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Hope you had a fun and relaxing weekend, but we're back.

Another week of content going through Notre Dame's off season.

And this past weekend, we just recapped the NFL Combine where six Notre Dame players got to showcase their abilities in some way, shape, or form down here in Indianapolis.

And it is Monday. So after we kind of recap the NFL combine, we're going to break down each

player, talk about some of our takeaways, whether we think it improved or maybe hindered

their draft stock a little bit. It is Monday. So we're going to be diving into the buy sell hold.

That threat has been going up since yesterday.

A lot of good submissions like there are every single week, not to the surprise of either Brian or I here, but ready to dive into everything today, man. Brian, how you doing, man? I am doing wonderful. I am ready to rock and roll. We had a lot of great submissions today. And, you know, I always enjoy the combine trip i've always said if i didn't do this i would have got into scouting you know like i i've

always just kind of loved the draft process, not to the degree where like my guy Ryan does, you know what I mean, where like, I want to make a career out of it, you know, and I decided to go a different route. But like I thought about that after my coaching career early on when I was doing this, I was like, you know, actually talked to an NFL, current NFL GM. He wasn't a GM at the time and just decided it wasn't the route for me. But I love this time of year, man, you know what I mean? Like you're getting into the draft, you got to watch film again. And it's always fun watching Notre Dame kids at the comedy.

It wasn't a lot of them, but, you know, obviously they were, they were impressive. So I'm looking

forward to talking about that. Yeah, absolutely. It's, it's really the only time we get to see,

barring them facing each other on the actual football field, watching them compete and go through

drills. And it gives us a good gauge relative to

where some athletes were compared to others. And so I'm excited to dive into this today, man. So

let's talk about it. Like I said, we're going to recap each player's performance and we're going to

discuss how we think it's going to impact their standing. And first person we're going to talk

about here, obviously, Brian, is going to be running back Jeremiah Love, who we saw in a very limited capacity on Saturday when he worked out with the running backs. But in the limited drills that we saw him in, it's kind of one of those where it's like, I get why he did limited drills. He didn't have to do or show much to prove why he's the number one running back in this draft class. Well, look, you know, you and I talked about this last week, Trev, and, you know, I was surprised he was going to run at all and surprise he was going to work out at all. I just kind of assumed he wasn't going to do that. Like, you know, Arvel Reese didn't do it and Fernando Mendoza didn't do it. But when we found out he was only going to do the 40, like he did all the running back drills and they even had him doing receivers of afterwards. So like we saw him do those drills. What Trev's talking about is he didn't do the vertical, the broad, he didn't do the 20-yard shuttle. He didn't do the three-cone. He didn't do anything other than 40. And I had always kind of envisioned Jeremiah Love as like a low-4-4-guy. But we said last week when we previewed the Combine Treb that for him to announce he's going to run the 40, he thought he was going to run a really fast time. and you could see it when he ran the 437 and the 436.

Like him and his dad were both kind of disappointed. You know what I mean? Like he's like, yeah, I thought I was going to get in the far. I was like, too. But look, I mean, and here's the thing I like about it. And this is true for a lot of the Notre Dame players. Giardium Price is the same way. Jeremy Love worked out at 214 pounds, he said.

He weighed in the day before at 212, which meant he ran that 4-36 at his playing weight. And he even said at the

end, he's like, you know, I have to lose weight so I can do like, no, dude, trust me, NFL scouts

don't care about that. They're like, dude, this guy's 212 and he ran a 436. Like, this is what we wanted to see. He didn't slim down to go run fast. Judarian Price was 203. That's basically his playing weight. Malachi was 218. Eli Redden was 245. Those guys were all basically at their playing weights.

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