It is Thursday, August 7th, and you've reached Irish Illustrated Insider.

I'm Tim O'Malley, joined today by Tim Priester of Irish Illustrated Pete Samson of the Athletic

and John Bryce of Football Scoop.

And we've seen more than half of what we're going to see this August, actually, as

Notre Dame will begin to batten down the hatches in preparation for Miami.

We'll get to some injury news and quarterback updates in a few minutes. But guys, had L. Washington and Joe Rudolph, two of the more informative coaches, I think, to talk to. I'm pretty sure you made a point on our instant analysis. We're getting ready to review our 20 minutes of practice and you're like, let's just review this interviews because there was a little bit more revealing and enlightening. And just kind of start with you. You spent some time with both, actually. But maybe Joe Rudolph. And he's a,

he always does a great job when he's out there. Yeah, he really does. You know, I don't think we

mentioned this in instant analysis yesterday, but the question

was brought up about Will Black, and he basically, who's been playing some guard, and he essentially

said that there might be a need there, and we know he can play tackle, even though he hasn't played

at this level, so they were giving him a look there. But we mentioned this instant analysis about rudolph talking about he starts the year with

uh commentary and film of joe more and how he taught offensive line play harry he stand

can't think of two better guys to um you know pattern your offensive line play around. And so, you know, that's kind of cool because that, you know, everybody knows who Joe Morris now because the award's named after him. And that's really become one of the more renowned, one of the more, you know, well-known awards and, you know, additional. I think because the lineman vote on it, right? Don't you think, Tim?

Because the lineman vote on it themselves, like real people.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And, you know, it's just Aaron Taylor's done a good job when it first came out and

promoting it.

And I think they've done a good job with that.

But, yeah, Joe Rudolph is, is always interesting.

And Pete, you asked Al Washington about 22 defensive lineman. And, you know, he said, that's our edge.

And it was an edge as they went through 16 games last year needed to be in order for that to happen.

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