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Michigan DE Mike Morris Joins the Snapback Sports Podcast 2023 NFL Draft Series

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🗓️ 26 April 2023

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Next up in our Draft Series slate is Michigan Defensive End Mike Morris, overall a great interview Mike is a genuinely funny and personable guy with lots of hate for OSU... and oh yeah he's pretty good at football too.

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0:00.0

What's up fam welcome back to the NFL draft series we've got a special guest. He is a defensive

0:06.4

lineman from the University of Michigan. It is Mike Morris. Mike how is it down there in sunny Florida?

0:14.2

Oh man it's so much better than Cole Michigan. It's so much better.

0:19.2

So I grew up in Baltimore and then I went to school in Texas and I pretty much swore that I wouldn't

0:24.9

go back to the cold. I am in New York so we get some cold but how do you go from Florida

0:29.9

all the way up to Michigan? It was hard. It was hard. It was man a bunch of the guys for me and a bunch

0:36.2

of guys down south like DJ Turner. Like Chris Hinton. We were all like freezing daily and it was bad.

0:45.3

It was bad but you just got to just stay warm. Bundle up. Bundle up. Do you think your blood

0:51.5

adjusted at any point? Do you think you're built for the cold? No warm weather. I mean there

0:56.1

was nice days. Like when it's like 50 outside that's beautiful. 60s are beautiful. But when it gets

1:01.8

down to like 30, 20, 10 I'm inside. I'm not going outside. I feel you well I have to ask you

1:11.6

your your pops went to Florida state. You could have stayed in Florida in the warm weather.

1:17.1

How did you make that decision to go up to Michigan? So I was actually committed to Florida state.

1:24.0

committed to Florida state and then a gimbal fish at left. So a new coach of staff. I just

1:30.8

kind of opened up my recruitment. Came down to came down there either actually really is like I was

1:37.9

in Florida state like fan growing up too. So Florida was out of the question and Miami was too close

1:44.1

to home. So I wasn't standing for it. So I just had to leave. So I came out of Tennessee and

1:50.2

Michigan. I prayed over it and I feel like God led me to University of Michigan which one of the

1:55.2

best is never made. There you go. I love that. All right and then I would agree because you were

2:02.4

this year's Big 10 defensive lineman of the year. What was that like being on a absolutely stack

2:08.0

squad. I've gone through your Twitter feed. You're constantly promoting you know some of your

2:13.5

X teammates but you fell into that role this year and you you proved yourself. So what's that

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