Washington went into Saturday night time’s recreation at The Huge Home meaning to cease the run fairly significantly. Properly, 343 yards and 4 touchdowns surrendered later, it didn’t precisely work that approach.

On the opposite aspect of the ball, Washington appeared intent on operating till Michigan had the sport in-hand, but, once more, the Huskies couldn’t obtain what they got down to obtain.

After the sport, UW head coach Jimmy Lake made no excuses about what occurred in Ann Arbor.

“We went into this factor making an attempt to run the soccer and the aim was to cease the run,” Lake stated. “We didn’t get that completed and Michigan did.”

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Although the Huskies gave up 13 carries for 72 yards within the first quarter, Lake was happy with the job his protection was doing. That’s, till sophomore operating again Blake Corum exploded for a 67-yard rating, placing Washington down 10-0 within the second quarter. From there, the wheels began falling off, he says.

“Early on we did a pleasant job,” Lake stated. “They’re a proficient staff. Early on I feel we did a pleasant job of stopping it. After which they hit that massive one. And it solely takes one run. It was a 60-plus yard run within the second quarter. After which I feel we’ve gotta play as a staff. For us not scoring any factors in anyway and for our opponents a motive to throw the soccer they usually can simply hold pounding it at us, that’s a great way to win soccer video games. Yeah, it’s staff soccer, we’ve gotta put factors up, we’ve gotta make our opponent not be capable of simply hand the soccer off and win the soccer recreation.”

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Michigan significantly broke Washington’s again within the second half when it ran an eight-play, 73-yard drive, all of which had been operating performs. Lake says the protection received worn down and from there, there wasn’t a lot it might do towards the Wolverines’ offensive entrance.

On the opposite aspect of the ball, whereas UW appears to be like prefer it had an honest recreation in some respects — the Huskies completed with 293 yards passing, albeit at a 54% clip — the run recreation couldn’t get going towards the new-look Michigan protection below coordinator Mike Macdonald.

The Wolverines managed to carry Washington to only 50 yards on 32 carries — a median of 1.6 yards-per-run.

Lake says that the Huskies needed to actually go to the properly when it got here to making an attempt to determine what Macdonald’s protection would seem like, noting that Western Michigan, in what it ran every week beforehand, did his staff little favors when it got here to revealing what he and UW may need seen on Saturday night time.

“Yeah, we needed to examine a number of the Baltimore Ravens,” Lake stated. “We needed to examine a number of their protection to see a number of what we had been gonna see. Western Michigan solely lined up in a single personnel grouping for many of the recreation so we solely noticed structure-wise what they had been gonna do in that group — that personnel grouping. So there was nonetheless a number of thriller as to what they had been gonna do to our personnel units we had been gonna do. However we had a basic thought they usually had been gonna play sound protection and deal with properly they usually did an incredible job of bottling us up and stopping the run and placing stress on our quarterback.”

Up subsequent for Michigan, it is going to host one other MAC staff, this time Northern Illinois (1-1), which received towards Georgia Tech in Week 1 however misplaced to Wyoming, 50-43, in Week 2.