I.B.Nation. Welcome back to another edition of the Irish Breakdown podcast. It is Thursday, February 20th, and the offseason is chugging right along. We are going to have some good topics of discussion for today. We've covered a lot so far this off season. We've talked about the offense. We've dived into the quarterback battle and the

wide receiver room. We talked about replacing Xavier Watts. So today we're going to come at it with a

focal point on the defensive side, but now we're going to talk about the defensive line. More

specifically, we're going to talk about the defensive ends. We're going to talk about the role

that they're going to play in 2025. Why Brian and I are excited for this position group in this upcoming season.

We're going to talk about what so.

But also why we're a little bit concerned as well.

We're going to be covering both sides of the coin, what we need to see, why we expect to see

them, some hiccups that could get in the way.

And then in the second part of the show, we're going to talk through the college football

playoff changes. We're going to talk through the potential changes for 2025, 2025,

2026 and beyond. We're going to talk through what changes have been proposed in 2025.

Will they be adopted? We don't know. What are the future changes? 14 teams, so on and so

forth, what it could mean for Notre Dame. That'll be part two of today's show. And then in the final part,

we will have a mailbag. We're going to go for about an hour. So make sure that you get your

questions, your comments, anything that you wanted to start for a topic of discussion into the chat.

Super chats get bumped up to the top, but make sure you put a MB for mailbag or a mailbag

emoji, and we'll be sure that we answer that in the final part of today's show.

But in the first part today, we're going to talk through the defensive end room, like I said.

And it's a big year for this group.

It's been solid like we're going to talk through, but moving forward, like I said. And it's a big year for this group. It's been

solid like we're going to talk through, but moving forward, it has to be better. There's been a lot

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