WATCH: Breaking down Michigan head coach candidate Jesse Minter

TheWolverine.com‘s Anthony Broome and Clayton Sayfie break down Michigan Wolverines football head-coaching candidate Jesse Minter, the defensive coordinator of the Los Angeles Chargers. They break down what Minter would bring to the table, the challenges of hiring him given the NFL timeline and more. Watch the full video in the player at the top of the screen.

Excerpt from breakdown of Michigan head coach candidate Jesse Minter

“A familiar name,” Broome said. “A guy who coordinated Michigan’s defense in 2022, 2023, certainly, when they won the national championship, a guy who has the Baltimore Ravens background, a guy who has plenty of college coaching experience. Michigan hired him away from Vanderbilt. And someone who, with his work with the Chargers over the last two years — Clayton, you can speak a little bit more knowledgeably than me, given that you are a Chargers guy, you’re a Harbaugh guy — but it seems like a lot of their success has come with a lot of guys injured, and been more scheme dependent than it has been player dependent.

“This fall, it’s become apparent that there will be some NFL interest in him as a candidate [for head coaching opportunities], and I think that’s where it starts with the qualifications for him as a candidate at Michigan, that I know there are concerns about the Harbaugh tree — and maybe we’ll talk about that here in a little bit — but from my perspective, if he’s good enough for the NFL, he’s good enough for me.”

“Yeah, he’s a really good coach,” Sayfie said. “I’d be remiss if we didn’t refer to him, at least once, as ‘Minty’ in this video because that’s what we call him.

“I mean, Jesse Minter is one of the smartest coaches that we’ve seen come through Schembechler Hall in a while. That was apparent. It’s not just speaking with the media, but then you watch his defenses play. He was really, in his second year in 2023 at Michigan, teaching kind of a masters level course in defense. And this is an example that I use a lot is that year, as opposed to 2022, when he first came in and he didn’t have all those relationships with the players and it wasn’t as veteran of a defense … in ’23, they were teaching guys how to block downfield after they got an interception. That was something that they were actually working on in practice in the limited time you have in between games during the fall, during the season. That’s how good that defense became. That’s how smart his players were. They learned the different schemes and the adjustments you need to make and situational football.

“The best example of just how good of a coach he was at Michigan in college on the defensive side was going from an Alabama game plan on January 1st and shutting down Jalen Milroe, to a certain extent — they had some success, got going in the third quarter and the second half a little bit. But you stop them, and then less than a week later from when you’re done celebrating there and the confetti is falling, you’re stopping a completely different type of offense in Washington with Michael Penix, who had thrown for over 5,000 yards, and the great receivers that they had and the Joe Moore Award-winning offensive line.”