Previewing Michigan's bounce-back efforts against Rutgers
The Michigan Insider
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🗓️ 26 September 2019
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, we continue to discuss the news and notes of the week while previewing Michigan's matchup against Rutgers.
First, we break down the premise that Michigan is playing itself following its shell-shocking loss at Wisconsin last week, and how critical of a bounce-back week it is for the Wolverines. We discuss what sort of things Michigan can show to indicate that it is continuing to take steps forward both internally and externally, and what that looks like on offense, defense and special teams.
We also break down the hurdles Michigan must climb to return to form — schematically and emotionally — and why the next three weeks could end up defining the Wolverines' season.
Finally, we close with our over-under game on offense and defense, looking at how Michigan's offense might approach this game philosophically, why the Wolverines' defense should have a chance to settle in and sort out their personnel against Rutgers and our final predictions 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 recruiting. |
| 0:14.0 | I'm your host, Sakshaw. Steve Lorenz here with me, as always, go to the Michiganinsider.com, Michigan.247 sports.com. |
| 0:22.1 | A lot of updates, pretty busy time for Michigan football. |
| 0:25.4 | Michigan basketball, a couple weeks around the corner. |
| 0:28.8 | Football still are probably top priority right now. |
| 0:31.0 | I just posted, for those interested, a film review, continuing our discussion, |
| 0:36.1 | looking at what went wrong for the Wolverines at Wisconsin, |
| 0:39.2 | two stats that really stood out to me. |
| 0:41.9 | Well, actually, there's three. |
| 0:43.1 | One, Michigan had 11 rushing yards before contact in 13 carries on Saturday, which is just |
| 0:50.0 | unbelievable. |
| 0:51.6 | You know, we talk about the run game needs to be better. |
| 0:54.0 | The run blocking needs to be better because |
| 0:55.6 | those running backs didn't even have a chance. And then Jonathan Taylor got brought down just 12 times |
| 1:01.4 | that he was brought down to the ground on Saturday, and 24 touches. Another unbelievable stat. So either |
| 1:08.0 | he did the whole forward progress thing, got sidelined, or scored. |
| 1:12.5 | So quite a lot to work on for Michigan. |
| 1:15.5 | And let's jump into that discussion. |
| 1:18.8 | Because frankly, and you said it just before the show, so I'll let you say it again, too. |
| 1:22.8 | But this week, Michigan plays Rutgers. |
| 1:26.1 | If Michigan loses, this season was never anything. |
| 1:29.9 | This team was never bought in anyway, so it doesn't really matter. |
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