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Chase Winovich To Return Comment Count

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[Eric Upchurch]

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Winovich was an All Big Ten player to PFF after sharing the team lead in sacks with Khaleke Hudson with 8; he managed to outpace Hudson wsg Minnesota's Offensive Scheme in the TFL department with 18.5. His return means Michigan gets back 9 starters from the #10 S&P+ defense and should again expect to have a top ten—probably top five—defense in 2018.

Comments

mgobaran

January 3rd, 2018 at 10:57 AM ^

All advanced stats say that our safeties are good. They just stick out like a sore thumb amongst the greatness. Plus, offseason progression

Kinnel 2nd year starting Senior > Kinnel 1st year starting Junior

Mettellus 2nd year starting Junior > Mettellus 1st year starting Sophomore

Hudson 2nd year starting Junior > Hudson 1st year starting Sophomore

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ricosuave

January 3rd, 2018 at 10:27 AM ^

And why not? With this defense returning... An average offense will lead to..drum roll..at least 9 wins. (Yes, I saw the schedule.) I feel good about Michigan football. You just wait!

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MGoKevin

January 3rd, 2018 at 10:28 AM ^

"Time to work."  Very similar to what Shea Patterson said in his commitment tweet.

 

2017 sucked.  The Outback Bowl sucked.  But good news is: the lowest point of the Harbaugh Era is behind us!

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Cake Or Death

January 3rd, 2018 at 10:26 PM ^

That I agree with this. I was just as upset as everyone else (and remain so) at the bowl game collapse, but realize the context and that we have a coach who is as competitive as any other human out there. I believe that he will do what it takes with the tools he has.

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MC5-95

January 3rd, 2018 at 10:29 AM ^

Now Coach Harbaugh just needs to turn around our moribund offense, and we may (may) have a shot at a pretty great season next year. It doesn't even need to be an elite offense. I'd accept a mid-tier offense (40-50 nationally) that doesn't turn it over to support our elite defense. 

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smwilliams

January 3rd, 2018 at 10:34 AM ^

This is huge. Vilain, Paye, and Reuben Jones are nice depth pieces right now, but that would be a fairly big hole in a really important position in Brown's defense. 

Honestly, the schedule is tough, but Michigan hasn't lost to a non-MSU (sigh)/OSU (double sigh) team at home in Harbaugh's 3 years and Penn State loses Barkley, Moorhead, and a good amount on D. Wisky will be tough, but it's not like we weren't in that game in Madison this year. 

Ultimately, they'll need to win 2 out of 3 in South Bend, East Lansing, and Columbus to have a shot at the B1G Championship and the CFP. 

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caup

January 3rd, 2018 at 10:34 AM ^

So Don Brown gets nine starters back, which is obviously awesome, but he’s also getting ALL ELEVEN second stringers back, right? Whoa.

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mgobaran

January 3rd, 2018 at 11:03 AM ^

Idk why we would turn down Marshall from a position that needs all the depth it could possibly have, and Watson was really just a small step down from the starters. Great third CB imo. Mone is a starter and Furbush is a perfect 3-3-5 LB. 

I mean, I know numbers are going to be tight. It would suck to lose any of those guys next year. 

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ST3

January 3rd, 2018 at 1:34 PM ^

The sad thing for me is that last month I floated the idea of McKeon moving to FB next season to replace Hill and Poggi. Everyone rejected that idea immediately and I agreed with you all. Fast forward a couple weeks and we lose a bowl game because Peters and McKeon didn't realize he was not a fullback.

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Bigly yuge

January 3rd, 2018 at 10:39 AM ^

Hopefully we can win some sort of championship for Chase. For awhile I was getting annoyed by the whole, “Those who stay will be champions” line. It’s been more like, “those who stay will not win anything of note”. Let’s put an end to that guys.

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evenyoubrutus

January 3rd, 2018 at 10:40 AM ^

Crazy to think how many returning starters we have next year, and we still only have three seniors on defense (and mone is basically half a starter). Here's hoping guys like Hill, Long and Bush make the same decision as Chase heading into 2019 (I won't even put my hopes on Gary).

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CFraser

January 3rd, 2018 at 11:04 AM ^

Call me crazy but I can see convincing Gary to stay for his 4th year. His production has been less than Chase - I realize he’s being doubled and schemes against but there is a chance his draft stock is lower 1st round and if he stays and lights it up he could move to a top 5 pick. I can dream. If we can hold onto Hinton that makes losing Gary a little less painful.

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Night_King

January 3rd, 2018 at 11:31 AM ^

Gary is probably a lock for top 10 pick even if he had a very similar year next season to this year, which he won't. He will go fucking off next year and go top 5 in the draft, as he should. 

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stephenrjking

January 3rd, 2018 at 10:45 AM ^

Huge.

Thought he was gone. With Hurst graduating getting him back is gigantic. 

The DL cliff is going to be pretty significant after 2018 (Gary is almost a sure thing to leave, of course) so there's a lot of pressure on this coming season. The defense should be spectacular.

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wahooverine

January 3rd, 2018 at 10:45 AM ^

Brown will do some evil things next year. Wouldn't surprise to see Gary slide inside on passing downs to get an extra DE on the field such as Villain or use Winovich in a standup "heavy Furbush" role.

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SlickNick

January 3rd, 2018 at 10:48 AM ^

Huge...this should be a top 5 defense next year. I'm really looking forward to see what young guys make a push for playing time as well.  Winovich, Mone, Solomon, Gary starters....with Villain/Paye, Dwumfour, Jeter/Marshall, Kemp as a rotation sounds good to me! 

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