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Wolverine TV: Five things we learned from Jim Harbaugh's Monday press conference

clayton-sayfieby:Clayton Sayfie•09/05/22•

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Michigan Wolverines football head coach Jim Harbaugh is in his eighth season at U-M. (Photo by Nic Antaya/Getty Images)

Michigan Wolverines football head coach Jim Harbaugh met with the media Monday to look back at his team’s 51-7 win over Colorado State and preview this weekend’s matchup with Hawai’i. In the video below, we break down the five biggest things we learned from Harbaugh’s session with reporters.

Topics include:

— The Michigan quarterback battle

— Michigan’s offensive line and a key injury

— The highest-graded offensive linemen in the win over Colorado State

— Harbaugh’s favorite thing about the Wolverines’ defensive performance

— The key to the Michigan team’s motivation for Saturday’s game against an objectively bad Hawai’i team

In case you missed Harbaugh’s press conference, watch video from it below:

Jim Harbaugh discusses Cade McNamara, J.J. McCarthy quarterback battle

While J.J. McCarthy was the more impressive Michigan quarterback against Colorado State, Harbaugh still liked what he saw from Cade McNamara.

“I thought Cade had a really solid game,” Harbaugh said Monday. “I think he walked away mad at him self for missing [senior widest Cornelius Johnson] on the crossing route [in the first quarter] and threw the ball to C.J. a little wide on the opposite boundary [on the first drive]. Other than that, he made some terrific throws … [including] on the two-minute drive.

“That’s just how he is. He’s a perfectionist. I thought it was a really solid game.”

McCarthy will start this weekend, and he’ll have a chance to win the job. Harbaugh isn’t leaning 1 way or the other at this point, though.

“We plowed this ground about as thoroughly as it can possibly be plowed, dating back to the summer … one could start, the other could start, or it could be a combination of both in the games,” the Michigan coach said. “Those are the options. I’m happy that we’ve still got another week to look at it. We said that each would get a start. Make it as fair as it could possibly be.

“I think I said the same thing to you guys. We prefer to have a starting quarterback going into each ball game. I’ve been very transparent with that. And I also said yeah, if things are exactly the same as they were coming out of camp — they were pretty close to dead even — then we were as coaches going to have to find a way to maximize both of their talents for the best use of the team. That remains a very viable option.”

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