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The Wolverine Podcast

Balas and Skene recap win over Rutgers, more

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4.2529 Ratings

🗓️ 26 September 2023

⏱️ 33 minutes

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TheWolverine.com's Chris Balas and former Michigan offensive lineman Doug Skene discuss the win over Rutgers and what comes next ahead of the team's first road trip this weekend at Nebraska. Homefield: Use code WOLVERINE23 for 15% off your first order from Homefield. https://www.homefieldapparel.com/

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0:00.0

Okay, we are rolling so you can start whenever.

0:03.7

All right.

0:05.9

Welcome back to the Ballas and Skeen Show, the Wolverine.com podcast following Michigan's 31 to 7 win over Rutgers, which is probably just about the score most people would have predicted who had watched this Michigan and Rutgers series over the last few years.

0:18.8

And we were close.

0:19.9

I think Skeen, maybe you finished third or so this week in staff fix. So congratulations on that after winning one of the first two weeks. But hey, there's a thing, man. No, they weren't perfect. And I just wrote a column about the offense. No, it's not perfect, but it's getting better. And Jim Harbaugh said on Monday, he said there were three times the instances from the Bowling Green game

0:39.9

where we had all 11 guys doing the same thing, skiing, and doing the right thing on that play.

0:45.6

So it was much better than a week earlier when he said sometimes we had five or six guys who weren't,

0:51.0

didn't know their assignments or were lacking there.

0:54.1

And maybe to be expected against the team like Bowling Green at night.

0:57.4

You wait all day to play football.

0:58.9

Okay.

0:59.2

I mean, what you just said, no way.

1:01.9

I'm calling the flag.

1:03.4

All right.

1:04.3

You're going to have half of the guys on the field having missed assignments on a,

1:08.6

on a set of plays.

1:10.7

Half the offense doesn't know what

1:12.2

they're doing in the third game of the year yeah there there's something wrong there okay and

1:17.7

call me a dinosaur but that's unacceptable you have to know what you're doing or you can't play

1:22.6

yeah megan do you have a dinosaur gift on there i guess not i was hoping that you'd like put Barney up or something like that.

1:28.7

So if you're a dinosaur, I'm a dinosaur, so it is what it is. But here's a thing, Skeen.

1:35.4

They're still figuring things out at tackle. And I guess the guards graded out pretty well.

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