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ACROSS
1 Ford crossover
SUV
5 Fawning flattery
10 Void partner
14 Melt fish
15 Surrounding
glows
16 Pennsylvania city
subject to lake-
effect snow
17 Where to find
37-Across
20 Go hog-wild
21 Gardener’s
transplant
22 Penn of “Harold
& Kumar” films
23 U.N. workers’ gp.
24 Where to find
37-Across
33 Table spreads
34 Ostrich kin
35 “__ rule ... ”
36 Clutter-free
37 Road trip
troubles ... and
what can be
found in 17-, 24-,
43- and 57-
Across
39 Piedmont bubbly
40 Nine-time NHL
All-Star
41 Walk or run
42 Cathedral areas
43 Where to find
37-Across
47 Map line: Abbr.
48 Kendrick Lamar’s
genre
49 Greek vowels
52 Send up
57 Where to find
37-Across
60 Popular jeans
61 “Once Upon a
Time in China”
star
62 Attitude
63 White-tailed
seabird
64 Dutch painter of
“The Drawing
Lesson”
65 Poker buy-in
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1 Abbr. in an
abbreviated list
2 Con
3 Pest you might
slap
4 British peer
5 South Pacific
islander
6 Oaty breakfast
mix
7 Obama
Education
secretary
Duncan
8 Traitor
9 [Yawn]
10 Cell using a
synapse
11 Bear in the sky
12 Willingly
13 For fear that
18 Tips for dealers
19 Checks figures
intently?
23 Post-op sites
24 Dismissive words
25 Last Olds off the
line
26 Furnish with
more weapons
27 One of four in
Mississippi
28 Under, poetically
29 Clock-setting std.
30 Italian
Renaissance poet
31 Aromatic
compound
32 Jack up
37 Ramadan ritual
38 Fleur-de-__
39 Germane
41 Grate together,
as teeth
42 Mold that’s cold
44 Slide by
45 Big name in
databases
46 Has leftovers,
say
49 Daysail
destination
50 Terminer’s
partner, in law
51 Feds under
Ness
52 Place to build
53 Parks whose
famous bus is in
the Henry Ford
Museum
54 Shah’s former
land
55 Fragrant peel
56 Cato’s “to be”
58 a.m. beverages
59 Fishing aid
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11/02/17
11/02/17
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Defense “getting back to business”
There’s a lot to admire about this
Michigan defense. Just ask Pep
Hamilton.
After all, as Michigan’s passing
game coordinator, there are few out
there who see the unit as much as he
does.
“I find myself, at times, just taking
a break from trying to sort out what
we’re gonna do on the next series,”
Hamilton said, “and just watching
how intense and how physical Don
Brown’s defense is playing.”
Seven times this year, the unit has
warranted Hamilton’s admiration.
The one exception came 12 days
ago, when then-No. 2 Penn State
hung 42 points and 506 yards on the
Wolverines.
For sophomore defensive end
Rashan Gary, it was a bad feeling.
Last Tuesday, he voiced that the
blowout was something worth
going through, something that
could ultimately make this defense
better. But he admitted it hurt
nonetheless, and that a matchup
with Rutgers was a chance to get the
bad taste out of his mouth.
Michigan seized that opportunity,
holding the Scarlet Knights to
195 yards, notching five sacks and
recording 11 tackles for loss. It was,
as defensive coordinator Don Brown
called it, “getting back to business.”
“I’m just gonna say this: The last
two weeks in practice have been
unbelievably good. Period,” Brown
said. “I come off yesterday’s practice,
(and) we can’t go much harder. If we
go much harder, somebody’s gonna
get hurt. And that would be dumb,
that’s on me.
“It’s kind of a sense of urgency.
I don’t think we were fat-catting it
(before Penn State) by any stretch
of the imagination, but it certainly
refocuses your energy and your
enthusiasm and your passion to get
the thing right.”
Against Rutgers, most things
did go right. But there were still
mistakes.
With just under 11 minutes
remaining in the third quarter,
the Scarlet Knights were facing
3rd-and-15 from their own 20-yard
line.
Rutgers quarterback Giovanni
Rescigno called for the snap, and
subsequently whipped a 30-yard
completion to tight end Jerome
Washington. It was well covered
by Noah Furbush, but the senior
linebacker couldn’t manage to turn
his head around and break up the
pass.
Just four plays later, there was
another setback.
Rescigno lined up on 1st-and-10
from
Michigan’s
38-yard
line,
floating a pass to Hunter Hayek on
the left sideline. Junior safety Tyree
Kinnel tracked the Rutgers wide
receiver the entire way, but Hayek
still made a highlight reel play,
pulling off a one-handed catch for a
21-yard gain.
On plays like that, Brown said
he can only credit the opposing
quarterback. And those plays aren’t
cause to dismiss his aggressive,
man-coverage scheme.
