Michigan Wolverines: Do they have a QB problem? | Joel Klatt Show 

Will Michigan look like the team from last season again?

A QB problem? Yeah, when you don't have one, it's a huge problem.

We have 2 quarterbacks that can't throw, and an offensive line that can't block. We're in trouble.

Great Video!! Spot on on Michigan's offensive issues as well as the defensive side!! BEST ANALYST IN CFB!!

This weekend's game against USC will be the season defining game. We know Michigan is no longer elite, but are they competitive? If they lose, I think the answer is clearly no.

If thats the case with the defense, then the Wink hire was terrible. Sounds like internally they lost sight of who they are

Just love to listen to Joel’s analysis. Great stuff!

It all starts up front. When Warren has time, he's fine, when he gets pressure he's terrible. Losing 6 OL to the NFL, the drop off up front has been the biggest challenge for Michigan's offense. On defense, the first string DL is great but there is no depth there like there was last year. Also they are starting a true freshman opposite Will Johnson who is not ready and teams pick on him all game. Wink is not a college DC and the new OC is not running an offense that caters to their personnel. Sherrone is a great OC but he's not calling plays anymore.

Agree with everything you said Joel! One other thing that is uncharacteristic of their previous style of play is penalties, on both the offense and defense. They can’t afford this.

and Miller Moss happens to be better against the blitz than 7 db's. kinda wild to consider that back in the summer, USC being "upset" away at Michigan would've been a joke to most

The culture seems different this year, guys are losing their cool after big plays, getting rattled, playing undisciplined, I think the leadership from both players and coaches they lost are bigger than anyone expected, they’re going to have to find this again and fast to save this season

What's going to be the title of your next video, Joel? "Grass: Is it green?"

I was team warren all summer. They need a guy that can convert 3rd downs and protect the ball, not just tuck and run. But warren apparently can't protect the ball, so I'm all in on orji at this point

Warren sucks, but the O-Line isn't doing him any favors. Orji is gonna struggle as well, unless they replace that horrid O-Line.

the defense concerns me more

Break it down Joel. You’re the best at diagnosing what the problem is, then offer an excellent solution to help fix the problem. Well done. That’s exactly what Michigan needs to do if they want to be relevant this year.

Did they get Connor back? If not, Michigan has a QB problem, line problem, backfield problem etc.

Alex orji's turn. No more 2 qb system. Gonna be fun. He's earned his shot

Michigan fan here. We're toast.

Fork in the road analogy is spot on

1000% spot on all the way through. Think we gotta ride Orji through some growing pains. Or trot out the true freshman Jaydn Davis and start the learning process and see what we have with him. Number 1 thing I agree with though is the coaching continuity between with what Sherrone Moore and Wink want to do. Not sure the fit was as good as we originally thought it was gonna be. The blitz rate is contradicting what made us so good. Great stuff Klatt

Surprised Joel didn’t shed tears with his “best program in the big ten” going to start 2-2

The amount of effort Joel had to put into what-ifs for Michigan is all the evidence anyone should need. Just last yr so team oriented, cohesive, complimentary, confident…almost like you knew what play was coming next Bad recruiting and no philosophy?… but how? 15-0 to this Joel?

Davis warren was 11 out of 11 outside of the 3 interceptions. All three interception were under pressure. Think that he loses all composure when he senses pressure. Probably was why it wasn't identified in the off-season

If you're following the chargers, look at thier defense. 13 points in 2 games, minter was a HUGE loss and so was our strength coach. That's what we re witnessing now.

I would go with Tuttle at least he has experience

I would not have guessed Michigan blitzed that much because I haven't seen sacks or even pressures. At 4 sacks right now that is embarrassing

Michigan is a team now that’s not built on cheating. Going to be tough when you’ve not done it before and now you’re dealing with a new staff.

🟦🟨Joel Michigan needs to go with #10 But here is what they need to do . UM needs to go back to 70's and Bo. Bring this guy under center using the Rick Leach style . Roll him out every snap with option to run or pitch back to following tail back - . OR hit a TE out in the flat . This is their saving grace. They can beat OSU if they perfect the Rick Leach style option from UNDER CENTER not in the shotgun . Pls take about this style and the old style option as their saving grace moving fwd. All else won't work. This uses #10 to the max. Under center , Joel . Leach style. Please discuss this. Thx. .

Football gets a lot harder when you don’t know what’s coming beforehand

I think everyone saw this coming except uM and their fans. They stood on the "we develope here" what happened to that development. Jim left and took half the staff with him because even he knew what was coming.

Team 145 is a rebuilding group of players with new OC, DC,and HC. It sucks losing half the staff and 18 starters from last season. It will take time to get back to the elite level and play complimentary football.

Next week it’s USC. USC looks scary. They may become the National champs this year.

Joel, it's incredibly dishonest to speak about Michigan's performance and coaching prowess over the last few years without even mentioning that they are embroiled in the biggest on-field cheating scandal in CFB history... It's like speaking about how awesome Lance Armstrong was while ignoring the fact that he was heavily doping the whole time.

