James Flanigan Is A Great Fit Into The Notre Dame Offense

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00:00 And you'll see on the film, James Flanagan is a bit of a throwback player.

00:08 And so getting numbers is fine.

00:11 Obviously, it's important to get to your numbers.

00:13 But it's even more important when you talk about impacting a class,

00:17 are you impacting a class with the proper skill sets?

00:22 And you can't just get a bunch of cookie cutter players when you look at how

00:25 Notre Dame uses their tight end position, for example.

00:28 They need guys can be attached and play at the line of scrimmage and

00:31 be blockers and move the chains and work the middle of the field and

00:34 things along those lines.

00:35 There's a role for tight ends to play out of the box a lot,

00:38 the move around type of guys.

00:39 And then of course, the ideal players, the guys can do a little bit all of it.

00:43 I think James Flanagan has the upside to be that player.

00:46 But right now, you know for sure that he shows up at Notre Dame with the ability

00:51 to play in more of a traditional tight end role, which gives Notre Dame some

00:56 really interesting compliments when you look at sort of their four year recruiting.

01:00 In 2022, they landed Holden Stace, who's a bit of a move around tight end and

01:05 Eli Raritan, who can play attached but also bring some unique outside

01:11 tight end skills, so both of them are more modernish.

01:14 Then you go to the 2023 class, which is the current freshmen, and

01:18 they have Cooper Flanagan in the class.

01:19 And we have already seen Cooper Flanagan,

01:21 spells his name a little bit different, instead of an I,

01:24 Cooper Flanagan spells it with an A.

01:26 And we had talked before the year that Cooper Flanagan is a kid that absolutely

01:29 brings he can show up and block right now mentality, and we've already seen that.

01:33 He's already on the field for Notre Dame this year as a blocker, and

01:36 he's been an impactful player as a blocker already.

01:38 That's what Cooper brought to the table, 6'6", 6'5", 6'6", 260,

01:43 big player, short to intermediate type of guy.

01:46 James Flanagan has some of that as well, which I'll get to.

01:49 Then 2024, you bring in Jack Larson, who can block, but

01:53 he's more of a slot wing, tremendous ball skills, not nearly as big.

01:59 He's 6'3", 225, 230 type of guy, closer to Tommy Tremble as far as a usage

02:04 standpoint than what you're gonna ask of a Michael Mayer,

02:08 of a Cooper Flanagan, and a James Flanagan.

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