Hi, Brian, and part two of today's show here on the Irish Breakdown podcast, brought to by our friends over at Fandul.

We're going to talk about the offensive line, a hot topic of discussion, really the last couple of seasons.

And we are believers that a lot of the drivers of success that Notre Dame is going to have this year, especially as an offense, obviously, is going to live in the trenches.

And that's a common theme that we've seen from really the last two national championship winners on down, but using the last two because of the 12-team playoff model. The trenches have played a big role in who's made it there and who has ultimately walked away with the trophy. Notre Dame has a lot of potential at the skilled position. They have a returning starting quarterback, but some of the questions are going to be along the offensive line. Two of your team captains were on the offensive line in 2025. They have both departed now for the NFL. Earlier and my days are kind of starting to get mixed up here, still kind of getting back in the swing of things, but it's either late last week or early this week. There's a video that was put out on CJ Carr's Instagram,

which, by the way, sidebar,

these are one of the benefits of why I love NIL

and what this does for teams and what it does for athletes.

Again, different conversation for a different day,

but he distributed Bose headphones to the entire offensive line unit.

But within that video, Brian,

putting on a little bit of a... Well, let me just interrupt you there first. I'm a little frustrated that I didn't get some free Bose headphones from CJ. I had the dude ranked as a five

star coming out of high school. I get no for that i get no freebies i'm disappointed in

cj i'm very disappointed i thought five star ranking should have at least gotten me like a you know

a free bow's case at least you know at least the bow's ear buds seriously not the over the show i mean

come on man you i'm using old school headphones here c CJ, hook a brother up, man. Come on now.

Yeah, that's a good point. You know what? Matter of fact, I've been talking about how Judarian Price is one of the best lateral cutters on the team that I've seen. I can't get a Johnny dang chain, not anything. Seriously. Yeah. You're talking about how you should be a first round traffic. I get nothing. Man.

I'll have to run that up the chain of command.

Next time we get it. Is what we get for just giving honest

a picture. you're talking about how you should be a first round draft pick i get nothing man we'll have to run that up the chain of command next time we get what we get for just

giving honest opinions man instead of like working out deals to get stuff in return for

our opinions this is terrible oh man i know we'll have to run that up the chain of command

next time next time you and i are both on campus but that video, Brian, it came to our attention and to the attention of a lot of

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