As we get into part into part two of the Irish Breakdown podcast brought to you by fans,

Telf, that leads us into a conversation about Joe Rudolph.

And what this conversation is not going to be is a rehashing of whether you do or do not like Joe Rudolph.

It's going to, because here's the deal.

We should all be rooting for Joe Rudolph this year.

Heck yeah.

Like, if you're a Notre Dame fan, you should be rooting for Joe Rudolph this year.

This is not the point.

This is a football conversation that's built around what we have seen before

and what we need to see now for him to get

this line to the point where we can look back and say, that was a great hire.

He played a key role because as we said at the end of segment one, this team can't

reach its full potential if the offensive line plays like it did the last two years.

Last three years, four years.

Let's go back even in 2022.

And yet a different offensive line coach has to play better.

And that means this is a big year for Joe Rudolph.

There's a lot of pressure on Joe Rudolph this year to say, hey, you've had some things outside of your control.

You've had these injuries.

Well, what did those injuries do?

That means you go into this season where Joe Odding and Sullivan Naps were able to get a lot of experience that they otherwise wouldn't have got.

Anthony Naps going into his junior season with

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