ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Going into the Michigan football vs. Ohio State game, the big question was how was defensive coordinator Jesse Minter going to slow down Marvin Harrison Jr., the enigmatic wideout for the Buckeyes.
As Jim Harbaugh said before the game, his team wasn’t going to be able to stop him, and that ended up holding true. Harrison managed five catches on nine targets for 118 yards and a touchdown. After the game, Harrison noted that he’s never seen the type of coverage that Minter, the former secondary coach with the Baltimore Ravens, threw at him until The Game.
“I don’t know if I’ve gotten doubled more in a game than today,” Harrison said. “The safety help they had over top or inside — I’ve never seen anything like it until today. The bracket coverage in the red zone that we got, we got doubled a lot more today than I ever have before.”
On Wednesday, Minter shared more of the philosophy that the maize and blue had in limiting Harrison, noting that a big part of the defensive game plan was to slow down who he looked at as one of the best wide receiver prospects in a generation.
“Quite a bit. I mean, he’s probably one of the best college receivers in the last 15-20 years, one of the best NFL draft prospects at that position in a long time,” Minter said. “Great skill set, ability to move around. So I think there’s a lot of answers you got to have because they can line him up in so many different spots. And then we certainly trust our guys as well. So there’s times where Will (Johnson) was on a one-on-one, there was times where Mikey was on a one-on-one. But we certainly wanted to really try to limit his ability to wreck the game.
“When I go back and watch, them and Penn State was kind of an evenly matched game, and he was the difference in the game for their offense. And while…
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Publish date : 2023-11-29 19:11:00
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