Some more...
From Pep Hamilton:
"Maurice Hurst -- there has been several occasions where we've been in the shotgun and right at the point where the ball was snapped, he could've been back there in the quarterback's lap and received the ball himself. His get-off is amazing."
"Chase Winovich -- we threw a shallow cross to one of our receivers (Tuesday) in a team drill and the receiver, he stiff-armed a safety or a linebacker and cut across the field and was right at the point where he was going to take off down the sideline. Then Chase Winovich, who was on the opposite side of the formation, rushed up field in an attempt to sack the quarterback, saw the ball thrown and then made the tackle 25 yards downfield. It's been fun to watch the layers of talent we have on this football team. We have some guys that are exceptional players that may have an opportunity to play Sunday football. They have a lot of work to do and we still have a lot of football to be played here at the University of Michigan." (Editor’s Note: we’ll have much more exciting dish on Winovich in an upcoming edition of Inside the Sub).
From Rogan:
"I've just seen a lot of really great things out of Bryan Mone. I've seen power, I've seen quickness, and I've seen speed. I think I have seen what Michigan fans had hoped to see for a couple of years now. There's a lot of optimism about him on the defense." (Editor’s note: Remember when Harbaugh and company assumed the reins of the program they ranked the roster in order and according to Harbaugh himself, Mone was ranked #3 on the list. When you look back at how many players from that team were just drafted, it further explains the optimism.)
"Khaleke Hudson is a great downhill player. He is similar to Jabrill Peppers in the defensive component. He might not be the return man or he might not be as twitchy maybe but, man, is he strong and he's fast. You saw all last year he was an impact player on the special teams. There was a play where he came up late as a blitzer, timed up the snap count and the tackle was slow getting there and Khaleke just blew right by him. Seeing him in a blitzing role, a VIPER role, I think is going to be good for us and for our defense this year."
"On offense, I ran into Oliver Martin because I missed most of practice (Tuesday). I had stuff going on, but I saw him at the end and I asked how was practice? (He said), 'it was good.' I said, 'yeah? Pretty good?' He said, 'yeah... it was probably my best one yet.' Okay, so I don't think anything of it. I go in to the building and I have multiple coaches come out and tell me, 'oh, you have to see this play... Oliver Martin put together a sequence of going up and over the back of a defender and snatching the ball away, beating a defender on a nine, and then juking a guy. So there was a lot of good stuff. You have to temper that because we have to put him in the position to be successful. Sometimes you have to tell him, 'hey, where do you line up?' It's a brand-new offense for him, we're not in Iowa anymore. (Laughter)."
"Then I saw a great post route thrown to Tarik Black. We were inside of Glick maybe four or days ago, I think it was Wilton who threw it down the middle to Tarik's outstretched fingers. I mean, it was a sign of things to come, perhaps. It was a beautiful catch, a beautiful throw, and well executed."
“I think it was two days ago, I saw John O'Korn overthrew a corner route to Sean McKeon, just barely. (O'Korn) was upset about it and got an opportunity to make up for it against tighter coverage and an even tighter corner route at the back of the end zone in a red zone period and was able to make a beautiful throw to and (McKeon) made the catch. (O'Korn) was fired up, Sean McKeon was fired up."
“So those are some bigtime plays that caught my eye like, wow, those are the things you like to see. The big play was maybe a little absent from our offense last year. You felt like it was numbing repetition of three and five-yard gains and the occasional big catch, but not maybe the big catch and run, or the home run. So, we would like to be the beneficiary of some of those this year and help our defense out a little bit that way."
