We spent the last few weeks talking about offense.

Now we will transition to defense and we'll start up front with the defensive line and defensive line coach Sean Nuah.

We've got a lot to get to on 7 from 77 as well as 4th and short.

We'll get to all of that on In the Trenches.

Let's go in the trenches with John Jansen.

The former Wolverines captain in Michigan Sports Hall of Famer

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

We're all trying to accomplish the same thing, so I'm excited.

I don't care who we have new or old or whatever it is.

We know what's at stake and we know the mission and what we need to do to make everybody happy.

Once again, here's John Jansen.

Welcome back to In the Trenches. We've got a lot to get to today, but I want to start by touching quickly on basketball.

We'll talk more about it later and fourth and short, but Brian Bush, who's the play-by-play voice for Michigan basketball.

It's been a hell of a run the last couple weeks.

Man, they're playing well, John.

And yeah, we're going to start doing the basketball, the baseball, wrestling, hockey talk a little later in the show.

Got some good feedback on that.

This is a football podcast, but, man, we had Inside Michigan Basketball, the radio show on

Monday night at the Blue Lepricon, 2-0 for the men, 2-0 for the women, including a win at

Michigan State. Oh, peeking at the right time, my man. It's been really fun.

Juan Howard's got to be in a good mood at this time of the year.

So my favorite moment from the game Saturday, it was the John Teske dunk late in the

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