Podcast: Michigan bye week burning questions, Big Ten Basketball Media Day takeaways
On this episode of The Wolverine Podcast, Clayton Sayfie and Anthony Broome discuss Michigan Wolverines football on the bye week and give takeaways from being in Chicago for Big Ten Basketball Media Day, before making Week 7 college football picks against the spread in our “No Man Knows The Future” segment.
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The two hosts talked about Michigan football’s offense with graduate quarterback Jack Tuttle now leading the way.
“You come out of this game, despite the loss, feeling like, alright, you know who the quarterback’s going to be now,” Sayfie said. “You know that he’s an upgrade over Davis Warren and Alex Orji — I think that part is really clear — but how good is he going to be? How much of an impact can he have on this Michigan offense that desperately needs to get something going beyond running Kalel Mullings and, at times, Donovan Edwards.
“I do think the bye comes at a good time, where he got healthy enough. We talked to him on Tuesday night. He basically didn’t get any practice reps until Washington week because he was recovering from an injury — not even on scout team or anything on that, he said — and then he gets a taste of playing, then he gets another week to get healthy, get more chemistry down, because he wasn’t taking starter reps in practice leading in. Now he will be, and you can kind of build around him.”
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“There’s a path forward here,” Broome said of Michigan’s offense with Tuttle. “Just going by what we saw with the eyeball test the other night, he is this team’s best shot at having maybe not even a balanced offense but something respectable to where, when a team loads the box, Jack Tuttle’s going to get the ball out quickly. And I think for a lot of these guys, the receiving numbers are probably going to tick up the second half of the season.
“In these first few weeks here, you’re gonna kinda have the element of surprise on your side, only because these teams don’t exactly know what Michigan is going to be offensively. Yeah, they had to throw a little bit on Saturday night, but they were down two scores and had to throw to get back in the game. There’s not as much of that film on Tuttle yet.
“Now, the thing with him that I’m concern — it seemed like to me, and I’ve gone back and even watched an additional time since we did our Monday night show, some of those passes lost zip on them as the game went on. And I don’t know if that was a fatigue thing, I don’t know what to attribute that to.
“This is the time of year you start thinking about, ‘What is this going to have to look like if you’re going to go win a game in Columbus?’ Tests are earlier than that now. You gotta go play at Indiana, you’ve got Oregon in a couple weeks. So what is this going to have to look like? We can say it with hindsight being 20-20: There wasn’t a path to doing that with Davis Warren or Alex Orji at quarterback.”
