Once again, steps outside Notre Dame Stadium where the Irish still are seeking their first win Saturday as they host Purdue.

I am John Bryce. This is Irish Illustrated Instant Analysis brought to you by the RVMH Hall of Fame and the Northern Indiana event center in beautiful Elkhard, Indiana.

Flanked on my right by Tim O'Malley, my left, Tim Priester.

T.P. We will start with you because you've got some Malachi Fields' wordsmithing coming, and he was a great visit tonight. He was. Very mature. Good to talk to him. I wanted to talk to him about the matchup with Will Lee over the weekend. I thought that was one of the best matchups of the entire game.

And he agreed.

You know, I mean, it was a good battle.

It was a physical battle between those two.

And Lee won the best matchups of the entire game. And he agreed. You know, I mean, it was a good battle.

It was a physical battle between those two.

And Lee won the battle because he had the pass break up at the goal line.

But Melokai Fields, obviously, and we talked to Gino Goduli, and he's developing a great

relationship with C.J. Carr, of course, I asked some other great corners that he's played against,

and immediately he mentioned Leder Moore last year. So, you know, he's a guy that's a guy that

isn't necessarily going to lead by word or spoken word, but by example. And when you're 6-4-22,

you have a chance to leave by example.

I thought he had a good game, but Will Lee, you know, forced like seven incompletion.

So good battle there, and Fields believes, you know, there's more he can do.

He missed blocks, missed a block on a kick return.

So he's beating himself up a little bit about that.

Shows you some accountability people are

questioning that the irish are holding themselves accountable fields versus lee was NFL football

just happened to be on a saturday night to you also visited with the don schuler um kvaa king and uh

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