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The Irish Breakdown Notre Dame Football Mailbag was loaded with great questions this week! Bryan answered the questions and hopefully the answer segment was as good as the questions! This is part four of this week's show. 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

The Irish Breakdown Notre Dame Football Mailbag was loaded with great questions this week! Bryan answered the questions and hopefully the answer segment was as good as the questions! This is part three of this week's show. 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

The Irish Breakdown Notre Dame Football Mailbag was loaded with great questions this week! Bryan answered the questions and hopefully the answer segment was as good as the questions! This is part two of this week's show. 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

The Irish Breakdown Notre Dame Football Mailbag was loaded with great questions this week! Bryan answered the questions and hopefully the answer segment was as good as the questions! This is part one of this week's show. 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

IB Nation Sports Talk's Friday Rapid Fire show has plenty to discuss today. We start with which Notre Dame freshman we have higher expectations for this season: receiver Micah Gilbert or linebacker Kyngstonn Viliamu-Asa. Other topics include: * Fill-in the blank...It’s BLANK that the two biggest moves the Irish have had this spring are the additions of preferred walk-on running back Jake Tafelski and Australian rules punter James Rendell. Fill-in the blank...The first Notre Dame player to hear his name called in next year’s NFL Draft will be BLANK. * Fill-in the blank...It’s BLANK that Chris Fowler says he recorded around 115 hours of audio including the names of roughly 700 college football players over the last two years for use in EA Sports’ soon to be released college football game.  * EA Sports is supposed to announce a cover athlete for the college football game this month. Who should it be? * Fill-in the blank...Milwaukee Bucks guard Patrick Beverly telling an ESPN producer she couldn’t ask a question because she doesn’t subcribe to his podcast after the Bucks’ loss to the Pacers last night is BLANK. * Fill-in the blank...It’s BLANK that Mike Tyson is an underdog against Jake Paul in their July 20 fight in Texas. * Netflix is going to do a live roast of Tom Brady, with Kevin Hart as the host, this Sunday. On a scale of 1 to 10...what’s your interest?  * There’s a Reddit theory that’s been out there for a while that Maverick dies early in "Top Gun Maverick" when his test plane blows up at the start of the movie and he’s actually in some afterlife purgatory for the rest of the movie. We have thoughts on that. * Who would play Sean Stires, Jesse Stires and Vince DeDario in a movie? 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

Rapid Fire topics include: * Irish special teams coordinator Marty Biagi went down under and signed 23-year-old Australian Rules football player James Rendell to be the Irish punter this season. We share our thoughts on the Irish going this route as opposed to the transfer portal. * The transfer portal came and went this week, and all four Notre Dame quarterbacks are still on the roster. On a scale of 1 to 10...How surprised are we that they’re all still here? * An Indianapolis Star writer is catching a lot of grief for writing a column this week saying Caitlin Clark could do for the WNBA what Larry Bird did for the NBA. Do you Buy or Sell the idea that Clark could be her league’s Bird? * Fill-in the blank…It’s BLANK that the University of Houston plans to wear powder blue uniforms that are very similar to the ones worn by the defunct Houston Oilers. They wore them in their season opener last year, and the NFL threatened to sue them because the league said they were “blatantly copying” the Oilers’ uniforms. * What's the best landing spot for the Inside The NBA studio crew of Charles Barkley, Shaquille O'Neal and Kenny Smith if TNT loses the NBA broadcasting rights? * Mike Trout is out for the rest of the season with a knee injury but it’s barely a blip on the sports radar. Do you think it’s because Trout is boring, he plays for the Angels or just because it’s baseball and nobody cares? 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

Today's show starts with longtime Notre Dame men's basketball reporter Tom Noie from the South Bend Tribune joining Sean Stires. Some of the things they discuss include: * Micah Shrewsberry's first season as head coach at Notre Dame. * The biggest differences between Shrewsberry and former Irish head coach Mike Brey. * Markus Burton entered his name on the NBA early entry list last month. How confident is Noie that Burton will return to the Irish for his sophomore season? * Kerry Booth transferring to Illinois after one season at Notre Dame.  * Adding Princeton shooting guard Matt Allocco. 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

There were six quarterbacks taken in the first round of the 2024 NFL Draft, and those weren't the only top quarterbacks that are no longer in college football. There will be a changing of the guard. In this segment Bryan discusses the top returning quarterbacks for the 2024 season, players to keep an eye on and potential breakout players. 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

Part two of today's show is the first Inside The Numbers feature, which will be a staple of Thursday shows moving forward. This first segment stacks up Riley Leonard's numbers at Duke to other top quarterbacks. We look at where he stacks up, where he must improve, and what areas he must get better. 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

