Things discussed:

• McNamara/McCarthy situation: Don't expect them both back next year, but this year it's better to have two. Previous situations: guy who did it with Stanford and the 49ers did it best. Best-case scenario: McNamara wins the Heisman, goes first overall, and McCarthy returns to lead us to a natty.
• 1999 Revisionism: The injuries on the OL were a bigger part of that story than the QB competition.
• Colorado State preview: Wolves in sheep's clothing? (Good one, Craig). They were decent last year because they had Trey McBride (first TE off the board) and that team is almost all gone: one DT and one linebacker are the only guys who were 1st team. They even put the inside linebacker Seth thought was their star behind a 195-pound RS freshman walk-on.
• Depth Chart: Clever to name 20 starters per side. Mason Graham: he's doing it against Michigan's OL so it's got to be real. Zak Zinter is going to be awesome.
• Pass rush has to come from the DTs this year. Mullings: if they could spare him from LB (he'll have to start with NHG out) he'd be an RB. Jimmy Rolder? True freshman linebacker is true freshman.
• Purdue/Penn State and Notre Dame/Ohio State.

You can catch the entire episode on Michigan Insider's podcast stream.

Seth and Craig were on early. Part 2 is here. You can watch the video here:

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If this team falls apart it's not because the quarterbacks got mad at each other and threw ketchup on each other's shirts.