This is Irish Illustrated Insider.

I'm Tim Priester with Tim O'Malley.

Pete Sampson joins us from The Athletic.

It's Thursday, October 28th, two days away from Notre Dame,

number 11 ranked Notre Dame at 6 and 1,

taking on visiting North Carolina, second straight night game.

The tar heels are four and three.

We just got done speaking with Brian Kelly.

Just some of your thoughts, guys, on, well, first of all, it sounds like Chris Tyree is definitely ready to go, ready to play this week.

He's involved back with the kick return.

But just your thoughts on the safety position, Kyle Hamilton,

playing the role of assistant coach this week and trying to coach those guys up.

But it sounds like there are three guys involved with K.J. Wallace and maybe Xavier

Watts, but that's getting pretty deep into the depth target.

Yeah, I guess wouldn't both of you be surprised if it went deeper than prior Griffith

and Brown?

Sure, unless somebody got injured or objected for targeting, you know, which can happen

from time to time.

So, I mean, it's a weak point of the defense that I think played better than any of us expected last week.

I will be interested to sort of see how North Carolina attacks that knowing what's coming,

opposed to Kyle Hamilton getting injured after eight snaps, right?

And you sort of have your entire game plan built around avoiding Hamilton or

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