have that, but it would most likely be one of those three guys, if I had to lean towards anybody, I'd probably, if I had to pick one now, I'd probably pick Jaden Greathouse, but I'm not ready to go there now with, because I think those other guys are going to be really good players. And because I know the makeup of the Mike Dumbrack offense is to spread the ball around a lot. So yeah. Yep. Tyler Almanee, who is the most important offensive and defensive player that is projected to be a non starter to Notre Dame, having a successful season. Well, I mean, one of the offensively, it's going to be one of the backup skill players to see they're going to be Jadarion Price or Jordan Faison, Jaden Thomas type of guy. Or Bull Collins, if James Thomas is starting, it'll be somebody like that. There's going to be a fourth receiver that's really good, Jordan Faison, Jadarion Price at running back is probably the one I would lean towards, because I mean, he could technically be a non starter and rush for a thousand yards this year. I mean, we've talked about that and some of the Bicell holds, we've gotten asked that. So defensively, you know, again, part of it depends on who starts and who doesn't start. I think overall, I want to say one thing, I think Josh Burnham is probably where I would lean for that one. That's a good one. But I just want to say this, there's a lot for a lot of reasons. We need to get away from as fans at non offensive line quarterback positions of obsessing on who the starter is, because it doesn't matter as much as it used to because they're going to play like somebody was like, how can Dion Colsey be on the third team if they also have Mike Gilbert Bull Collins and Jane Thomas there, I said, because he's working with 13, because those three guys are all rotating in between the first and second team, right? And, you know, it's not how it used to be where it's like, okay, you're getting all the first team reps, you're getting all the second team reps. It's like these six receivers are working with the first and second team. I've seen both columns on the first team and the second team. I've seen Jane Thomas on the first team and the second team. I've seen Mike Gilbert on the first team and the second team. I mean, I've seen Jordan Faison on the first team and the second team. I've seen Jaden Great Harrison with the first team and the second team. I've seen KK Smith with the first team and the second team at stuff that Matt, I've seen Jaden Jadarion Price and Jeremiah Love lining up at running back with the first team offense. So in this thing, things true on the D line events at defensive end, you know, like it doesn't matter who starts from Josh Burnham and RJ Open or Bryce, because they're all going to play, you know, some games they may, because of the package, it may be RJ Open. Sure. But I don't care as much about that kind of stuff. Now to what that means for this kind of question is because you're going to see more guys, there's a lot more options of, you know, who's going to be that guy, but, but most important defensively, I pick one of the defensive players that doesn't start. Let's just just go younger guys. It's Burnham and Buba Carr to me. One of those two guys has to step up and give you an edge rush when it comes to importance. It has to be one of those two guys. So that'd be my answer there. Yeah. I mean, that makes a lot of sense because the defensive line guys are going to get a bunch of snaps. And so they're going to have the most opportunity to be, you know, impactful on Notre Dame season. And, and I think that's a really good call. And like I said before, Jadarion Price was my guy offensively. I mean, again, you could go with a number of receivers and I totally get that and it's not, it's not a wrong answer. I just think Jadarion Price is going to be special. And I'm not sure he's ever going to quote unquote start, right? And it makes it just an easy choice because he's going to be so good, Brian. I, I, I'm really excited about him, you know, time out, Tom Sullivan. Absure did some good things during spring. Does Notre Dame have too many quality offensive linemen considering each starter? Jagasau has at least two starters of eligible, two years of eligibility. Does Absure have a future at Notre Dame? There's no such thing. First of all, he's a red shirt freshman, right? Like he's got four years of eligibility left right now. So of course he has a future at Notre Dame that's not even a question. You also have two seniors ahead of him at left guard right now. They're, they're two years older than him. So there's going to be at least two years where those guys are gone. And Billy Shrouthe is older than him at guard, just a guard. And the starting right tackle and the starting left tackle based on what we think they're going to be right now are all older than him. So five spots are going to come open before he goes into a senior season. So of course he has a future at Notre Dame. That doesn't mean he's going to start because they're very talented and somebody may beat him out, but I'll be shocked if some day Sullivan Absure is not a starter. Not everybody starts as a freshman or a red shirt freshman. Mike MacGlenci's first start did not come until the end of his, I think it was 14, 15, so end of his red shirt freshman season against LSU's the first time Mike MacGlenci played a meaningful