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Michigan offensive breakdown with Al Borges (Week 8) - MSU & talking sign-gate

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🗓️ 27 October 2023

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Former Michigan offensive coordinator Al Borges and TMI's Sam Webb assess Michigan's offensive showing in its 49-0 victory over Michigan State and discuss the sign stealing allegations levied against the program.

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0:00.0

And welcome folks to another edition of the Michigan Football Breakdown,

0:06.2

focused on the offense with Al Borges, and focused on SignGate as well.

0:12.5

We're going to venture a little outside the normal paradigm for shows, right?

0:18.1

We will talk Michigan offense as well, but current events demand that we

0:23.7

address some of this talk about sign stealing. And what is it? How does it really impact a team?

0:33.0

To what extent is it utilized? How prevalent is it in college football we have a long time i won't say

0:40.8

how many years out for just i'll just say long time play caller how about that yeah had had people

0:47.2

try and steal the signs for 30 something years okay so i i know that i know how that works okay yeah yeah

0:53.9

and so you know there's a lot, I think, of representation in the media about what it entails and how impactful it is.

1:03.2

And so we'll get from you, a guy who's been in the arena.

1:06.6

And again, I'll give you my take on it.

1:09.3

Give you what I have, the latest that I found out on it as well.

1:12.7

And we'll get into all of that on this breakdown.

1:15.7

If you have questions for Albor just we get to that toward the end of the episode,

1:20.2

I imagine a lot of those might be covered in the preamble here as we talk about sign stealing and whatnot as well.

1:27.4

So we're going to mix and mail topics.

1:29.6

Yes, we're talking Michigan State, but we are talking sign gate too. Michigan State and sign gate.

1:36.5

I don't know that those two are necessarily tied because Michigan didn't need signs to beat Michigan State.

1:42.9

So, Al, first of all, you're looking awful gorgeous over there today.

1:46.7

Well, thanks, Sam.

1:47.6

You know, this is the tamest I've ever seen you on a Michigan State Week.

1:52.8

I mean, you're almost sedate at times.

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