Things discussed:

• Buying: Jalen Mayfield. Not buying: nice things said about the secondary.
• Craig: coaches are oddly upbeat.
• Pressuring Sam to talk about Runyan, he says if you've got a guy you feel confident in you can sit a veteran with a ding, with Steuber out you just go ahead and play him.
• Sam: Buying Brad Hawkins's coverage ability because the players are saying it. Specifically he's saying it's an improvement from Kinnel in coverage.
• That'll be good because the more you can play man behind the LBs, the more you can send them.
• Lavert won't get targeted, we'll see how Gray goes.
• The Mayfield/Stueber battle when it was frozen in time.
• MTSU: 260-pound defensive tackles, 6'2" offensive tackles, no QB, Scott Shafer and his blitzball LBs.
• Brian can't imagine a world without a fullback. Please give us a 3rd and 1 with the Bens in the backfield.
• RPOs and you. No such thing as a decoy route in this offense.
• Around the country: Herbert.

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

Segment two is here. Segment three is here.

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