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[Music] Final part of today's show, folks, is we're going to dive into the buy/sell hole. You guys know the drill. The submissions are generated by our subscribers at Irish Breakdown. So we have a thread that goes up. My guy Salty puts it up every Tuesday. You guys hit your submissions during the season. It's a little tougher to get to all of them. So I have to make some choices on ones that I pass on. So some are, you know, I got kind of multiple submissions about same thing. So I'll just take one of them. There's some that I really liked, but they were more down the road. And then some others, I just, I didn't, I wasn't able to fit all of them into the show, but there were some great submissions. I'm going to try to go back later tonight and respond to the ones that I didn't bring up in the show. And then the other way to get a buy/sell hole submitted is that you submitted to Super Chat, which we appreciate. And then we do have three Super Chats here real quick. Zach Martin, stars don't matter on Saturday's One Play One Life. Love it, man. Absolutely love it. Thank you for the Super Chat Mark or Zach Martin. And you are correct. It's just going to come down to how guys play on Saturday. Stars do not define you. Sometimes they get it right. Sometimes they don't. It's about the talent. That's ultimately what matters. I didn't banami with a Super Chat. Thank you, I didn't, a big deal with Chance Tucker's injury. Slim at cornerback. Is it Saturday? First of all, I'm not concerned about. I'm, let me say I'm bummed about the injury for Chance Tucker for chance. Chance is one of my just love his, love his family. Great kid. Everything you want to know today and kid to be about has had opportunities to transfer. Wanted to see it through. Wanted to get to know him to agree. Love being part of this team. And he was a kid that went down with an injury and just in a bad way and you just feel terrible for him. The reality is is Leonard Moore was basically had passed him up already or was on the verge of passing him up. So it doesn't really affect the two deep at all. And you know, yes, if you have another injury or two, it could be a problem. But I'm, I'm comfortable with where the cornerback depth chart is right now. I mean, he was, Chance was battling for the number four corner spot. No name only really needs to play three. And his hold on the fourth cornerback spot. If he even still had it was, was tenuous and he was going to lose him. I don't even like talking about that too much because I feel like I'm being down on Chance and I'm not. I love that kid. But Leonard Moore is just a really talented player and he was going to pass him up. But I love, I love Chance's competitiveness and just an awesome kid and I hate to see him go down. But I'm not, I'm not concerned about cornerback depth until they lose another guy. Maybe two, then I start getting a little bit nervous. AST one, two, three, two, one. Brian has there been any feedback on how NAP has handled Nernim's first team D, including exotic blitzes and stunts. Well, I mean, I haven't heard anything specific beyond just the only thing I've heard is that he has been their most consistent player there. That means he's, I mean, that kid, that doesn't, I'm not told this, but that can only mean that he's handling himself well. You know, consistency is, is what you look for in an offensive lineman, that he was more consistent than the other tackles. And that's why he's playing. It's not about upside or potential or anything like that. It's about right now, he's their best guy. And that's why he beat out Tosh Baker. And from what I was told, it was not really all that close. Like once NAP got in there and started getting reps, it was kind of over pretty quick there. And we'll see if it's the right choice or not. But I mean, he was, I was told this by multiple people. He just was steady. 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It certainly can be that way and that's going to what it comes down to right like what not only which D line plays better but which O line plays better is going to be a big part of this. Buy so hold Nernim's D line plays as well. If not better than A&M's D line. Well those two things kind of go hand in hand right if if Nernim's O line outperforms A&M's O line then that means Nernim's D line out played A&M's D line. So those two things kind of go hand in hand by so hold Riley Leonard out plays Connor Wegman. I buy that if it doesn't happen then that's where Nernim could kind of run into some problems. And then buy so hold Nernim wins by two plus scores and opens some not all eyes. There's a couple others like this and I would love to buy that. It's certainly possible but I'm going to sell that because my prediction will not have Nernim winning by well. I'm going to hold that until tomorrow my friend. I'm going to hold that until my prediction comes out for tomorrow. But is it possible for Nernim to win by two plus scores? Sure. Am I saying it's a it's a given? No it's definitely not a given just like they could lose the game. We'll see how it plays out but I'm going to hold off on that one until my until my score prediction comes out for tomorrow. Ball peen Shalalee. By