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Notre Dame Football Mailbag - Part IV

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Irish Breakdown

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

4.5828 Ratings

🗓️ 18 January 2026

⏱️ 72 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

All right.

0:18.0

Here's one from Johnny from the Boot.

0:23.1

Getting into part four of the Irish Breakdown podcast brought to you by our friends over at Fandual.

0:28.7

It's a Friday free-for-all mailbag.

0:30.4

Johnny from the boot getting us kicked off at part four.

0:33.1

Who was the most underappreciated player on defense and offense over the Brian Kelly era and

0:37.7

Marcus Freeman era overall who was someone drugged down by fans that never should have been

0:45.1

defensively Troy Pride I still don't think that Notre Dame fans appreciate how good Troy Pride was

0:52.4

Christian Gray's getting a little bit of that treatment now, too.

0:56.4

When you play a guy in as much man coverage as they allowed Troy Pride to play as a field

1:01.2

corner and then in 19 as a boundary corner, you're going to get beat from time to time.

1:05.7

And I used to argue with Notre Dame fans all the time about how good Troy Pride was.

1:11.4

And, you know, just people just kind of had it in their minds that he wasn't a good

1:15.9

player. I think he was very underrated at Notre Dame. Danny Spond was a very underrated

1:20.3

player on that 2012 team, very underrated player on that 2012 team. I'm trying to think.

1:30.1

So those are two defensive guys.

1:32.9

Who was underrated on offense?

1:37.2

10, 11, 12.

1:41.5

Josh Lug.

1:43.4

Josh was really solid in 2021, yeah.

1:46.6

Avery Davis is somebody that pops in my head a little bit,

1:49.7

is being underrated.

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