down. Sullivan's got a long way to go to get to that point time, right? Like we haven't even started the first game. So the other part too is, is does Notre Dame have too many good quality offers of life? Heck no. There's no such thing. Possible. There's no such thing. Yeah. Yeah. Definitely not. Definitely not. Domer Texas 22, do teams get any type of medical evaluation on players if an NIL deal is involved in the transfer? For example, did Notre Dame know Leonard needed ankle clean before the deal was done? I mean, they knew it was a possibility. He had surgery on his ankle. There's always the possibility that you're going to need some cleanup on it. That's just kind of a, I'll say normal thing, but thing that happens more than maybe people think that it does. And this isn't a contract, like this isn't a, you're signing a four year deal for however much of an NFL team has physicals. Yeah. I mean, you're enticing a kid to come play for you. If that's in fact what you choose to do, you're paying a kid, that's what you're paying the kid to do. It's no different than saying like, well, what if he gets beat out? Well, okay. You still, you still agree to pay him, whatever you agreed to pay him. So if the question is asking, do they do research on kids' medical histories, of course they do. I mean, they know what they're getting themselves into, you know, without being able to predict the future, right? Because I don't think anybody would have thought that he would have had to redo what they already did. I don't, I don't think anybody thought that, right? But they did and it is what it is. But yeah, what, what you make promises to somebody, it's the honorable thing to keep those promises. I don't have a problem with that. I mean, if you try to strongarm a kid into, you know, you don't get this if that, the other thing that he's going to be like, all right, cool, I understand I'm going to go sign with somebody else. Deuces. I'm out. Yeah. Yeah. So now that doesn't mean that, it's like, the thing with that is if you feel that there's a concern with him and being injured, he may not be the quarterback for you. To even go get in the portal period. Yeah. If you got those kind of reservations, yeah, that's good call. So again, there, there, do those conversations happen? Sure. Is there a negotiation about what you may or may not get paid if you were ankle? No, I don't think that's the case. Bubs. Any concern that this year's offensive line hamstrings, the offense in the way the 21 line did for that team? Sure. I'm concerned about that it might happen. I think it's a lot less likely that it'll happen than in 2021, but it's certainly a concern. I don't think this line is going to be as bad as that line. Not even close. Right. But it's like, but the question is, but will it be good enough for them to win a championship? That's the question. Because I mean, that team in 2021 went 11 and one. I mean, it's not like they were a terrible team. Schedule wasn't very tough, but you get the point I'm making Vince, it's, it's, it's, it's a concern. So, you know, people are concerned about, well, you had Tosh Baker look really bad in 2021. Okay. Are we to believe that Tosh Baker hasn't gotten any better in three years? Like you think he's still the same guy he wasn't happy, got beat out by a first run draft pick and a second round draft pick, you know, and a five star guy, you know, beat him out at left tackle this off season in a really talented guy with five star upside beat him out of right tackle just because he got beat out. Those are all true things. He got beat out by a meal wagner. That still doesn't mean he can't play, all right, because again, you're, you're O line you, you've recorded really talented players, you know, but, but again, it's left guards is still a question mark for different reasons. So yeah, it's a concern. It would be very homeless of me to say not at all concerned about the old line holding this team back. Not at all. Okay. Well, hope that helps you sleep better night, but that's not honest evaluation. Now, am I as concerned about it now as I was then going this season? No, I'm not. I'm not as concerned about it as I was then because flat out going into 2021, they're just were some guys that I didn't think could play or were at positions that I didn't think they should be playing, you know, so going into 2021, I just didn't think Kane Madden was any good. I mean, I, I even had another name coach call me about that and kind of was not happy that I had said that publicly true, true story. And he understood where I was coming from by the end of the conversation. Because once again, he was told something that I said that wasn't true and that's what happens anytime I ever a coach, no, I didn't coach reach out to me about something I said. It's because someone told him I said something that I didn't say or left out a lot of context. And the conversation was, you know, well, we need to hit the portal. So I understand that because remember that's the year they were trying to go after that kid from Tulsa, the corner from Tulsa. I was like, I was happy about him and there was another kid that they got that year and I was like, I'm very happy about that. I'm all for the portal. I don't think he can play. That's the difference. And you knew they brought him in here to play. Like he wasn't like, well, he's going to