I.B.Nation.

I.B. Nation. Welcome back to another episode of the Irish Breakdown podcast. Happy Tuesday.

Hope everybody is off to a good start to the week. Now, for Brian and I, we stay busy.

Yeah, man. I know we don't have to tell you guys that, but we're rolling, and we are now into the thick of the off season.

And today, we are going to be picking up

the conversation that we had yesterday talking about star power talking about breakout players but

today we're looking at it on the other side of the ball and then to wrap up today's show we

already put it in the chat but we will have a mailback at the end of the show today I already see

some questions some comments trickling in make sure those get put in throughout the show to make sure that we have some good

questions, some good conversation to talk about at the end of the show today. But where we're

going to start, like we did yesterday, is we're going to start with the star power conversation.

And Brian, you and I were talking before the show, and this conversation is a little bit different

than what we talked about on the offensive side of the ball.

On offense, you had Riley Leonard, big impact playmaker in the postseason, and he was doing

all of, you know, 80 rushing yards against Georgia.

He was kind of the focal point of the offense.

And now on the defensive side, it's a little bit different

of a conversation, you know, and you're replacing, having to replace guys who were impact

players for not just last year, but really for the last two seasons in Riley Mills and

Zaylor Watts, Jack Kaiser, Howard Cross. And so it's a little bit different of a conversation when you look at it on the defensive

side of the ball.

Yeah, it is, Treve.

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