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MGoBlue Podcasts with Jon Jansen

In the Trenches 212 - Rutgers Recap

MGoBlue Podcasts with Jon Jansen

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Football, Ncaa, College, Wolverines, Michigan, Jon Jansen, Sports

4.8754 Ratings

🗓️ 26 September 2021

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Behind some big plays from their defense down the stretch, the Wolverines knocked off Rutgers 20-13 in the Big Ten opener on Saturday. Jon and Brian break down the victory before we share postgame interviews with Head Coach Jim Harbaugh (6:45), David Ojabo (10:00), Nikhai Hill-Green (11:30), Junior Colson (14:30), and Chris Hinton (17:15). We conclude with the postgame thoughts of Jim Brandstatter and Dan Dierdorf, followed by Jon's early thoughts on next weekend's trip to Wisconsin.

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0:00.0

Michigan escapes with a win. They go 4-0, but with a lot to work on Michigan 20, Rutgers 13.

0:07.5

Stay tuned because we're going to bring you player sound from Jim Harbaugh,

0:11.2

and Brian Bush and I are going to continue to break down the rest of this game,

0:14.8

and a look ahead to the Wisconsin Badgers here on In the Trenches.

0:18.8

Let's go in the trenches with John Jansen.

0:21.6

The former Wolverines captain in Michigan Sports Hall of Famer

0:24.6

will take you inside the locker room with players and coaches.

0:27.6

It wasn't pretty, but I'm proud of him for finding a way

0:31.6

and getting it done and that'll be good for us.

0:34.6

We're going to look back on and say a lot of things we could have done better.

0:39.5

But thank goodness for Red Zone defense. Once again, here's John Jansen.

0:44.7

All right, we're going to break this down even more. To do it, I want to bring in Mr. Brian Bush.

0:50.3

Wow, this got very interesting in the final moments.

0:57.7

Let's talk about the good of the defense, bending but not breaking.

1:04.0

The final three drives for Rutgers, missed field goal, turnover on downs, and then the fumble. Yeah, they were very fortunate, obviously, on that missed field goal because if he makes it,

1:08.5

it changes the complexion of the rest of the game, as well as

1:13.5

how you use your timeouts, everything that goes into it. But he did miss it. You get a turnover on

1:18.7

downs, and that was an unbelievable stop by Nikai Hill Green, being able to step up in there

1:24.1

and make that play on fourth down, not give any ground. And then what we saw from

1:29.4

David O'Jabo to be able to get in the backfield, you know, and do the strip sack, that's obviously

1:34.0

a monster play in that game. But it's really going to come down to, as Michigan continues to

1:40.5

move forward, the read option was very tough for Michigan to defend.

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