Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to the Irish Breakdown podcast brought to you by our new partners at Fandul, part of the Believe Network. Happy Wednesday, everybody.

We are now, I believe, 25 days away from Notre Dame kicking off their season against Miami down in Hard Rock Stadium.

So time is really, really starting to fly.

Today, what we have in store for you, we have the practice report. We got to see, I believe

this is the fourth time media had access to go out to practice. So Brian, myself, Sean Davis,

and Sean Stiers were at today's practice.

So we're going to give you guys a practice report.

Brian's going to join us here in a couple of minutes.

He's going to hop in.

He's going to break down quarterback play, wide receiver play.

There was a lot of good things to see from today's practice today, Sean.

But where we're going to begin today is we're going to start on the defensive side of the ball.

I know you were hanging down around that end of the field, Sean.

A lot of good things that you saw.

So walk us through some of the things that you took away from the defensive side of the ball today, man.

Well, we're going to start with, you know, the focus was fundamentals, definitely definitely for the defense today.

So we started with the defensive backfield.

And they started off one of the early periods, working with the wide receivers and the quarterbacks,

and basically simulating crossing routes or either throws to the flats and completions.

And then they were coming up and going one-on-one with the receiver.

Pretty much making sure they took the right angle. And that's what they were coming up and going one-on-one with the receiver pretty much making sure they took

the right angle and that's what they were working on but in that you got to see that you know wide

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