Blue By Ninety - Offensive struggles, Dominating defense, a victory vs. Iowa.

Episode Date: October 5, 2019

Blue by Ninety podcast episode 7. Michigan's win vs. Iowa, final score 10-3.

Welcome to Blue by 90. We are three dudes who talk maize and blue. We are your hosts. I'm Kalen, joined by Nate and Jack. And we just watched Michigan's win over Iowa here. And guys, let's just leave with the positives here. The defense kind of played lights out a little bit. Yeah, defense was able to finally, you to finally show what they're made of. Right, exactly. Defense showed up. They played out. I mean, first positive that comes to my mind, they had three interceptions. Josh Metellus, LaVert Hill, and Ambry Thomas.

Yeah, they were able to get some pressure on the quarterback. Yeah, can't complain about any of that. Definitely one thing that does come to mind, they need to be more consistent on third downs, right? That third and 22, that was a big third down that they definitely should have stopped them. And I don't know what the deal was. They couldn't seem to stop them.

Yeah, the third down play when Iowa was at their 10-yard line, it was third and 20-something, and then they made that catch, that changed the entire game momentum. Right. I don't know if anybody follows us on Instagram. If you don't, follow us on Instagram, BlueBy90. But one of the things that we saw. BlueBy90Podcast. Thank you, Jack.

One of the things we did see, our keys to the game were stop the run. Iowa's team rush yards, one yard. Love it. That's huge. That's crazy. We finally stopped the run. Yeah, they were able to get some push, finally. DeWolf was out there.

Quidipe was, before he got injured, he was making some great plays. Great edge rushing. Defense looked good. Cam McGrone was flying all over the field again. I mean, defense looked great. If it wasn't for them, we would have lost the game. Offense still looks awful, but we can say that. Yeah, we'll get to that offense later.

But for right now, I'm just trying to cover some of the positives, right? I mean, defense, we looked good. We had eight sacks. Yeah, that was the most since 2016. That's huge. Yeah, the defense came to play today. Defense came to play. I mean, we let up 260 pass yards, or I think it was pretty close to that.

Yeah, 260. 260. Iowa was able to move the ball, but they were able to stop them when it came to the red zone area. Right. And then Iowa did make a lot of dumb mistakes on their part. They had some penalties. They had some turnovers. I mean, the three picks, that's what helped us so much oh for sure the turnovers we won the turnover battle that was another huge part of our keys to the game um but they were able to pass the ball which worries me because it was a little bit of those rub routes

that we're worried about right the rub routes the road routes, the crossing routes. The short crossing routes. They would just hit their receiver and all of a sudden first down. And they were just moving the ball down the field that way. Yeah, I thought that the defense played pretty well for being on the field so long. I mean, not pretty well. They played extremely well for being on the field the entire game. Right. I mean, the time of possession battle, they definitely won that. I'm not exactly sure on the numbers. Yeah, they had 33 minutes or about 34 minutes, and we had 26 minutes. Yeah, so, I mean, they won the time of possession battle, but we managed to win the game.

So that's a testament to our defense, right? So something to be happy about there. I mean, I can't be displeased with that nate stanley was 23 for 42 so they threw the ball a lot yeah for especially for iowa you'd expect them to be running the ball but oh you take away those picks that's not a i mean it's not awful yeah i mean yeah i mean, hands up to the defense. One guy I do always want to, you know, highlight, Aiden Hutchinson, right? Aiden Hutchinson has just been having a great year, it seems like, so far.

He's been solid. He's solid, yeah. I mean, he's a huge player for Michigan, went to Divine Child, lots of tackles, huge in that Army game. His dad, Chris Hutchinson, went to Michigan, was a captain. So I think he's a doctor in the Detroit area now. So, I mean, Aiden Hutchinson, man, he had a great game too. But overall, the defense, they showed up to play today.

