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Notre Dame Football Mailbag - Part II

Irish Breakdown

Irish Breakdown

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

4.5828 Ratings

🗓️ 7 February 2026

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Irish Breakdown answers questions about Notre Dame Football, Irish Recruiting and college football in the latest mailbag

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0:00.0

Getting into part two of the Irish Breakdown podcast brought brought you by our friends over at Fanduil.

0:21.3

Got the Friday Free For All Mailbag, and we have Roll Irish getting us kicked off here in part two of the Super Chat. Appreciate you.

0:27.7

Which position group has the widest gap between starters and backups?

0:31.7

How does this depth impact performance in the biggest games?

0:37.1

Oh, boy.

0:38.6

I got an answer for this one if you needed some time to think on.

0:44.0

Let's first, when we say gap, are we talking about talent, experience, like, or all of it?

0:50.2

Like, what are we determining the gap to me?

0:53.8

I took it as like readiness, like readiness to just step up into the starting lineup and go.

0:58.8

Okay.

0:59.5

Because I'll say talent-wise, I don't see a ton of gaps.

1:02.2

In some positions, your backups are going to be your most talented guys.

1:05.0

But if what's about readiness and ability to step on the field right now and play?

1:08.1

Okay, Trev, you go first.

1:09.8

I would say across the board because it's not the same for all of the five starting

1:16.5

offensive linemen or their backups in the two deep.

1:19.6

But as a five-man unit, I would probably say the biggest gap in a position group

1:24.4

between starter and backups would be the offensive line in terms of

1:27.8

readiness across the board, I would say.

1:31.5

It would probably be them.

1:36.8

Yeah, I'm probably going to stick with the offensive line.

1:39.8

It's fair.

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