Sean, let's get into part two of today's show on the Irish Breakdown podcast brought to you by

our friends at Fandall. And we are going to dive into, we're going to continue our series

on the sort of the state of the program, state of the Notre Dame program. Today, Sean and I are going to

talk about the defensive tackles. And this is a very unique position group, Sean. And we're going to

dive into part one.

We'll be talking about like kind of what we learned in the spring and

and what kind of growth we saw because it was a very new look group in really every way imaginable, Sean.

And then part two of the show will, you know, segment two of this breakdown,

we'll then kind of dive into, okay, let's look forward.

What needs to happen from now into 2026 for this unit to be what they need it to be.

And then part three, we will dive into recruiting.

We'll talk about the future.

So there's the present with a slight look at the past.

There's the short-term future that involves this season. And then there's the present with a slight look at the past. There's the short-term future that involves this season.

And then there's the long-term future, which involves recruiting.

Those will be the three segments.

And the recruiting aspect is going to be very interesting because there is one recruit that's part of this conversation that will be announcing his commitment to one of five schools next Friday. We'll talk about that and kind of give you the latest,

Sean. But let's let's dive into D-Tackle because this is a group that has been very underrated

the last couple of years. I don't think people appreciate how good Nour names D-Tackles have been

the last couple of years. Having said that, those players are all gone. The coach that coached those guys

are all gone. I feel like these, you know, we look at Riley Mills and Howard Cross. In the last

three years, they were both all-Americans. You look at Gabriel Rubio just got drafted.

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