Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to another episode of the Irish Breakdown podcast, brought you by our friends over at Pandal.

Happy Thursday.

We are almost to the weekend.

And today, folks, we are kicking off kind of our state of the program series where now that spring has officially come to an end, we did our superlative show yesterday, talked about what we learned on both offensive defense.

Time to start turning the page from spring and start looking at this program as they get ready to head into summer workouts and then obviously into fall camp here. A couple months down the road and where we're going to start today, guys, it's not a surprise. You're talking to two former quarterbacks. We're starting with the Notre Dame quarterback room. So we're going to give just overall thoughts on how they did this spring. We're going to talk C.J. Carr, Blake Hebert, Noah Grubbs, talk a little bit about Teddy Gerard. We're going to wrap up the quarterback conversation with, it's just kind of a talk about the 2027 to 2028 recruiting classes, just kind of where Notre Dame stands, the top prospects.

We're going to dive into a little film, something that we both obviously enjoy doing. I'm going to try to be a little bit more focused this time when we start watching Neiman Lawrence's film because the last time we pulled it up, I got a little bit too much into the film, but excited to start watching some of these kids, man. We're locked in today. We'll be locked in. We will be. And then mailbag, obviously, to take us home.

Theme for today for today's we'll be locked in. We will be. And then mailbag, obviously, to take us home.

Team for today for today's mailbag folks is quarterbacks. So talk Notre Dame quarterbacks. We've seen some coming by quarterbacks on Notre Dame schedule. So it's going to be a really, really fun show today. I'm looking forward to diving into it. It is, Trevin. And I think it's an important one to talk about first because quarterback is a big reason why there's so much excitement about this 2020s football team.

We've set on shows.

Can Notre Dame win a championship with CJ Carr simply repeating what he did last season?

Yes, they can.

Having said that, if that is going to be the case, then obviously other positions need to step up. The old line needs to be better because you don't have Jeremiah Love and Judarian Price to bail them out like they did last year. The receiving court is going to have to be better. The defense is going to have to be better. And so there is a desire. And I think the margin for error is much more narrow if all we get is a repeat of last season.

The point being, when we say that, is like, this is a very talented team.

This isn't like a mediocre team that C.J. Carr is going to, like, elevate to look like 2019 LSU.

You know what I mean?

Like, this is a very talented team.

And the hope is that the play at quarterback gets that next level and takes them over to the top because as you and I have

talked about, Trevor, college football is going to be tougher to win this year than it has

been the last couple. I would argue the last three. I think in 2022, there was an elite Georgia

team. And I would argue that that Michigan team in 2022, there was an elite Georgia team.

And I would argue that that Michigan team in 2022 was better than their 2023 team. They just, I think, overlooked CCU and had a bad game and just didn't take

that team seriously. But we haven't really seen like a lot of years where there's multiple

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