Welcome back to another episode of the Irish Breakdown podcast brought to you by our friends over at Fandual.

Happy, what is today? Tuesday, everybody. Days are starting to blend together. I don't have really

that much football to kind of keep me on track anymore now that Notre Dame season is over.

Kind of my benchmark for every single week is Saturday. I know whenever that's happening.

But happy Tuesday, everybody. Christmas Eve is tomorrow. And so for the last show of this week,

Brian and I wanted to do something really fun and something kind of in the holiday spirit. So

Brian came up with the idea to do basically our Irish breakdown Notre Dame football

Christmas wish list for the 2026 season.

And what we're going to talk about today, folks, is we're going to break this down into three, kind of four, but really three different tiers.

We're going to talk about, you know, the program and the team overall, big picture.

And then in part two today's show, we're going to be talking about the offense and our wish list there.

In part three, we're going to be talking about the defense and special teams. That'll be a quick add in at the end. And then we're going to wrap up today's show, folks, with a mailbag. So as you get questions, comments, concerns come to mind throughout the show, go ahead and throw in a mailback question. can do that by putting MB for mailbag, a little mailbox emoji,

lets us know to set the question aside.

But Brian, it's the show. Go ahead and throw in a mailbag question. Do that by putting MB for mailbag,

a little mailbox emoji. Let's us know to set the question aside. But Brian, it's almost Christmas. I'm excited to do this show, man. I am too. I mean, this is this is going to be fun. This is meant to kind of be fun. But also, it's also meant to be kind of like a real look at what we think this team needs to be in 2026.

So I just thought it'd be fun to do it this way because it is, you know, two days before Christmas. And, you know, we're all hoping that, you know, Santa's going to hook us all up, especially our, you know, our little ones. And I know that, you know, Santa's going to hook up our dogos and a lot of people here in kids. So if you're,

if you're,

uh,

sitting at home watching this with your mom or dad and,

you know, like a couple more days left of being nice, you know what I mean? But, you know,

I think the fun part is making it about a Christmas wish list, which, you know, I think

is going to be fun. But the other part is kind of

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