Can’t Orji just hand the ball of like JJ did last year? I thought their run game was the best in the country?

I hope Tuttle is available.

The Deffensive side is what really is the most disappointing part of the seasson so far and nobody is putting the pressure on them or Wink, its all being thrown at the QB position but last I saw was Texas shredding that Mich D on series 1.

Lloyd Carr ran the ball but also threw the ball deep with pass action. He had tall and fast receivers. We had a day one starter before the season started. Coach Moore should not use the same strategy that Jim used. He needs to mix it up and start using these wide receivers down the field. Michigan very seldom has 1000 yard receivers anymore. We have these short fast guys that run a lot of underneath routes.

This Michigan team looks at a MAC-level on offense. The fact that the two G5 opponents were competitive games along with the blowout loss to Texas is very discouraging for followers of the team. I knew there would be a drop off from last year, but I don’t think anyone was expecting it to be this big. Of the 9 conference games how many of those games would I be confident in saying Michigan will definitely win? 2? 3? Is 6-6 too pessimistic?

Alex Orji is the QB

Wink's defense reminds me a lot of the Don Brown defense (I mean that in the worst way possible)

0:05 look at the bottom headline. “I’m Ron Burgundy?”

I’m sure the cheating had ZERO to do with anything . The mediocre football before it started and the mediocre football after it ended lol

We really miss Rod Moore too in our secondary. That was a huge loss for our defense.

The biggest error of judgement in Moore’s start as HC is that he didn’t go out and get a QB transfer, with how lacklustre the talent is in the QB room and how active the cfb QB market is, it seems like a no-brainer.

Same as working out a great song....all the right chords.

Are we also gonna talk about Donovan Edwards playing pretty poorly so far? As well as the O-Line. They seem suspect all around

Run, run, and run!

Great take

With all due respect to Warren. It was obvious how bad he was going to be by halftime. Orji is the best shot imo we havent gotten enough throws from him in game to see how good his arm is.

I agree with you Joel Michigan needs to make a decision on a QB

Controversy JK???? We just need ONE to QB in A2.

Harbaugh left a vacuum only filled by NCAA investigators.

This year's defense is starting to remind me of the Don Brown years. Those did not fair well against OSU. USC looks a lot like OSU... Fingers crossed we get it sorted out, asap.

Michigan makes the playoffs if: 1) They run a Wing T offense 2) Wink stops Don Browning 3) The kicker gets more opportunities 4) The O line suddly learns to become masons and builds a brick wall to take their place.

People see Arkansas St. and think a cupcake but they are actually a fairly solid G5 team.

Orji time! Go Blue!

Watching Michigan kinda feels like watching USC after Pete Carroll left for Seattle. They wont be nearly as bad bc they aren't facing the same kind of repercussions as we did. But they look like they don't have an identity.

Like I said before the season that team up north ceiling is 10-2 and I put their bottom at 8-4 so I said 9-3 but if they don't figure it out FAST they could end up 7-5! Losses to ( Texas already happened ) USC, Oregon, TOSU and if they don't fixed things FAST a loss on the road to a far less talented team such as Illinois or Indiana 💯

I think they look just fine

Yeah Warren needs to be a quarterback who protects the ball. Don’t take a risky throw while getting tackled. Throw it away! That’s a good quarterback

Let’s scrap the passing game as a whole. I want Orji at WB and the 5 skill players to be Edwards, Mullings, Bredeson, Loveland, Klein. Heavy sets, run every play and have the occasional play action in the flat or TE’s up the seam/deep middle. I’m convinced that’s the only plan that will keep this offense on the field longer and from turning the ball over.

Well it's a lot easier to be better when you know what the other teams plays are lol

It’s shame their quarterback can’t just hand off the ball like they did for the past 3 years.

The formula for michigan to be good every year has been lost and will never come back after Jim left. Period

Im not sure what they were thinking hiring Wink as coordinator. It never worked with Don Brown as coordinator so im not sure why they would go hire a guy that literally does the exact same thing that Don Brown did.

My thing is this Navy or Army could make the playoffs with the schedule both have with just Notre Dame and themselves on it. They both run the ball. Notre Dame QB has no passing TD's but is the second leading rusher on the team. Alex can throw but the coaching staff have to put him in the best situation to be successful. I think we can beat USC if we slow the game down and make it an phone booth game.

They had Connor Stallions for almost all of those games. It wasn't some brilliant scheme Harbaugh dreamed up.

I think it's getting more and more obvious that Michigan needs to make Conner Stalions their head coach!

Remember during the off-season when Michigan fans actually believed they had a shot at it again this year 🤣🤣🤣

The score of the Fresno State game wasnt indicative of the game either Joel, that was a lot closer than the final score

They miss Connor Stallions more than anything.

I’ve been screaming at the TV every time they blitz like that. Ridiculous

One QB is playing very poorly so the coaches chose to start another QB. What exactly makes this a controversy?