so hold the great one Jaden Greathouse has seven plus catches and two plus touchdown catches at Texas A&M. Dude I hope that's right I'm you know that's a lot of production. Seven cat plus catches minimum seven and two. I'll tell you this if he if he does that this game won't be close. I will absolutely say that I'm going to I'm going to sell that one. That's a ton of production. That's that's a lot I'm going to sell that but I think it's certainly possible. By so hold the great one is named the MVP of the Texas A&M game again I hope that's accurate I'm going to sell it because I think it's it's going to be somebody else I think it's going to be. Riley Leonard or someone on the defense but I'm okay if it's Jaden Greathouse and then. By so hold the great one is already in the Heisman conversation after a week one I'll definitely sell that one even if he has seven catches and two touchdowns he's not going to be in the car. So no matter how much some of us Jaden Greathouse fans would like to think so. Yeah. Next one from brother Thomas thank you brother Thomas by so holding their name wins by double digits and then narrative from haters goes from their name is not that good tonight is still not that good but Texas A&M is just worse okay. I'm not selling I'm not buying this based on the wins by double digits I'm buying the premise of if they win by double digits, the narrative goes from Notre Dame is not that good to not even still not that good but Texas A&M is just worse. I am going to sell that in the areas above the Mason Dixon line and out west and I'm going to sell it down south because up north and the northeast, the narrative will be big win by Notre Dame if they win by by what you said double digits, it'll be great win by Notre Dame, no question. What will be set stated by the people like Paul fine bomb. And the SEC crowd is all well A&M is not that good you guys know this Notre Dame is not going to get respect for beating SEC teams until we see them beat Georgia or Bama. Because I know Notre Dame fans will say Notre Dame doesn't win games like this, despite the fact Notre Dame has won two bowl games over LSU in the last decade, despite the fact they beat South Carolina in a bowl game. Despite the fact they've beaten everybody in the SEC not named Alabama or Georgia when they've played. Then the reality is is you're just not going to get that respect until you beat one of the two quote unquote big dogs that's the reality of it so up north Notre Dame will get respect for that down south and SEC territory. That's going to be about A&M not being that good 100% Paul fine bombs going to get on his channel and spew his other nonsense about anms not that good, and he'll say whatever needs to say to get people to click on his links and to watch his show, because there's no actual seriousness analysis there there's no serious analysis there it's all clickbait. The narrative will 100% be anms just not that good and then if anm goes on a run, and let's say that anm wins their chief Brody I'm not at all surprised that you liked Paul fine bomb I love you man but I am not even remotely surprised you just said you like Paul fine bomb it fits with a lot of what you feel about Notre Dame there's no doubt I love you man but that's just a fact, but let's be honest about something else. A&M loses to Notre Dame, and let's look at the rest of Texas A&M schedule. Let's say that Texas A&M goes on a run, and they win a bunch of games, and let's say they beat Florida in two weeks on the road. They beat Arkansas in Dout in Arlington and in a September beat Missouri at home beat LSU at home beat Auburn on the road and beat Texas in the final game and let's say they go 11 and 1 and they're getting ready play Georgia for the SEC title. You learn well that ESPN, and especially the people on the SEC network and SEC fans and SEC analysts will simply say, betcha Notre Dame doesn't want to play Texas A&M now, it won't be man Notre Dame beat that really good Texas A&M team. You know what I know that ESPN is going to say that, because that's exactly what they said in 2018 Notre Dame beats Michigan at home to start the 2018 season. Only one by a touchdown was never that close it was 21 to 3 at one point in time. At the end of the year before the Ohio State game freaking Kirk Herb Street goes on his show and basically tries to argue that Michigan should be ranked ahead of Notre Dame, even though that Notre Dame won the head to head, convincingly so in a lot of instances. Because well that was back then they're a different team now they weren't a different team as Ohio State showed the next weekend when they actually dominated Michigan and hung a 60 spot on them. But that's the narrative and that will absolutely be the narrative if A&M loses to Notre Dame even if it's by 20 points and goes on a run and wins 10 or 11 games, it will be will Notre Dame only beat them early they wouldn't beat them now. That will be the narrative so in a lot of people now a lot of northern folks big 10 folks I think they will give more credit to Notre Dame because it fits their narrative, but that's absolutely how it'll be played out. That's absolutely how we play it'll play out in that type of situation so it'll just depend on where you