WATCH: Sherrone Moore discusses USC loss, previews Michigan game vs. Washington

ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Michigan Wolverines football head coach Sherrone Moore met with the media Monday morning ahead of his team’s game against Washington, coming off the loss to USC in Los Angeles. Watch video of his press conference in the player at the top of the screen.

Key quotes from Michigan coach Sherrone Moore

• On junior running back Justice Haynes, who went down with an injury against USC: “Good. He was better yesterday, so we’ll see as the week goes, but I feel good about it.”

• On graduate quarterback Mikey Keene, who traveled to the USC game but hasn’t appeared in a game yet this season: “Yeah, he’s healthy. He feels really good. So, we’ll see how that goes throughout the year and what we want to do in that situation.”

• On the Michigan defense’s tackling issues: “You go back to last week, I thought tackling was outstanding. One of the things we really hit on at the beginning of the week was speed in space and tackling their speed in space. We didn’t do a good job of that, and that really comes down to angles — the angles that we take, the pursuit angles that we take and trusting those angles. There are so many examples as we go through it, and as we’ve gone through the tape — been through it many times — of how we have to fix it. Players have been in numerous times already to look at it and fix it. Those are the big things we’ll continue to attack as we go through the week.”

• On his overall message to the Michigan team coming out of the loss and heading into the back half of the regular season: “I think the message is pretty simple. The guys understand what happened. They understand it’s a loss, and nobody hurts more for a loss than the players and us as coaches. So those guys have been in here, they’ve been grinding, trying to get better. They’re trying to fix all the problems and make sure it doesn’t happen again. So the message really is simple. We’ve got to go back to work. That’s the reason I got the blue-collar jacket on today. It’s we got to go back to work right now. There’s no pouting. There’s no worry about it. There’s no making excuses for it. That’s all we got to do. And that’s all I know. And that’s what we’re going to do right now.”