Michigan defensive breakdown with Vance Bedford (week 12) - Ohio State recap and the road ahead
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🗓️ 5 December 2025
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
In this week's episode, Vance Bedford and Sam Webb discussed Michigan's defensive performance in its 27-9 loss to Ohio State. Bedford criticizes the defense for failing to stop vertical routes, poor alignment, and ineffective blitzing. He also criticizes the offense for putting excessive pressure on the defense, highlighting the importance of scoring touchdowns instead of field goals, noting that field goals gave Ohio State a chance to come back. Bedford then shifts focus back to the defense, emphasizing the need for better fundamentals, communication, and technique in the secondary and linebacker positions moving forward. He suggests that the defense needs to improve its pass rush, in both talent and technique, to compete at a championship level.
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| 0:00.0 | And here we are, folks. Another edition of the Michigan football breakdown focused on the |
| 0:05.6 | defense with that man. They call Vance Baffert. Man, I normally have a blue light back there, |
| 0:11.2 | Vance. It's so ugly. My light ain't even blue no more. It didn't turn white on me back there. |
| 0:15.5 | They said, we can't eat any blue light, Sam. I said, oh, man, it's about to get ugly up in here, Vance. |
| 0:23.0 | That's how bad it is. They can't even give me a blue light. Brother Vance, I got to start out every show giving the Buckeyes credit. I hate to do it, but that's what you got to do. When you lose, you take it like a man |
| 0:36.5 | hey they told me you |
| 0:38.2 | you you you you you take it like a man. Hey, they told me you, you, you, you, you, you, you, when you, you, you, when you get an ass whipping, you, you take it like, just take it. So get a Buckeye's day credit. They came out. They outplayed them. They outcoached them. They it done vans and so i get a buck eyes they credit |
| 0:55.9 | this year after four years of getting that ass whoop they came out and whips them ass so i give them |
| 1:02.0 | their credit you have to i mean they did a tremendous job in every phase of the game offense |
| 1:08.1 | defense and special teams i, they flat dominated that |
| 1:12.4 | game and you got to give them credit for it. |
| 1:14.6 | I mean, we couldn't go out to field on defense and our offense couldn't stay on the field. |
| 1:18.7 | And then we're messing around and we don't punt the ball very well at times. |
| 1:22.8 | But my daddy said it's a long time ago. |
| 1:25.7 | When you kick field goals, you give another team a chance to come back and beat you because they're feeling good about themselves. |
| 1:33.9 | They took four points off the board. |
| 1:36.1 | So we scored nine points instead of 21 points. |
| 1:39.9 | Just imagine we scored touchdown instead of field goals. |
| 1:43.1 | Outcome of that game could have been different. |
| 1:45.0 | It could have gone to the fourth quarter of talk about, |
| 1:47.9 | and the game could have been talking different, but it didn't. |
| 1:50.7 | Field goals kept giving them a chance to one score, |
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