Our post spring breakdown of the Notre Dame 2024 team takes a look at the Irish quarterback depth chart. In this show Bryan talks about what he likes about the room, primarily the depth of talent, throwing ability and confidence of the group. There are also some major questions. We talk big picture and also dive into each player. 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

Rapid Fire topics include: * Fill-in the blank...The most intriguing player on Notre Dame’s roster is BLANK. * From a listener: Could Notre Dame put Jordan Faison (lacrosse) and Drayk Bowen (baseball) on scholarships with those sports to help them get to the 85-man roster limit? * We recently talked about Knute Rockne’s first home in South Bend being moved to make way for new housing being built. Over the weekend, Knute Rockne was literally moved from Highland cemetery and he, his wife and son and grandsons were reburied at Notre Dame. Thoughts on this.  * Fill-in the blank...If you could change any rule in sports it would be BLANK. * Ryne Sandberg is going to be the fifth Chicago Cub to get a statue outside Wrigley Field. Are you good with that? * Does someone from the 2016 championship team need a statue? 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

Irish Breakdown answers listener and subscriber questions about Notre Dame football and more on today's show. Some of the topics include: *How does Notre Dame football get to the 85-man scholarship limit after no additional players entered the transfer portal before Tuesday's deadline? *Thoughts on Kenny Minchey and Jaden Mickey staying at Notre Dame after "recent rumors" speculated on them leaving. *How would four running backs playing in a game for the Irish split the reps? *What Notre Dame player picked in the 5th round of the NFL Draft is the biggest steal? *What does summer training look like for the Irish? *Thoughts on sons of former NFL players deciding to play at Notre Dame. *Thoughts on why Michigan had 17 players enter the transfer portal. 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

Today's show ended with our new Wednesday Buy, Sell, Hold segment. Lots of great submissions by IB members. 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

The portal window has come and gone but Notre Dame surprisingly saw very few departures. In this segment Bryan discusses why that is, what it says about Notre Dame and how Marcus Freeman/Chad Bowden are masterfully handling the portal to make the Irish a much stronger football team. 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

Notre Dame should have an outstanding defense in 2024, but there are still areas that must be improved and questions that must get answered if the Irish are going to build on what it did last season. 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

Today's IB show began with a dive into the current state of the Notre Dame defense. Part one of the segment looks at expectations for the defense, and areas where the unit showed strength, or answered questions during the spring period. 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

Rapid Fire topics include: * Thoughts on Steve Angeli's potential floor and ceiling if he were to be Notre Dame's starting quarterback this season. * A record six quarterbacks were drafted in the first 12 picks of the draft. On a scale of 1 to 10...How confident are we that Riley Leonard will go in the top 12 of next year’s draft?  * The hit rate on NFL quarterbacks drafted in the first round is 46%. A hit is defined by a player signing a second contract with the team that drafted him. Which of the QBs picked in the first round is most likely be a hit and which is the most likely miss? * Fill-in the blank...Michael Mayer should feel BLANK that the Raiders drafted former Georgia tight end Brock Bowers with the 13th overall pick in the draft. * The Indianapolis Colts drafted former Texas receiver Adonai Mitchell in the second round last week. Mitchell was a potential first round pick who slid into the second round amid reports that cited anonymous sources that he interviewed poorly and was a difficult player to assess. Colts General Manager Chris Ballard wasn’t happy about it. We hear his comments and react. * Fill-in the blank...It’s BLANK that according to the NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport former South Carolina quarterback Spencer Rattler’s slide from possible second round pick to the fifth round may have been because some teams didn’t like the way Rattler acted when he was featured on Netflix's QB1 reality series in 2018 when he was in high school. * Fill-in the blank...It’s BLANK that the NFL Today pregame show on CBS has replaced Phil Simms and Boomer Esiason with Matt Ryan. * Meanwhile, recently retired Eagles center Jason Kelce is reportedly going to join ESPN’s Monday Night Countdown show. Rate that move on a scale of 1 to 10.  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

How much do stars matter? Irish Breakdown's Sean Stires and Ryan Roberts apply that question to Notre Dame's seven 2024 NFL Draft picks on today's show. They look at where they were rated coming out of high school and what it ultimately meant when they were drafted last weekend. 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

The final segment of today's show was a film breakdown of JaDon Blair. Even without the film you can learn plenty about Blair during this part of the show, but if you'd like to see the video version with the clips on it you can click here: https://www.youtube.com/live/PVwxgfkMwpk?si=yRI-ClzhiBu8ET02&t=8731 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

Notre Dame currently has the No. 1 ranked recruiting class in the 2025 cycle, but the Irish also have the most total commits of the top programs. In order for Notre Dame to truly land a gap closing class that can rank among the nation's best the staff needs a very strong finish. In part three, Bryan breaks down the positions that Notre Dame needs to hit, the top players on the board and discusses the dream finish. 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