Welcome to Irish Illustrated Insider.

It's spring break at Notre Dame, so a week off from Notre Dame football.

Looking forward to getting back on the football field next week with the fighting arts,

and we will be there, Irish Illustrated and others.

I'm Tim Priestler, Tim O'Malley.

We're looking forward to getting, to getting back to,

you know, some football, some concrete stuff to talk about because our name's been on spring

break and we've been working the, the Chiplon-Clark-Lee interviews for all that we can

for about 10 days. But it's time to start looking into next week and what we're looking

forward to, you know, offensively and defensively, and who are the guys that you're interested

in seeing when we get back at it next week? You know, we get to see practice after practice

after practice starting next week. There's a Thursday. There's a Saturday. You'll see that a lot, and they'll be patted.

It's a time of the spring where we really do find out a lot about future teams.

It's just not always the team in 2019.

But you see guys that are working new positions.

I'll never forget being at practice and watching young Sam Mustifer struggle snapping.

And you think, well, is this going to come along?

And then a year later, he's the starting center of Notre Dame.

It comes along.

You see guys you thought we're going to be really good getting pushed around as upperclassmen,

and you know that might be it for them.

And in this case, we get to watch a guy we really want to see develop and we've been talking about all offseason, Houston Griffith, because I wrote a story about

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