Spring game preview: Michigan storylines, positions and players to watch in Maize vs. Blue scrimmage
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🗓️ 19 April 2024
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Zach Shaw and Steve Lorenz preview the Michigan football team’s spring game, looking at the quarterback battle, other storylines and other players they’ll be watching closely on Saturday.
They open with a lengthy discussion about Michigan’s quarterback battle — far and away the most significant part of Saturday’s event. They discuss if and how the battle has changed this spring, why they remain a little skeptical of the room as a whole, and what they want to see from players on Saturday. They also touch on the transfer portal’s impact on the room, and where they stand on the debate over adding a quarterback in the portal.
In the second half of the episode, they look at the other storylines to watch in the game. They look at the changing of the guard in the skill position roles, and why they aren’t as concerned about the offensive line as the numbers would suggest. They then look at the defense, looking at roles to fill in the secondary, depth to be found up front and other players and positions to watch.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everybody. Welcome to the Wolverine 24-7 podcast, your audio source for all things, Michigan football, basketball, and recruiting. |
| 0:06.5 | I'm your host, Zach Shaw. Steve Lorenz here with me. We are previewing Michigan's 2024 spring game. |
| 0:13.0 | It's going to be a lot of newness to this game. It will, of course, be on Saturday at noon, on Fox. I believe that's the first time it's been on Fox. |
| 0:22.3 | Them and Ohio State both got put on national television. |
| 0:27.6 | It shows kind of the growth of college football, really. |
| 0:31.1 | I mean, I remember there were times where this thing wasn't even on TV when I was a kid or whatever. |
| 0:36.0 | And now it's on national TV, a spring game. |
| 0:39.4 | But yeah, Mays versus Blue format sounds like it's going to be pretty similar to what it was |
| 0:43.9 | under Jim Harbaugh, but there's a new head coach. |
| 0:45.8 | There's two new coordinators. |
| 0:47.7 | I, by my count, seven new assistant coaches. |
| 0:50.6 | And of course, Michigan has 18 of its 20 2023 starters off to the NFL. |
| 0:56.9 | We'll see if they hear their names called or where they hear their names called next week. |
| 1:01.5 | But yeah, this team's going to have a lot of new faces or a lot of new guys playing in new starting roles or new to the two deep. |
| 1:08.9 | So we'll discuss some of the big storylines, both on offense and defense. |
| 1:13.0 | We'll circle a couple players that we're watching closely. |
| 1:16.9 | But Steve, we were kind of joking about it before we hit record. |
| 1:19.9 | You can't talk about the spring game for more than 10 seconds without going to the |
| 1:26.3 | quarterback position. |
| 1:27.5 | Michigan losing J.J. McCarthy. and has, I mean, we'll see what it looks like on Saturday, |
| 1:32.9 | but at the beginning of spring, they said it would be a five-man competition. |
| 1:37.7 | You've got Alex Orgy, Jaden Dengal, Davis Warren, Jack Tuttle, and Jane Davis. |
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