listening to Irish Illustrated Insider. I'm Tim Priestler with Tim O'Malley and Pete Sampson of the

Athletic. We are two days away from Notre Dame, number nine Notre Dame, again hosting number

seven Cincinnati, Notre Dame shooting for its 27th straight victory at home. They are an underdog, however,

which makes things a little bit more interesting. We talked to Brian Kelly at noon today.

Kurt Heinish is out for the game. He was a little vagus to the injury. Apparently it is not

concussion related like he had in August.

I'm assuming that was concussion in August now,

or maybe it was related to this.

I don't know,

but they're encouraged by him coming back.

However, he will not be back for this weekend's game against Cincinnati.

The news is not as encouraging on the return of Blake Fisher and Michael

Carmony's back in practice.

I would anticipate Michael Carmony steps back into the starting lineup.

And there's the, do you want to talk about quarterbacks?

There's that too.

Later in the show.

Yeah, I was, I was going to lead.

I was going to that with our second.

Okay.

But yeah, I mean, I think Howard Cross showed himself really well. Yeah. going to leave i was going to go into that with our second but yeah i mean i think

howard cross showed himself really well um and he seems to be a guy that um i know

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