UMayhem

February 8th, 2024 at 3:47 PM ^

Glad to hear his coaching career is taking off.  One of my favorite players.  When Michigan used to do Youth Day, he was the player who seemed to most enjoy engaging with the kids (Devin Gardner was another).  Still have a picture of him and my young kids proudly displayed in our home.

FrankMurphy

February 8th, 2024 at 4:42 PM ^

One of my all-time favorite Wolverines. Gotta love a guy who had limited God-given athletic talent and a non-existent recruiting profile but somehow scratched and clawed his way onto the team, earned a scholarship, earned a role as a starting safety, became the team's leading tackler, graduated, went undrafted, signed a UDFA deal, made an active roster, saw game time, and recorded NFL stats (including sacks).

What an incredible journey.

Perkis-Size Me

February 8th, 2024 at 5:30 PM ^

I still remember watching him, in the 2011 season opener against Western Michigan, having that absolutely thunderous sack on Western’s QB. A guy who was getting talked up as a potential NFL QB, and I’m amazed Kovacs didn’t completely de-cleat him. 

dragonchild

February 8th, 2024 at 6:15 PM ^

I mean, it was fun to see but the playcall got him through unblocked. The sack was just a form tackle.

What amazed me about Kovacs is he had a seemingly infinite arsenal of tackles and always picked the right one. He’d swipe at a guy’s ankle with his hand (!) right when he planted for a TFL, stick his helmet into the ball for a forced fumble, or “block” and drive a guy OOB just short of the sticks. His first NFL tackle looked like a jujitsu move.

He wasn’t fast, but not everyone could tackle like he did.

jhayes1189

February 8th, 2024 at 7:58 PM ^

If he were to come back to Michigan as a coach, would Brian refer to him as “His Binky” or “Coach Binky”?

 

Maybe my all time favorite Brianism 

LabattsBleu

February 8th, 2024 at 9:53 PM ^

Great to see Kovacs still working hard in football.

was a great player for Michigan and he must be doing alright with the Bengals for them to block the Chargers from interviewing him and then promoting him themselves.