go. That's absolutely right. We'll get to some more from this one brought for a south side chai rush by so holding their name goes for over 350 yards of total offense is an am I'm by that I don't know that it's going to be a lot over 350 but I do think they're going to go over 350. By so hold the 26th Notre Dame recruiting class will receive at least four more commitments by Thanksgiving absolutely by that. I certainly get to four. Greg Nielsen by so hold typically position coaches get a fair amount of latitude in determining who will start. But the decision to start a true freshman at left tackle indicates Joe Rudolph Mike Denmark and Marcus Freeman at minimum came to a consensus that nap won the job absolutely by that Greg. Is this a situation where Joe Rudolph determined that he wanted Anthony nap to be the left tackle believe so yes. If Mike Denmark and and Marcus Freeman don't agree with that guess what Anthony naps not starting to left tackle. Simple as that that's a very important just like if Gino good Julie was like hey I think we should start Steve Angeli quarterback he didn't I'm just using an example. Mike Denmark and Marcus and I'm like yeah I'm glad you feel that way but that's not happening. Riley Leonard's a quarterback. Same thing here and I don't care if Mike Denmark's the tight ends coach receivers coach quarterback he's the offensive coordinator. He's ultimately in charge of everyone that plays if Mike then Brock wants to overrule. And I'm going to give him a call on who he's going to have it running back on a play he does. Same at receiver same at tight end of course because it's this position and same in the offensive line. But also in a situation like this where you're not only talking about your left tackle but you're talking about started true freshman left tackle. Who's going to come who's going to protect the blind side of your franchise quarterback. You know Marcus Freeman was part of that conversation. So the only way Anthony naps starts at left tackle is if they all agreed that he gives them the best chance to have the best offensive line they can have. No question so I'm definitely buying that Greg that's a good submission. Next one from Greg. I believe he had to for quarterbacks by so hold for quarterbacks a transition from a spread system to a pro style system is more difficult than a transition from a pro style to a spread. I'm going to sell that Greg because it just depends on the quarterback. You know there are some guys that could go from spread to pro style and do just fine. And other guys are going to need more time to transition it just depends on where who you are and what your specific skill set are if you're a very athletic quarterback who's playing in a spread system. Or a pro style system you're not going to have a tough a super tough transition going to a spread. You're a guy that that does some of those things and then if you're a guy that just drop backs and throw drops back and throw it yours. There's going to be some some stuff in the spread the thing that made. I feel like maybe right Sam Hartman's. Transition issue quote unquote issues factor and I don't think Sam Hartman had really bad transition issues if you'll look at Sam Hartman his four best games for his first four games. I don't believe that that in his offense also is very unique with that slow mesh very very unique technique. I think actually if anything I would argue that going from pro style to spread is more difficult because your footwork changes so much more. You're doing your play action and handoffs in a in a spread than what it does. Your reads change dramatically. There's a lot to it so I actually would argue it's the opposite, but I don't think it's by a ton. I think they're both require technical transitions and read transitions that make it a challenge, but good quarterbacks and smart quarterbacks can obviously get it done. I don't believe that there are two assistant coach awards. I believe that there's one. I could be wrong on this, but I believe there's one and any coach can win it so I don't know that that's even possible. But I did in my bold prediction have that one of the coordinators will win the broils award which goes to the top assistant so I at least by one of them. The second one says with weather looking to be a non factor Kyle field will be a non factor by the fourth quarter. Well, I still think weather is going to be a factor. I don't think it's a non factor, but it won't be the factor that people made it out to be number one but it's still a factor but if we buy your premise. It will be a non factor if Notre Dame plays better. I mean if it's a close game in the fourth quarter Kyle field and what I believe you mean by that is the loudness and the size of the crowd will will not be it'll be a factor. If Notre Dame's up by 1720 points then guess what it won't be a factor. I've watched Michigan state games where in the fourth quarter Michigan had trouble communicating and seeing you know in getting into their rhythm because of how loud the crowd was a Spartan stadium. Well the last time I was a Spartan stadium back in 2017. Not only was it not a factor in the fourth quarter half their fans had left by the time it got to the fourth quarter because their