Sherrone Moore, Davis Warren, Colston Loveland speak to media after #9 Michigan's 31-10 win

Yeah, I think our players did a really good job of, you know, it's not going the way you want it to. It, it looks this way and they just, they just buckled down and, and played Michigan football, uh, really grinded it out on the ground. I was really proud of how the old line sort of come off the ball and then, um, knew we can go to 18 in the, in the red zone and he did a really good job making a play. It was a great throw by Davis. Um, you know, I think these guys did a really good job all night with their connection, you know, Colson had eight catches for 87 yards and a touchdown and really, you know, I thought Davis did a really good job putting the football where it needs to be the one pick. You know, we told our guys on the sideline, like at some point, we got to go up and you gotta play defense too and you gotta go get the ball in the post. So, um I thought he really did a great job controlling the offense and I thought 18 did a great job as well. Sharon, what, what kind of went into the, the, the decision to go with Davis and, and what did he show you to kind of li lift him into that role? Yeah, I mean, just training camp, you know, him and Alex had a really good training camp, but ultimately he won the job, um, the last, last week. Really? Uh, he was just consistent, took care of the football, uh, made plays against that defense that you saw out there. So, um, for us, it was a guy that they, they played hard for both players, but he ultimately took the job and won it. So, you know, that made the decision easier for us, Sharon if you could walk us through that series there in the fourth quarter with the two overturned interceptions and, and what kind of, what kind of happened for you and what you saw in this? Yeah, I thought our defense was playing hard, I think, you know, sometimes you get a little too emotional, we gotta keep our composure and some things, uh, that were going on and we ended up getting a pick with will at the end, which was awesome. Uh, but it was just a lot of back and forth. They're a good football team too, you know, I'm not taking any, anything away from them, but, you know, at the end of the day, our d especially our D line, these guys up front, they just kept the pressure on, uh, their old line and, and kept him backing up and throwing the ball. So they did a really good job of just making sure that we got the ball back. You just talk about the job that Kel did on the last drive. And then also Dom's performance in the second half after kind of a rough first half, maybe. Yeah, I mean, I thought Kel was running it extremely hard. Uh, look at his stats. He was, uh, 15 carries for 92 yards. He averaged 6.1 to carry. So that's pretty good. And he had three kick returns for 74 yards, so 100 and 68 yards of total all-purpose yard. So pretty good performance by Kel and Old Line. Just it, that it takes time, you know, I've said it before. You're not gonna be the same product you are in week two, they'll be better next week. So it's gonna take time for them to gel and I think they needed that, that last drive to really get that feel and feel what it feels like to, to be together and, and grind through a game and it's gonna help them and pre prevail for us for sure. Sham, can you take us through, uh, your night, uh, pregame? It looked like you were so fired up. You might have, you know, suited up and then just kind of threw the game tighter in your maybe thought et cetera. Yeah, I wasn't suiting up. Uh I've, I've held the bag for a couple of these guys and take snaps. I give snaps to Davis. So I got no snaps left in me and I got no plan on trying to return and no eligibility. Um but I, I mean, that's just who I am. Um where my emotions on my sleeve, I was excited, so I expressed it, but I was so excited just to watch our boys play. Uh, it's when you're in training camp, when you're in spring ball and you're, you're doing all this and you get the opportunity to be out there. You only get 80 opportunities this year to go out there in front of our home crowd and play. So, yeah, I was gonna be excited and, uh I was hope, hopefully infecting some juice in them and they played really hard, Sharon, you knew, losing so many starters from a championship team that it wasn't gonna be an immediate easy transition. Was it about what you thought or was that those growing pains at least early on even more than you thought they might have been? No, I think we're, I mean, we're gonna always gonna try to be perfect, uh, defense played really good, but there's gonna be things that they want to get better at, you know, offense. We had our ups and downs and we're gonna try to get better. So there's not really a uh a time we're ever gonna think we've reached the pinnacle and reached where we needed to be because I think when you do that, you've already lost. So for us in all the phases, special teams as well, we're gonna just continue to, to strive to be better. Noah. Yeah, with Kell's performance and with him getting more touches than Donovan Tonight. Do you see him as a potential lead back for this offense? Uh, I mean, we think we have 22 guys that are starters, so we'll play both of them, let them keep, keep playing and you're gonna need all of them, uh, for, for the, for the long drive, long haul of the season. So we'll just keep playing both of them. Yeah, let's ask them, they're, they're the ones that, um, if I could go to Davis, you know, just, what was your reaction when you did? And you were told that? And, yeah, I think first of all just excited when, when coach pulled me in and let me know and felt, you know, just proud of the way that I performed in camp and then I think that night and then go, but once the next morning hit, I was like, man, now it's time to like, really win football games and that switch flipped pretty naturally for me. And I just knew that this team need to rely on me and I need to be a guy that they could count on. And so it went right into like, all right now it's time to go and uh kind of proud of the way the guys battled tonight and the guys trusted me and ride around me and uh we got a lot of work to do, but I'm excited where it started, Sharon, you guys started strong and then finished strong offensively. But in between, there's obviously some struggles. How did you feel about the flow and everything from the, from a play calling perspective? Yeah, I thought it's football, it's not always gonna be perfect, it's gonna be up and down. I thought the play college did a great job and we got to execute the play calls with it's offensive defense. So um play calls I thought were good and we just got to continue to execute at a high level, Brian, you've been through a lot to get to this point. Was