The Wolverine: Covering University of Michigan Football and Sports
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MICHIGAN IN THE PROS Cardinals head coach Bruce Arians said Foote's play to date was exactly what he expected, and he plans to see much more of it. "He's just like that every game," he told ArizonaSports.com. "That's the Larry Foote I've known for 10 years. He is a football player, and that's all you can describe him as." Foote notched another eight tack- les (four solo), one pass broken up and his first interception of the sea- son in a 25-14 win over the New York Giants Sept. 14, improving Arizona to 2-0. Foote had registered 807 total tack- les, 23 sacks, three interceptions, 10 forced fumbles and five fumble re- coveries entering the season. Arians said "there's no doubt" Foote was someone the team targeted during the offseason. "We identified him two years ago, and he went back to Pittsburgh for a year," he said. "Now, he's going to be the bell cow for us all year." And someone his teammates look up to when it's winning time. Some of them haven't experienced much of it, while Foote has. "I truly think he's going to be the MVP of this defense because he's coming from a winning organiza- tion, he knows how to get the job done, he's a savvy vet and he plays fast," three-time Pro Bowl cornerback Patrick Peterson said. "He plays fast, he communicates well with every- one — secondary, linebackers, D-line. He just does a great job of getting the plays out, communicating with everyone." TOM BRADY AND CHARLES WOODSON TO MEET AGAIN The New England Patriots and Oakland Raiders aren't what they were when former Wolverines Tom Brady and Charles Woodson met in the famous "tuck rule game," a 2002 AFC divisional playoff contest that appeared to be over after Woodson forced a fumble by sacking Brady, only to have it overturned by the infamous tuck rule. Officials ruled Brady was trying to throw, thus call- ing the loose ball an incompletion. "Tom Brady, come on now. Fess up. It was a fumble," Woodson said in Jan- uary on NFL Network's NFL Game- Day Morning. "It's still a fumble. "Let's just get this out of the way. If they make the correct call — which they did at first, then they overturned it — this 10-game playoff streak that Tom Brady has? It never happened. Tom Brady owes me his house. I'm the reason why he's married to who he's married to [supermodel Gisele Bundchen]. "I'm a reason for a lot of that. Ev- erything. Because they overturned that call." The ruling was the first in a series of events that allowed New England to win three Super Bowls in four sea- sons and helped Brady to become a superstar. He and Woodson are both in the twilight of their careers, but the two are still playing and were set to meet Sept. 21, Brady still with the Patriots and Woodson back in Oak- land after several years with Green Bay.