Welcome back, everybody, everybody, to another episode of the Irish Breakdown podcast, brought you by our friends over at Fandual. Happy Monday. Happy May 11th. Happy birthday, Mr. Brian Dristel. Definitely a good way to kick off the week, man. Yes. Yes. A lot of people are like, I don't want to work on my birthday. And I'm like, well, I mean, I kind of like what I do. So I'd like to talk offensive line play on my birthday. So let's do it, son. No, but it's going to be appreciate that. Here's my birthday request for everyone. If you are not a member of the Irish Breakdown message board and you want to send me a little birthday present, sign up for the message board at boards at arshbreakdown.com. I would greatly appreciate that as a birthday present because the best thing about that, Trevor, is it not only is good for ours breakdown, but it also is good for you, the person signing up for the membership because it is a truly a great community. And lots of great breakdowns, lots of great intel, lots of great people. I was, I'd be honest with a trip i woke up really down today i woke up

i had a long night there's just a lot of my mind and a lot going on i just kind of woke up just

like not in a great mood this morning had a headache wife gave me some you know she she

helped me feel better made me a cup of coffee got me some tylinol and and and i don't normally take

medicine for a headache

trip that explains you how bad my head hurt this morning sit down I'm like I got to work

first thing I see is like a multi-page happy birthday thread and it just brought a smile to my

face and just really just immediately helped get me in a better mood and so so I really much appreciate that. I really appreciate

that. So thank you all for that. The ones. And there's some people that are saying,

happy birthday in the chat that we're also saying happy birthday in that thread. So I really

appreciate y'all. The care and the love that you all gave helped me get it out of a bad start

to my day.

And now I'm in a great mood and ready to get after it. So thank you all very, very much for that. Heck of way to start the week, Brian. And like you said, we're talking offensive line today. And we're continuing the state of the program series. But with offensive line, we're going to approach it a little bit differently. it's difficult to talk about the offensive line the same way that we've talked about some of the other position groups. Because as we know, the offensive line has to work together as a singular unit, whereas the wide receiver court could be, you know, this guy, this game, this guy, this game, maybe multiple guys a certain game. All 15 to 16 games at Notre Dame is going to be playing this season, we won all five of the offensive linemen play together. Solid leaves, the unit. So that's how we tailored the show today. So part one, we're talking about spring takeaways, what we learned about the starting five, or really the starting forward with Ash and Craig coming back, ideally around the summer, then into fall camp. And then in part two of today's show, we're diving into the future, but the near future,

there's a world where Notre Dame's offensive line outside of Will Black at left tackle

could potentially look completely different in 2027.

So we're going to talk about the depth and what we've seen from some of the younger players.

And then obviously in part three, we're going to dive into the future more so down the road and how Notre Dame is faring on the recruiting trail. And then we're going to wrap everything up today with the mailback. So make sure that those questions are geared towards the offensive line. We can talk about past, present future, Notre Dame offensive lines, offensive linemen, talk about some other offensive lines across the country.

But man, this is going to be a fun show today. I've already seen it in the chat. I know Black Irish, our guy Christopher Galloway is fired up. He loves talking. Yeah, this is his day, man. He's a former college offensive linemen and loves talking offensive line and even more specifically, loves talking about interior offensive linemen. So, Chris, just so you know that question that you put on the board,

I actually merged that into the recruiting mailbag thread and answered your question there.

So it didn't disappear or get deleted or anything.

I just put it into the mailbag so that way people, more people could see it.

And then I did respond to that because it was a very good question. yeah we had fun this weekend on the the message board treb I say let's do a weekend recruiting mailbag it's like like six pages long lots of great questions

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