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Notre Dame Depth Is A Major Asset, If Used Correctly

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Irish Breakdown

Sports, Football, Big Ten, Nfl Draft, Ncaa Team, Notre Dame

4.5828 Ratings

🗓️ 21 August 2024

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Notre Dame has a very deep and talented roster, and the Irish coaches keep talking about how many players they will use. Bryan discusses why this is needed, and why this could be impactful for Notre Dame. He also discusses potential pitfalls and what the Irish must do to make sure this works as expected. Shop for Irish Breakdown gear at our online store: https://ibstore.irishbreakdown.com/  Join the Irish Breakdown premium message board: https://boards.irishbreakdown.com  Stay locked into Irish Breakdown for all the latest news and analysis about Notre Dame: https://www.irishbreakdown.com​ Subscribe to the Irish Breakdown podcast on iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/irish-breakdown/id1485286986 Like and follow Irish Breakdown on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/irishbreakdown Sign up for the FREE Irish Breakdown daily newsletter: https://www.subscribepage.com/irish-breakdown-newsletter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

All right.

0:16.1

Final topic for today, we're going to talk about depth at Notre Dame.

0:22.2

This is not a general. Okay, is Notre Dame a deep football team or not? This is about a shift that we're seeing happening at Notre Dame right now.

0:31.1

And why I think that's good and why I think it's necessary, but also that there's some potential pitfalls.

0:40.1

Like with anything, if you don't apply it correctly, it won't have the benefits that you hope, right?

0:45.9

And so that's going to be kind of where we're going today.

0:49.6

And looking at this Notre Dame team and listening to comments from Marcus Freeman,

0:56.2

listening to comments from Al Golden, listening to comments from Mike Denbrock,

1:00.1

and just watching practice, you realize they're going to play a lot of guys.

1:06.3

This isn't like the past where it's like, okay, this is our three to four man

1:10.7

rotation of receiver and that's what we're rolling with.

1:13.5

I mean, Marcus Freeman sets something like seven or eight guy. I think he said seven or eight that he wants to go into every game with.

1:21.5

You know, you're going to see three running backs play every week, if not four.

1:25.4

You're going to see five linebackers play. They've already made that clear. They're going to play at least three corners, at least three safeties, if not four, you're going to see five linebackers play. They've already made that

1:28.1

clear. They're going to play at least three corners, at least three safeties, if not four.

1:32.4

And I think coach, Coach Dembrock or Coach Gold might have said something like that Al Washington's

1:37.0

got like a 10, 11 man rotation he plans to play with. It is a little, like, it's just a, like,

1:42.3

they went from like this lane to like all the way over to

1:44.7

that lane when it comes to depth on their football team and and there's a reason there's a lot of

1:49.6

reasons why it's happening and there's a lot of reasons why I think this is going to be beneficial

1:54.4

and and so some what are some of the the reasons that this is happening and what are some of

1:59.3

the benefits of it number one in my opinion you look at it and say, hey, listen, this is about keeping

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