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Every time you think the Michigan football sign-stealing narrative has come to a close, it manages to pull itself up by its bootstraps.
Despite Connor Stalions having not been with the program since late-October, the Wolverines have kept winning — even without Jim Harbaugh on the sidelines for the three toughest regular season games to close out the season. And many reversed course on discussing the severity of the allegations after Michigan beat Ohio State, while many of the holdouts finally gave in after the maize and blue took down the Crimson Tide on Monday. However, that doesn’t mean the questions aren’t persisting.
On Wednesday morning, Michigan defensive tackle Mason Graham was asked about how annoyed the players are at the narrative that continues to persist. Because as the players have insisted, the allegations negate all of the hard work and film study that the Wolverines do while they didn’t have any knowledge of any illegal scheme or anything pertaining to it.
“I’d kind of just start it off, more the allegations are coming on the defensive side of the ball,” Graham said. “I feel like we just kind of watch film and we get tendencies from other teams, just like Trevor (Keegan) was saying, and we kind of just pick up on it. I feel like we just have a high football IQ here at Michigan. We go over specific situations multiple times a week, just kind of learning more about the game every day, every meeting, just kind of just building that IQ and being starter football players all around so we pick up on things faster, even if it’s in-game adjustments.
“I think little stuff like that, film study really helped us this year.”
Quarterback J.J. McCarthy agrees.
The junior star noted that conventional sign stealing is legal and that Michigan’s changes on that front were in reaction to a rival…
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Author : Wolverines Wire
Publish date : 2024-01-03 19:35:53
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