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Notre Dame Football Mailbag - Part IV

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🗓️ 22 February 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

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The Notre Dame Football Mailbag was jam-packed with a ton of great questions about the Fighting Irish!

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0:00.0

Ball Pinchillaly. How often is it that different quarterbacks gel with different receivers i'm

0:23.4

curious if steve kennie or cj is a starter how different the number of receptions would look

0:28.4

for different guys we talked a little about this earlier i i don't i don't there's always going to be

0:35.0

some difference i don't i don't want to sit there and say that it's going to be identical,

0:40.9

but I just don't think there's going to be a real big change going from one to the other.

0:46.5

I just, I don't, I don't see, feel like there is, um,

0:53.5

Jane Grados is going to go from 30 catches to 60 because of one of those three as a starter.

0:58.7

He may go from 40 to 45 or 50 to 55 or 50 to 60 because one guy just likes

1:04.5

thrown in the slot more.

1:05.5

They just have that connection, you know, like that Stockton Malone type of connection

1:10.0

where it's just like, dude,

1:10.9

I just know where he's going to be all the time. But I think overall, I don't see there

1:18.1

being a big difference in those three. The big differences between Riley's preferences and

1:22.9

theirs. I think they're all more in the same kind of wheelhouse. And that's based on what we saw in the spring. That may not be what we've seen in the fall, but I can only base off what we've seen and what we've seen in the fall is that. Yeah. Yeah. I do know this. I do know Steve Lovestone to C.J. to Jordan Faison. We did learn that in a bowl game. Sure did. That's the one guy that may see a big jump, but I don't know that he won't see a jump under the other guys. That's the only thing I don't know. But we do know it was deep. I think it's also tough to say, too, with this being year two in Mike Denbrock's offense, and really year one, like it's year two in terminology and formations, but we're really going into like year one main like it's it's year two in terminology and formations but we're really going

2:03.6

into like year 1.5 in what he wants to do on a down-to-down basis schematically. So I think that

2:10.3

is going to play a role as well, not just quarterback is a role as well because you do have

2:15.1

go-to targets. I get that. But I think year 1.5 in

2:20.5

Denbrox, what he wants to run is also going to play a factor in what receivers get ramped up in

2:25.3

production. Because, I mean, again, and I've said this a lot this offseason. Brian said a lot

2:30.3

this offseason. Tight end, I think is the one position that people have kind of forgot about in this mix.

2:37.2

So I think tight ends are going to become more involved. I think you're going to see more receivers get

2:41.5

involved than just having a one-two punch. I think they will still have a one-two punch, especially

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