battle. No, he's not. He's coming in here to start, you know, and I just think you can play. I was very concerned about Zeke Corel at guard. I think Zeke was the center. I was concerned about him at guard. You know, you had a true freshman and Blake Fisher who I thought was talented, but he's still a true freshman, starting to left tackle. And that was a concern. And then of course he gets hurt and it becomes a problem. You know, Josh Luck and there's a guy that I thought could be steady and he was pretty steady that year. I thought Josh was solid. But just overall talent wise, I was concerned about that team. Jarrett Patterson was really the only known commodity that you had going into that year. And he was coming off of a season ending injury from the previous year. So I'm not as concerned about this group. I mean, look, Billy Schrauff versus Kane Madden, huge advantage at right guard. You know, Ashton Craigett, Jarrett Patterson, I mean, Jarrett was more experienced. Ashton's healthier, a little bit more talented, in my opinion, you know, fifth year senior version of Toss Baker versus Redshirt, freshman version of Toss Baker, or true freshman version of Blake Fisher, similar, you know, a meal Wagner to Josh Luck at right tackle, Josh is more proven and meals more talented, you know, and then left guard. It's a wash, if not better now. But now you've got young guys like Sullivan apps are coming along because that's partly why they had to go get Kane Madden is because they hadn't recruited the position all that well and they needed that kind of guy to go out there, at least they felt they did. And that's not as much of a concern now. So would you also say that your concern level is a little bit lower based on who's playing quarterback? Since you've got a little bit big time, I love Jack home, but Jack comes not moving around in the pocket. Exactly. And so it was a city and that's what happened again, Wisconsin. That's what happened against Cincinnati. They put pressure on him and they could not block him and there was nothing Jack could do about it. Right. If they could have blocked him, he would Jack would have been fine, but he's not going to be able to escape. But he couldn't, you know, and whereas Riley, it's like, okay, you know, he can do more damage and there's things you can do to neutralize that pass rush with his legs. There's things like some of your biggest runs this year may be on plays where you're not asking your offensive line to block for the run at all. So then that's what a read zone is. Your block for the inside zone and Riley's doing his thing over here. Your blocking is not dependent on Riley Leonard making certain plays, right? You're running jet sweeps, you know, power read with jet sweep action. You're not dependent upon the offensive line to make that play go if he's, if it's a give. You know, there's things like that that can help as well. The offense is better suited at the quarterback level and from a leadership level to thrive if the offensive line isn't great. Cause look, we saw Mike Dembrock have a pretty good offense two years ago than offensive line that wasn't very good. You know, so that's something I go to a lot, you know, the LSU offensive line wasn't exactly winning the Joe Moore award every year, right? I mean two years ago they weren't last year, they were pretty decent, but you're correct though. You're absolutely correct. I trust the offensive coordinator to know what he's got and to scheme around that if necessary or to scheme towards that if necessary, right? So yeah, that's, that's also a big part of it for me. Yep. Absolutely. All right. Let's get to a few more before we get out of here, Vince. Here's speaking of Riley Leonard. Let's get to this one. All right. Bob Alvey, what does Riley Leonard's pass efficiency rating need to be for Notre Dame's offense to score 28 points against the four toughest opponents? I think part of what makes Riley Leonard so impactful is that you don't need him to have X quarterback rating. You know, I mean, it's like, go look at the, the Clemson game last year is I said, if you're just looking at this from a, from a passing standpoint, you miss out on what makes this guy so good. And against do against Clemson last year again, that they won by 21 points, you know, Riley Leonard against Duke, you went 17 of 33, 175 yards only completed 51.5% of his throws had no touchdown passes, no interceptions, only 5.383 yards per attempt and had 9.96.1% pass rating. And they won by 21 points. Now part of it was, you know, the turnovers by Clemson and all that, but like Riley Leonard in that game also went out and ran the ball eight times or 98 yards and had a third and short touchdown that he took about 50 yards because he broke several tackles in the backfield and then outran the Clemson defense into the end zone. Like you, you missed that. So you say, well, he only passed 175 yards. Yeah. But look at what he did from an offensive standpoint, look what he did from a total standpoint. You know, and, and I think that's what people miss a little bit. At 273 yards of total offense because he can run and last I checked touchdowns for a quarterback from a pass count as many points as a touchdown from a run and yards that you get running are the same count the same as yards pass. So what I mean, Vince, is if you run for 20 yards, it counts the same as if