As Brown put it himself, zone
coverage is “just not what we do.”
He did qualify that by saying
that Michigan will, at most, line
up in combination zone coverage
— something the Wolverines did
frequently
against
the
Scarlet
Knights.
But he has no interest in allowing
receivers to run free through a zone.
Instead, he stressed that he would
rather teach fundamentals, allow
defensive backs coach Brian Smith
and secondary coach Mike Zordich
to train the Wolverines’ secondary
and implement other coverage
concepts when appropriate.
One play, however, did warrant
Brown’s
attention.
It
just
so
happened to result in one of Rutgers’
two touchdowns.
With just under 11 minutes left
in the second quarter, wide receiver
Janarion Grant took the direct snap
from the Scarlet Knights’ own 35.
He faked the handoff and picked
up a block on the left side of the line
before cutting back to the middle.
From there, he beat every Michigan
defender in a foot race to the end
zone.
“The one play that just irks the
hell out of me was the run play,”
Brown said. “That’s simple. … Guard
pull, wide pull, one of our guys
misses the pull. So obviously that’s
on me. It’s not on him — didn’t run
it enough or something. So you’ve
gotta make sure you get on the pull.
“But still, (we) have a middle
third defender coming down. We
still have a back side that I don’t
think was flying to the rock. We’ve
got to fix that, and that’s what we
talked about, is if you eliminate that
run play right there and one other
play, I mean come on, come on,
that’s pretty good defense.”
Brown isn’t wrong. But the direct
snap was a large reason why the
Wolverines were thrashed in State
College. It came back to bite them
only a week later. And they will
surely see that play in the coming
weeks.
But Michigan’s defensive unit
took that loss personally. If that
is any indication, they will take
Grant’s touchdown personally, too.
Just ask Gary.
“If people think that we need to
prove things to them,” he said last
Tuesday, “they need to watch this
game and every game after that.”
KEVIN SANTO
Managing Sports Editor
MATT VAILLIENCOURT/Daily
Michigan defensive coordinator Don Brown has watched his team play with more intensity and physicality in practice.
Under McCaffrey, scout team
pushes ‘M’ defense forward
There is a long list of Wolverines
who have built the Michigan
football team’s defense into the
fourth-ranked unit in the nation.
But when defensive coordinator
Don Brown was asked Wednesday
about the state of his unit, he sang
the praises of a Wolverine that might
catch people by surprise. That’s
because he doesn’t play defense.
“When we’re going in practice,
not only are we good on defense,”
he said, “Our scout team, without
question, with Dylan McCaffrey at
the helm, they go now.”
The true freshman quarterback
may not have taken the field in
a Michigan uniform yet, but he
wasted no time making his impact
on the team.
According to Brown, the past
two weeks of practice have reached
a new peak of intensity, as the
Wolverines have taken it upon
themselves to continue to improve
on a daily basis. Even though
Michigan has two losses on the
season, Brown claimed that the
expectations for the team haven’t
been reduced.
But in order for the defense to
push itself to compete at a high
level, the scout team has to prepare
for the particular offense of the
upcoming opponent. That is where
McCaffrey has proven to be most
valuable.
“This is a special guy now,”
Brown
said.
“...
From
our
standpoint — to get ready — it’s nice
when you have a scout team that is
committed to the defense.
“…These guys take it seriously,
and they help us get ready to play
on Saturdays. And he spearheads
it.”
Brown noted that he sees
the young quarterback inside
Schembechler Hall “all the time”,
eager to bury his head into the
playbook of the next team the
Wolverines will face.
Leading up to their game against
Minnesota, that preparation has
shown up on the practice field.
“There’s a couple plays yesterday
where he has to re-center the tight
end, re-center the back and then run
this specific scheme,” Brown said. “I
swear it was the quarterback from
Minnesota doing it ‘cause he did it
exactly the same way.
“Our guys got him watching a
little tape there, but then to come
out and actually do it the same way.
… It just gives you a chance.”
Instead of simply going through
the motions and lamenting their
standing on the scout team, those
Wolverines
have
bought
into
the importance of their role in
Michigan’s success. Taking the reins
as the leader of that unit, McCaffrey
has helped them do just that.
“When a guy takes it upon
himself like that, he takes the whole
group with him,” Brown said.
“That gives us a chance to have
a quality practice. And you don’t
realize how important that is until,
at the end of practice, you go, ‘Wow,
that was really a good practice. We
got a lot of work done.’”
Brown isn’t the only coach who
has noticed McCaffrey’s influence
on the scout team. Passing game
coordinator Pep Hamilton noted
how well McCaffrey has been able
to handle the challenge of facing
off against one of the best defensive
units in the country.
“He has really good football
instincts as far as having an
understanding of what the defense
is trying to do to him,” he said.
