Armel Mukam

Arm- all the D tackles at times will be against center Bruce Mitchell, but, you know, with slants and different things.

But the primary noses for Notre Dame this year are Armel Mukam and Leon Gray.

Now, Armel's in the midst of a breakout season.

That's gotta continue.

And Leon has been good but not consistent.

These are the games where a guy like Leon Gray was brought in for.

These are the kind of games that this is why you, you know, beg Armel Mukam to come back and play for you, because they're very talented players.

They're going against what I believe to be the best center they're gonna face all year, with all due respect to Ryan Rodriguez, with all due respect to Justin Bates and the other good centers they play this year.

It's a, it's, it's...

The lanes have opened up for a Mukam and Onyek.

'Cause the focus goes to those two guys, which it should.

But Mukam's not no slouch.

Yeah.

And then you're giving 'em more space on top of that and less pressure.

And as a team, they're, they're hungry.

Jalen Sneed talked about it last week.

It's also about playing complimentary football.

If they get behind the sticks early, and they get off schedule, and they can't attempt to try to establish whatever sort of ground game they think that they can conjure up, you're giving this defensive line that we just spent 30 minutes talking about in the previous segment, you're giving Bubacar, and Bryce, and Keyon, and Francis Brew, and Armel Mukam, and Teon Gray the opportunity to pin their ears back and get after the quarterback.

Another player we didn't mention was Rodney Dunham.

Wouldn't shock me at all if Rodney Dunham had a just this, "Okay, yeah, he's gonna continue playing."

Mm-hmm.

I do.

And one thing that was very, very promising, and I loved hearing it, I, I, I, I, I read the transcription for Armel Mukam's, like, player press conference 'cause, so, so you guys know, like, you know, you, we see the YouTube video of the player press conference, and then they go upstairs and they talk with the media and have more of, like, a one-on-one type of time upstairs in the IAC.

One of the first questions that Armel Mukam got asked is, you know, "Hey, you know, you just got off of probably your best performance at Notre Dame.

So, um, look, uh, Francis Brew, awesome.

Armel Mukam, awesome game, awesome football game from him.

Um, uh, Boubacar against the run in this one, [laughs] I mean, obviously had the big play at the beginning, but, uh, on, on their pass rush, but against the run, just playing really, really high level.

Uh, Bryce Young doing some good stuff.

He was not a difference maker back there.

Armel Mukam just absolutely... stud man.

What a, what a season he's having.

Talk about your boy, man.

And then the final matchup for me is going to be Notre Dame's D tackles, and I'm mainly looking here at Francis Brew and Tian Gray because they tend to spend a lot of time on the center.

You can throw Armel Mukam in this conversation.

You can throw Sean Savolano into this conversation.

because all four of those guys will spend some time over the center.