you pass for 20 yards. Last time I checked. Okay. There needs to be like, and I don't even know how you would even go by, but there almost needs to be like an offensive efficiency rating or what. There needs to be an offensive playmaking rating. Yeah. There you go. That's what needs to be. There is an offensive efficiency rating. You can look at his yards per attempt and then in his yards per carry and things like that. You know, man, it's a pretty bad yards per attempt average against, you know, Clemson, you only threw the ball for 5.3 yards per carry, but yeah, he averaged 12.3 on his, as a runner, you know, and six points seven is a play. Right. So, you know, yeah, you want him to be better in that regard. You definitely want him to be better than what he was against Clemson. But the other thing that I always say is, but he's also going to have a much better supporting cast than he had at Clemson. And that's, that's the thing that you got to look at and say, you know, what kind of impact is he, is he having from a yards per play standpoint? So, so for example, Riley Leonard against Clemson last year, if you look at like just total offense, average 6.7 yards per play. Jaden Daniels last year, the Heisman Trophy winner did not have a better percentage than that until game six against Missouri, where he was 8.7. Now after that, he kind of took off, right? But so did Riley. He was 9.3 against Lafayette, 9.6 against Northwestern. And so that's the thing as you look at is there's a lot of different ways to evaluate effectiveness from a quarterback. And when you, when you talk about evaluating Riley Leonard compared to how you're going to evaluate Sam Hartman, you're going to evaluate them very differently. I'd be willing to give you, look, Sam's got to complete at least 65% of his passes. You got to be, you know, well above 8.4 yards per pass attempt and, and in the red zone, you've got to do this, this, this, Riley Leonard could go 15 of 28 against Florida State for 175 yards. And they went that again by two touchdowns because he went out there and ran for 75 yards on 11 carries and because you were worried about him, you missed, you know, you were late getting into that inside zone run that, that on a red zone concept where he gave and Jeremiah Love runs for a 50 yard touchdown because your, your backside player was so focused on stopping Riley Leonard that he couldn't get to that. That never happens. Like somebody was asking me like, you know, how are they going to be in short yarders without Audrick Estimae? And we got to talking about the run game and I'm like, how many times did you see Audrick Estimae get tackled because they just crashed a dude off the backside of the line. And there's nothing that a name could do about it. That's not a problem with the Riley Leonard, because if you try that mess against Notre Dame now, he's pulling that ball and he's out of the gate. It's strike up the band. You know what I mean? It's like you have to defend them completely differently now than you did before. And so now I would like for him in those games to do both be efficient, throwing the ball 100% and, you know, and have a quarterback rating over 150 and also run the ball, you know, for 50 plus yards and a touchdown. Like it, that's ideal, but it just comes down to, he's got to make plays. That's the thing that Riley's got. He's got to make plays. He's got to make plays with his legs. He's got to make plays with his arm and he's got to make plays on third down. That's really what it comes down to. And you're just going to evaluate him way differently than you evaluated Sam Hartman, Jack Cone, and even Ian Book, because a lot of Ian Book's production as a runner was on, we're on scrambles in the past. There are scrambles. Yeah. We're a Riley Leonard's going to make yards as a runner. Like as a zone, right? Yeah. And you're going to defend that way differently. I mean, the last time Notre Dame had a quarterback that you had to count for his legs like Riley Leonard was Brandon Windbush. And Riley Leonard's a much better pastor than what Brandon Windbush was in 2017. Much better. And now think about that. Think about what that offense would have been like with a quarterback that could not only run like Brandon and Riley can run like Brandon, he's faster than Brandon. He averaged more yards per carry than Brandon, but he can throw the ball for a 62 to 63 percent completion rate, which is where Riley was before his injury to Notre Dame. People are only completed 57. Go look at what his completion percentage was before he got hurt against Notre Dame. It was like 62.7. That's 13 points higher than what Brandon Windbush was. And, and so it's just a, it's just a different animal and he's going to have way better receiving core. Now the line won't be as good, but everything else is going to be as good. It's not better. So those are the things I look at Bob. It's a very fair question. It really is, but you just got to evaluate Riley Leonard differently. Now what, what I hope to see from him, I want to, like I said, I want to see him be at least a hundred, you know, 150 pass a rating and at least 65 percent completion and at least eight and a half yards per 10th. That's the ideal. That's the ideal numbers for me to say, Hey, throw in the ball wise, Riley was able to go out there and do what he needed to do to beat that team, a