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Welcome everybody to another edition of Irish Illustrated insider. I'm Tim Priester with Tim O'Malley.

It's Monday, October 23rd, Notre Dame coming off the by week, and we started talking about

the Pittsburgh Panthers, Notre Dame's opponent this weekend in Notre Dame Stadium.

We had that discussion with Marcus Freeman at his Monday press conference.

Tim, we didn't talk about a whole lot of groundbreaking news.

We did talk a lot about injuries, guys coming back.

We didn't get anything definitive about that.

But we'll talk about the white receivers that need to

come back and be up and running for Nordame to get a sweep here down the stretch of the remaining

four games, Clemson, a loser over the weekend. And so now the value of that victory, if Notre Dame

were to get on November 4th would be reduced a bit.

But that's still going to be a tough environment, Tim, for Notre Dame.

But first, let's talk about the Pittsburgh Panthers.

I had a chance to look at a bunch of film over the weekend.

I know you took a look as well, Tim.

Just your thoughts on Nordame's upcoming opponent this weekend.

It's one of those games where we talked about this a little bit on its analysis.

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