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While the model portfolio has already reduced defensive elements such as cash and U.S.

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Michigan defensive coordinator Wink Martindale will no doubt try to make it one, just as he did last season.

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It didn’t require much imagination to see how scouts would one day declare him the rare defensive line prospect worthy of the word “generational.”

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There was linebacker Holden Smyser and defensive linemen Max Meier and Will Mack, all of whom helped the defense stop Serra three out of four times on fourth downs in the fourth quarter.

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Mr. Gould is slightly defensive about their refusal to participate in his own project.

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