Fall camp preview: Storylines we're watching as Michigan begins fall camp
The Michigan Insider
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🗓️ 7 August 2021
⏱️ 74 minutes
🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS
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Summary
In this episode, we break down some of the key storylines we’re watching heading into fall camp.
We begin by looking at Michigan’s redemption efforts on the defensive front. We assess the defensive line’s commitment to bulking up, players on the spot to help improve Michigan’s pass rush and key questions that remain in the Wolverines’ front seven. We then take a look at a pass secondary that is also looking for redemption, but could start by finding some stability and consistency.
Our attention then turns to one of Michigan’s bigger strengths, and how the Wolverines can solidify their ground game early on in fall camp as part of their team’s identity. We also look at Cade McNamara’s apparent takeover of the team, and preview what that could mean for Michigan in fall camp and beyond.
In the back half of the episode, we discuss players we think could have surprisingly strong fall camps, position battles we’re watching the most closely and summer-enrollee freshmen we think could immediately contend for spots in Michigan’s two-deep.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everybody. Welcome to the Wolverine 24-7 podcast, your audio source for all things, |
| 0:04.3 | Michigan football, basketball, and recruiting. I'm your host, Zach Shaw. Steve Lorenz here with me. |
| 0:08.9 | This podcast is on the day that fall camp begins for the Michigan football team. We'll |
| 0:15.0 | break down the key storylines among the things we'll discuss. Well, we'll kind of go around, |
| 0:25.4 | around the starting 22, take a peek at like what some of the key storylines are. |
| 0:27.0 | We'll also talk about some. |
| 0:30.1 | We'll each pick one position battle we're watching pretty closely. |
| 0:36.5 | We'll each pick one freshman that we think could be a surprise player. |
| 0:42.3 | So we'll start looking at Michigan's defense before we get to the freshman in the position battles. This has got to be the biggest storyline of |
| 0:47.2 | Fall Camp for Michigan is the redemption of Michigan's front seven. I understand that Michigan |
| 0:53.5 | state game looked like it was a lot more |
| 0:56.8 | of a past coverage issue, but over the course of the whole season, it was Michigan's pass rush |
| 1:02.9 | and run-stopping ability that really, I mean, it just tanked their ability to stay in football |
| 1:10.3 | games. |
| 1:14.1 | You know, that's where they had to play from behind all the time. |
| 1:17.7 | That's where they had to maybe operate a little too quickly in the passing game. |
| 1:20.5 | It's also where they really just couldn't get off the field. |
| 1:22.5 | And other teams were able to score a lot of points. |
| 1:29.8 | So to me, we've talked about it, Steve, quite a bit, actually, this, this winter, spring and summer, I suppose. |
| 1:37.1 | But the redemption of the front seven, you and I were talking just before we hit record. |
| 1:39.7 | So Michigan came out with their new updated weights today. |
| 1:42.9 | Up front, pretty much everyone gained weight. I think Chris Hinton's up seven pounds. |
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