I.B. Nation, Notre Dame fans, welcome back to another edition of the Irish Breakdown podcast

presented by Fandul. It is Friday on August 29th, which means week one. The first Saturday

of week one is one day away, but Coggs football has already started. We had action last weekend.

We had some action last night, which I know we'll

talk a little bit about here today. But that is Sean Davis. I'm Brian Driscoll. We're here for the

RTCF show recruiting team college football related topics. And today we have a good one, Sean.

We're going to talk. We're going to move the order around a little bit. Today's going to be more

like a TCFR show with the order that we're going to do. We're going to talk some Notre Dame team topics. Today's Notre Dame team topic, we are going to talk about Sean brought this up last week. And I was like, dude, text that to me right now. So we don't forget to talk about that in the next RTCF show. So we're talking about like what is the talent level, the NFL talent level on Notre Dame's roster? And why does it matter? And what does it say about where the program is? That'll be our topic number one. It's going to be very, very interesting. On a day where Xavier Watts, former Notre Dame All-American and Safety, was announced by Rashim Morris that he is going to be the starting safety in his first game in the NFL for the Atlanta Falcons. So tremendous honor for Xavier.

Not surprising for anyone that's watched Xavier the last two years that he went in there and made a great impression, but it's still great to see him earn that honor.

We saw a couple of undrafted free agents from Notre Dame's team last year,

make NFL teams, Bo Collins, Howard Cross.

So came out today. We'll dive into all the NFL roster talk and why it matters. Then we're going to talk about college football. We're just going to dive into week one. Sean and I were like, you know, there's not like one specific topic, but Sean was just like, dude, I want to talk about all the things that I'm excited to watch this weekend. And so we'll do that. And then I'm going to have Sean give his predictions on a couple of the games that we made predictions for yesterday. And we'll have some fun. And it's going to be more than just quarterback talk this week for this weekend, Sean, although for me, that's a big part of my interest this weekend. And then the last topic, we're going to talk a little bit about 2027 recruiting and just just some overview of

things, where they are, who we, who we like, who we want to see them really go after. And just some guys,

obviously some players that started their seasons. I know Quentin Burrell starts his season,

I believe, tonight, Sean. So he's obviously a top target. Julius Jones Jr. started his

season last week. Rob L. started his season last week.

Rob Larson started his season last week.

So a lot going on, and I'm very excited to dive into that.

But first, Sean, let's dive into this Notre Dame team topic.

And it's not necessarily specific to this weekend's game, but more so just diving into just this Notre Dame team.

And to begin, when you look at this team, we talk about, you know, we think it's a talented

team and that word can mean a lot of different things.

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