hundred percent. So I'll, I'll give you the numbers, but I think unlike past quarterbacks, he doesn't have to be there to do enough to win. And that's one thing that's a little bit different. All right, let's get to a couple more events before we, um, we get out of here. Here's a good one W.O. Lewis, which team in the preseason top 10 or 15 will not be ranked by the end of the season? Let's go look at the coaches pull events. I want to pull up the, what was the, let me go to the, the ESPN, I believe has the rankings here. So let's go pull up the old coaches poll top 15. So Georgia one, Ohio state two Oregon three Texas four, Bama five, Ole Miss six and their name seven Michigan eight. That's one Penn state nine, Florida state 10, Missouri 11 LSU 12 Utah 13 Clemson 14 Tennessee 15. The team in there that I would say has the best chance to finish unranked this year. It would be Michigan of the top 15 teams that I would, and then second for me would probably be Missouri. Now if Cameron rising gets heard at quarterback, you can, you can tell under that conversation, but those would be my three most likely teams that don't finish ranked that are in the top 15, 10, 15, as you were reading through on those are the ones that stuck out to me. And, and, and it's not just because of my Michigan hatred, I'm putting that to the side for right now, but it's also because I just think they're going to take a step back with all the stuff that's big and off the field, you've got, you know, a lot of those guys graduated, you got a new coaching staff, you got a much harder schedule than you did last year, and they're not going to have the advantages that they have the year before. I just, I think they're going to take a major step back and yeah, I agree, Vince. All right, let's get to it. Here we go. Here's one from I see I L Irish 82, not Notre Dame related, but thoughts on Michigan naming Harbaugh, honorary captain. I didn't think that was real. I literally had to look that up. I was like, there's no way they did that. They named him. They honor any captain for the opener against Fresno State. That is, that is such a slap in the face to the NCAA. And this is the thing is like nobody respects you anymore, right? Like, like I would, I would do, I would find something to hammer Michigan for like, you know, no, uh, uh, that is such a, that is such a we don't care that we cheated. And it's nothing you can do about it. And then there's not it's just all of that program. It's a scumbag program. Right. They cheat. Like here's thing. This is, let me say this, Vince, the reason I'm so pissed about this, like schools do things all time, you know, like, like, yeah, I'm going to try to steal your signals in the middle of a game. You know, I'm going to try to figure it out, you know, and if you've done enough, it's just part of it. If you send me film and I can see your signals on the film and you use the same signals, I'm not going to feel bad for learning those signals, right? Um, you know, if you, if you leave behind your play sheet, you know, on the Friday walkthrough, that's on you, you know what I mean? Like I probably wouldn't use it, but like that's kind of on you. There's all, there's all types of things you do to try to gain an advantage that are within the rules and within the levels of sportsmanship. What Michigan did was so blatantly disrespectful to the game that I can't say, well, you know, it worked. I don't care that it worked. You know, I really don't care that it worked. I don't, I don't want to win that bad that I'm willing to cheat, knowingly cheat and cheat the game, cheat my, my fans, cheat other sport as a whole. It disgusts me. And for them to be so unapologetic about it and flaunt this type of thing, like, no, man, that's mmm, mmm. I mean, literally unapologetic with what just said the other day. He's like, I'm not apologizing for anything. I didn't do anything wrong. Right. Like you were caught red handed. Your hand was in the cookie jar. You had crumbs on your mouth. Like you are guilty. Right. Well, for, for the cheating thing, they actually have said that like, there's no evidence that he knew, it's, it's, it's, it seems like it's he purposely. Absolutely. You know, removed himself from that. There's no way he didn't know something's going on, but no one could say, Hey, this is, you know, I told him this. He told exactly, exactly. It's, it's ignorance is bliss kind of thing. But for Michigan to do that, just, um, oh, it's just there. Look, Brian, them and their fan base, they're all in on this. They don't even care that they got in trouble and they don't care that they cheated. They don't care. They got what they want. Like at first they were like, no, no, we didn't cheat. We didn't cheat. And then I was like, so what, you know, it's like, it's like, yeah, it's just like, don't be mad. We got the trophy. That's why you're mad. Like, no, I'm not. I don't really care. That's nothing to do with it. Nothing to do with it. So, but they're all good. Like they literally sold their soul to get championship and they have no qualms about it. And that's that's messed up, man. Yeah. They are. It's just, yeah. It's, it's disgusting. It really is disgusting to say the least. Yeah, I just, uh, man, oh man, I'm going to answer this last question, Vincent. And then we got to run spark five, two, one, nine will be ready