Michigan-Illinois preview and predictions
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4.6 • 855 Ratings
🗓️ 10 October 2019
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Working without Steve Lorenz due to a scheduling conflict, Zach Shaw breaks down what he expects to see in Saturday’s matchup between Michigan and Illinois.
Threading the podcast’s traditional over-under game throughout his preview, Shaw looks at Shea Patterson’s situation, and why the senior quarterback needs more than just a get-well game. He also looks at Michigan’s running backs, how the Wolverines can make progress and more on the Fighting Illini’s woeful defense.
He also digs into Michigan’s potential to work in backup players such as Joe Milton and Hassan Haskins, and other reasons that a fast start can be beneficial.
On the defensive side of the ball, Shaw explains why he expects the Wolverines’ defensive line to continue to improve, why stopping Illinois’ serviceable run game is important and what to look for from the Fighting Illini’s pass game with backup quarterback Matt Robinson likely to start.
Shaw closes with things Michigan fans should watch in the game, and offers his prediction for the matchup.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everybody, welcome to the Wolverine 24-7 podcast, your audio source for all things Michigan football, basketball, and including I'm your host, A Shaw. |
| 0:08.3 | No Steve today. |
| 0:09.7 | Scheduling error, that's okay. |
| 0:11.7 | This is going to be a preview podcast for Michigan's trip to Illinois. |
| 0:16.2 | I'll be down there. |
| 0:17.5 | And in this podcast, we're going to do our over-unders, kind of like what we did last week. |
| 0:21.7 | They'll be threaded in throughout the show. I'm also going to try to hit on some key topics |
| 0:27.3 | that I learned or are still in my mind from press conferences. Also going to look at what Illinois |
| 0:32.9 | brings to the table and try to give you guys a nice comprehensive preview both from the actual game. |
| 0:40.8 | But with, as we mentioned yesterday, with Jeremy Werner, the game's results this week is |
| 0:45.5 | probably not going to be a surprise. |
| 0:49.0 | It's not if Michigan wins. |
| 0:50.7 | It's probably more by how much. |
| 0:53.6 | But at the same time, you know, Michigan is building toward other games. |
| 0:57.4 | They still control their own destiny, but, you know, they're going to have to do it. |
| 1:01.3 | They're going to have to play better than they have, I think, to get through this schedule, |
| 1:05.6 | run the table, and win the Big Ten, make a New Year's 6, make the playoff, whatever, |
| 1:11.2 | whatever their feasible goals are for this team based on talent. |
| 1:15.2 | So anyway, we'll jump into our first over-under. |
| 1:19.1 | It starts off a topic about the passing game. |
| 1:20.9 | Of course, our over-unders come from Neil on Twitter, |
| 1:24.7 | and I know he's a member of our board as well. |
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