Does anybody else have anything to say about the defense? Defense looked good. They looked good, right? Some young guys. Dax Hill was making some plays. Oh, yeah, that's right. Dax Hill. Vincent Gray's still playing well.

Again, Cam McGrone, young guy, doing well. Didn't see Chris McGrone get in. Cam McGrone had like a sack in a hurry or something. He was fast. He's fast, man. So we had some young guys in there just balling. But, I mean, Jack, you kind of alluded to this. Over to the offense.

I mean, offense still needs some work. Dude, that offense is bad. 147 yards for Shea. Zero touchdowns. Zero touchdowns. That's bad. Dude, I'm just being real. This offense, good luck.

It's just not going anywhere. Yeah. Like, what is it? What's wrong? The play calling doesn't seem to be, like, good. Today they didn't seem to throw the ball down the field at all, except for that one pass. And when they did, like, they actually moved the ball.

And even another thing, when we did throw it downfield and Nico caught the ball, there was so much open space and open field for Nico to be able to get it and actually take it in for a touchdown, and Shea threw him back into the defender. And luckily it was Nico who couldn't come down with anything, so he caught it and we got the first down. But it's like, look negatively at a positive where we can improve and that's like like you just took

away a touchdown right so many times the offense had an opportunity to take the game into control and just be up they should have been up by like you know three touchdowns right at the end of this game this game should have been like 35 to 3 not not 10-3. And I think they did, so that field goal that they got was their first drive, and it was because Iowa fumbled the ball on first down. So you think about it, the offense wasn't even able, they just got

lucky being in a great spot. Yeah, we got lucky because we fumbled the ball a number of times and we just happened to recover it. So I'm almost like, did we fix those fumbling issues? No. Or are we just getting lucky on recovering them now? You know what I mean?

I mean, you should have seen us at the tailgate. We had girls and everybody was, like, showing them how to hold on to the football, trying to get it out of their hands. I mean, they're doing a better job than those guys are. Come on. No, for real. I mean, we still, I mean, another thing to note here,

we had 3.6 yards per carry. Our run game is still struggling here. I mean, Zach Charbonnet had 42 yards running the ball, but you can't be running the ball for 3.6 yards. And it's hard for these guys to even get any sort of rhythm if we keep taking out the running backs and put somebody else in. You know, it's like, you're going back between Charbonnet and then Wilson and Christian Turner like put somebody in let him get a rhythm and let him like go now I know I was saying this earlier I don't know if you agree with me Jack I mean I was saying that in that first possession we were running the ball and we were establishing the line of scrimmage it's also we only ran the ball twice

and it looks like I'm just gonna argue with this on this one. That's fine. No, I mean, it looked like we were establishing the line of scrimmage, setting it up for the play-action pass, which was working. I don't know if you agree with that or not, but it looks like we got away from that as the game went on, and we started passing and passing and passing, and to be frank, it wasn't working. What do you think about that? I'm still somebody that thinks... Like, I think when we are passing offense,

we are best. Yeah. And when we pass the ball and we are getting completions, getting the ball to our receivers, that's when we can actually run the ball. Yeah. I don't know if I'm just, like, seeing what I want to see, but that's what I firmly believe. And when I watched the game today, that's what I noticed. When we actually were passing the ball and we were getting some yards

and getting some momentum, and then we ran the ball and we got a 10-yard run, it looked like a smooth offense, and it was just going and going. Then we started trying to run the ball every now and again. We were just going right up the middle. We don't know how to run it outside or find a hole or whatever it is. I don't know if we're blocking or what it is. I just think we're 100% better when we're a pass-first offense,

and I'm going to firmly believe that, and I've said it for the past three years. It just seems like, for whatever reason, in that last quarter of the field, when we start getting towards the 30 of the 25, we can't seem to execute, right? All of a sudden, we can't score points, and now we're setting up to kick a field goal. Yeah, and they can't finish in the red zone. And it was the same issue last year. They couldn't do the same thing. Yeah, exactly. I don't know in the red zone. And it was the same issue last year. They couldn't do the same thing. Yeah, exactly.

