It is Monday, April 27th, and you found Irish Illustrated Insider at exactly the right time

with the conclusion of the spring football 26 at Notre Dame.

I'm Tim O'Malley, joined today by Tim Priester, and Drew Mantak of Irish Illustrated.

Guys, we'll focus on the 95th annual Blue Goal Game, but really Marcus Freeman's fifth spring session

as head coach.

Talk about the NFL draft a little bit as well. Let's start with the blue goal game because we've got to

dedicate our Monday and probably our Thursday, right, to what happened in the annual scrimmage.

Overreaction would be Blake Hebert was better than I thought he would be, but that's good news for him.

Overreaction from a

small group, and C.J. Carr was not superhuman like they wanted him to be. I want to read one thing

from the 2009 Blue Gold game recap. I know you guys weren't planning on that, but you guys remember

a guy Jimmy Closson, who's the most accurate quarterback in Notre Dame history in his ensuing season.

Plosson looked relatively comfortable in the pocket yesterday. He moved around and didn't panic, but he was not very accurate outside the hash marks and threw a pick six. His stats were nothing special, but maybe they wanted to focus on the running game. Montana played great yesterday. He had a nice pass down the middle of the field to Mike for going off play action and certainly looked like a capable number two options. So with that, I will turn it over to you. That wasn't Joe Montana.

Yeah, we'll get into that. I got, I did tell the tape, so I have a lot of thoughts on that. I want to,

first and foremost, I want to focus on probably the best player on the field Saturday, and that was

Jaden Sanders.

I mean, he shut, he, he, he shut down.

If I got to watch going into the game on.

Yeah, there you go.

Good call.

You know, and, and Micah Gilbert, there were a lot of eyes on him, and that was who Sanders

had.

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