offensively, defensively, and special teams. How do you get ready for a hundred degree temperature, an impressive, oppressive humidity? Well, at the end of the day, Vince, there's no way to, to prepare for it. Just specifically, there's no way for you to have a hundred degree temperature. And right, you can that can't endure facility with the humidity. Like, that's just not somebody got sick. You'd get sued. Like, that's not realistic. Yeah. What you do is you just, um, you just do what you can to, uh, you just do what you can to try to make a way, say this. I do. You just make sure your best shape that you can possibly and you push yourself a little harder in the, in the two weeks leading up the fall. Can't to that game, you know, hey, we're going to push ourselves a little bit more. We're going to run a little bit more. We're going to push tempo a little bit more. We're going to practice a little bit harder. Just you're in great shape. And then during that day, you just, you know, the, the two, well, see, here's, here's the key about hydration. If you wait till the day of a game or right before the games are hydrating, you're done. It's about your meal, like what you're putting in your buy that whole week and you're making sure your hydrate might craze that whole week. Cause if you wait till before the game to get something, you know, there's some little tablet or water or Gatorade before warm, you're going to be cramping like crazy. Your body needs to be hydrated for the entire week, you know, and that's really what this stuff kind of boils down to is it's your, your plan for dealing with that has to be long term, you know, in a lot, including the hydration part. Now, the thing that's good is that it is a seven 30 kickoff. So it won't be hot as hot, even during warmups, which just start around six, it still won't be as hot as it would be if you're playing like a three o'clock. That that's just, you know, yeah, but it's all about the hydration and then the recovery and all of those different things that you do for those two weeks, right? And I would start all that stuff two weeks ahead of time, right? It's, it's your recovery. It's the, you know, the, the fueling your body properly, getting all the hydration and doing all of that. That's all you can do. I mean, you, like you said, you can't replicate that temperature. Right. And anybody that's like, well, they're not doing what they need to be doing. They're not replica. You can't. That's not, that's not realistic, right? Maybe you, maybe you go down a day early, you know, to help kind of get acclimated to the temperatures. I wouldn't have a problem with that, depending on class schedules and things like that. So, you know, maybe you go down a little bit early, that kind of thing. But at the end of the day, you prep leading up to it and you hope you did all the right things and you're all in the same environment and you go and may the better man win. I mean, that that's really what it comes down to. Yeah, football is not about being comfortable. How about that? That that's the biggest thing for me. Yeah. That's fair. That's fair. So Vince, that'll do it, man. Okay, there's a lot, there's like still a lot of questions we didn't get to, but we are, you know, Vince has got a role and we are out of time. We're up against it. Sorry to all those. If you're a message board member, go to the message board, leave your questions there. We need to have like a post mailbag message board post where people ask the questions we didn't get to. And then also there's the, the film breakdown and the stats breakdown on the site for the, for the Notre Dame pass game that you'll definitely want to check out. That's a message board only thing. So why don't you go and take us out of your minutes. That's right. So get on the boards, boards that average breakdown.com. And as Matt D says, hit the like button, hit the like button, share, subscribe, hit the notification bell so you never miss a live show. There's a good chance that there's going to be a show tomorrow afternoon, Brian. And of course, we're going to talk about that, but you're not going to know that unless you hit the notification bell and then you'll be able to join us on an odd Saturday afternoon. So make sure you stick with us. Thanks for hanging out with us this entire time. I love mailbag Fridays. This is my last one because I get to go back to school next week. Yippee for me. And, but this is my favorite day of the week. And you guys made it special and I appreciate that and looking forward to what this season has, man. This is going to be a lot of fun. We've got a few more afternoon shows next week before I end up going back. So make sure you stay tuned. But again, it might be a show tomorrow afternoon. So hit that notification bell so that there will be because we have practice availability tomorrow. So it's not fair enough. You're saying that people don't think there's going to be some commitment or something like that. That's not what I know that may happen to. But, but we have practice availability tomorrow. So you have a show tomorrow for sure. 100%. So we'll let you know how practice went and maybe do a little bit more as well. So for Brian I'm Vince. Thanks you guys for hanging out with us and we'll talk to you next time on the Irish Breakdown podcast. [MUSIC] [MUSIC] [MUSIC] [MUSIC] [MUSIC] [MUSIC] [MUSIC] [MUSIC] [MUSIC]