I don't know what the deal is. I mean, what was the... I can't remember if it was last year or the year before where we played Air Force, and we had like five field goals. Do you remember this at all? Anybody? And it just feels like the same kind of feeling. For whatever reason, we can march down the field, all of a sudden...

Up until the red zone. We can't move the ball. Now we're kicking field goals again. Or we got Quinn Nordean kicking 50-yard field goals, barely missing, right? It was a pretty... I mean, if you were at the game, Jack, right? Like, that dude can kick, but he... Oh, he had the one where they

iced him and he continued to kick it. He kicked it from the 48, so it would have been a 58-yard field goal, and he drilled it. It was halfway up that net through the middle of the upright. He could have been at the Iowa 40 and he would have made it. He rocked that ball.

He's got a leg. The next one, he just barely missed. I think it was wide right. But I mean, if he can get that sweet spot and kick it perfect, I mean, that ball's going to go. Yeah. I mean, another thing to realize too is that that Iowa defense was good. I don't want to take anything away from them. So I do want to realize that for Michigan and Michigan's offense, this was maybe the second best defense that they've played against, right?

They first played against Wisconsin, and they couldn't do anything. This defense was the second best, and it seemed like they were still struggling, but they were able to pull off the win. Something to be said for being able to pull the win out, right? And even still a thing for me that I think is like, I truly don't believe that I think is like I can't – like I truly don't believe that the defense is this good. I just think that we're not executing and able to make decisions

when we're supposed to be making decisions. Like if there's a guy open, hit him right away. Don't think about it too much. Like if there's a flash where we can get them the ball, like get them the ball. But it's just like can't make a decision and like we're taking too much time and then the line collapse and then you're going to get either sacked or you're going to have to throw the ball away or you're making a bad pass or whatever it is.

I feel like there just needs to be quick decisions. Start running those short routes. Start running quick slants and just get some momentum where it's driving down the field bit by bit by bit and we're actually gaining momentum. And then even if you're running short passes, run the ball outside or whatever it is. Get some sort of momentum going. Something like that.

Running the ball up the middle consistently is not going to get that momentum. No, I feel you on that. And it's proven not to have for Michigan. No, I mean, what do you guys think about Shea's play? Nate, I know you have some strong feelings about Shea. I mean, what do you think? Well, looking back on the first pass, right, with Nico, I mean, Nico had to adjust for that.

Right. And then the pick, and I don't know, man. It just, ugh. Yeah, I don't want to go into it. I mean, say what you will, Shay didn't have a lot of pass yards. I don't know. I get scared watching him, man.

Some of the pitches, the pitch that he made today, where it ended up being the first play of the game. Oh, I was thinking about a different one. I almost got knocked down where he pitched it to Turner or Charbonnet or whatever. Yeah, that one. That's the one I'm talking about. Game three or four yards. I was like, oh, gosh.

I thought I was about to get knocked down and they were going to take it to the house. Take it to the house, yeah. No, Shea Patterson, I mean, he had 25 rush yards on seven carries. He had some good reads. He did have some good runs. He did a lot better with the reads. He had some great runs. He had a 15-yard run.

He did better today, I thought, if there was, like, nobody open and he took it himself. I want to see him do that more often. I think we need to get him rolling out way more often. Give him some options where he can either throw it or he can run it. He's already getting the momentum going to be able to do that, and that's the kind of quarterback he is. He's not a sit-in-the-pocket guy.

Get him out of the pocket, let him make a play, and get around and get some momentum going for the team and be able to move the ball downfield. No, we saw some against Rutgers, right? Those naked boot runs where the line pulls one way, Shea runs the other way, pulls out, makes a pass. And that's the other thing

I think we should do with our running game. Even just for the running backs. Like fake counter or whatever and have the line go this way and the running back goes that way. At least create some space

where we're getting this whole speed and space that we haven't seen all year long. Yeah, 100%. Where we're getting guys isolated with one defender and let them be able

to make a move and hopefully break away. That should be the whole point of speed and space, right? Get people open. Spreading out the whole... Get them to the ball. Yeah, exactly.