“And with (Brown’s) defense, it’s
real simple: they’re trying to hit the
quarterback. … But he’s responded
well in the situations that we’ve put
him in.”
On a unit where it would be
easy for him to fly under the radar,
McCaffrey has stood out instead.
Despite entering as the No. 6
quarterback in the nation, the true
freshman knew he wouldn’t have
the opportunity to play on Saturdays
in his first fall in Ann Arbor.
He has done the next best thing:
prepare his teammates to play.
“It’s next door to what you want
on a Saturday,” Brown said. “So in
terms of giving us a chance from a
preparation standpoint, all those
things are in place.”
Michigan set to host Ferris State
Last October, the Michigan
hockey team traveled to Big
Rapids, Mich. for its first road test
of the season against Ferris State.
The Wolverines were outshot
29-16, and only took the lead for
good with four minutes to play,
pulling out a 2-1 victory over the
Bulldogs.
Of course, if it isn’t clear by now,
this is a much different Michigan
team, one coming off an impressive
weekend split at No. 15 Penn State
in which it scored nine goals.
While last season the Wolverines
were a young, inexperienced
squad learning the nuances of
the college game, Michigan (4-2
overall) now possesses a balance
of skilled underclassmen and
veterans eager for redemption.
Against
Ferris
State
(2-5-
1), the Wolverines will try to
maximize this balance and hope
it comes together at the same
time. Michigan’s underclassmen
carried them against Vermont two
weeks ago, recording six of the
Wolverines’ seven goals and seven
of 10 assists. But in State College,
it was the upperclassmen’s turn to
take charge: Michigan was paced
by the line of seniors Dexter Dancs
and Tony Calderone and junior
Cooper Marody, who combined
for six goals and nine assists
against the Nittany Lions.
“We’re gonna need the younger
guys to chip in,” said Michigan
coach Mel Pearson. “They’ve
chipped in a little bit, but we need
a little bit more and we’re going to
ask more of them.”
Whether it’s the underclassmen
or the upperclassmen finding the
net, a balanced attack has been one
of the Wolverines’ strengths so far:
Six of them have scored multiple
goals throughout the season’s first
six games, led by Calderone and
Marody with three apiece.
Meanwhile, perhaps the biggest
story of last weekend was how
Michigan’s defense rebounded
from a shaky performance Friday
night, where it surrendered 54
shots and five goals. On Saturday,
sophomore goaltender Hayden
Lavigne saved 42 of the 44 shots he
faced, and the Wolverines turned
in a tougher, more physical effort,
blocking 29 shots on defense.
The goaltender battle, one of the
biggest storylines for Michigan
before the season, saw a turning
point
this
weekend.
Pearson
originally had hoped to see either
Lavigne
or
sophomore
Jack
LaFontaine
assert
themselves
as Michigan’s No. 1 between the
pipes by this point. But with the
strong performance of both so
far this season — LaFontaine and
Lavigne rank second and third in
the Big Ten in save percentage,
respectively — that doesn’t appear
likely to happen in the near future.
“We rotated them right from day
one and it looks like that’s going to
continue,” Pearson said Saturday.
“I come from a school of being a
one-goalie guy, but we have two
good ones and the competition is
good. They push each other and I
hope it continues, because if they’re
both playing that means they’re
both playing well.”
Whether it’s LaFontaine or
Lavigne, Ferris State will have its
work cut out for it regardless. The
Bulldogs average just 1.5 goals
per game and have converted an
NCAA-low five percent of their
shots in eight games this season.
Forwards
Corey
Mackin
and Mitch Maloney lead Ferris
State with five and four points,
respectively. But goaltender Darren
Smith might be most important if
the Bulldogs are to pull an upset.
In four games this season, he has
allowed an average of 2.2 goals and
posted a .927 save percentage.
A needed area of improvement
for the Wolverines is discipline.
Michigan’s special teams units
were particularly impressive this
weekend, stopping all eight of the
Nittany Lions’ power plays. But
this performance, no matter how
solid, wouldn’t have been needed if
not for the 18 penalty minutes the
Wolverines racked up Saturday,
and they know they must stay on
the ice to sustain their defensive
momentum.
“We’ve got to do better,” Pearson
said Saturday. “To be the least-
penalized team in the conference,
that’s our goal. … Sometimes some
things happen, but we’ve got to be
more disciplined and understand
how to manage that and manage
how they’re calling the game.”
If Michigan is able to take the
lessons it learned last weekend
into this weekend’s contests and
execute to its full potential, it will
be tough for Ferris State to keep
pace.
BETELHEM ASHAME
Managing Sports Editor
KATELYN MULCAHY/Daily
True freshman quarterback Dylan McCaffrey has made an early impression.
JACOB SHAMES
Daily Sports Writer
SAM MOUSIGIAN/Daily
Michigan coach Mel Pearson has challenged his underclassmen to step up.
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