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| Paydirt Pete |
Time: 3:30
Location: Big House
Weather: 61/71% 🌧
TV: BTN
Line: Michigan -34.5
Michigan is playing the University of Texas the week after they played Ohio State. Wait a second, its the University of Texas El Paso. My bad. Why doesn't Michigan other campuses have football teams? U of M Flint or U of M Dearborn? Flint is known for their basketball and Dearborn could be the football campus. I like this idea lets run with it!
UTEP as reported earlier this week likes 51 points. They got beat in week 1 by Oklahoma 51-0 and scored 51 in week 2. Will this trend continue in Week 3? The rain might be an interesting factor.
Dear Coach Whitt:
Not a big fan of swearing in these letters to you, but this is the best way for me to explain it. The shit got real for you at Michigan really quick. You win on conservaeral play in Game 1 and then play really well the next week and beat a ranked Oklahoma team. The Big Ten season starts next week and by nothing short of a miracle your team is 2-0. I asked you last week to win on defensive and that is exactly what you did.
Now to this week. Coach, we need some offense and we need it in a hurry. The run game is poor to average, the offensive line has not been great, and our passing game is iffy at best. Hat tip to Bryce, he was not well received after Week 1 but played much better Week 2. We need to continue to see that weekly progression.
The Big 10 Season is no joke, so we have to respect UTEP but get better and gain confidence this week. Here is a quick priority list of things we need to see on Saturday.
#1: Run the dang ball, Bert!
#2: The offensive line needs to be road graters and open up some holes
#3: Move the ball through the Air, hit WR's, throw to a TE, get Bryce some confidence.
#4: Score lots of points
#5: Play dominating defensive like you have
#6: No more penalties
I would like to see Marshall and Hiter both have 100 yards. I really like Hiter catching the ball out of the backfield and his total can be a combo between running and receiving yards. Get Marsh a TD, would like to see Bryce complete a long pass.
If the game starts to lean to a blow out, would love to see the young WR's in the game with Carr. Don't take your foot off the gas, get them into open spaces and let them run.
Now, let me be clear on something. I'm not suggesting Michigan look past UTEP or not respect them. We saw how that went for Oregon last week and your squad week 1. Respect the opponent and play clean Michigan Football.
Now that is out of the way, this week is about getting better, gaining confidence, and setting the table for a Big Ten Championship run.
Michigan 51 UTEP 9
3 comments:
I just don't think the OL are any good. I keep going back to when Harbs was here and he hit the portal HARD for OL. Oluwatimi, then Nugent, Henderson and Hinton. Moore didn't know his bleep from a hole in the ground. Getting Hattar from Ferris and Brady Norton from CalPoly. Neither of those guys were power 4 program caliber OL. The recruits out of HS haven't been any better. Rocky Balboa's kid was a 5 star, but he could be a 100 star but if he can't get on the field due to injury it's no bueno!
Bottomline: hope is not a strategy and hoping guys get better is usually a recipe for disaster! Subpar OL play has been a trend since the Naty!
Well said.
first of all, I grew up in Flint. Like the economy, I got out of town as soon as I could. I joined the military and got shot at....but at least in the military I was paid to get shot at. Second, we are too quick to forget that Whit saved this program. Last December we were on the brink of being absolutely decimated. The coach was a horn dog, other coaches were cowards, players had gotten weak and adopted the "me first" mentality and losing became accepted. In comes Whit and we are 2-0. Tons of problems to fix but think for a second where we could be right now.
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