Michigan defensive breakdown with Vance Bedford (week 8) - MSU recap; Purdue preview
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🗓️ 29 October 2025
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
In this week's episode, Vance Bedford and Sam Webb discussed Michigan's defensive performance in its 31-20 victory over Michigan State, and previewed the upcoming game against Purdue. Bedford praised the defensive line, giving defensive ends an A- and defensive tackles a B-. He also highlighted Jimmy Rolder's standout game and Jyaire Hill's strong performance at corner. He the warned the secondary about unexploited holes and missed assignments on the backend. He also discussed Michigan's blitz rate, which has been dramatically reduced from one of the highest in the country, to seemingly one of the lowest the last two weeks. Bedford advised that Michigan is going to have a higher rate down the stretch - around 20%. He also predicted five sacks against Purdue in a blowout victory.
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| 0:00.0 | And we are back, folks, with another edition of the Michigan football breakdown, focused on the defense with that man. |
| 0:08.9 | They call Vance. |
| 0:11.2 | Bedford, you might as well call him unfiltered. |
| 0:13.9 | You might as well call him, I don't give a damn. |
| 0:16.0 | He always say, hey, they can't do nothing to me. |
| 0:19.1 | I'm retired. |
| 0:20.4 | Tell him to come look. Can't come to me. I'm retired. Tell him to come look. |
| 0:21.3 | Come find me. I'm in Colorado. Come looking for me. I ain't hard to find. They can't do nothing to me. They can't do nothing to me. Ain't that how I go, man. That's how I go. I'm sitting in the basement right now with my fireplace on. It's too cool to be outside. So you know what? As you say, I don't get two sense about what they think, say, or do. You got to love it. You got to love it. That's called, hey, this car, I'm free. Free to say what the hell I want to say. And that's why you always get a straight note chase, and you get the real from vans all the time and that's what |
| 0:56.3 | they love about you vance and so you've been giving it to us real about these spartans all year long |
| 1:04.1 | and you told us fans they stick that's what i told. And they did. |
| 1:11.6 | They were awful. |
| 1:12.4 | That's to be for real. |
| 1:16.8 | Everybody's talking about, you had me talking about the quarterback and receiver. |
| 1:20.2 | That quarterback was absolutely terrible. |
| 1:23.6 | He couldn't hit the side of a barn one out of ten times. |
| 1:24.1 | Me was awful. Come on, Sam. |
| 1:25.0 | What were we talking about? |
| 1:26.1 | He had guys open some times, but we had three guys. I mean, did he have Ray Charles glasses on? I mean, I'm like, what is he doing? What? Why would he throw it there? Don't give me stuff. Don't give me stuff. Oh, man, man, they got his head early. They got his head early. |
| 1:50.8 | I admit, I thought he was going to put up some numbers, you know, because he, dual threat guy, you know, he did some, he did some damage in last year's game. |
| 1:56.0 | So I was expecting to see that. |
| 1:57.6 | And that was a better defense last year that Michigan had. |
| 2:03.1 | And so I was like, he going to do something, something to Michigan this year. |
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