WATCH: Michigan offensive line coach Grant Newsome, special teams coordinator J.B. Brown talk pre-Oregon
ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Michigan Wolverines football offensive line coach Grant Newsome and special teams coordinator J.B. Brown met with the media Wednesday afternoon ahead of their team’s game against Oregon. Watch video of the assistant coaches below.
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Offensive line coach Grant Newsome
Michigan allowed pressure on only 14 percent of dropbacks and didn’t give up any sacks in a 24-17 win over Michigan State last weekend. Newsome was pleased with the pass protection across the board.
“It was definitely out best effort,” the assistant coach said. “Any time you have no sacks, no penalties, no turnovers, you feel good about it in that respect. Still stuff to improve on.
“Never perfect, and I thought there were still some areas we can clean up, and then the big challenge is we gotta start faster up front. We took ourselves off the field twice, we felt like, up front, which was just simple stuff. We gotta be better to start the game, and start how we finished.
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“And then when we do get the chance to finish in that second to last four minute drive, we gotta do that as well.”
Special teams coordinator J.B. Brown
Michigan senior punter Tommy Doman has struggled this season. He averaged 32.7 punting yards per game against Illinois and had a shanked 25-yard punt in the fourth quarter vs. MSU. Brown is expecting improvement, and soon, out of the veteran.
“Continuing to try to change his rhythm up at practice,” Brown said. “Him and [junior] Hudson [Hollenbeck] are competing at practice every day, doing a good job. He’s practicing extremely well, at a high level; we just need to translate it from State Street to Main Street now, and I think he’ll do that here soon.
“The confidence is in him. I think he works hard, takes his craft very seriously and, at the end of the day, we have full faith in him as a program. Every one on this team has faith in him. The way he works and prepares, there’s no reason why he wouldn’t perform well.”
