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Notre Dame Linebackers: What We Know, What We Don't

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

4.5828 Ratings

🗓️ 7 August 2024

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Notre Dame has a lot of talent coming back at linebacker, and there is plenty to build around. But there are also questions that have to be answered. Bryan and Vince talk about both sides of this topic. Shop for Irish Breakdown gear at our online store: https://ibstore.irishbreakdown.com/  Join the Irish Breakdown premium message board: https://boards.irishbreakdown.com  Stay locked into Irish Breakdown for all the latest news and analysis about Notre Dame: https://www.irishbreakdown.com​ Subscribe to the Irish Breakdown podcast on iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/irish-breakdown/id1485286986 Like and follow Irish Breakdown on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/irishbreakdown Sign up for the FREE Irish Breakdown daily newsletter: https://www.subscribepage.com/irish-breakdown-newsletter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Part three, Brian, of our linebacker discussion, we are going to talk about kind of the knowns, the strengths, and then the unknowns or the question marks about this group, right?

0:31.0

And so with so many new faces, and we kind of talked about that in the last part. But there's a lot of unknowns.

0:39.1

There's no doubt with all these new faces and guys playing in different positions.

0:43.5

And with guys leaving to go to the NFL, there's a lot of unknowns.

0:48.1

But with that said, there's also a decent amount of knowns as well.

0:53.6

And one of those major knowns, and we

0:56.2

talk about it a bunch is, it's funny because you've kind of got this group of guys for freshmen,

1:02.3

sophomores, you know, you got a junior. And then you got Jack Kaiser, who's 60 years. Yeah,

1:07.1

you got Grandpa Jack. Uncle Jack. Uncle Jack. He ain't that old man.

1:11.6

All right, fair enough.

1:16.0

So you've got Uncle Jack over here who's a 60-year senior who comes back.

1:27.4

And honestly, what a huge coup for Notre Dame to get him to come back because he could have gone off and done whatever and been super successful and whatever he was trying to do.

1:30.5

But to bring him back in the full draft, I think he'll be drafted.

1:32.3

Yeah, I do.

1:36.6

I think so, I mean, so I mean, yeah, I mean, they might have had three starting linebackers during last year.

1:37.6

Exactly.

1:38.8

Would have gone.

1:39.7

Because Jackson would test really well.

1:41.9

Yes, because he's super athletic.

1:43.5

There's no doubt about it.

1:44.9

But to get him to come back and bring his leadership back and his knowledge of the defense

1:49.2

and his just knowledge of life in general, having him in that room is going to make a huge

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