Michigan Tuesday: Jimmy Takes The Bullets

Jimmy took the stage for his regular Monday noon time slot.  He took the blame for the Wolverines performance:

“Watching the film, I think, it was pretty obvious to everyone watching in the entire football world, really A to Z, it wasn’t good,” Harbaugh said. “Wasn’t good, wasn’t good enough. Not acceptable. It starts, really, it with it’s not acceptable for me. So you start self-critical and determined to get it fixed. That speaks for me and everybody on our team — players and coaches.

“That was not a day we’re proud of.”

How do your fix it?

“Starts with — really we didn’t play physical enough,” Harbaugh said. “We were out-hustled. I put that, I take responsibility for that. In any ways that we were out-schemed, also take responsibility for that. That’s my job to make sure we’re completely sound in all offenses, defenses, everything that we’re running.

“How I manage the team, to get them to play hard, play tough. As I said, A to Z, you can point to, it wasn’t good enough. We all take responsibility for that, we’ve all got our fingerprints on it. Determined to get it fixed is where we’re at right now.

“I could go into all the details, but really gonna — that’s every single detail. The same for our team. We’ll talk about it. Already have as a coaching staff, what our plans are and ways we’re determined to make it — to see the improvement. Confident that we’ll rally and get that done.”

Rutgers is coming to town this week and how will Michigan rebound?

“Maybe learned it here playing or reinforced it along the way, but the only way I know is to go back to work and dedicate yourself to improvement and fixing,” Harbaugh said. “That was a bad day, it was not a banner day for Michigan. You don’t want that to turn into two losses — don’t want one loss to turn into two.

“Everything we’re gonna be, this is this game. This is the most important game. This week, the most important week. Win the next game. You come back to work and make darn sure it doesn’t happen again.”

He of course said everything we expected him to say.  The proof will be in the product the Wolverines put on the field.   The only way to start climbing that Wisconsin performance back is putting a basketball score on the Knights.  

Injuries:

• McCaffrey is doubtful but getting better.  Which means "out" in Jimmy speak. 
• TE Sean McKeon is also doubtful
• Dwumfour is practicing and should be ready to play.   His loss is sorely missed at this point. 
• Tru Wilson could be back and Zach only missed one practice last week and will be ready to play. 
• Milton will be the #2 QB and Shea #1 (I don't believe Shea is healthy either, he took a ton of shots against Wisconsin). 

from The BIG HOUSE Blog http://mbighouse.blogspot.com/2019/09/michigan-tuesday-jimmy-takes-bullets.html