I mean, I'm 100% in agreement with you. Yeah, we need to get these guys out in space. Especially, we've got these huge NFL receivers, right? I mean, I don't know if anybody was listening to the Fox pregame show or halftime show, but you had Urban Meyer going like, why are they not passing to DPJ? Now, I know he's big on DPJ, but, I mean, why aren't we? You can tell he's still, like, bitter about that.

Yeah, he's bitter about not getting them at Ohio State. But I think he makes a great point. I honestly think if DPJ was at a place like Ohio State or at a place like Oklahoma, they'd be giving him a lot of targets. He'd be a big name in college football. Yeah. Dude, it's just sad, man. I feel like we have –

I'd go to a different university. Dude, they don't get the ball enough. They're not getting the ball. Yeah. You're starting a rumor right here or what? I'm not starting a rumor. I'm just saying if I was that, that's what I would do. Yeah.

I mean, like, you're seeing all these other receivers. I would understand. People are looking at it like, dang, Hollywood Brown. All these guys are blowing up. And you see these amazing receivers we have, but they just don't get the opportunity. What was DPJ today? It's sickening. Do you know his stats?

I think he had like 69 yards or something. Maybe that was Nico. That must have been Nico. Yeah. No, I mean, I think all our receivers actually were fine. Honestly, pretty much every game, I think that they're doing solid. It's hard to tell when your receiver's not having a good game, right? Because usually that just means that they don't have a lot of yards.

But we pass the ball around or so infrequently that it's difficult to tell. So... Yeah, this... Another leading receiver, Collins, 63 yards. He's 6'0", but that was Nico. Then, okay. You didn't see Ronnie Bell get too many targets today, right? Yeah, Ronnie Bell, I mean, I think he had that one drop.

I don't know if he had any. Yeah, he had that one drop, or that should have been a catch, but for whatever reason, he stopped running. Yeah. We saw Mikey Sanger still get a little catch. Yeah, a couple times, I think he had one drop. I don't know if he had any. Yeah, he had that one drop, or that should have been a catch, but for whatever reason he stopped running. Yeah. We saw Mikey Sanger still get a little catch. A couple times, I think he had one drop. Yeah, that actually was a great play. That was a good play, third down.

That was third down and long. He made the catch, and that set up that Zach Charbonnet touchdown. So if he wouldn't have made that catch, and if Shea wouldn't have thrown that ball, it would have been a different game. Yeah. So I think we definitely capitalized on some of Iowa's mistakes, and we made some good offensive plays early, right?

They moved really fast out the gate. Yeah. Their drive was probably the best drive they had. One thing that I think we can say that we did well almost all game was we were fast, right, in terms of running plays, lining up, and not making personnel mistakes and things like that. I think towards the beginning it seemed like they were moving fast, and then towards the end it just seemed like more of the same.

Right. Well, I just mean first half of the game there was – First quarter. Well, first half in general, right? I mean, we were not – I'm just mad about the game. We should have won by more, but I can't be mad about the game. We should have won by more but I can't be mad about a win.

DPJ had four receptions for 26 yards. That's not a lot at all. He had the most targets I think. I guess that is what it is. It's just tough because we have so many great receivers and I feel like we don't take advantage

of all their abilities. They're our best players. Why are we not getting the ball? Yeah. How many rush yards did DPJ have? He lined up to run the ball. Oh, that was minus nine. That was ridiculous.

I'm like, what are you doing? Oh, my God. Don't run the ball. Just give him the ball. Throw it to him. He's a receiver. When do – No, we can't run the ball anyway.

Why run it with a receiver? I'm like, what are you even thinking? How many screen passes do we do? I think we have like three. You see Alabama, you see Oklahoma doing screen passes. Because they can fucking block. No. That's one thing that I criticize Nico for.

