And we are back, folks here on the Michigan Insider on the Big 1050 WTKA online at the big 1050.com, Sam Webb.

Mr. Irointraub on the other side and joining us to reflect upon the dire weekend that was in the,

in the Michigan sports sphere, is our friend, Eric Adelson, EA.

Let's talk through the doldrums, my friend.

How are you this morning?

It was dire.

It was dire, man.

Yeah, good to talk to you, Sam.

Yeah, it was, I don't know and this I guess we start

in order uh starting with no let's start with let's start with Michigan let's just start with

Michigan and then because I got a lot to say uh about the time I mean I got a lot to say about

all of them let's start with Michigan.

The disappointment out at USC where, you know, it was a much different dynamic in that USC, yeah, they threw the ball like they threw it last year, yardage-wise.

It wasn't, you know, downfield.

It was a bunch of screens and underneath stuff this year to great effect,

but they ran it and they ran it and they ran it to great effect and wound up running away with the game against Michigan this year.

Your big takeaways.

Yeah, I would say, Sam sam that the uh of of the list of dire outcomes uh to me this was the most concerning um because uh it

it really didn't feel like michigan had the right game plan for the situation. They knew that

the USC was going to be fast on a fast track. And they knew, I think, from playing Oklahoma

that trying to get to the flanks is not going to work against this team. And you've got to win

in the trenches. And to the point you just made

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