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Defensive Position Battles That Matter Most in 2024

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Irish Breakdown

Sports, Football, Big Ten, Nfl Draft, Ncaa Team, Notre Dame

4.5828 Ratings

🗓️ 10 July 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Bryan and Vince take a look at the defensive position battles for the 2024 season. The Irish need to solidify field corner, boundary safety and make sense of a crowded depth chart at both defensive line and linebacker. Whoever wins these battles will key to the success of Notre Dame in 2024. Shop for Irish Breakdown gear at our online store: https://ibstore.irishbreakdown.com/  Join the Irish Breakdown premium message board: https://boards.irishbreakdown.com  Stay locked into Irish Breakdown for all the latest news and analysis about Notre Dame: https://www.irishbreakdown.com​ Subscribe to the Irish Breakdown podcast on iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/irish-breakdown/id1485286986 Like and follow Irish Breakdown on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/irishbreakdown Sign up for the FREE Irish Breakdown daily newsletter: https://www.subscribepage.com/irish-breakdown-newsletter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Let's jump into our next segment, Brian, and this is the defensive position battles.

0:28.6

And as I mentioned prior, we did the offensive position battles on Friday, so a few days ago.

0:34.3

But we were, we kind of ran out of time.

0:36.6

We had it hard out because we,

0:38.8

we had to talk about Jadon Blair and his, uh, his commitment to Notre Dame. And so that was

0:43.4

the fun little side, you know, piece of a show that we don't normally do on a Friday.

0:49.0

So yeah, 100%. So we didn't have time to do the defensive position battles. And so we want to make sure we get after that today. Again, if you're looking for the offensive battles, you can either go to YouTube on Friday or you can check out the podcast that was uploaded, I believe, Saturday morning. It'll be right there. And so you can go check that out as well. But don't go anywhere because we're going to have the defensive position battles right now. So, Brian, this is going to be a little bit different than the

1:15.3

offensive position battles because I don't want to say they're not as important because I don't

1:22.3

want to belittle the battles that are actually taking place on the defensive side of the ball.

1:26.8

But they're different than the offensive side of the ball, but they're different

1:28.4

than the offensive side of the ball. We're not, I mean, you know, offense, we're talking like right

1:32.0

tackle, left guard, you know, the second quarterback position, the wide receiver rotation, like,

1:39.2

there, there are some legitimate, you know, position battles going on. I don't know that that's so much the

1:44.9

case defensively, but still some good stuff to talk about for sure. Yeah. And I think part of it

1:51.7

too is, Vince, because on offense, some of those position battles are very important spots

1:57.7

where we're hoping that the guys that win it can become really important

2:01.7

players. You know what I mean? Like when we talk about Jagassall and Rocco Spindler, we're open

2:05.4

that they can be like not just win the job, but be dudes. Yes. When you talk about the boundary

2:10.7

receiver position, like we're hoping if somebody breaks out and becomes a dude. Right. You know,

2:15.2

whereas on defense, it's kind of like kind of like, you already have your dudes,

2:20.6

right? It's Xavier Watts. It's Benjamin Morrison. It's Howard Cross and Riley Mills and guys like

2:25.9

that where now it's like, okay, the battles here are more about who's going to play opposite Benjamin

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