You are listening to Irish Illustrated Insider at two-man booth today, Priester and O'Malley, talking Notre Dame football 17 days before the opener.

It's Friday, August 16th.

There'll be an open practice on Saturday, Saturday, August 17th.

I will be in Los Angeles with the Nordim Club of Los Angeles, but O'Malley will be there and we'll be back podcasting again on Monday,

recapping the weekend. But I do want to start with, since I requested no questions about

linebackers this week, we will address it in the opening

and then move on from there and we may dip back in the linebackers again.

Who knows?

And that's just like kind of a one-day ban since we overdid it earlier in a week.

But the linebacker situation, Tim, maybe it's starting to sort itself out. Drew White looks like a guy they really

like at Mike linebacker. They've rotated Asmar Bilal at both positions. We know that they like

Jack Lamb. A rotation at Buck, okay, not necessarily rotation, but a situational insertion of Buck linebackers,

those two, and Drew White at Mike. What do you think? Is it going to pan out that way?

I don't know. Maybe anointing Drew White too much because I think his is a situational substitution as well.

I don't think Bilal and Lamb are going to be a

true rotation. I think Bilal is the base defender at Buck and Lamb would be the third down

guy, which is what we heard about Jack Lamb back in the spring, that he just has an acumen

for it. I mean, Clark Leaver went into detail saying that guy's length, his speed, his knowledge.

So it's less of a rotation than it is a package, I think.

Package line back then do you see Belal playing both so that then White gets spelled

as well.

That white can be spelled by like Balal.

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