Welcome, everybody, to another edition of Irish Illustrated Insider with Pete Sampson from The Athletic.

I'm Tim Priester with Tim Rimm-Omelie.

From Irish Illustrated, it's Thursday, December 7th.

And a lot going on as we have found out now as we go into december's here in recent years.

Xavier Watts, it's amazing.

When you think about where Xavier Watts came from really game seven of the 2023 season,

he won the Nogerski Award in the last five games of the year.

Yeah. And I think that does happen more than we know, but we just know his first three and a half

years compared to other people's first three and a half years. And I tried to ask him the question

without being disrespectful on the on the call. It's like, you were moved to a position

for which you were in no way qualified.

Rover. He was literally moved from scout team receiver to Rover two years ago. And now he's

the nation's national defensive player of the year for a nine and three team. You know,

it is to be the national defensive player of the year and you're not going to a, you're not going

to a secondary tier bowl. You're going to the lowest you could go to it. It was the USC game. I mean,

it was and then back to back people noticed like, oh my God, I did it again against Pitt. Yeah.

Everybody in the nation knew about his performance against USC. Yeah. That generally does it for people

that win awards. It just says, and you've got primetime against Duke, he had a pick. Yeah. That generally does it for people that win awards. But then you've got...

Primetime against Duke, he had a pick.

Yeah.

NC State the week before had a pick.

So, I mean, it wasn't just like he had one great game, but he did have one

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