Notre Dame Football Mailbag - Part III
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🗓️ 15 March 2025
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| 0:00.0 | So I'm going to get started and get started and get to it. So hope you guys enjoy the part two of today's show. I'm bummed that the Heisman stuff was kind of, I was having some fun talking about the Heisman stuff. And that got kind of cut off right in the middle. But we'll get rocking and rolling here with some new questions. So I did want to start off with a couple of those super chats. We did have a super chat from Steve Rolf and he said, thank you for the super chat, Steve, |
| 0:41.9 | by the way. He said, I just read the Jagassaw article. Who do you think are the best pull blockers on the roster? |
| 0:50.7 | Well, you know, one thing I was got to say I was impressed by, I was impressed by actually during the, during the postseason was I was impressed with how well Charles Jagassall pulled. I mean, he's very quick, very powerful, very explosive. I think he's a pretty good pull. I think Billy Shroth is solid. |
| 1:15.1 | Honestly, outside of that, I can't really tell you, we've seen a little bit of Emil Wagner polling and folding. He wasn't super comfortable with it. He had his moments |
| 1:21.3 | where he could see his athleticism, but I think Emil needs to work on that part of his game. I think what would happen to him is when he would pull, he'd get a little bit too vertical, and that would get him, you know, make him stiff. And I want to see him work on that. But Jagassau is very effective as a puller, especially in the Penn State game when he was playing guard. So I think he's probably the guy that's best at it right now. |
| 1:45.6 | Ashton Craig's done a little bit of it, not a ton, and he looks pretty good when he's doing it. But that's going to be an area where nobody's going to have to improve. And that's an area where we saw, tell you another guy that I thought was impressive as a puller this year. When he did it at times was Anthony Knapp. And he was good at it because it's just God-given ability. |
| 1:42.7 | He's very athletic. |
| 1:43.8 | He's very quick. |
| 1:44.8 | So he was good at it because it's just God-given ability. |
| 2:02.1 | He's very athletic. |
| 2:03.1 | He's very quick. So he was able to move really well. But he's also a real powerful kid at the point of attack as a run blocker. And that's one of the reasons that I'd love to see Anthony Knapp move inside is because I think he can be a great movement blocker. not only is he powerful at the point of attack, |
| 1:59.1 | but he's really athletic for, |
| 2:00.3 | for that position where you put him at center. |
| 2:21.5 | There's some things you can really do with him getting to the second level |
| 2:23.8 | and there's a puller and on some different things. |
| 2:26.5 | So that's definitely one area that I think the offensive line can and absolutely |
| 2:30.1 | has to improve next season, is in that type of those pulls, quick traps, |
| 2:35.2 | different things like that, full blocks. It's in there where they got to get, they got to get |
| 2:38.7 | better. And another super chat down here from AST 1, 2, 3,21. So I think that answers your |
| 2:46.6 | question, buddy, about me being able to get to that one. I was able to screenshot that. |
| 2:51.2 | But AST1, 2, 321, thank you for your super chat. |
| 2:54.3 | Says if you had to pick one of these options to return to Notre Dame, who do you pick? |
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