Irish Illustrated Insider: Wide Receiver Breakouts, Overlooked Defenders, CFP Top 5 and All‑Time Favorite Notre Dame Play Highlights

What this episode covers

On this edition of Irish Illustrated Insider, The latest "Burning Up the Boards" mailbag uses sharp, veteran questions to frame where Notre Dame stands and where it's headed, from which position coach you'd most want to sit with in the lunchroom to which young receiver is best positioned to emerge behind Jordan Faison and Jaden Greathouse in a crowded but intriguing room. Listeners press the issue of why emerging defenders like Shuler, Bowen, KVA and Tae Johnson lack national buzz despite the acclaim for Notre Dame's defense, while also turning the lens on the hosts with queries about when they were most wrong and most right, and where the top five champions of the CFP era truly stack up. The segment digs into what it means to cover Notre Dame as alumni versus outsiders, whether Ja'Juan Seider should expand his backfield rotation after losing two top backs to the NFL, the greatest throw, catch and run the staff has ever seen involving the Irish, and a pointed challenge on whether the offensive line cost Notre Dame the Miami game more than any other unit.

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