2023 unlv

2 hour and 10 minutes

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1. Offense vs Bowling Green

Starts at 1:00

At least everyone else in the country played the same game this weekend. Allow us to talk you off the ledge! Let's talk about JJ's interceptions, the first one was probably a bad read into a zone. Take our word that this was a very visual segment. Should not be throwing to Cornelius Johnson on the 2nd interception. The third interception was maybe not a bad idea? It kind of feels like the program didn't take any of these non-conference games seriously. Run game ran a zone stretch for zero yards and then shelved it entirely. There's some concern that a lot of off-season time was wasted because a lot of transfers couldn't practice together and they're learning new material. They ditched outside zone and suddenly things looked better. Tight end blocking was pretty good. One nice thing about this game - it felt like Blake Corum is back! 

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Special Guest

Greg Harden was Michigan football's in-house sports therapist and "secret weapon" for a generation. He put his message down in a book.

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Featured Musician: Jesse Clayton

The Video:

[After THE JUMP: The saidening.]

FORMATION NOTES: UNLV was highly multiple, with a slight tendency towards running the 404 tite stuff mentioned last week.

Note the safety at 15 yards; UNLV was less aggressive than ECU, also less weird.

UNLV also ran some stack fronts and regular old 4-3.

They rushed their three down linemen a bunch; the eighth guy in coverage did not help.

SUBSTITUTION NOTES: OL and QB the same as last week. Michigan intended to give Jack Tuttle most of the fourth quarter but he got a cheap shot on his first play so Warren got the rest of that drive and then Jayden Denegal got in.

At TE, Loveland and Barner both got around 30 snaps with Bredeson picking up about a dozen. Jones got four snaps as bonus OL. Matt Hibner got scattered snaps before garbage time so he's likely back to full health. At WR, Johnson got 40 of the 50 snaps the first team offense was in for; Wilson and Morris were about ten back. Morris was much more prominent in this game after ceding third WR snaps to Fred Moore in the opener.

DIRECTOR NOTES: CBS gets a +2 for the copious replays.

[After THE JUMP: NBA jam time]