Reacting to Michigan's 47-14 win over Western Michigan
The Michigan Insider
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🗓️ 4 September 2021
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, we offer our quick takeaways and reactions to the Michigan football team opening its 2021 season with a 47-14 win over Western Michigan. We discuss some key takeaways, standouts, surprises, low moments and thoughts moving forward.
Along the way, we discuss Blake Corum, Daxton Hill, Vincent Gray, young defensive players, Michigan's offensive line, J.J. McCarthy, Donovan Edwards, Jim Harbaugh, Cade McNamara and plenty more. We also debate just how opponent-neutral the Wolverines' apparent progress is heading into a tough matchup against Washington.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everybody. Welcome to the Wolverine 24-7 podcast, your audio source for all things, |
| 0:04.1 | Michigan football, basketball, and recruiting. I'm your host, Zach Shaw, Steve Lorenz here with me. |
| 0:09.3 | Reacting to the Michigan football team, season opening 47, 14 win over Western Michigan. |
| 0:17.1 | Plenty to discuss. We'll try to keep it brief because we know you guys want to get on with your |
| 0:21.5 | Saturdays or I guess if you're listening Sunday on with your Sundays as well. |
| 0:26.3 | But just kind of look at the key talking points, key discussion points, |
| 0:31.6 | and kind of our thoughts on some of those things. |
| 0:35.3 | So we can jump right into it. |
| 0:37.0 | Of course, there will be tons of postgame |
| 0:38.5 | writing and coverage over at the Michiganinsider.com, Michigan.247sports.com. |
| 0:45.3 | Steve, I guess I'll just ask you, what was the most significant development? If you could pick |
| 0:51.9 | one, the most significant thing that you saw Saturday, |
| 0:56.3 | whether it surprised you, changed your opinion about something, or, you know, kind of |
| 1:02.1 | looking ahead to Washington made you maybe, maybe take extra notice a little bit. |
| 1:09.8 | For me, it's got to be Blake Corum. |
| 1:12.1 | What do you have over 200 all-purpose yards? |
| 1:14.8 | 212 all-purpose yards. |
| 1:16.6 | Right. |
| 1:19.0 | The other, like, just looked more comfortable running the football. |
| 1:25.2 | You know, it's like a lot of people, I saw some, you know, and you see it throughout the game. You know, people are very a lot of people there, I saw some, you know, and you see it |
| 1:27.6 | throughout the game. You know, people are very reactionary on like every play is like, |
| 1:32.8 | yeah, it can become an indictment on anybody, the guy calling the play, the guy running the play, |
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