Welcome back to Irish Illustrated Insider.

It is Monday, April 13th.

I'm Tim O'Malley, joined today by Tim Priester and Drew Mentock of Irish Illustrated.

We are five days away from what we believe will be the most important practice viewing of the spring.

And actually, I guess, Tim Priester, the most important practice viewing of the 2026 college football season,

because they should show us

more in what we have dubbed and believed to be the Jersey scrimmage coming up this Saturday.

And of course, the rest of the world can watch either delay on Peacock or live, the Blue Goal Game on April 25th.

So we have a good seven-day period there.

We'll see a lot of football and can put duress and speculation we've had all spring. Yeah, the skirmage before the, the week before the blue gold game is

generally more enlightening. You see units playing together more than you will necessarily in the

blue gold game. And, you know, it's, I mean, I think with a, with a crowd in the stance, it's a little bit

more guarded on Blue Gold game day. It's just, it is the media, though. We can report it,

I guess, from the previous Saturday. But, yeah, I mean, generally speaking, we find that to be

the most telling. We talked about this recently, some of the passes that C.J. Carr threw in the Jersey scrimmage.

And a couple of years ago were quite telling as to what he was capable of doing.

No, exactly.

And I think, yeah, it's usually, as you said, a lot more competitive.

I think the guys playing with each other is key.

Because what if Anthony Knapp and

Will Black aren't lining up next to each other in the blue goal game?

Like what does it really matter?

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