Is I see Nico out there sometimes giving up on a block. And I'm like, dude, if you would have continued your block, we could have had another 10 yards on a run or something like that. I think that's one of our biggest things. We've got to be a better blocking team. That's got to be the biggest reason why we can't run the ball. Other than the play calling just saying run it right at the middle. Yeah, we've got to be better blockers out on the edge.

And I think that's huge. But yeah, I think in general, we're pleased to get the win. But we want to see the offense capitalize better. Defense, keep rolling. Defense, keep doing what you're doing. Yeah, defense got to keep rolling. Don Brown's defense stepped up.

I mean, they left three points to a top 14 team. Number 14 in the country. They left three points. Yeah. And our defense is on the field the majority of the game. I mean, I can't stress enough how happy I am with the defense and how great they looked, but our offense looked that bad. We're on this upset after a victory.

Yeah, I'm with Jack. The offense is just awful. That's 100% a great point. I just want to bring it to next week. Bring back Pep. Bring back Pep. Yeah, no, you're literally the only person I've ever heard say that. Pep and John O'Korey man. It's the recipe for success.

That's a recipe for absolute failure. Just never say that ever again. Just pay Tom Brady so much money that he... Yeah. Pay Tom Brady 500 mil to come... Whatever Tom Brady's wife makes, just double that. And then maybe he'll just be like,

football was fun, but... I don't know if I want to see him kissing his son at the fucking stadium. Yeah, I'm not. That's weird. That's a little too much. The weird thing was him kissing Robert Kraft after the Super Bowl win. Don't want to see that. Yeah, that was weird.

For everybody who wants to know, that's up on our Twitter page. No, I'm lying. Don't look on our Twitter page for that. We're on our Twitter page for real football information. Yeah, I don't get that how you can I'm lying. Don't look on our Twitter page for that. We're on our Twitter page for real football information. Yeah, I don't get that how you can't eat a strawberry, but you'll kiss Robert Kraft. That doesn't make sense to me. That's disgusting.

No, I just want to bring it forward to next week then. We're playing Illinois. Shouldn't be a huge ordeal. Illinois lost to Eastern Michigan and Nebraska. I was watching them earlier and they threw a pick six to Minnesota. Or they got the pick six. Yes, they got a pick six, ran it back versus Minnesota. It looks like Brandon Peters, former Michigan QB is the QB there, and it looks like he's fine. Unfortunately,

he's just on a bad team. That's pretty much all I have to say. Yeah, I think for him it was about playing, right? He could at least play there. I mean, now, to be fair, they had 346 rush yards versus Nebraska. That's a lot. They have an offense that can move the ball.

Versus Nebraska, who I watched them play Ohio State, say what you will about Ohio State, but they couldn't stop them for anything. And then, according to the ESPN-FPI, Michigan should win that game 89.6%.

Yeah, I feel like for me, that's a win.'s a win let's talk about penn state man yeah so the week after illinois is penn state and that's at penn state most likely game time has not been announced most likely it's going to be at night um it's probably gonna be at night and it's gonna be a big it's gonna be, you know, big whiteout game, 20 matchup, right? Michigan's probably going to be ranked like 16 going into that. And they'll just make it a whiteout because why not?

You know, this is a big game for them. It's a big home game. I don't know. Do they play Ohio State on the road or I don't know who else in the East that they're playing home. So, uh, Penn State looks scary, man. They have a lot of athletes on that team. I think, honestly, Michigan going into that environment

and having the offense that they do right now. Can you imagine having this offense run the way it is and not even being able to communicate because they have to deal with crowd noise now? It's going to be sad, dude. It's going to be sad. No confidence in our offense. No confidence. And this is something we talked about like our preseason show, I think.

Where it's like, we always have to worry about if our offense is going to score enough because we know our defense is going to do the job and it's always like, oh, is our defense going to be able to hold them so we can win the game? Instead of being like, okay, is our offense going to be able to score enough? Our offense is awful. If we can score points, we're fine.

