Wolverine TV: J.J. McCarthy talks preparation for first start, Michigan QB competition with Cade McNamara
Michigan Wolverines football sophomore quarterback J.J. McCarthy is set to make his first career start Saturday night against Hawai’i at The Big House. He met with reporters Tuesday night to preview his first game as the main man behind center, the quarterback battle with senior Cade McNamara and more.
Watch video of McCarthy’s press conference below.
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More on Michigan’s 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 himself for missing [senior wideout 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 one 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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