PICKING Notre Dame at Texas A&M | Conner Weigman, Mike Elko's Debut vs Riley Leonard, Marcus Freeman

Notre Dame at Texas A&M Notre Dame is a two and a half Point dog going to College Station we don't know what Notre Dame's offensive line is going to look like exactly Charles jagas saww their starting left tackle out for the season he got hurt a few weeks ago now as Tyler haa from blue and gold pointed out when he was on the show Charles jaason only started one game he started the sunbowl last year he was a red shirt freshman so it wasn't like Notre Dame was going to a veteran heavy offensive line that has been in these situations before going into this game it was always going to be younger less experienced guys having to play against a really good Texas S&M defensive line in a really tough environment so I don't know that Charles jaasa being hurt should change what you were going to think about like if you thought Notre Dame was gonna win this game before that I don't know that it should change it that much you know I'm GNA push back on that Andy I I think that you know I I think that that's kind of putting lipstick on a pig because jasol was a blue chip recruit who had gotten to spend basically two years in the program now Notre Dame is gonna have to play a re a true freshman at that spot who has not been practicing you know with the team for two seasons so when you when you're then saying oh hey in your first career start you got to go up against Nick scorton and Shamar Turner and Shamar Stewart and these boys uh that's tough um I think really the bigger question though if if the reason that I you know I'm kind of I still haven't made a final decision of how I'm leaning on this game uh it's that what what do we see from from Riley Leonard at quarterback I mean how healthy is he um is he gonna be kind of a willing Runner like he was a couple years ago at Duke uh or does he still kind of have some some lingering uh you know I don't know if it's a effects or if it's a mental thing or what you know from from getting hurt last year so if he if he can show up Notre Dame needs this game I will say that Notre Dame needs to win this game with the rest of their schedule because now that Florida State game doesn't look quite as good and they play like multiple FCS teams they play both servies geia Tech game looks tougher though Georgia Tech game looks tougher but there's there's nine or t wins kind of just sitting there for Notre Dame um and so if you lose this game I don't know how many impressive performances you're going to have for the playoff I mean we'll see what Louisville is again we're kind of guesstimating here before we've seen one week of football um but I think that I think the Irish really need this one and on the flip side I mean the agies have had a quiet confidence the entire offseason so I mean what are you leaning with Conor Wegman or where you going with this this is another one I feel like I've thought one thing about this game all off season and that that is that A&M is going to win this thing the fact that the public feels that way Vegas feels that way now I'm like the line fall into the Trap again yeah the line I mean because Notre Dame opened up originally as a favorite and and with the injuries and with some of the other information the line has M much like North Carolina just not as not with the expediency that it was last night but much like that game it the line has flip it it came a little bit because it actually moved to to A&M minus 3 for a bit last week then now was come back to minus two and a half but yeah so I like because I do think that Notre Dame's offense should be more Dynamic than than what we saw last year because that they're gonna have receivers that that can like Chris Mitchell the FIU transfer should be very helpful but also just having all those guys healthy like Jaden great house was not healthy for all last season Riley Leonard if he's healthy and again we haven't seen healthy Riley Leonard very but think about think about this let's go back to the game where Riley Leonard got hurt which ironically was a against Notre Dame last year Riley Leonard was keeping Duke in it think about Riley Leonard against Clemson like he elevates the people around him when he's healthy he also threw three touchdowns last year yeah yeah he was hurt most of the Season yeah right so I take it you're taking the agies I'm gon I'm gonna I'm gonna go with Nick scorton I think he's going to be of of the transfers in this game coming out of this game that everyone's talking about it's going to be the edge rusher for Texas A&M so I we know how I feel about Mike Elco we know I feel like it's going to be a very successful tenure for him in College Station and in fact this could be a very successful year though I don't think he he has to deal with any sort of unreasonable expectations that said I think Notre Dame needs this game I think we are sleeping on Notre Dame a little bit because they had a key injury I think Notre Dame is going to win it you give me a few points I'll take them eat him up this this will be this will be an interesting one because you're right Notre Dame needs to win this one for its playoff chances because the schedule's not great and you know usually you can say oh a typical Notre Dame schedule you go 10- two against it you're going to be an at large team in the playoff with this one you might have to go 11-1 to get the that large so you need you're going to need to win this one so I I'll take the Irish here and if they don't win it they're they're behind the eightball for sure thank you so much for watching just a reminder subscribe to this channel right here so you never miss an episode of Andy Staples on three and oh by the way watch all the other great videos on the on three Sports YouTube channel