This is Irish Illustrated Insider.

I'm Tim Priester with Tim O'Malley and Pete Sampson.

It's the day after we had an opportunity to spend time with Norwichame coordinators,

Chip Long and Clark Lee.

Lots of good stuff to talk about here today.

Where do you guys want to start?

Chip Long, I thought it was a varied, enjoyable interview, because as much as there's a positive spin on 90% of things, and you wanted to kind of, you wanted to accentuate the positive last spring when you talked to him publicly as well, but I thought he was, there's some good insight into, you kind of admitting, like, I wish I had done something different at Clemsonon while noting that might not have been a bad idea for some guys to make some plays that were there, too, in a way, which is totally true.

And I thought the most exciting news was just that he seems much more positive about Chase Claypool, because I thought they need, I know Claypool's going to go out and play fine and play well, but maybe he can be more than pretty good like he was last year. That was a surprise to me, his commentary on Claypool, because like the offseason vibe from, you know, the season ending to spring starting was more like, this guy needs to move around the formation, you know, be more of a true number one.

You can't just go, hey, I'm going to line up to the field. I'm going to line up to the boundary.

And that's where I'm going to play for 13 games. So the fact that, one, I think Claypool fits

exactly where he is. But if I don't think Long's compliments to Claypool were just about like, well, he's a really good boundary receiver to replace Boykin.

It was more like he's becoming an all-around receiver.

And I think that Notre Dame's receiver depth chart is, it's kind of like paper numbers right now.

It's like it's not real.

They have some guys who are interesting, but only two of them have played. I do have a

high degree of optimism about Michael Young. I think you can logically project him to have

yeah, kind of a 40 catch type season. But beyond that, they need more.

And if they don't get it, Claypool's going to stay on the field the whole time.

And it seems like the coaches actually would be comfortable with that happen.

Yeah, I really wasn't surprised about his comments about Claypool because I think Claypool has been trending in Chip Long's mind.

But, you know, I think he's taking it to a different degree. We talked about Tim about him not being a SWAT team leader, but clearly you can see that he's become that. Yeah, I think a guy like Troy Pride's not a SWAT team leader, but he does a good job back there. Right. He's grown into it, too. There's some obvious guys that are SWAT team leaders, and they're in. Yeah, to me, and we touched upon this in the instant analysis of the more interesting comment

was Braden Lindsay's catching the football well, which is something that we never would have

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