What's good, Ivey Nation, welcome to another edition of the Irish Breakdown podcast presented by Fanduel.

I'm Vince Diderio. That's Brian Driscoll, and we are fresh off of another four-period media availability practice over at Notre Dame.

And I believe this is practice number three of the fall. It is rolling now. Still just shirts and helmets, man, but it's going to get tomorrow putting on the pads, a little bang, bang. Oh, is it tomorrow? Okay. It's practice four. They may not have practice. I heard something, Marcus Stream say something about like, they're going to have this, and then they're going to take a day off. So I'm not quite, but yeah, I think he said, well, what I remember him saying, it was three day practices followed by a night practice followed by a day off. So then that means, yeah, that maybe tomorrow night they're going to go live. But yeah, tomorrow, the uppers come on, baby. Right, exactly. So that's exciting right there, especially if you're a fan of the trenches

and line play and all of that kind of stuff although they've been fairly aggressive at this point

anyway uh man so it's always good to see we'll talk about that at the beginning yes yes yeah so

again we had the opportunity to be there for the first four periods which which equals, you know, stretching is not a period. And then they kind of get into some things. They always do, you know, special teams. And then they kind of get into some individual work. And so that's what we were able to witness again today. The difference today, though, Brian, and we're going to get into this in a minute, is they were doing individual, but then they also also came together and we saw some one-on-ones from the wide receivers ds and quarterbacks. And so that is kind of where the focus of today's show is going to be. And we got to see a little competition there, Brian. Yeah. You know, honestly, I was said yesterday, like, I don't know if we're going to do a practice report or not.

You know, probably will, but I'm not sure. And it just, you know, because there's just four periods. It's just not a lot to see. But today we've got to see a whole period of one-on-ones between the corners and the receivers. And that was really good. So, you know, spent a lot of time there.

And then we'll get into some, just some other overall stuff that we saw.

But before we get into that, Vince, but I got to tell you,

I, we said at day one about the O line and the D line and we saw it again today in the one-on-ones,

even without pads on, these kids really compete against each other. Yes. And this did not look like a non-padded workout the way that the receivers and DBs were going after each other. One of the questions we had going to the season, Vince, was, is this team going to stay hungry? Are they kind of resting their laurels? Are they like, hey, we've arrived, you know, it's like, or are they going to be hungry? You know know it's like you think of the difference between

notary or you know between rocky bow bow going into the first fight against clubber lang and then

the rocky babo again and the second fight against clubber lang like same guy he's got a battle but

what's your mindset where are you are you really putting in that work are you really hungry

or was last season hey we've arrived the moment or last season is bull crap we We came up short. We're not going to let that happen again. It's just three days and I'm not trying to read too much into it. But when you see the way these kids are battling without pads on, you start thinking about what's this going to be like when they put pads on? Like I have a feeling there's going to be a lot of the coaches having to rain them in in

fall camp.

And just like, all right, let's take it back a second on this one because we're going way

too hard against each other.

And I think that's a small taste, a small glimpse into what I think backs up what we've

heard this summer about how these kids are attacking

this season.

That it's not a, hey man, like when I watch Leonard Moore battered, it was just one rep, right?

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