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Notre Dame Secondary: What We Know, What We Don't

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Notre Dame, Football, Nfl Draft, Big Ten, Sports, Ncaa Team

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🗓️ 8 August 2024

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Notre Dame has two pre-season All Americans in the secondary but they also have to replace 60% of the starting lineup. Experience will not be a problem at two of the positions but will that translate to the field? Bryan and Vince discuss the unknowns with the youth movement as well. Shop for Irish Breakdown gear at our online store: https://ibstore.irishbreakdown.com/  Join the Irish Breakdown premium message board: https://boards.irishbreakdown.com  Stay locked into Irish Breakdown for all the latest news and analysis about Notre Dame: https://www.irishbreakdown.com​ Subscribe to the Irish Breakdown podcast on iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/irish-breakdown/id1485286986 Like and follow Irish Breakdown on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/irishbreakdown Sign up for the FREE Irish Breakdown daily newsletter: https://www.subscribepage.com/irish-breakdown-newsletter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

So as we've been doing with our positional breakdowns and, you know, our positional previews, our next section here in section number two is what we know and what we don't know.

0:30.7

And, you know, there's obviously a lot of what we do know based on the guys that are coming back, the guys that have decided to come back.

0:38.1

I mean,

0:38.7

you have got some absolute stars in Benjamin Morrison and Xavier Watt.

0:44.1

Those are your only two returning starters in the secondary.

0:48.2

And thank goodness,

0:49.9

Xavier Wats decided to come back.

0:51.5

I will just say that because he,

0:54.1

otherwise Notre Dame,

0:54.9

would be looking at four out of the five new faces on in the secondary. And I love the fact

1:01.4

that the reigning defensive player of the year nationally decided to come back to Notre Dame and

1:07.0

really hone in his craft. And so, you know, we know who Benjamin Morrison is.

1:11.6

We know who Xavier Watts is. They're preseason all Americans. These are the guys that are the leaders

1:16.0

on this defense in this secondary, on this team, frankly, as well. And I mentioned it in our

1:24.3

practice report yesterday, just watching Xavier Watts go through, you know,

1:28.0

even just drills and things like that. He just has an ease about him. You know, you can just tell

1:36.0

mentally he's in a good place. You can just tell that physically he knows where he's supposed to be.

1:42.2

He's doing what he's supposed to do.

1:49.6

I mean, this is, I mean, I don't want to say this is his victory lap at Notre Dame because that's not really the right connotation that I want to make, you know, that I want to spin on it.

1:53.3

But this is the first time really in his career that he is the most settled and the most just hey this is who

2:05.0

I am this is where I'm going to be this is where I've excelled and I'm going to continue to

2:09.8

excel in this position and I'm a leader on this team like you can just see it in the way

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