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You just heard in the last segment from Ron Bellum and Michigan wide receivers coach.

Now let's flip to the other side of the ball and here for the defensive backs coach.

Lamar Morgan, he had a lot to say about his guys in the defense backfield, about the defense overall.

He talks about the offensive guys too.

Really in-depth answers coming up now. Here is Lamar Morgan, Michigan defensive backs

coach now here on the Michigan Insider on the big 1050 WTCA.

Yeah, hey a little. Just question about the nickel battle. How do you, like, what are all

thought processes that go in for you when you're trying to figure out exactly how to find something to fit that way? Right. To me, I think that position here, if you look at them, you know, you had one of the best D.Bs probably ever to come through here. Now to set the commanders right now, Mikey played it. You know, you had Dax Hill play it. You had Rod Moore play it. really, it's like probably one of the best D.Bs on the field, right?

So I think that's kind of an older position for a guy, right? Like he's been in the program. He knows his system. He knows his scheme. He can run. He can cover. He can tackle. He can blitz. It's just a unique position, right? I think it's really hard to go out and recruit a guy for that sometimes

because usually it's just a guy that has a lot of fight, really aggressive and all that. So to me, I think in camp, it's all about development, right? This development you over here, and I feel like you just try to develop guys as much as you can. So, you know, we've been playing probably six or seven guys in there. Now, of course, you know, probably about a week here and a half.

We'll cut that down to about three or four. But right now we're just trying to get a lot of different guys in that role. You know, the season last year, able to move Zika from Nickel to play outside. What happens if you lose two corners or you lose two safeties? What are you going to do? So I think that's the beauty of training camp, right?

There's no school board right now that's the beauty of training camp, right?

There's no school board right now that you can kind of move guys around and kind of see what guys can do there. And then how are you going to call it, right? You will call the game a little bit different if McCarie Page, which had a good game the other day when I was watching it, him playing nickel versus Mikey or Rob playing nickel, right? you go call the game a little bit different.

So we're just trying to see what kid can do the whole package. What kid would we have a certain game plan for them if they play nickel or not? That's just kind of how it is, right? Is this a little too soon still for a front runner? Yeah, I just think probably, I would probably say it is. You know, I'd say some of the guys that probably worked a lot with the one group would be Shud, would be T.J., you know, would be Mason Curtis, will be Zeeke. It's probably all the guys that have you seen already played. Then we have some younger guys that are also getting a lot of reps there as well, you know, like Jeremiah Lowe, Tevis, you know, I've mentioned T.J. Medcalf already. So we're just trying to get a lot of the guys there each class, you know, I have a senior, junior, sophomores, just anybody that has that skill set. There's some guys that we're not playing there, just allowing those guys to just focus on one position because you don't want to cloud them because you got to be half safety half corner. For more of this interview, head to mgobleu.com. That's mgobleu.com. Great stuff with Lamar Morgan talking a lot about his guys, but they're, of course, at the end talking about Bryce Underwood. So talking about the offense and the defense. Great stuff with Michigan defensive backs coach Lamar Morgan. On the other side of the break, we go behind the uniform with one of his guys, freshman Shemari Earle. So we're going to get to that on the other side of the break here on the Michigan Insider on the Big 1050 WTCA online at the big 1050.com. I am Michael Rosenbaum. I am Tom Welling. Welcome to Talkville, where it's fun to talk about Smallville.

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