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

We're going to be previewing the 2026 offensive side of the ball.

And to the surprise of nobody, the gentleman on this side of the screen are going to be starting everything off with the offensive side of the ball.

Two offensive guys sitting here, but Brian, I've been so much looking forward to this conversation,

especially with everything that's gone on in this past off season. We've been wanting to turn the page since what? December 8th, but we knew that we couldn't. Five minutes after the ranking, after I got over the rankings, like, wow, what just happened? Okay, let's talk. Well, actually it would be after the bowl. They said they're not going to play the Bulls.

Well, yes, we can start getting ready for the 2026 season here on the first freaking week in of December. This is going to be fun. Thanks, guys. No, I know, man, but we've been wanting to turn the page just like you guys have for quite some time. But now that the portal is officially done in terms of departures, the team is who they're going to be right now with the exception of maybe

some later depth ads in the portal, we can finally take a look at what this 2026 offense is going

to look like. But before we can completely do that, we're going to give ourselves a baseline and

a foundation and look at how the 2025 offense finished. That's going to give ourselves a baseline and a foundation and look at how the

2025 offense finished. That's going to give us a good gauge for what we believe that they can do

moving forward. And Brian, let me tell you, it's exciting. It is. I mean, look, Trev, when you talk

about this unit, I still believe, even today, that defense gets you to the show and offense wins a

championship.

Like, how can you say that after the last two?

I said back my point.

Who had the better offense all year between Indiana and Miami?

Indiana did.

Who had the better offense in the postseason, Notre Dame or Ohio State? The good of Notre Dame defense was, they had to score points to win that game, and they couldn't score points to win that game. You know, I mean, Indiana, I mean, think about this. Ole Miss won their first two playoff games where scoring the same amount of points they scored against Indiana would have won in the game by double figures in the first game, by what, 18 in the first game,

and would have won the second game by a touchdown.

If they'd have scored the same exact point, the last two games, semi-finals and championship,

guess what?

Your defense couldn't shut those caliber teams down.

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