Newsstand: Joel Klatt criticizes Michigan defense for fourth-quarter failures at Washington
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Michigan was outscored 13-0 in the fourth quarter of a 27-17 loss to Washington in Seattle last weekend, and FOX analyst Joel Klatt was critical of the Wolverines’ organization in the stanza.
“The fourth quarter starts, and Michigan reverts to a version of Michigan that, quite frankly, I haven’t seen for the last three years.” Klatt said on his podcast. “It was a team that was undisciplined, they were not fundamentally sound, the structures and the schematics were bad and the decision-making was bad. It was all bad in the fourth quarter.”
“The defense lines up, and before the snap of the football, I pause the film and I’m like, ‘Well, that’s wrong.’ They have a single-high safety, they have two corners and then they have three linebackers and one of the linebackers is walked out towards the single receiver, towards the wide side of the field…So, I’m looking at this and I’m like, well this isn’t very good, because now all they have is one corner and kind of a linebacker over the three-receiver structure. And then they blitz six guys.
“The two linebackers that was lined up inside and the four down linemen all blitz, and there’s a support player walked out to the field, [junior nickel back Zeke Berry], with no one to defend. And there were only two players that are possible left to defend the three-receiver side. And they just have a nice completion there because they can’t get to the quarterback in time, and he just throws it over there because no one is defending him.
“You can’t play zone if you’re going to blitz six guys. You better be in man-to-man defense, and you have two players over three? It blew my mind. Maybe it’s just a missed assignment, but that’s not a structure you can win with.”
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