Reacting to Michigan's dominant win at Wisconsin
The Michigan Insider
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🗓️ 3 October 2021
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
We break down the Michigan football team's 38-17 win at Wisconsin, looking at the key takeaways and impact that Saturday's win can have on the Wolverines' season.
We begin by discussing Michigan's defense, and how the Wolverines put together an elite defensive performance. We look at the pass rush, run defense and outstanding performances. We then look at Michigan's offense, and how much the Wolverines showed they could win without an effective run game, especially after some initial struggles. We also discuss the play-calling, and quality of Wisconsin's team right now.
In the second half of he show, we discuss if it's fair to change expectations for Michigan's season now that the Wolverines are 5-0. We look at the rest of Michigan's schedule an how the Wolverines stack up. We also discuss what Michigan can still work on in practice, and where the Wolverines can improve most between now and their road trip to Nebraska.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everybody. Welcome to the Wolverine 24-7 podcast, your audio source for all things, |
| 0:04.0 | Michigan football, basketball, and recruiting. I'm your host, Zach Shaw. Steve Lorenz here with me. |
| 0:08.8 | We're going to talk through the Michigan football team's 38 to 17 win at Wisconsin on Saturday. |
| 0:16.3 | I'm going to talk about some of my takeaways and also start to peek ahead toward |
| 0:21.4 | the rest of October, which could be a very interesting, promising. |
| 0:27.0 | There's a lot of different words you could use month for the Wolverines now that they are |
| 0:30.8 | 5 and 0 for the first time since 2016. |
| 0:35.4 | And Steve, I posted my takeaways to me, the big one. And we'll talk about a couple |
| 0:40.9 | individual players in a moment, but, but the defensive performance, this is, that was as good |
| 0:47.7 | as Michigan has looked defensively. Maybe there was one season, one game in the 2019 season, |
| 0:57.8 | but I really kind of want to go toward 2018. |
| 1:05.1 | They allowed 210 yards, many of which came in garbage time, 17 points, including a garbage time touchdown. |
| 1:10.6 | They had six sacks, 29 quarterback pressure is important to pro football focus. |
| 1:14.7 | I just looked at those numbers and then I looked at them again because that's just a hard number to fathom, you know, with Wisconsin. |
| 1:17.4 | I mean, they only attempted 23 passes, I believe. |
| 1:21.4 | And so to have 29 quarterback pressures is, is incredible. |
| 1:25.4 | They held Wisconsin to 43 rushing yards and 1.5 yards per carry, |
| 1:31.3 | 1.3 yards per carry, excuse me. Wisconsin's lowest total in either situation since 2015. |
| 1:40.0 | They forced three turnovers. They held Wisconsin to 3 or 14 on three and outs or on third downs. |
| 1:47.1 | They forced seven three and outs on 13 drives. And Wisconsin only had two drives in which they |
| 1:54.9 | lasted on the field more than four plays in the entire game. That is, I mean, you can pick which number is the most significant to you, but, |
| 2:03.4 | but to me, I thought it was a, a really a masterclass performance. |
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