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Notre Dame 2025 Linebacker Preview: Biggest Questions, Bold Predictions

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Irish Breakdown

Football, Sports

4.8748 Ratings

🗓️ 4 July 2025

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

In the final portion of the show Bryan and Trevor break down the biggest questions at linebacker, the games that will tell us the most and make bold predictions for the unit.

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0:00.0

Now, Trevor, we are going to move on to the third part of the show, and this is a, this is a kind of a fun part because we're going to talk about just some of the questions.

0:29.3

And when we pose these questions, we're not necessarily looking to answer them because if we had answers for them, they wouldn't be questions.

0:34.5

But just questions that are going to be answered through the season

0:37.5

and that we don't necessarily, we may think we know the answers, but we really don't know the answers. Then we're going to just kind of talk about, you know, what makes this successful season for this group, and then, of course, we're going to have some fun, make some bold predictions. But when you look at questions, Trevor, I mean, it really starts with number one is who's going mean, I think that's, it doesn't matter a ton, but it still matters because of what it says about

0:59.7

the players in the battle, depending who steps into the starting lineup. Well, and I think

1:05.4

whoever is deemed the starter at will is also going to, that's going to set the domino

1:10.7

effect of what the potential rotation is going to look like. Then I think is also going to, that's going to set the domino effect of what the

1:11.5

potential rotation is going to look like. And I think you're going to need a couple game sample

1:16.5

size because, Brian, to your point earlier in the show, they could do it based on matchup.

1:21.4

The first two offensive lines, they play are massive. Those are two massive fronts that Notre

1:26.0

Dame's defense is going to square off against. So I think after the month of September, we'll have a good idea of what that's going to look like for Notre Dame's linebacking room. Will it be matchup based? Will it just be, hey, no matter who it is, it's going to be Drake and Jalen's need. It's going to be Drake and Kingston, you know, some combination of those, Drake and Jaden Osberry.

1:44.6

But, yeah, I think whoever ends up being in the starting lineup is also going to

1:50.0

dictate what the start of that rotation is going to look like as well.

1:53.1

And that could be very, very interesting.

1:57.3

And I would say that also we, as we talked about earlier, then who fills what roles in third down, you know, who, who play, who is the starting lineup when they play Navy, who do they have a, a big boy lineup?

2:11.6

Meaning like when they play Miami and, and, and Tex A&M or it's second and two.

2:18.8

Those are some of those,

2:20.0

those are a lot of those things that we just don't know answers to.

2:22.1

Part of it because honestly,

2:24.3

we don't know how the new defense is going to be utilized

2:26.6

or how the linebacks are utilized under Chris Ash.

2:28.5

And that leads to our second question,

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