Welcome back to another edition of the Wolverine.com video podcast. My name's Chris Ballas with me, Doug Skeen,

Michigan's former All-Big Ten offensive linemen still trying to figure out on his end how to get that iPod working that,

that iPad, iPad 1, or whatever it is. So it's, it's, uh, it's, uh, ballas, I have, I have an old VCR that I've been using over here for many years.

So I just, I've heard the CD-Roms are now to the new thing.

Yeah, and you're actually freezing up, skiing. You're actually not, uh, hopefully this is better. There you go. That's better. I was going to say, so we're actually going to be talking about the spring game today, and I had to have it put on VHS for him. You stole my joke, but that's okay. So Doug's got the VCR wound up. He got the all-22 video. You know what? I actually have a copy of that somewhere, so we'll have to watch that. But I wanted to get your opinions on the offensive line playing some of the

defensive linemen too after watching that spring game. And you finally had a chance to break it down.

That video work that I sent you this time?

Yeah, it finally did. It was basically the Big Ten networks copy that I watched.

And it was very much a spring football game.

It looked very, very vanilla, just like we all expected.

And the offense looked like they were running very simple stuff.

I think I only counted maybe four counters, ran on the whole thing,

when they ran counter about 80% of the time last year out of their run. So it was a lot of man-on-man blocking. The pass protection was really simple. It was short pockets. I did see one new twist. They see the rollout stuff by Alice. I don't know if you noticed that at all when you were there at the game. But the rollout, the rolling pocket kind of thing, they didn't do much of that last year. It looks like that's a new wrinkle this year for this spring. Maybe it wasn't new, but certainly they showed it as new. But it looked a lot like a spring football game. The defense kind of knew it was coming because they'd seen it for the previous three weeks. The offense knew that

it was a man-on-man game. And so with that said, you're looking at just the individual players

and certainly some things stood out to me. I like the new center a lot. Holy

And it's like, yeah, that guy looks like he can certainly play the role and the guys that are

coming back. I like some of the

things I saw there. Pocket, I don't know, with the exception of one of the sacks, I think was

second or third quarter there. It looks like one of the newer linemen got beat there in the three

technique. But pass protection, the one-on-one pass protection looked pretty good, which makes me

which makes me happy as an

offensive alignment. On the defensive side of the ball, it's like, yeah, I didn't see a whole

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