I think people are missing that wink is trying to get the 2-3-4 string defense as many snapsv as they can.... i had to rewatch the games. Not pretty final score but experience in game matter

College football is tough to watch. My team recently “changed” and it sure is hard to get behind a lot of the kids… because I don’t have anything invested in anyone. On top of it, we seem worse off. I don’t get how anyone can compete with teams who have u limited booster money because they’ll always get better players. My school looks a little silly trying to run these same offenses, when we are going to ALWAYS get lower caliber players. Sure, our kids usually graduate, don’t get arrested, and act like adults…. But we’ll never win consistently ever again unless we sink to new lows.

They made the call to make the change at quarterback yesterday. You should have seen that and edited this video accordingly. To say multiple times you don’t know what they are going to do at quarterback looks bad.

fight on

We tried to tell you Klatt. They were good because of Stalions and Covid 7th that seniors. Michigan didn’t recruit well enough to compete. They are just average. Maybe below average as a program.

JOEL FREAKING KLATT, you mean to tell me that three years of game reps on offense/defense where the players/coaches know the exact play the opposing team is running didn't help any of these Michigan players develop? What's next?!?!?!

Even if they tweak the defense, which i think they can and think they have the right pieces, the offense is a huge concern. Obviously the QB situation, but also edwards cant break tackles. His vision and patience has improved, but if they cant get him the ball in space consistently, they have to ride mullings. Also, the WRs are either really bad, not trying, or they dont know how to use them. Other than loveland, there isnt a goto guy like they had with roman wilson, and little to no deep threat. Probably too much to fix before the USC game.

why does klatt understand our supposed philosophy better than our coaches

MIchigan's QB problem began when JJ declared and when JH left in late January with ¾ of the staff. By that time, the remaining QB's in the portal were not top notch. Michigan fans need to give Sherron Moore a break, and some time. It is what it is.

No, seriously. ORJI has been named the starter. There is no controversy.

How can you expect a team to be the same losing every offensive player except Loveland as starters, a new head coach, basically all new position coaches Mostly All key defensive players are gone and for some reason the media expects the team to be the same smh. The michigan hate is real

And the defense was playing 2-3rd string getting them reps because we have no depth. That’s when they scored the most

Boy I wonder why their game plans were “incredible” 🤔

Agree 💯

You didn't have to blitz much when you knew the play that was coming.

A rookie Michigan QB about to start against one of the hottest defense USC. Its going to be nothing but sacks come this Saturday

As a usc fan I still see a close game

They played conplimentary football also with a little help from spying on other teams games in previous seasons as we have come to find out. But this drastic change in blitzing may be causing a hardship on this season's Michigan defense. If TYexas was able to expose this, you better believe USC can also due to an offense that is siilar to Texas. Good luck Wink!

Michigan needs to pick a QB. The State of Ohio needs to stop eating dogs!

while i agree this year is a huge problem for Michigan's QB room, i think the larger issue for Sherrone is going to be changing the way QB recruits view Michigan. the last three recruiting classes have been duds in terms of new QBs and the future doesn't look bright with a run-heavy offense.

Funny part is Michigan fans trolled OSU QB situation all off-season funny how that works

This is a coaching staff/coaching scheme/coaching culture problem. Sure, Mich lost a lot of players to the NFL, Harbaugh took ¼ of the staff to LA but theres still ½ of Harbaughs staff there & still a lot of talent there on the team. They said to make Sheronne HC to keep the culture in place but thats not proving true now is it? Sheronne is a great guy who deserved the job but we ALL knew he would be in over his head as the head ball coach (can we say RichRod/Hoke). This IS the Jim Harbaugh effect! I think us Mich fans knew there'd be a dropoff in dominance & wins but we hoped that the culture (the specific culture that Harbaugh built) would make this 2 loss team at worst. The players are only doing what they have been taught to do with this scheme by the coaches & this scheme by the coaches is proving to be inept since the leadership of JH left. All that talent is obviously not being utilized when JH was the General. Wink is def proving to be Don Brown 2.0. He may have may the mentor or Mike McD/Minter but what McD/Minter did is modernized the Defense with adjustments, movements, schemes whereas Wink is running the D like its 10 yrs ago on the Ravens Defense. This D is nothing like its been the last few yrs as you can see it pre snap when they line up. Kirk Campbell has proven why he was an asst in the past & not a O coord. Now that he is calling the plays its like Josh Gattis 2.0. Sheronne was hired to keep the culture in place but the culture is most def not in place in less than a years time!

I want to see how Davis is progressing. He has the best pedigree but a freshman.

start the game passing the ball. that will open up the running game. with a loaded box running backs and a running quarterback will have a hard time moving the ball. lets give jack a try . he has experience

Orji obviously isn’t a “real” QB…BUT…I feel he’s good ‘enough’ to help them win games if you play call to his strengths. Talk to him and ask what his favorite 3-5 pass plays are that he’s confident in and sprinkle them in. Are you gonna win a Title playing a service academy scheme? No. But could you have a respectable 9-3 season? Yes. I’m just asking to be respectable at this point. Rebuilding mode.

Joel needs to pay attention to the news. Orji was picked yesterday