We know the defense is going to do the job. We don't need the defense to be able to carry the team when they're on the field the majority of the game. Like, that's a ridiculous, like, ask for any defense to be able to do. And offense just needs to figure it out. Dude, I think it's, yeah, it's just not going to be a good year. They're going to lose like four or five games. To be fair, I don't really think Penn State has played anybody.

So, yeah, they ran a score up against Idaho. Who cares? They killed Maryland. They killed Maryland. Dude, Maryland, like, did anybody watch that Maryland game where they played like Tulane or whatever? No. Oh, my goodness. Temple Maryland game where they played, like, Tulane or whatever? No. Oh, my goodness.

Or Temple? Temple. They played Temple. It was like, they couldn't hold on to the ball. They couldn't score. They couldn't do anything. Dude, they looked so, they looked way worse. Yeah.

So, it was bad. I'm nervous for that game. I think that'll be a good. Yeah, Maryland came out. They killed Syracuse. But, like we always say, ACC is not that good. I don't know. I just feel like Penn State, they have that offense in place.

Where they don't have to worry about switching all the time. They've got a consistent thing. They don't hear stuff from Penn State. The offense just looks like garbage. And the defense, it's just like, oh, they're a good team. They're a good team. You know? the offense just looks like garbage and the defense, you know, they don't have, it's just like, oh, they're a good team. They're a good team. You know.

It'll be a good game for them next week because they are 10-12. Is that next week? Next week, yeah. Yeah, so there'll be a good game for them next week because they play Iowa. So that'll be a good measuring stick for us. How do we do against Iowa? How do they do against Iowa? Right? And that'll give us. They'll probably blow Iowa out.

Yeah, so if they beat Iowa like 42-10, then that'll give us an idea of like, oh crap, we got something to worry about against Penn State, right? I mean, we already know we do. But I don't know about you guys, they don't have like a Saquon this year, right?

That's when we were solid. We just know they a solid everywhere. They got KJ Hamler. I don't know. At least, I mean, I feel like we have a guy who's just as dynamic, DPJ and Nico. Right, exactly. Except we can't get him the ball.

We can't get him the ball. Yeah, I just don't know. Haven't figured that one out yet. I don't know. So I just feel like we have a better defense than. What is happening? Yeah. I don't know what's going on. Sorry we have a better defense than... What is happening? Yeah. I don't know what's going on.

Sorry, pause the podcast. We got neighbors bouncing around. Making a bunch of noise. Yeah, what's going on? Continue. They must be really upset with the offense. Yeah. But...

I agree. I agree. That's right. I just feel like we have good offense. Or... We have good receivers. Receivers, yes. Real good talent.

They have good receivers. So I don't see why we can't compete with them. Put J. Millie in! I want J. Millie! I'd go anywhere at this point. Just throw that bomb downfield. He'll... Do you think putting Joe Melton in there would be worse? I don't think it would hurt the offense.

I don't think so. But also, is it like... Is it a play-calling thing? Is it like... I just don't know. I'm it like i just don't know and i'm so confused i don't know what is wrong yeah i don't know what to do to fix the office so frustrated dude watching the last three quarters was i was so bored miserable i was so bored like what is going on oh so boring defense was great but is so boring. It was the same score as the Super Bowl last year. I just felt like I was watching a crappier Super Bowl. Just like, oh, God.

Yeah. Well, just looking at the scores right now, I mean, whoa, Florida's up on Auburn 17-13. That's kind of weird. Texas is up on West Virginia 21-14. But my whole point of saying that is teams like Auburn and Texas are

way more explosive than Michigan. And I feel like Michigan has great athletes. So I don't know what the deal is there that we can't seem to execute on these supposedly explosive plays. It doesn't make sense.

So that's what I'm looking for. I don't know about you guys. Have you got anything? I just want to see the offense do something. Yeah. Offense needs to do something. They need to score points. They need to look fluid.

