Grade Session: Michigan offense vs Penn State
There is real reason to be encouraged by Carr.
There is not enough here to give Jason Beck and Whittingham a blank check and declare the offense fixed.
JJ Buchanan
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Gameday Calls: Five bold predictions for Michigan vs Penn State
Michigan has had two weeks to sit with the ugliest offensive performance of the season. Penn State arrives with three straight losses and one of the Big Ten's most vulnerable run defenses.
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The Game Plan: Michigan’s path forward against Penn State
Michigan has spent two weeks hearing about turnovers, offensive identity and a season that went from 3-0 to 3-2 in the span of eight days. Now there is nowhere left to hide behind the schedule or the lack of practice time.
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Grade Session: Michigan’s RHINO Offense
The extra offensive lineman has become a weekly target as Michigan's offense has struggled to find an identity. The formations get heavier. Safeties creep toward the line of scrimmage. Receiving options disappear. Michigan runs into crowded boxes. Fans see Avery Gach or Manuel Beigel reporting onto the field and can almost feel the next debate coming.
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Grade Session: Michigan offense vs Minnesota
There is no way to watch Michigan's offense closely and decide the quarterback is the primary reason it has become this dysfunctional.
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Michigan’s offense hits rock bottom in 20-14 loss to Minnesota
Michigan spent the last several weeks talking about an offense that needed to evolve.
On Saturday, nothing looked evolved.
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The Game Plan: Michigan vs Minnesota
Michigan played its best offensive game of the season against Iowa and still found a way to leave the stadium with a loss. That makes the first road trip of the year less about proving Michigan can play good football and more about proving it can stop wasting it.
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Gameday Calls: Five bold predictions for Michigan vs Minnesota
The Gophers are 3-1, just went into Washington and won, and have a quarterback playing with confidence in Drake Lindsey. They also have one of the most dangerous return games in the country. I still think Michigan is the better team, and I think Saturday looks more like a response than a hangover.
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Micah Simon: Buchanan, Marsh have earned the right to stay on the field
Michigan spent most of the offseason discussing its new wide receiver room, and who could break out behind its top two stars.
Four games into the season, Micah Simon has a very different problem. Getting those other receivers on the field.
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Grade Session: Michigan offense vs Iowa
Michigan got Iowa-ed.
That is the simplest explanation for how the Wolverines gained 429 yards, averaged 6.3 yards per play, generated six explosive passes and still finished with 19 points.
