Welcome back to another edition of the Ballas and Skeen show.

This is post Oregon, probably as bad as we thought it would be.

And in fact, Doug Skeen is this week's staff picks winner, a 35 to 16.

I think he had it.

And they tacked on a late touchdown there.

And we had a couple people complaining about it.

I said, it's not Michigan's job to complain.

It's Michigan's job to stop them down there at the goal line. What's more humiliating? Watching a team take a knee at your two-yard line or letting them score. I think it's letting them take and watching them take a knee, but that's just me. So regardless, skiing, not ideal. It's a 50-50. It's a 50-50. And I think I don't remember the starting lineup for Oregon entirely, but I think they had their second string offensive line in there at that point. Did they not? I don't think so. But maybe I was wrong. I thought at the end of the game, I thought I saw a couple unfamiliar O-WImen in there for Oregon. You punch it in. The guys want to score. I mean, it's not like it was 63 to 3 and they put another one on the board. So that might that might still be coming later this season. So we'll talk about that. Look out. Yeah. So he's Doug Skeen, Michigan's five-time Big Ten champion, former All-Big Ten offensive linemen played for the New England Patriots for Bill Barsel. So he knows what he's talking about.

And Skeen, that's why you're here. We're going to talk a little bit of offensive line here in just a second.

This was really another one of those games where I'm watching and I'm saying, where's the improvement?

And I'm seeing a little bit of it in past protection, but I'm not seeing it in the run game. The run game is going the other direction. And that was what really disappointed me. The negative plays, and you and I used to count these, right? Back in the dark days, we used to call them, right? And it was not good when you would have several negative plays, especially on first down,

and you're putting a quarterback who hasn't played much behind the sticks.

And we saw a ton of that from the get-go.

I didn't think the game plan was great to go horizontally against this fast defense.

And at the same time, they didn't get a whole lot of push-up front either.

Now, Sharon Moore said that he thought they got some push-up front early, but then things kind of fell apart, and there were too many run-throughs. And you made an interesting point when we were talking about that in our text

exchange with the former mullet punter, Chris Stapleton, that the run-throughs are things that you

should not be dealing with us at this point. No, no. So let's go back, Bows. The first play of the game, the first offensive play of the game, I don't understand it. And I'm going to be a little critical here. Did you notice that Hinton and Link were flip-flopped? No. Hinton played right tackle in that play, and Link was on left.

I thought, that's a little weird.

And I had to run it back.

I'm like, why is 78 playing right tackle?

For some reason, he was over there.

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