Is there such thing as a trap game for Michigan football in 2025?
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🗓️ 18 November 2025
⏱️ 62 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, friends, Monday, November 17th here on the Wolverine.com podcast, Anthony Broome, |
| 0:05.2 | here with Clayton Safie and Chris Ballas, as we are every Monday night at 6 p.m. |
| 0:11.2 | It's the most wonderful time of the year right now, college football, rounding into the final few weeks of the regular season. |
| 0:19.7 | College basketball, Michigan is 3.0. We'll talk about them a little bit later a lot to discuss today Michigan |
| 0:26.0 | Eaks one out at Northwestern we'll put a bow on that one for a more spoke to the media today |
| 0:31.0 | ahead of Maryland week with some injury updates and just thoughts on trap games and all kinds of topics. Don't call it a trap game. That's, we were instructed not to. Borderline finger wag. Don't do it. Don't do it. We're going to talk about it. Is it a trap game? Is it like more of a trap game since they're like not calling it a trap game? I feel you should like come out and be like, yeah, this can embrace the trap. Embrace the trap. Exactly. My thing would be, is it a trap game if you've been juggling chainsaws while like balancing on a high wire act the entire year? It's fair too. Exactly. Every team, when you're not that much better than every team on your schedule, or least hasn't played out that way where you are going toe to toe with the produce and the |
| 1:13.9 | northwesterns of the world you can't take anybody for granted and people can get pissed off |
| 1:17.7 | about us criticizing after a win uh that game never should have come down to what it did on |
| 1:23.0 | Saturday let's be honest you can't have five turnovers in a football game. That's bad football. |
| 1:28.0 | Apparently you can. Yeah, you can. But at the same time, there were some good things, too, and we'll talk about that as well. So we're going to break it down, and we're going to do it. We're going to be right down the middle here, folks. What I'll say, too, is that I feel like over the last five years in particular, there have been so many like, oh, well, you can't do that. |
| 1:45.3 | Like you can't beat Ohio State without a passing game. |
| 1:47.6 | Oh, you can't do that. |
| 1:45.3 | Like you can't beat Ohio State without a passing game. |
| 1:47.6 | Oh, you can't do this without your sign stealer. |
| 1:51.1 | Oh, you can't beat Ohio State without a quarterback or the forward pass as a threat at all. |
| 1:55.8 | And they just keep doing things that we say you can't do. |
| 2:00.0 | So it's weird to put, |
| 2:02.4 | it's weird to say that nothing is off limits anymore. |
| 2:05.5 | But we will, of course, talk about this weekend's close call |
| 2:08.8 | at the friendly confines of Wrigley Field. |
| 2:12.0 | We will discuss the Maryland game coming up. |
| 2:14.7 | Oh, Monday means both Dusty May and Sherom more speak to the media. So we'll chat some takeaways from both of those media sessions. And then like we do every week, we will take your questions at the end of the show. And reminder, if you want to use the super chat function, that will not only move you to the front of the line in the Q&A, moves you to the front of the line in terms of what we discuss on the show. So be sure to use that if there's something pressing that you want |
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