Breaking down Michigan's win over Illinois
The Michigan Insider
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4.6 • 855 Ratings
🗓️ 14 October 2019
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, we look at two game balls, opine on four lasting takeaways and discuss seven questions stemming from the No. 16 Michigan football team's 42-25 win at Illinois.
Our game balls, as is usually the case, are split between the offense and the defense. Our offensive MVP is a surprising skill position player who had by far the best game of his career, while our defensive standout is a player who had a lot of excitement around this season and hasn't been bad, but had something of a breakthrough in Saturday's game.
Our takeaways include thoughts on Michigan's fumbles woes, a reassessment of the ceiling of the Wolverines, a take on why the way Michigan collapsed could be concerning for future games and a look at a breakout player.
Our questions center around Ambry Thomas' NFL Draft stock, a defense that was spotty Saturday, what worked and what didn't for Shea Patterson, a concern meter after the game, midseason MVPs and position group rankings and what Michigan needs the most to beat Penn State.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everybody, welcome to the Wolverine 24-7 podcast, your audio source for all thanks, Michigan football, basketball, and recruiting. |
| 0:05.8 | I'm your host, Zach Shaw. |
| 0:06.8 | Steve Lorenz here with me, and we are talking about Michigan's 42 to 25 win over Illinois. |
| 0:13.3 | And there's a few more levels to it than I thought there was going to be going into the game. |
| 0:18.1 | I think I ended up predicting 49-14, so maybe not a totally different game than I expected, |
| 0:23.9 | but certainly quite the back-and-forth affair. |
| 0:28.6 | Michigan goes out 28-0. |
| 0:30.5 | They give up 25 straight points, and then they score 14 more points at the end to steal it out. |
| 0:37.5 | But Steve, we're going to jump in. |
| 0:39.0 | We're going to do our two game balls, four lasting takeaways, and then seven questions. |
| 0:42.9 | We have a couple of user questions, but I also added a few as well to make sure we just cover the bases that we want to cover for the show. |
| 0:50.6 | So first, game balls. |
| 0:51.7 | I always like to let you go first for this one. |
| 0:54.0 | Who's getting your game ball from this game? |
| 0:58.2 | This is kind of a tough one for me. |
| 1:02.1 | I'm actually, I really like what Hassan Haskins is doing. |
| 1:07.7 | You know, I think we had kind of, I tried to go look, go back and look. |
| 1:12.3 | I thought I had written a piece about him being labeled as a sleeper by the staff, heading into fall camp. |
| 1:20.4 | I couldn't find it, so maybe that was, it actually could have been written last year, although I don't believe it was. |
| 1:26.5 | I'm like 90% sure I wrote it at some point this year. |
| 1:30.8 | He, I mean, he looks like the second best back. |
| 1:34.4 | He does. |
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