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Pete Sampson with Tim Priester.

Tim O'Malley is our first podcast since we saw opening practice Saturday.

We'll see them again Thursday, and we got a little bit of insight from some Sunday highlights that Notre Dame put out. But I guess just in terms of out of the gate, was there anything that really caught your attention on Saturday, good, bad, on either side of that?

Yeah, I think I'm more inclined to lean towards, you know, guys that are sophomores now that didn't necessarily play last year. Those are the guys that should, I know they're not new and shiny like the Dante Vaughans, who obviously was very impressive. Very new and very shiny. Very new and very shiny with good size. And Tony Jones, who obviously looked very, very good. But, I mean, you know, I mean, we mentioned some of these guys on Saturday. Nick Coleman, I don't know that we said anything about Tommy Kramer per se, but he did get some number one reps when Hunter Bibbin went out. And I think that physically he looks pretty impressive. Ashton White, a guy that caught your attention, Pete, in the spring, I think, stood out again on Saturday.

Yeah, Ashina White was the, he's kind of the example for me of what I liked about practice was how aggressive some of those young corners and young safeties are.

I think that's important.

I know they're probably going to win every time we watch against a young learning wide receiver group because, as Tim pointed out on our

instant analysis, or excuse me, in your piece, practice observations, some of these misses

we're going to be recording is they do not have continuity.

I really wanted that.

I really, when we walked away from Culver that day, I felt like saying, I felt like I was a little

like we were both kind of inaccurate and talking about the quarterbacks. Kaiser missing. Now, a couple of them just bounced on the ground 10 yards away from something. Those were bad throws. Yeah, but there's other ones that were nothing to do with that. When you don't know the nuances of your receiver and where he's going to end up, you're going to have some misses. Which is why I asked Brian Kelly about that on Friday. Just with so much youth at receiver, do you have to change the way your offense runs because you can't rely on those decisions being made correctly at a high enough level for your offense to work? I mean, that was something one of his former assistants told me. I think I was asking about Justin Brent when he was a freshman. He's like, you know, he's such a great athlete. Like, why doesn't he ever get on the field? I was like, this is a really hard offense to learn for a freshman wide receiver. And Kelly's counter was, look, we're probably not going to be relying on the freshman. We're going to be relying on the sophomores. But I think even in that group,

it's a complicated thing to learn. So I, and that sort of leads me to something I want to ask

Kelly about on Thursday. It's like, if you're going to evaluate Kaiser versus I year based on

everything you see, like, how valuable are those reps when you're actually working with the second

team? Is it, did you're actually working with the second team?

Is it, did you weight the reps with the first team differently than when you're working with the second team?

I think it's a decision-making process, right?

You look at, was it a good decision or a bad decision?

That's probably how they...

Unlike us, Brian Kelly knows exactly what was supposed to happen on those plays about who made the mistake.

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