Welcome back to Irish Illustrated Insider. I'm Tim O'Malley, joined today by Tim Priester and Pete

Samson of the athletic role in old school. Our esteemed colleague, John Bryce, has endured a

cavalcade of travel delays today. He will instead try to join us next week at this time. And guys,

I'm going to begin this podcast in an odd form. Question from Kay Huff 8740, who asked, O'Malley has been saying for several podcasts,

he loves a good fight.

Who gave him that black eye?

It is not a black eye.

It is a very unfortunate sty that will be alleviated at some point tomorrow.

So if you're watching on TV, on a podcast or on a Zoom forum, you can see it.

If you're listening, find a screen and stare at the mutant that it's... It's not that bad. It's not that bad, but you know, when I wore glasses trying to hide it on instant analysis, it was like just a big red eye, and I think that's what K.F picked up. Oh, okay. Jack Freeman even said, why are you wearing glasses? It didn't seem to impact your performance with Drew Mentock. The funny thing about it is, Tim, I can't really see when I wear glasses close up, so I couldn't wear these today. Otherwise, I wouldn't be able to see you guys or any of the questions. But we will move on from that to segment one. We talked to Marcus Freeman. We did not see practice. It's important to note. Otherwise, that would have been really good timing if we saw full practice with Marcus Freeman.

But as Pete and I... We talked to Marcus Freeman. We did not see practice. It's important to note. Otherwise, that'd have been really good timing if we saw full practice with Marcus Freeman.

But as Pete and I mentioned walking out, that was a really informative press conference for almost midpoint of the spring. Tim, I want to get your thoughts. Drew and I were on instant analysis.

Just your thoughts on some takeaways from Freeman before we get into the personnel stuff, which was great. He's not normally, the personnel.

By the way, I love the approach that you took on that story because it was so

personnel heavy. And, you know, Will Black, I guess, is the guy that comes to mind first.

And talking about the number one offensive line being intact for the first six practices, which, you know,

when you consider the injuries that they've had and then some of the displacement of a couple of

starters a while back, you know, they haven't always had that continuity. I know it's just spring,

but yeah, it's a good starting point point I think will black is slowly but surely

proving that he deserves to be in the starting line of we haven't seen a ton of

them so I'm not you know validating that but Nord Amos by having him in that with the

number one unit with you know through the first six practices so you know that was

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