there any time where you, for you to get here and be the starting quarterback at Michigan a little bit? I mean, definitely, uh you know, range of emotions when you first find out and excited to just be the guy that you can be for this team, but definitely was able to kind of, you know, reflect on the people who'd helped me get here and, and my family and those people who had supported me and even, you know, just other kids meeting a kid that uh yesterday before practice kid named Finn who had leukemia and then also Down Syndrome and me, Coach Moore had a great time with him and, and that just keeps putting things in perspective for me and just reminds me of my, why, why I wanna be out there every day, work my tail off for, for these guys in this team and, and I think it helped with, you know, the nerves a little bit and, and just knowing that man, like I'm, I'm ready for this opportunity, ready to make the most of it and, and, and I'm proud of us, Tony. Yeah. Hey guys. Uh so I guess this is for Sharon Davis. I think so. 88 catches for 87 but I think the rest of the receiving core combined eight catches for, for 34 I guess. Is that just sort of how, how tonight was, do you wanna get them more involved? Maybe Davis, what you saw and drawing your thoughts about this, the, the balance? Yeah, I mean, we always want to be balanced but, you know, if they, sometimes if you leave him open, he's, he's gonna get the ball. So Davis didn't go through his reads how he needs to and throw it to the guy who thinks that, you know, it is open. So that's what we're gonna do. Um That's how good, you know, maybe next game he might catch 10, he might catch two. But, you know, for us, we're just gonna try to make sure we put the best people in position to make plays and let the guys make plays. Davis, I guess. Yeah, I think, uh, like, I mean, like coach said, I mean, if they're gonna leave 18 open, we're gonna throw him the ball. So it's pretty simple. Um, and we're gonna keep doing that and then, you know, the other guys, you know, Maj Timo Peyton, Fred Kendrick, you know, Marlo, those guys are going to step up and make plays too. So, uh, just whatever the defense presents us, uh There are definitely some, some plays today that, you know, I probably could have thrown the receivers to who were open and, and guys, and those guys could have made plays too, but, uh I'm just gonna stick to what I'm being coached to do, stick to what coach Campbell is, is, you know, preaching every day. I mean, that's the smartest guy in America. So, um I'm listening to him and, and, you know, we're just gonna keep things rolling. Charlie, how did, how do you assess your answer? You hit it on the head. Uh Yeah, like, like you said, we got a lot of uh talent in the receiver room. Um, you know, maybe they didn't show that today or didn't get the opportunity to show that, but they will eventually and uh they'll step up when their, when their numbers call up Davis. How do you assess your performance out there? And at moments, is it at all hard to get rhythm if you keep getting subbed in and out of the game or is that just kind of what you've been used to through c uh, not at all. I mean, I'm whatever, you know, is gonna help us make plays. I mean, I was so happy for Alex when he had that first touchdown, they were yelling at me to get back in the, in the, in the, you know, sideline box because I was halfway down the sideline in the end zone. So, um, not hard at all. Uh I'm perfectly prepared to do that and whatever this, this offense needs, I feel like personally, uh definitely just need to clean things up on third downs. Uh, we left some, some meat on the bone on, on those plays and, and those are key plays in the game. So, uh, you know, we're gonna go back to the drawing board and, you know, find some ways to get better, but overall just proud of kind of how I handled myself, you know, emotionally and, and, you know, was able to get the ball to a playmakers and sometimes things were hard, but, um, proud of the way we fought any questions for the defense. Zeros. This guy's like killed him. I can see. Yeah, Sharon in the game week. But what, what are the biggest improvements you, you would like to see for the Texas game? Yeah, everything we're not Yeah, we're not, we're just not gonna say that we want one piece of our game to be better. Uh We're gonna strive for perfection and chase excellence. So everything we're gonna try to get better on offense in all phases of defense, in all phases. We thought we were really good on defense, but we're gonna try to get better on that and then in special teams as well. Yeah, two questions. One for Davis, one for Sharon. Um Davis, I mean, how would you assess the functionality of the offense? What were the, what were the strong points, you think? What were the weak points? Yeah, I think, you know, obviously there are some moments where we struggle to, you know, get the ball moving and, and do some things up there downs and that falls on me as a quarterback to, you know, make sure we're in the right play and, and, and doing the right thing. But, um, you know, we can't, we can't leave ourselves in third and long, you know, we gotta keep the chains moving. I think, you know, that first falls on all of us to keep us going, but I'm just so proud of the way the guys battle. I mean, that, that last drive, that's Michigan football right there and that's just momentum we needed. And I kept telling the guys, hey, like we're gonna get this thing rolling, you know, we just, things are gonna start moving and popping and, and they, they eventually didn't, I think that just brought us all closer together, brought it gave us all more confidence, more trust to just go out there and, and play fun and play free. I wish. I mean, I was praying, we got it, we got another drive because I felt like if we got another drive, we would have scored again. So, um you know, I, I'm proud of the way the guys fought and, and, and the O line especially, they, they really played well at the end there and Sharon, I mean, uh establishing the run early and the struggles to do that. How did that affect the play action game and what you were trying to do maybe with that. Yeah, it was really just to 11 guy here, one guy there. So things that we'll fix, we'll get better at coach. We, we pick your question. How do you feel about the opportunity to be the first black head coach to win a national championship? We gotta win next week first. Um, uh I don't think about myself, so I just think about these guys, I just want to be successful for our program for these guys. Um And yeah, that's the goal is to win a national title, but really, it's about really about the players that are sitting here that are in that locker room. All right, my excuse, Coach Moore, yes, come in. So