I mean…I know we haven’t played the best of offenses but cmon, M defense has done pretty well and made all look way worse. Give credit where it’s due. (Sans one half, but even then they were on the field way too long) 
 

I am with Seth on some of these. I would grade those Cade passes a little more harshly on the WRs.
 

The one over the middle that was to absolutely nobody had to be a route miscommunication.

The pooch kick was aggressive and—contrary to Brian’s bewilderment—absolutely was considered as a possible turnover generation, in my opinion. And it almost worked! It looked reckless in hindsight because Mertz makes his two best passes of the season back to back. The pooch was a gamble and they lost; they came close to winning big and then lost big. So it goes. 
 

also thought the delay of game punt was weird. After the up-back fake punt run was put on film, it was obvious what the threat was on 4th and 2. Wisconsin wasn’t going to jump off, so...??? Strange 

Disagree on the pooch kick.  Michigan gave up 12 yards in exchange for 7 seconds (one quarter of the remaining time) *and* a chance at a game-ending recovery.  How often would you expect Wisconsin to move even 33 yards (for a long FG attempt) in 15 seconds?

This was an aggressive call that I'd like to see Harbaugh make more often.

Cade is “not even an average B1G QB”? Which B1G have you been watching, because it certainly isn’t the one that exists in 2021 of this plane of reality. 

I'm not exactly ready to trust this team but we're getting incrementally better. 

Cade is a perfectly acceptable QB if all you're looking to have him to do is make safe throws and never lean on him to win a game. I think if we're ever in a situation where he's got to throw us back into a game - we're in trouble. I'd be happy to be wrong. 

The execution on both sides of the ball looks a lot better than previous years --I still worry about whether or not the coaches are putting the players in position to be successful. 

But 5-0 is 5-0. Go Blue. 

Until that 4th and 2 and subsequent TD, I was basically counting the minutes until they pulled him for JJ. Such a rough beginning. Cade's form on that first and inaccurate throw was super cringey.  Although, I thought the receivers weren't doing Cade any favors either. After watching the every offensive snap video, Cade was pretty rough all day. Too many inaccurate passes or passes to no where. But he doesn't throw INTs and is reasonably accurate on the deep ball which is so nice after 2-3 seasons of the Michigan QB not being able to hit those. 

I think that long one that Wilson managed to come down with was huge in the game. It led to Michigan going up by two scores again and really put WI behind the 8 ball.

It really looks like Cade's time is limited though. He is a nice base to have though. 

Man, that was a depressing Podcast after what was a great road win at a place we haven't won at since 2001. Brian was so negative, especially early on. They basically started out right away talking about what went wrong in the game instead of what went right. It was hard to tell that Michigan won the game by 21... they were talking like Michigan lost. And the statement about how most people only predicted a 7-5 record because of the schedule is just a lie. Everybody, including Brian, thought that this Michigan team was going to be weak and that's the main reason why they thought Michigan was going to go 7-5... and despite the weaker than expected opponents so far, they have to admit that Michigan looks much better than they expected. Plus, Michigan still does have one of the toughest schedules in the country. Having to play on the road at PSU and MSU and home vs OSU... and on the road at Nebraska this weekend will be tough as well. I usually enjoy these podcasts because Brian and Seth usually have reasonable things to say... but this was a dissapointment. Whenever Seth tried to say some positive stuff, Brian would interrupt him and disagree by saying something negative. Seems over-the-top to not even admit that Cade is an average B1G QB.

I was getting pretty angry with the start of the podcast but I cooled down a bit as it went on.  I will say though that Brian wondering why people thought he was so negative after he wrote 

Since Michigan was playing Rutgers, "dunks on you" means "scores ten points in a half and still loses." The feeling is still the same. Michigan's second half didn't lose this game; it felt like it lost future games. At some point down the road when Michigan gets conked everyone watching will think about how the second half of Rutgers foretold this woeful fate.

Like, come the fuck on.  Michigan has somehow gone 3-2 this year despite tricking all of the record keepers to mark them down as 5-0.  Michigan played really well against Wisconsin, and while the Badgers aren't their usual class they still better than their record and have a ton-ranked defense.  It's insane to me that UM can beat a team on the road by 21 and it's treated as a loss because they didn't blow them out enough.

Anyway, I'm sure UM will lose a game and all this negativity will be "redeemed" but I'm beyond tired of it preemptively.