Defensive Scheme for Michigan

I hope our coaches really emphasize how important it is for the d linemen to get their hands up. If they are going to play more of a containment style there, they really need to make themselves useful and get their hands up. I don't think our guys have been great about this in the past but they did get their hands on a few against NW and Denard is a similar sized guy as Colter. It happened last year when Terrence Moore intercepted that screen. I hope we see similar things this year.

 
Our scheme hardly changed against Northwestern. They had a horrible game plan and hardly played Kolter at QB..He was never given the chance to get into any kind of rhythm. Siemian has O.K. mobility, but he is more of the drop back passer that our defense can usually stop. We will have to change our scheme completely to stop Dennard. Bring pressure from every direction or spy virtually every play.
Not sure where our scheme hardly changed. We played players more that we didn't before, and we pressed their WR's to prevent the run, and shut them down. Sure, we still ran a nickle defense, but the scheme and pressure was different. Something we did not do in our previous games. I would expect us to do the same thing for Michigan. Robinson doesn't have an arm, and I see us taking advantage of it, and if he does go through the air, I see our DB's taking advantage of that as well. This game is going to come down to turnovers, whoever converts the most and has the least, will win. Great thing, Michigan is known for turnovers as well.

DRob has very good arm strength, his issue is throwing off his back foot and that hampers his accuracy.
I disagree, I don't think he has a very good arm, nor any accuracy. He is a stellar athlete, but he is not dangerous throwing the ball 20+ yards, and is quite sloppy 15+. He is more of an accurate passer +15 yards, but that is also where he doesn't have field vision for the defense and gets picked off.

 
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