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You are listening to the latest edition of Irish Illustrated insider.

It's Thursday, April 20th.

I'm Tim Priest through with Tim O'Malley from Irish Illustrated, joined by Pete Sampson of the athletic.

This is the blue gold game preview, which we will get into more when we will get to segment two,

because Nordame, as we're recording this more and when we will get to segment two, because

Nordame, as we're recording this, Nordame just completed their draft. We'll get into that.

But before we do, I wanted to, you know, we had interviews with Mickens and the

cornerbacks and Stucky and the wide receivers and pouring over every word that was said from those guys last

night, you know, I certainly get the impression that, you know, when the spring started,

we were high on the wide receivers, we saw a couple open practices and we were like,

I'm not sure. After listening, the Chancy Stucky talk about the wide receivers.

And Mike Mickens talking about Lorenzo Stiles moving to cornerback.

I guess I look at this as specifically the wide receiver core as a bit more of a positive once again as spring practice ends. Tim? He really likes his starting

three and he kind of offered it. Because I asked about Dion Colsey, he kind of offered his starting

three when he said, you've got JT, Chris Tyree coming on now, giving us flexibility and Tobias. And now

we have Colsey kind of stepping up. It was a stepping

up situation. Colsey was actually sick that day. He was not at that practice, but he's,

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