name was beating them so bad. Of course then it wasn't a factor it was a factor when I was there in 2010. So in a much more competitive game so it just depends on on what the score is and that that's always true. Be honest with you now if you're saying like okay but I think the game won't be close by then but I hope you're right. I hope you're right. I just think it's going to be a little bit more competitive than that but I hope that you're I hope to be wrong I hope this is not a close game I don't like close games it can be stressful. Third and seven duo also says no names home field and weather this is an interesting one when I put this in I wanted I was looking forward to getting to this one. Notre Dame's home field wet and weather advantage in December is greater than southern teams have at the beginning of the season. It's harder adapted cold coming from the south than heat coming from the north I actually agree with that. And there are things you can do to because like with the heat from this from this in the south. It's it's not so much the heat that gets you it's your it's your conditioning level and your preparation your hydration your nutrition and all those type of things. You can like that and I know that there's a lot made of it and I understand that and I'm not saying it's easy but. The reality is is it's it's not what people made it out to be. If you're proper conditioned if you have a good rotation. If you have a game plan in place that kind of plays into it if your players are properly hydrated for the two weeks before. All those things factor in you can handle the heat. It is much harder. To prepare for cold. Because it's it's not a conditioning thing it's an honestly it's as much a mental thing. Like going from 80 degrees in South Bend and 95. And in in Texas. Is not the kind of jump that going from 60 degrees in Florida to 10 degrees in December and South Bend. It's a much different deal and perfect I mean we've seen examples of this in the past I mean even in a bowl game you guys remember the 2010 sun bowl. When Miami shows up. And it's cold it's snowed the night before no rain players are out there on the field in short sleeve shirts. And in Miami kids are coming out in the field with you know their faces covered long seat and they want to know part of that cold there's just. You can't turn your heat down you know your air conditioner down to 35 in your indoor facility just can't do it. So absolutely it's gonna it's it's more in that case it's more of a challenge if you are coming up to you know below freezing weather that's that's hard man. That's really really hard there's no doubt. Light it. Hey Irish breakdown listeners it's Urban Meyer this fall the game changes join me Heisman Trophy winner Mark Ingram and broadcaster Rob Stone as we bring you a new perspective on football and culture every week. We will be joined by the biggest name in sports and talk about everything inside and outside of the lines. Let us guide you through a new era of college football. Watch triple option on YouTube or listen on Apple podcast Spotify or wherever you get podcasts. 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That's actually not something I agree with because in football players want to wear as little as possible. I mean these don't even get covered anymore football players do not want to put a lot of layers on. And when you're a skill player for example and you've got to put multiple layers on and your body can start overheating not reacting well to that when it's cold outside. There's a lot of your hands get even with gloves on. Your hands get tighter because your skin shrinks when it's cold. It can be harder to grip a football especially a cold football because it becomes very hard to handle that it can be hard to kick a cold football. It's muscles tighten when you're that cold you can put as many clothes on as you want but there's only you can't put park is on when you're out there running routes. Right. So I disagree that you can do that it is that way and I'm speaking to you as someone who has coached and played in the south and someone who's coached and played in the north. I've done both. I've played in Ohio. I've played in Florida and everywhere in between. I've coached in Texas I've coached in Florida or actually not Florida I've coached in North Carolina. I've coached in Kentucky and I've coached in Ohio I've coached in Pennsylvania. I'm just telling you there is no there's no doubt that playing in the cold is far more impactful on you as a person than playing in heat. It's just way different. Way different. So, and again I've lived in Florida I've coached in Texas I've coached up north and I've lived up north. When you talk about for football players, it is very different. Very, very different. Back to liquid gold the national media will be praising the athleticism the Notre Dame linebackers after the A&M game if Notre Dame dominates them. Yes, I will buy that. Yes, I think that's one of the things that they're going to be. If Notre Dame's defense shuts A&M down. A big part of it will be the linebackers play well. And Jack Kaiser is very athletic Drake's athletic Kingston's very athletic for a size especially Jayden Alsbury's going to play Jaylin's need. It's