What makes a Mike Elko defense challenging yeah uh I think I have a really good feel for the defense obviously I've been playing against it uh every day I practice for the past couple years um he obviously has a good feel for for my game and my Tendencies as well but um I think they really do a good job of disguising everything uh everything kind of looks similar pre snap so if I if I'm able to you know uh you know piece that up far and and uh figure it out I think we we'll be all right and then you played in some Benefits of playing in hostile environments in the past hostile environments at Duke how does that kind of help prepare you for what you're going to see yeah yeah obviously it's a huge crowd and it's something you always dream about like as a kid you want to play in these moments and I think it's just really cool in a great opportunity um I'm coming at it it's just you know you know my I my mindset is just like be a kid again enjoy this obviously I've played in a bunch of big games with a bunch of loud crowds and we've been practicing over with the speaker so um I think I'm very prepared for it and and really just excited more than anything talk about the the Confidence in the offensive line offensive line man it's just a young Court um exper between two between five guys like there but what's your comfort level man what's the conversations like with the young guys on the offensive line going into the season and more importantly going into yeah um Notre Dame uh it's the mecca of offens alignment in college football so anybody who's going to be blocked for me on Saturdays is going to be the best of the best that's who we recruit here um they're going to be great men they're going to be fully prepared they're going to be able to get the job done so like let's Notre Dame that's what we do we run the ball we protect the quarterback