Have at it!
Banks and Hainsey both return? One or the other?
Patterson a lock at either center or guard
Otherwise a lot of talent to choose from, as arguably also the deepest position on roster

Just pulled the trigger. Section 441 row 4! Who all is going? New years eve party in Dallas?

Here is the second of five AA teams upon which you must be named first team to be declared as a unanimous all-American. My apologies if this has already been posted.

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Has anybody listened to the podcast interview with Cecil Hurt who reports on alabama? If I understand correctly, he said that AL pay their coordinators up to 3.5 mil a year and that saban will not hire young inexperienced coordinators and, if for no other reason, this is why bama has an advantage over most, if not all, other teams. I found this to be interesting especially since BK hires coordinators with little or no experience. Does ND's inability to offensively adjust to Clemson and to convert red zone visits into touchdowns all year have more to do with TR inexperience than talent? I don't have an answer to this but thought it might generate interesting discussion.

Thought his hamstring issue has cleared up. Need his speed badly.

Weakside DE with 521 total snaps, 25 total tackles and 6.5 sacks. Three years of eligibility and academics are important to him.

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Here are their press conferences from today.

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I am covering The Show 7v7 in Florida this week and connected with Ponchatoula, La., 2022 DB Amorion Walker here. Notre Dame offered him last month, and he talks about the Irish in the article below:

The newly hired Vanderbilt head coach is foremost centered on finishing his four-year investment at Notre Dame with a flourish.
https://notredame.rivals.com/news/quick-hitters-notre-dame-defensive-coordinator-clark-lea

BlueandGold.com recruiting insider Mike Singer recently caught up with coaches of three key Irish recruits in the 2022 class. Read what they had to say in this week’s edition of The Gold Standard.

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Not on depth chart

The TE pass just now was really nice.

Hard to believe that the Bears will likely make the playoffs (the Bears may still lose to Green Pay, but the Rams will also beat the Cardinals). And a large part of the Bear resurgence is due to Bars and Mustipher entering the lineup at guard and center.

The head coach is scheduled to meet with media around 10:30 p.m. ET for about 15 minutes to update the team status in preparation for No. 1 Alabama this Friday.

Before ND he was well known as an offensive innovator and put up some amazing offenses. I know he said he needed to put butts in the seats at cinci but he has never had that offense at ND.

now fastforward to now and all the elite teams are producing elite,efficient, high prolific offenses and Kelly has gone in the exact opposite direction. It doesn’t make sense to me

Ok Lolking at the current ND team...

Would you rather everything the same but Trevor Lawrence (or insert stud qb) and everything else on the team is the same


Or

offense remains the same, but have the 85 bears defense (or insert your top defense here)


At first I was good with an, but having a defense that can stop Bama is interesting

Alabama has morphed from a physical, tough, grind-it-out kind of dominance to the nation's premier scoring attack.

The offensive line is waiting for this one to show a bad day in Charlotte was nothing more than that.

Jeremiah Owusu-Koramoah and Aaron Banks are first-teamers. Liam Eichenberg is a second-teamer. Tommy Kraemer and Kyle Hamilton are on the third-team.

All three teams:

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In Notre Dame's seven losses since 2017, the offense has averaged only 13 points, and never tallied more than 20. In Alabama, it faces a unit that is averaging 49.7 points per game and not tallied less than 38 this year.
https://notredame.rivals.com/news/notre-dame-alabama-can-fighting-irish-offense-keep-up-

I just saw an ESPN show highlighting his life and football career.

First, I know he did some brutal and appalling things. While one can debate whether he was an innately evil monster or the byproduct of a tragic background, I'd like to table that for another thread.

Obviously, he was a very good back, I'd like to know if he was good enough to be ranked among the most talented of all time.

Ray Lewis said he was among the greatest he ever faced. In an Orange Bowl showdown, Lewis said that on one play he hit Phillips as directly and as hard as he ever had contact with anyone. The collision was shown on screen, Phillips absorbed getting drilled while going forward for a few yards, bounced right up, and told Lewis, "not bad," Lewis then turned to Warren Sapp and said "looks like we're in for dogfight tonight."

Nick Saban spoke of him in superlatives when Phillips rushed for over 200 yards against his MSU team, saying he he never saw a running back that gifted when he coached in the NFL.

Thus, my question is "Was he extremely talented or something even beyond that?"