All right, welcome back to another issue of the wolverine.com podcast with Doug Skeen, Michigan's former L Big Ten offensive lineman. Looks like he just finished off a sandwich or something. Just get done with dinner. About an hour ago, yeah. There was a busy weekend, Ballas. Yeah, I'll bet. Watching a lot of film on Michigan, Indiana. Interesting game that we're going to be breaking down here. So the Big Ten's been

interesting. You know what? It seems to me that you got one team that's kind of separating

from the pack. At the same time, you know what? Teams are going to improve. Michigan's

going to continue to improve. But let's look back real quick at that Indiana game. And I thought

Indiana strategy was sound. They came out skiing and they were going to take away the running game. They took some things away on the perimeter. What exactly did you see? Because Jim Harbaugh said, hey, they did that. And they were making us uncomfortable in there a little bit. We saw in the first half, that Blake Corum run, that 50-yarder was all on him frankly I thought and then after

that just wasn't wasn't a whole lot of room to move so what I noticed ballast is schematically it looked

like Indiana had said we're going to take the way that edge as soon as Michigan shows any kind

of flow to a front side then they're going to they're going to bring that front side linebacker

scrape them off the front side hard.

We did not pick up that front linebacker clean.

And then their defensive linemen at times were doing a nice job of just knocking us back.

And from a defensive end perspective, down to the three technique from the tackle all the way down over the guard.

At times, they were getting push.

And we weren't getting any movement at all.

We were stuck in our shoes there.

Or we were missing the edge of the block.

We drifted a little bit wide.

Somebody cut inside of us.

There was a big play there in the second half where Ronnie Bell had zero angle.

I think it was a third and one play. No, it was a fourth and one play. Like Michigan had gone for it. I can't remember, but Ronnie Bell is lined up, and the guy he's trying to block is a full yard and a half to his inside near the offensive line of scrimmage. The ball is snapped, and Ronnie Bell has no chance to make that play. And the kid scrapes right inside and makes a tackle for loss. And we end up, you know, giving the ball back or punting. It didn't matter. It was, you know, short yardage and goal line. You can't have that kind of stuff. So schematically, it looked like Michigan had some things figured out, or Indiana has some things figured out against Michigan to take advantage of some things. But at times, it was just flat out execution.

At times, we were just getting beat when it came to the base blocks.

And so, you know, that's it.

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