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