This is Irish Illustrated Insider. I'm Tim Priester with Tim O'Malley from I

Irish Illustrated with Pete Samson from the Athletic. It's Monday, December 28th. We really had

our first real Rose Bowl access to Notre Dame today, Brian Kelly, Tommy Reese,

offensive coordinator, and six offensive players from Notre Dame. It's Notre Dame today, Brian Kelly, Tommy Reese, offensive coordinator, and six offensive

players from Notre Dame. It's Notre Dame in Alabama on Friday. You know, it's, we laugh when

we talk about it. In fact, there's a question in the second segment about we laugh when we

talk about Nordame versus Alabama. Brian Kelly laughs sometimes when he talks about Nordame versus Alabama because he,

you know, you ask him about the matchup against the Alabama players.

In any way you look at whether you're the head coach in Nordame or a member of the media

or the fan, it's difficult to envision success against an opponent that's a 20-point favorite in the clear number one in the country.

I mean, especially Alabama's offense, right?

Like O'Malley asked a question of Brian Kelly today where he used to casually use the term murdered in it.

When he was discussing like, you know, if you take away Smith, you get murdered by something

else.

And it wasn't, you know, Brian Kelly was like on guard.

If you use the word narrative today, boom, like the, the hair on the back of his neck stood

up like he was ready to push back against that.

He used the term murdered by about Alabama's offense. Like, well, yeah, I guess. I mean, I understand what you term murdered about Alabama's offense.

Like, well, yeah, I guess.

I mean, I understand what you're saying.

It's just there's just not a lot of good answers for Clark Lee defensively,

nor has there been any good answers for pretty much anybody all year against Alabama's

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