a very athletic second line backing core. Absolutely. Very, very, very challenging. Aggie kid says that sounds like something a northern native would say. Call me what you want, but I played high school football in Norfolk, Virginia. I played college football in North Carolina and I also spent an entire semester in Florida playing spring ball in Florida. I've coached in Texas. You can say whatever you want, but I promise you I've spent more time at football games in the south in heat than you've spent in football games in the north when it's cold. I promise you that. Let's get to some more here we got from. Come on. Here we go again. This is really annoying. I don't know why it decides it wants to do that sometimes. It just won't. There we go. Bisohold from do it to it. This is a long one. Bisohold that Joe Rudolph has shown an early sign this season that he's the right coach for the job going with the inexperienced but talented group. It would have been easy to play the older guys and if they fail, just say, oh, well, maybe next year, he's put a target on himself betting on his coaching and the overall talent. I'm going to sell that. Could it be the case? Sure, it could be the case, but I don't think just making the decision to start younger players. That answers this question. What if let's just say. Early in the early camp. This is what we would see. One day we'd see Rocco at left guard. One day we see Rocco at right guard. One day so we would see Pat Coogan at left guard. The next day we see Pat Coogan at right guard. Next day we'd see Pat Coogan at center. We saw Sam Pendleton every day at center and when he moved to left guard, he only played left guard. What if moving Coogan and Rocco around made it harder for them to get into a rhythm. But Coogan, but Pendleton playing only one spot for the last three weeks allowed him to be more effective. What if what if that's the reason this happened? I'm not saying that's true, but I'm saying is there's a lot that could have gone into this circumstance that could have led to the end result. That's not just Joe Rudolph's the guy. And what if he made a mistake? Just because he went with the younger players, which we have argued for in the past, doesn't mean it's the right decision. We're not going to know that till the game gets played. Now do it to it. Could it be the right decision? Could it show that he's the guy if this line plays really well? Yes, it would show that. It would mean he had the guts to make this decision and go out there and perform and the line plays great. Awesome. But just making the move doesn't mean it was the right move. We've got to find out if it's the right move first before we start saying that. So I understand where you're coming from, but I'm going to sell that. I'm going to sell that. Smell Rod by so hold. Cross and/or Mills break through the line and catch a running back in the backfield to force a fumble to set Notre Dame up a field position inside the Texas A&M before the half. That is without a doubt the most specific by so hold I have ever had. That is great. And I'm going to buy it just because the thought that you put into that in the specific nature of that I would absolutely I'm going to buy that. I love that. And I hope that that's exactly how that happens. So I'm buying the heck out of that one. Next by so hold from Smell Rod Notre Dame will go three for three for field goals on the night. Oh, let's see here. I could see that that kind of tracks with what I'm I'm thinking from Notre Dame standpoint. So yeah, we'll see that I'm trying to think of the three for three actually I know I believe that that Mitch how he's going to call him Derek Jeter that's my bet Mitch Jeter. I believe he's kicked the Kyle field before but I don't know how many kicks he had at Kyle field so let's actually look at this one real quick place kicking field goals. At Texas A&M so he went one for one at Texas A&M last year two for two on P at's. And he went one for one at home against an end the year before that and then did not kick there so he's one for one there so he's at least kicked in that stadium before so. Yeah, let's go with that one and then there's two ways of looking at that either Notre Dame scores two touchdowns and they get 23 points from being. Three field goals or they scored 21 touch point they score three touchdowns and get to 30 either one I like I hope it's not. They score one touchdown and they only get 16 that would make me very nervous come the fourth quarter but. Yeah, I can I can buy that I can buy that. And then Notre Dame will have at least three reception of 30 plus yards I'm buying that because they have to. They're gonna have a tough time winning if they don't get at least three of those yeah. Or at least if they win it'll be a very low scoring game. KJ Fergie by so whole Notre Dame's defense will not be as dominant statistically in 24 in the 24 year despite being a better overall unit. Because the M. Brock's offense will move faster score more often and take more risks. Leaving more opportunities for the D to give up yards and points in the 2023 that's certainly possible. I'm going to sell this simply so that I can be devil's advocate because I think there's merit to what you're saying is. You