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Michigan football's defense is championship caliber

Michigan defensive coordinator Don Brown lauds defensive players, ecstatic early in spring football. Recorded Tuesday, March 27. Nick Baumgardner, Detroit Free Press

This is the ninth and final installment in a series examining Michigan's position groups this offseason.

Don Brown's top catchphrase is often seen as the identity of Michigan's defense.

Solving problems with aggression. Everything's fast, relentless and powerful. Everything's loud and swarming and in the end, things work out far more than they don't.

But the second phrase, in reality, shows more about what these groups have become under Michigan's 62-year-old defensive coordinator.