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The Valenti Show

How Do You Want Bryce Underwood Handled By Michigan?

The Valenti Show

Audacy

Sports

4.31.2K Ratings

🗓️ 9 September 2025

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Mike and Rico debate what Michigan football should do with freshman QB Bryce Underwood.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Three o'clock hour here.

0:02.8

We've been talking about the Lions.

0:05.8

If you missed any of the talk, you can use the Odyssey Rewind.

0:10.0

A little bit about basically Dan Campbell coming out, saying, to paraphrase,

0:15.2

hey, a lot of guys need to improve on their one-on-ones.

0:19.0

You heard in Jeremy's update, Hutz was getting

0:21.5

double-teamed. And it gets to the point where, at least for me, you know, you don't get to be

0:28.9

that guy. You don't get to be him, as the kids say, and then complain about double teams.

0:35.1

So we're talking about that. And we're also going to get to some Michigan talk as well. Let's get to this hour. You want to get, well, let's do Michigan and Michigan State. But why don't we just do it? Let's get into the Bryce Underwood thing. Because, boy, I feel like we got to do all these qualifiers and PSAs. I'm letting Bryce Underwood write his own story.

0:58.3

Now, that means when you play nobody, I'm not going to really take stock in it.

1:02.9

And when you go on the road and you largely fall on your face, I'm also not going to rip him.

1:04.3

I'm not.

1:10.7

But what I'm not going to do is what I'm already seeing some of these propagandists do in the national media. I'm not going to glaze him either. We're not going to sit here and talk about who's the best player on the field for Michigan. No, he wasn't. And in fact, the game plan was suggestive of a coaching staff that doesn't feel like he's ready to play. Now, you can go down that road of, well,'d you pay him 15 million dollars because you have to

1:28.8

because if you can get the number one recruit in the class and a guy that a lot of people think

1:33.6

very highly of you get him now here's the problem when you get that player i think part of what

1:39.4

you should do is sit the player that's no no No, no, now, okay.

1:44.7

So we're not going to do that.

1:46.1

Well, then the next thing you're going to do is you probably got to throw them into the fire.

1:50.0

Why?

1:50.7

Because every struggle today will be progress tomorrow.

1:54.5

Exactly.

1:55.2

Now, if Sharon and Company are going to run that happy horse bleep where it's run run, run pass, run pass, run pass.

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