know if you're scoring faster scoring more points then there's just going to be more opportunities for the other team to do all that but. I'm going to sell it just so I can so I can make this point. It doesn't always work out that way. Sometimes it could also work out this way where let's say that you are correct that Denmark's offense moves faster and scores more often. And let's say takes more risks number one I don't know that Denmark's offense is going to take more risks. Being aggressive doesn't mean you're taking more risks taking risks or trying to throw certain routes at your own five that you probably shouldn't throw coming out of your end zone and you throw pick or something like that negative short field I don't see that. But, if the offense moves faster scores faster that also allows the defense to take maybe more quote unquote risks to be more aggressive to pin their ears back. Because if Notre Dame's got big leads because their defense is playing well or their offense is playing well. Then what that does is that force forces teams to be a little bit more one dimensional and they got to throw the ball more, which is now playing into the best part of the Notre Dame defense. I would also counter with the other part of that is this teams get a lot more points and yards late in games. But with the way that Notre Dame is recruited you're going to be bringing in some, I mean you're, you're, you're quote unquote, you know, empty the bench, defensive line for example, is going to be Bryce Young. Brennan Vernon, R. Mel Mukam, Devin Houston, Junior Chilamaka, maybe Logan Thomas, maybe, maybe some more snaps for Buba Carr, Kingston Vileama Asa, Preston Zenner, you know, your corners are going to be like Leonard Moore and Carson Hobbs, your safeties are going to be, you know, maybe Bronte Johnson and Ben Minnick and Luke Talich and guys like that Kennedy earlacker like those are some good players. So I don't know that it's going to necessarily mean that because I think you could counter by saying the defense is even more aggressive because they know, Hey, I can bring this pressure here, knowing that it might give up a play, but it also might hit home and give us a big play and we give the offense another short field because I know if we, if we make a mistake here, our offense can bail us out. That's how I'd look at if I'm out golden is I don't have to be as worried about fearing giving up the big play because I know our offense can protect us. So there's that angle to it as well, which so I'm simply selling it because of that, but I think there's merit to what you're saying. It could be a better unit, even if it doesn't necessarily look better on paper. KJ Fergie also says 2024 will be the year, the national narrative changes and their name is no longer thought of as second tier, unable to seriously compete with the modern big boys of college football like Georgia fam at all. I buy based on my predictions for the season by absolutely by this game doesn't do that. But it's a buy BK's last brain cell. Three, I'm here, first one by this whole drink Bowen will register 10 plus tackles and a sack or two tackles for loss in the season opener. I hope so. I'm going to sell that because that's putting a lot of pressure on a kid for his first career start. And I do think that they're going to rotate a lot, but I hope you're right. By so whole Jordan phase I will record five plus receptions for a minimum of 63 yards. Hmm. I'm going to sell that. I don't know that he'll get to five plus catches I could see him at 63 yards. But the five plus catches I'm not sure that I buy that one. I think it'd be more like if he has 63 70 yards it'll be on three or four catches because I'll have some big plays. Yeah, you know, I like to see that though I wouldn't mind that. By so holding their name will record at least three sacks that one I definitely buy. Tatted up Irishman by so hold five current Notre Dame wider severs will collect an info paycheck to some degree practice squads mushrooms etc. I buy that now not next year but. Between Chris Mitchell, Jayden Greathouse, Bo Collins, Jayden Harrison, KK Smith, Cam Williams, Mike Gilbert, Logan Saldate and even Jayden Thomas that's nine guys that could potentially be there so only five of them have to get there. I'll buy that. I buy that. By so whole three current running backs will do the same. Oh, I definitely I mean I think three might even I mean. If I was doing an over under on this I'd probably go three and a half as my under as my set number and I would still take the over I think. Jared Jenarian and Jeremiah for sure. I think we're going to fall players. And it won't shock me off both the freshmen spend time in the NFL because again your your bars low as far as the practice squad I certainly see that. Yeah, I'm buying on both of those to be honest with you. And this last one is a little bit interesting the backup old line in 2025 would be a top 25 unit if they started as long as no one transfers out. My first thought was, come on, bro. That's a little homerish. But then I started thinking about it. So let's say that the current starting offensive line is the starting offensive line for next year so nap Pendleton Craig. Shrout and Wagner. So your backup