All right, Brian, we got some defensive keys to victory to discuss. And this should be a fun one,

because I said this before the show started. I thought it leaving the game. It was enhanced for me

after watching the film. To me, I feel like this was one of the best defensive efforts, defensive, you know,

games that this Irish defense has played all season. I mean, they were just really,

really, really good. I, you just didn't know where the pressure was coming from. They couldn't

recover. I mean, it was, it was a textbook defense and how to play defense in a big game

situation. But let's get specific with the defensive keys to victory. First one up is dominate

up the middle. And obviously what that means is defensive tackles, linebackers. It's like baseball.

You've got to be strong up the middle if you want to be

good. Yeah, safety specifically, you know, got to be strong up the middle. Same thing applies for a football

defense. You've got to be strong up the middle. Were they in this game? Definitely a check on this one.

I mean, close to a plus, but I don't want to completely go there because there's definitely some, there's some fits from the linebackers that need to be better.

There's a couple times, you know, some of those early runs where I thought, you know,

Howard Cross got, got whooped early on.

He didn't look 100% at all events.

He definitely didn't have the same burst he had.

I'm hoping that in the next game, he'll just get healthier and healthy and healthier.

He didn't play 12 days off is not a bad. To the point where you had said, I don't think he played much.

He had over 50 snaps.

But he just didn't do anything noticeable, you know, but like he was out there.

He competed.

He just, you could just, you could tell you didn't have juice come off the ball. ball a couple times i thought riley or gaber rubio got got um you got sealed on a couple of

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