We need to have an identity. Yeah. That's what I want to see against Illinois. I mean, defense, we know what we got. Offense, we don't. I have no hope. Yeah. Against Illinois, I just want to see against Illinois. I mean, defense, we know what we got. Offense, we don't. I have no hope. Against Illinois, I just want to see the defense come out and absolutely execute and destroy them.

Keep us in the game. I want to see the offense take that next step. I want to see them make those passes to those explosive NFL receivers. I want to see them execute those read options to Zach Charbonnet and let him run for more than 20 yards. Yeah. So that's what I'm looking forward to. I mean, yeah, get the blocking.

Like, if we're doing a runner play, block your people. Yeah. Let us be able to get more than three yards. So, yeah, sorry if you can hear this. I have absolutely no idea what's going on over there. But, yeah, we got Big Nate over here running down there to be quiet.

But, uh... Yeah, I have no idea what's going on right now. I think it was like some 80-year-old. I thought that was like a 40-year-old man slamming on the door. That was crazy. Little kid. Yeah. Oh, yeah. year old man like slamming on the door that was crazy little kid yeah oh yeah oh that's a bit different uh yeah if you're listening for the first time welcome to blue by night

no but uh yeah i think that's what we're looking forward to in the illinois game um dude they just gotta if they just gotta throw the ball downfield throw the ball downfield Throw the ball downfield Let somebody do something Get receivers open Just play solid defense Dude, I really think that this year My hope is that they can

They can beat Penn State and beat Michigan State They will lose to Notre Dame and Ohio State No question They're just not good enough See, my whole thing is I'm not good enough to be those teams. See, my whole thing is I'm not looking forward to just throw it up and let it happen. I want the play design to dictate getting receivers open and letting them run in space.

My thought was that was the whole point of speed and space, was designing the plays to let them excel, right? Putting them in a position where they can shine. Not just being like, all right, run deep. Yeah, I don't want them to throw the ball. Yeah, I think we're all on the same page with that. I mean, they've got to do something to get... They've got to do something. Well, and I think that's kind of what we were all saying while we were watching, right?

Was, I don't know if it's Shea, I don't know if it's the line, and I don't know if it's good defense or guys not getting open. At this point, I'm convinced it's either Shea, guys getting over it, or play calling. Yeah. I think the line's fine. I'm over that right now. Yeah. I thought the line played well. I think it's Shea or play calling.

Yeah. I agree with you guys both. I mean, like, if Dylan comes back and, I mean, let's say, dude, let's, if Dylan were to get a shot, I would like to just see Dylan play a whole game. Yeah. I mean, what do you have to lose? Like, you either find out, oh, okay, you know, we'll just be whatever we were before or maybe something happens.

Yeah. Yeah, I mean, there's just, you can't win any of these big games with this offense. I don't think we downgrade by changing our quarterback. Yeah, at this point, I don't think Shea needs more reps. I mean, he's been with the team. He knows everybody. I'm assuming he knows the offense. If you don't know the offense, that's a huge problem, right?

So, yeah, I don't see why he can't execute the offense and why we can't excel. So hopefully against Illinois, if we have any issues, we can iron them out. Right? Dude, this podcast just turned into, like, a huge, like, it feels like last two weeks ago, like, we lost the expectations. It's not satisfying, man. It's not satisfying. They had so many opportunities to get up big, and we're just going, like we lost. The expectations are so high. It's not satisfying, man.

It's not satisfying. They had so many opportunities to get up big, and we're just going like, man, this sucks, dude. It does. Don't feel good about it. Yeah. No, yeah. Well, I mean, we got plenty to look forward to.

Plenty of good games coming on later. I just want to see the offense execute the way I know they can. I just want to see them execute the way LSU does. LSU comes out and puts up huge points. I'm just like, dude, why are we not doing this? That's where we're at. Does anybody have anything else to add?

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