offensive line would be Charles Jagasol. And we'll we'll we'll assume the two seniors don't come back for fifth years for the sake of argument. Let's say left to right. You're going to be Jagasol at left tackle. You're going to be Joe Owing at center. Gerby Lambert at right tackle. And your two tackles are most likely Sullivan Abscher and Christopher Tarrick who would then be juniors. Yeah, that's pretty good. That's a very talented group. Very talented group. Yeah, I mean, I, I mean, you should top 25 unit if they start. Yeah, I kind of buy that man. I kind of buy that. I kind of buy that. Irishman 7114 between Notre Dame stable of runners, including Leonard and wide receivers on jet sweeps and suffocating defense. The old line will lean on A&M's defense and eventually run for 170 yards and three touchdowns. I'm going to sell that. But man, I hope you're right. Because that's what they did to Ohio State last year. The difference between this year against A&M and last year until Ohio State is I think A&M has a bigger defensive line than Ohio State did. And that's why they were able to lean on Ohio State a little bit last year. I mean, their defensive line had some size to it at some spots. But overall, it wasn't a really big offensive line. And even some of the guys that were listed a little bit bigger, I necessarily thought were like giant players. And some of them I thought maybe were a little bit, you know, not as big as listed, but like Michael Hall, for example, was 6, 2, 2, 80. You know, he wasn't a real big guy. You know, your defensive ends had some size to him, but they weren't as big as the guys that they have there now. You look at, obviously, Jack Sawyer is, let's see here, where is, where's Sawyer? All right. Got to go down here. So it says see Sawyer was 6, 4, 2, 65. That's big. But that's not as big, you know, JT to a Maloa is 6, 4, 270. I mean, A&M's two ends are listed at 6, 80, 290. I mean, 280 and 290. You look at their other interior guys, you know, obviously, Tylake Williams was a bigger kid. But, you know, he's, he was listed at, I mean, they got a lot of Williams on their roster. I'm trying to go through it now. Let's see here, where is Tylake? This is, their roster is very difficult to, to manage. Give me a second trying to, why is this not giving me this thing by Jersey number? All these ads on these schools rosters are driving me crazy. Let's go here. But I know that Tylake Williams was not a, was, was there really only their really big guy that they had last year on their, on their depth chart. So. There we go. Okay. Now, now we got a traditional search here. Okay. So you look at their details last year. Michael Hall, 6, 2, 2, 80, Ty Hamilton, 6, 3, 2, 95. You had Will Smith Jr. didn't play a ton. I don't think he even played that game. You had, where is Tylake? Here we go down here. Josh Mickens didn't play. Caden Davis didn't play. Trying to find. Some of their other ends because this roster is not loading the way that it should be. Well, how state y'all need to get up on your roster and you guys get your roster fixed. This is, this isn't good. This isn't. This is what I want to be. Tylake Williams is a list of 6, 2, 2, 90. Hero Canoe is 6, 4, 3, 0, 5. Taiwan Malone was listed at 6, 4, 3, 0, 3. Jade Mackenzie was 6, 2, 2, 86. See what I'm saying? Like it wasn't a real big defensive line. A&M is a lot bigger. It's going to be harder to lean on them the same way you did Ohio State because they're going to be big and Notre Dame's not as big this year as they were last year at some spots. So, and again, somebody asked them, Doc Jack asked, have you addressed all the A&M fans saying that Nurem's own line is undersized compared to what they play in the SEC? It is. It is undersized compared to what they play in the SEC. That doesn't mean anything. So, I mean, it doesn't tell you that they're going to be good or bad. So, we'll see how it goes, but Ohio State just wasn't very big. They maybe had one or two, three hundred pounders in their rotation. That's it. They were good size, but again, A&M is a whole different animal when it comes to size. Jim Haller and Bicell hold the young offensive line shocks everyone by winning the line of scrimmage with their aggressiveness and tenacity. And I hope you're right, Jim. I mean, I can't buy it. I'm not taking the pure homer takes today. I'd love to buy that, but I've got to see it. They got to show it to me that they can win the line of scrimmage. I think they can hold their own. I do think they can do that. But when the line of scrimmage, that's going to be tough. Majes 16, Bicell hold, Gerby Lambert is too good to keep off the field. He sees significant action by the force they came. I'll buy that. I hope that in part of the premise of the question that I couldn't fit on the screen was that it's not related to injury. I could buy that part of me hopes that that doesn't come true because if that doesn't come true, it means that the tackles play really, really well. And obviously that would be ideal. But if Gerby Lambert forces his win in the starting lineup by the floor sake game, that's not a bad thing either. It means he's really stepped up and he's playing at a high level. 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