Welcome back to another edition of the wolverine.com podcast. My name is Chris Ballas.

It's been a long time, man, since I've hosted one of these things. Usually I'm a guest with Clayton Safie and Anthony Broom.

But today I get to host Doug Skeen at Michigan's former All-Big Ten offensive linemen who's dropping some weight, man.

You're looking good. You're feeling good? Yeah. Thank you, man. I'm feeling pretty good it's it's been it's been it's been a marathon ballast not a sprint i understand the older we get the harder it is the uh the peloton bike has been good to me yeah you know what they say 91% or 92 of the people that buy those actually use them and shed weight.

So I think I'm probably going to have to go that route.

But congratulations.

You look great.

You up at the yacht club right now?

No, no.

Does it look like it?

No.

I'm sitting in my office.

If I was sitting in my boat, then this would be a heck of a boat to be sitting in with that. Well, someday, you know, aim for the stars. You got to have goals, man. You got to have goals. NFL settlement number two, which is going to be the name of the next. The NFL still owes me money. I don't know why. Do they really? No. They probably do. Yeah. Once you start losing here, that's never mind. All right. Let's go somewhere. Let's go different direction. Let's talk Michigan football here. So first things first, man. Excited about this team. There's been more buzz about this team and rightfully so, in my opinion, than in many, many years. we were all excited about last year, you know, but the big question

then was can they continue? Can they repeat? And if they do, then there's really something to be

excited about. And here we are, buddy. And a big reason for that is play in the trenches. Now, Jim

Harbaugh kind of got back to his roots there. And if we look at the Michigan offensive line,

in your opinion, what has changed over the last four or five years? Because they had pieces. They've had guys in the pros, were they not

playing together well? Were they not getting what they should have gotten out of some of these guys?

Because some of these guys were playing better in the NFL than they were at Michigan.

But these guys really seem to have meshed. And part of me has to credit

Sharon Moore here for his obviously effect on that line. Well, this is a great question, Bales.

And you and I've talked about it before. It's it's hard to say because we're not in the room.

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