In the Trenches 220 - Mazi Smith & Andy Johnson
MGoBlue Podcasts with Jon Jansen
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4.8 • 754 Ratings
🗓️ 20 October 2021
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
On this week's "Seven from 77," Jon discusses his early thoughts on Northwestern (8:00) and the big storylines across the Big Ten and the Top 25 (13:00). Then, we share a pair of great interviews with you. First, defensive lineman Mazi Smith stops by to discuss his improvement throughout the season (24:15), the ways he utilized the bye week (26:45), and his mentality on the field and in the locker room (29:45). We wrap up the show by learning about the George Jewett Trophy with its creator, U-M alum Andy Johnson. He talks about the honor of crafting this trophy (35:30), the process of finishing the trophy within a tight timeline (40:00), and the delivery process before Saturday's game (48:30).
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| 0:00.0 | Well, Michigan is coming off their by-week improvement week, as Coach Harbaugh likes to call it. |
| 0:05.7 | We'll get a chance to find out how much improvement as we start the second half of this season. |
| 0:11.4 | On today's podcast, we've got defensive tackle, Mazzis Smith, third-year man, first-year starter, excited to talk to him, |
| 0:19.0 | and a special guest, Andy Johnson, who was the |
| 0:22.5 | creator of the George Jewett Trophy that will be on display this weekend, and it will find a |
| 0:29.2 | new home. Hopefully it stays right here in Ann Arbor. A trophy game between Michigan, |
| 0:34.8 | Northwestern. We'll get into all of that later in the podcast here on In the Trenches. |
| 0:39.5 | Let's go In the Trenches with John Jansen. |
| 0:42.6 | The former Wolverines captain in Michigan Sports Hall of Famer |
| 0:45.4 | will take you inside the locker room with players and coaches. |
| 0:48.9 | To me it's like a new season. |
| 0:50.7 | You know, the first half went well. |
| 0:52.4 | We were perfect. |
| 0:55.8 | You know, we had some plays on defense that we got to get fixed. But now it's like, oh, we reset. We hit the reset button. |
| 1:01.1 | So now we got to come back with the focus that we had in week one. |
| 1:03.8 | Once again, here's John Jansen. Welcome back, friends. And as I always like to do when we start |
| 1:10.6 | off, I want to let you know what's going on on our family of podcast. That's MGo Blue Podcast. You can search it wherever you get your podcast. Make sure you subscribe so you get the latest edition of Conquering Heroes in the Trenches. Defend the Block, anything you want about Michigan Michigan athletics, you can find it right there. |
| 1:29.3 | Monday night's radio replay of Inside Michigan football is available. Tuesday, Defend the |
| 1:35.2 | Block with reactions from Media Day, as well as Dylan Burkart of U of M Hoops. And still to come this |
| 1:42.4 | week, tomorrow, Conquering Heroes, |
| 1:47.1 | two more Hall of Honor inductees, |
| 1:52.6 | Sarah Kane of Women's Gymnastics and Trip Wellborn of Michigan football. |
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