Ingram Smith, Bud Elliott back again with another episode of the Noelcast Bud. We've got our

Defits Align preview tonight. Probably won't be the longest one of these that we do, but we'll

get in, hit some of the high points and hopefully give people a pretty good idea as to what they

might see from the front end of the defense this year. So as always, want to thank our friends

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Noelcast to take place and with that, Bud, let's jump right into this Defits Align preview.

Let's do this, man. And look, we spoke about some other positions we already talked about the

back end of the defense, which I think we feel pretty good about. We'll obviously get to our

confidence rating at the end of the show, but I got to tell you upfront, if this defense,

this overall defense is going to be better than it was last year and that is not something that I

believe is an automatic. It's going to have to be because this defensive line dominates. They've

recruited the position extremely well in previous years. You do have a decent amount of talent

returning and this has got to be one of the best units on the team. If this team is going to reach

its sort of upper bounds of its projection, the nine and three ten and two folks, if you all are

going to be right, especially you leaven and the one who's out there, this defense is really going

to have to eat with this defensive line. And it'll do that maybe in part thanks to new coaching.

Mark Snyder comes down to the defense events and for Michigan State and Odell Higgins returns

as defense tax coach for what seems like the 30th consecutive year, just an absolute main state,

floor state, and also undefeated as a head coach, I might add. Yes, yes, this is a very nice,

nice record to have in the back of your pocket there. So I guess before we get into the individuals,

why don't we just get into more of the overall idea as to what's expected of them and kind of a little

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