East Carolina recap: Passing game, new defensive starters shine, while the run game and broadcast fall flat
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4.6 • 855 Ratings
🗓️ 3 September 2023
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Zach Shaw and Steve Lorenz break down the No. 2 Michigan football team’s 30-3 season-opening win over East Carolina. They look at the Wolverines’ offense and defense, and even go on an impromptu tangent about college football’s television problem.
They open with a look at the offense, which included a stellar pass game showing and a mediocre day rushing the ball. They look at the strong performances from Roman Wilson and JJ McCarthy, and what led to them. They also look at other offensive standouts. They close the first half of the episode with a look at the run game, which had its worst statistical performance since 2021, and debate how much of a concern it was.
In the second half of the episode, they look at the defensive side of things, including a number of new starters and role players who caught their attention. They then close with a discussion about the game’s broadcast, and why the move to streaming broadcasts is bad for fans and college football.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everybody. Welcome to the Wolverine 24-7 podcast, your audio source for all things, Michigan |
| 0:04.4 | football, basketball, and recruiting. I'm your host, Zach Shaw. Steve Lorenz is here with me. |
| 0:09.2 | Got our first post-game show of the year. Michigan beats East Carolina 30 to 3. I would argue before |
| 0:18.9 | they put the backups in, the game was not that close. |
| 0:22.4 | But in this episode, we're going to spend the first half looking at the offense, |
| 0:26.1 | second half looking at the defense, kind of talking mainly about what just stood out to us, |
| 0:31.3 | both good and bad. |
| 0:32.9 | We'll go over the strengths and weaknesses or the pluses and minuses that we saw tons of stories over |
| 0:38.8 | at the michiganinsider.com michigan dot 24-7 sports.com lots of postgame content already but |
| 0:45.3 | including some stuff on the the free harbaugh shirts thought that was funny and like the little |
| 0:50.4 | the train formation that they did but yeah this episode we will talk offense and then defense in the second half. |
| 0:57.0 | And Steve started with the offense. |
| 0:58.0 | I think to me, the biggest story of the game was J.J. McCarthy and Roman Wilson, |
| 1:04.7 | especially. |
| 1:05.3 | But really, I felt like Michigan's so-called big three, Roman Wilson, Cornelius Johnson, |
| 1:10.6 | Colston Loveland. They all made |
| 1:12.2 | nice catches. I think they all showed to me a pretty nice ability to get open in a way that |
| 1:18.5 | J.J. McCarthy can find them. You know, it's one thing to run your route that the play is called for. |
| 1:23.4 | It's another thing to get open. But McCarthy definitely was the star of the show. |
| 1:28.9 | I thought he did a really nice job extending plays. |
| 1:31.4 | I think he saw pressure really early. |
| 1:33.7 | He was decisive. |
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