Michigan football review-preview part 2: Defense/ST
The Michigan Insider
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4.6 • 855 Ratings
🗓️ 29 January 2020
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Continuing with part 2 of our review-preview series, we break down what happened, what’s next and more with the Michigan football team’s defensive line, linebackers, cornerbacks, safeties and special teams units.
First, we look at Michigan’s defensive line, and weigh the strengths of the Wolverines’ defensive ends vs. some issues with Michigan’s defensive interior and depth. We also look at what the unit will look like next season with more experience, and why the second- and third-year “project” players are the key to the line making the next step.
We then look at linebacker, and dissect what was overall a strong year from an experienced group. We look at why big plays continued to be a problem, and what the position group looks like with three departing starters next season.Â
We next break down Michigan’s cornerbacks and safeties, following our same formula as the other groups. We offer grades, what worked, what didn’t work, decide if the arrow is pointing up, down or even and break down out big key offseason question. We close by doing the same for special teams.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everybody. |
| 0:00.6 | Welcome to the Wolverine 24-7 podcast, your audio source for all things. |
| 0:03.5 | Michigan football, basketball, and recruiting. |
| 0:05.4 | I'm your host, Zach Shaw. |
| 0:06.3 | Steve Lorenz here with me, and we are continuing our series from last week when we broke down the offense preview, |
| 0:16.6 | or review, however you want to phrase it. |
| 0:19.8 | It's the offseason. |
| 0:20.7 | We're bridging the gap |
| 0:21.4 | between the 2019 season and the 2020 season looking at five position groups on each side of the |
| 0:27.0 | ball and we're looking at grades what worked what didn't work is the arrow pointing up or down |
| 0:32.1 | and then the big offseason question heading into spring ball and then the summer. |
| 0:38.1 | So we can just jump into it. |
| 0:39.7 | We'll start with defensive line. |
| 0:42.0 | A lot of new faces on the defensive line. |
| 0:44.5 | Obviously, they lost Roshan-Garion. |
| 0:46.0 | They lost Chase Winovich. |
| 0:47.7 | They lost Brian Monet and Lawrence Marshall and Aubrey Solomon. |
| 0:51.3 | We entered the season kind of looking at this group is maybe the one, particularly |
| 0:58.7 | on the inside. I think the hype for Aiden Hutchinson and Quitty Pay proved itself or it was validated. |
| 1:10.2 | But I think the defensive interior, I think we both said actually that I think we had a |
| 1:15.0 | question in August that was Michigan will not win the Big Ten title because, and I think we |
| 1:19.7 | both said defensive interior. |
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