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

I'm Chris Ballas with me.

Five-time Big Ten champion, Doug Skeen, and All Big Ten.

You know what?

Five-to-Ten and All Big Ten in 1992 and former New England Patriots.

So I'm having a hard time, man.

I'm operating on very little sleep here coming back from the West Coast,

and I really don't know what time it is. This is what the Big Ten has done to you about. It is. These West Coast road trips, they must suck. I will say this. It was a lot of fun, and Washington's a very cool venue. I don't think you guys ever played there as a, you played them, obviously, in the Rose Bowl a couple of times. but Seattle, it was kind of fun.

And what was not fun was the football game scheme. And, you know, I had this sneaking suspicion when we were making our staff picks. And I said, I'm going to go with my heart this week because I really feel like this is, you know what, these guys, there's some championship DNA here here this is not a great football team they're

playing they came out though got punched in the mouth credit jack tuttle for giving them a spark

but at the end of the day it was a lot of the same issues that's been plaguing this team that doomed

them and it's the turnovers you cannot turn the ball over twice give them short fields what's the

old adage man you turn it it over once. There's a,

you know what, 25%? What is it? 50%. Turn the ball over once.

Okay. Statistically, you have a turn the ball over once. You have a 50% chance of winning.

Turn the ball over twice. That goes down to a 25% chance of winning. And then obviously three or

more. Statistically, you have a 0.0 chance of winning and then obviously three or more statistically you have a zero point

zero chance of winning um so you you know we did the twice thing and then all sudden you know you're

out you're just done we did three right there was three there was uh there was orgy didn't

orgy have a fumble no no no you're only two i think they were both jack total and it jack total so it was a pick on the fumble? No, no. You're only two. I think they were both Jack Tuttle.

Jack Tuttle. So it was a pick on the fumble. Okay, so chances of winning 25%. Yeah. Michigan didn't win. So statistically, that one goes into that bucket as well. Yeah. And the thing that stood out ballast in the first part of that football game was the offense was just not very good. with with orgy running the offense there's no passing game to speak of um and the thing that even even after tullo came in there was clearly a spark the offense moved but what started to stand out to me watching the michigan offense operate when it came to the passing game. And let's not

even talking about protection. We won't talk about that yet. But what stood out to me is the

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