Michigan Struggles in Close 27-24 Victory Over Minnesota

SportsGrid

Watch Michigan Struggles in Close 27-24 Victory Over Minnesota - SportsGrid on Dailymotion

Transcript

00:00Talking about smash mouth and rushes, this just brings me to one particular game on the

00:08Saturday slate and it's going to be the Minnesota Gophers taking on the Michigan Wolverines.

00:12Why?

00:13Because we learned that Michigan's defense is potentially still very much in trouble.

00:17Also we learned that putting up 21 points in the fourth quarter is not going to secure

00:21you a W or would it have if a particular call went another way?

00:26What did you see in this matchup?

00:27Because a lot of concerns still are sounding off when it comes to Michigan and how they'll

00:32be able to get through this season because Orji came in to be a better option over Warren

00:37and while they're not expecting him to use his arm, they want him for his legs.

00:4186 passing yards as a quarterback of a top team like this is not going to cut it.

00:45What did you see?

00:46Yeah, it's a top team but they certainly don't look like the defending champions here.

00:51For the Michigan Wolverines, they get the win 27-24 and really had to fend off that

00:57late burst from the Gophers.

00:59The Gophers put up 21-3 in the fourth so they almost stole this thing in Ann Arbor.

01:04I'll tell you what, that would have been the end of the playoff hopes here for Michigan.

01:09They've been very underwhelming.

01:10We saw it there last week.

01:12Ann Arbor, the big house, far from bouncing but look, they continue to find a bit of momentum.

01:18They're getting these gritty arm wrestle style events but it's really not going to hold on

01:23moving forward there.

01:24Those kind of numbers, especially from your quarterback, it's not good enough.

01:28You can lean on the run game for so long.

01:30For Alex Orji, just to have 86 passing yards with one touchdown, one interception, is he

01:35going to be the answer going forward?

01:37I don't know.

01:38I look at this display and what I did see out there in the field this afternoon, it

01:41looks like we now have more questions than answers asked after week five.

01:46I guess it was great for Marlings to get it going with the run game.

01:49Again, he's been an absolute workhorse for Michigan.

01:52They know that.

01:53They can lean on that but in terms of the passing threats and trying to spread that

01:56field, it's not easy and I'll tell you what, it gets a lot easier for a lot of other top

02:00teams, you know, ranked opponents as we move through the rest of the season in trying to

02:05go up against the Wolverines because they know that there's absolutely no presence,

02:09no intimidation from that quarterback position and I don't think it's good enough.

02:13Right.

02:14And to put that into perspective, I mean, down the stretch here, they have a number

02:18of teams.

02:19Washington can be problematic.

02:20You've got Illinois, you've got Michigan State that needs to turn things around, Oregon not

02:23too far behind, Indiana Northwestern and then Ohio State.

02:26So Michigan has questions to answer and not much time to find solutions.

Category

Transcript

Recommended