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Irish Illustrated Insider: Wide Receiver Breakouts, Overlooked Defenders, CFP Top 5 and All‑Time Favorite Notre Dame Play Highlights

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🗓️ 16 February 2026

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

On this edition of Irish Illustrated Insider, The latest "Burning Up the Boards" mailbag uses sharp, veteran questions to frame where Notre Dame stands and where it's headed, from which position coach you'd most want to sit with in the lunchroom to which young receiver is best positioned to emerge behind Jordan Faison and Jaden Greathouse in a crowded but intriguing room. Listeners press the issue of why emerging defenders like Shuler, Bowen, KVA and Tae Johnson lack national buzz despite the acclaim for Notre Dame's defense, while also turning the lens on the hosts with queries about when they were most wrong and most right, and where the top five champions of the CFP era truly stack up. The segment digs into what it means to cover Notre Dame as alumni versus outsiders, whether Ja'Juan Seider should expand his backfield rotation after losing two top backs to the NFL, the greatest throw, catch and run the staff has ever seen involving the Irish, and a pointed challenge on whether the offensive line cost Notre Dame the Miami game more than any other unit.

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0:00.0

Welcome to Irish Illustrated Insider. It is Monday, February 16th. We have an all Irish

0:06.7

Illustrated crew today with Tim Priester, Drew Mentuck, Jack Freeman in the control room, and I am Tim O'Malley,

0:12.3

and Guy February rivals July is the worst sports month of the calendar year. But we have an update

0:18.0

for Notre Dame football because coming over the next three Wednesdays,

0:21.5

we will interview all.

0:23.3

Well, almost all, because there'll probably be some class conflicts.

0:25.6

But all early enrollees, transfers, and three new coaching members in Partridge, Henry,

0:31.8

and John Marie.

0:32.8

Guys, that is something I always look forward to this time here.

0:35.2

It's become an annual thing.

0:36.2

They space it out very well, thankfully for us, because now there's a lot more new guys, Tim Priestur, than there used to be.

0:42.4

If they got it all up there, it would be a media day.

0:44.5

I mean, including assistant coaches, we're looking at 41 new people. No, there's no way we'll meet the.

0:53.2

That'll be class conflicts. There'll be some stuff there.

0:54.9

30, yeah, the 38 players. But we are definitely meeting the assistant coaches, Charlie Partridge, this week.

1:02.8

Is it, who's next week? Henry.

1:06.1

Henry is following, and John Marie follows that on. Three Wednesdays in a row.

1:10.8

Yeah.

1:12.1

I mean, I think it's going to be, you want to jump into what we're going to deal with here, Tim?

1:17.7

I mean, the guys that we're most looking forward to, I mean, for me, it's Charlie Partridge

1:22.0

just because I think he's the most accomplished and has, has coached the best players. He's been in the game longer. So, I mean,

1:31.7

he's coached a few more of these guys. And, you know, and it all starts up front. And so we talked

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