In part two of the Irish Breakdown podcast brought to by our friends over at Fanduil. We're going to continue our talk with the lineback room, Brian, but now we're going to take a deep dive into what really makes up this room. We spent the entire first part talking about just kind of what's at stake for this season, what's the task at hand for Brian Jean-Marie, it's a loaded slate. Here's the bright side. He has an absolutely loaded room to work with.

And similar to what J. Wan Sider walked into last year, you mentioned it again. He's walking

into the garage and he has a Ferrari ready to go. We just have to make sure that he drives it in the

right direction. That's a task at hand now because this room is just exceptionally loaded.

It is, Treb. I mean, when you look at this depth chart right here, I mean,

it's hard not to get kind of excited about what this group can be. And obviously,

this is the numerical roster, you know, three to, three to 58. There's been some changes.

Obviously, Cochia moved his number up to 16. And, yeah, you've got the the freshman Jacoby Clapper's number 23. Thomas

Davis is number 58. But a lot of this stuff is the same. You know, Drake Bowen is still big and

athletic. King Simile Lamas is still big and athletic. And Matt Framo still big and athletic.

And Jaden Alsbury is still, you know, a guy that has a lot of playmaking

potential. When you look at this, Treb, there's only, you know, the CL stands for the class that

they're in. That's their academic class and the EL stands for their eligibility. And if you

look at this group, Trev, there's, I believe, 10 scholarship players. Tommy Paulus obviously

being the one non-scholarship player. That's a, there aren't a lot of SRs on there that Stanford Senior. It's just Jalen Ced and Drake Bowen. So, you know, and then you look at a guy like Kingston, Villamahasa, and you talk about his injury, and we'll talk more about that when we get to him. But like for a lot of other teams,

not having him around, it's like, dude, this is going to really suck. And it will suck from the standpoint of you always want a great player on the field. But you're so deep that it's like, okay, let's just say they don't have Kingston in the spring, which I don't think they'll have him in the spring. You still have Jalen Sneed, J. Nalsbury, Madframo, Drake, Bowen, Teddy Rezac,

Kahan Okiea. You know what I mean? Like, it's such a deep and talented room. You start getting fired up. And the reason, here's why that matters. Okay, great. You've got a lot of talented players. Why does that matter? Number one, if you have talented players that have

experience and they know how to play together, meaning they don't necessarily need 65 snaps to get

into the flow of the game, that allows you to use your depth. It allows you to use the different

styles of play. So there may be some weeks where it's like, dude, I need Madden Ferramo and Kingston and Drake Bowen all to be my guys inside this week because this other team is bringing hammers. I mean, they're just going to come at us with a bit. You know, then there's other weeks we're like, hey, this is a week where we're going to have Jaden Osbury doing this a little bit more because he's so athletic. We can use him in space more. And this is a week where maybe Jalen Sneed's got to really be that guy because we're going to be doing a lot of triggering with our will linebacker. And he's a great blitzer. I'm just saying like as an example, those are all things that you look at, Trev, and say, okay, you have these different types of players. You have experienced players. They can fit well into sub-packages, which means you have a better chance of using multiple players because you don't just have your number one Mike, your number two, Mike, your number one will, your number two will. You have that in your base defense, and then you have your four-three team. Your four-three little competing teams teams go 12 personnel so there'll be some times and they get three linebackers in the field just like they did this year there's going to be times maybe where I could see a world in which Notre Dame does more three three stack this year in nickel situations and because they want to get an extra lineback on the field and they want to be able to trigger the linebackers maybe to blitz from more places. I could see something like that. And then, of course, there's the sub packages where you've got Kingston or Jalen Sneed or potentially maybe Madden foramo, maybe Teddy Rezac, guys like that, earn roles as either cover players, like that's where i'm thinking with teddy or blitzers pressure guys

which is what jalen did in 24 and what kingston did a lot of last year and very they both did it

very well especially kinksn last year and so i think that's that's one of the great things too is and it also

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