Entering the 2022 season, the expectation was that the Michigan offense would shine right out of the gates while the defense would take some time to find its footing after losing star players, Aidan Hutchinson, Dax Hill, and David Ojabo.
Reverse that.
The offense looked OK in the season debut against Colorado State, but the defense appeared to be faster and more aggressive. If anything signals just how good it was, it was the numbers: seven sacks and 11 tackles for loss. Last year, the Wolverines managed just one sack in the opener against Western Michigan.
He may not be the architect of the defense, and more so its steward, but Jesse Minter, who coordinated Vanderbilt a year ago, oversaw a masterpiece in his first game with the maize and blue.
Minter, famously, was also a part of the Baltimore Ravens defensive staff at the same time as Mike Macdonald, and thus came in to run year two of the system. Now with one game under his belt, he appeared on the ‘Inside Michigan Football’ radio show with Jon Jansen and shared his thoughts on how his first showing as the Michigan defensive coordinator went.