Michigan Football: 5 reasons the offense will dominate in 2019

After the way the season ended for Michigan football, a lot of people have questioned the offense but here are five reasons it will dominate in 2019.

When it comes to the Michigan football team, whenever there are questions that pop up it generally has to do with the offense.

Is Jim Harbaugh going to open the playbook? With Josh Gattis run the show? Will Shea Patterson improve? Will Nico Collins, Donovan Peoples-Jones and Tarik Black take that next big leap?

A lot of different questions are basically asking the same thing, can Michigan football finally live up to its potential on offense?

More than anything, that question might define the 2019 season. Don’t get me wrong, the defense isn’t perfect. We learned that lesson over the last two games against Florida and Ohio State.

But in truth, we should have known that all along. Michigan football should have too. You can’t always win playing top-notch defense and grinding it out on the ground. Against Ohio State, Michigan played that way and before it knew what was wrong, the Buckeyes, with a much more aggressive game plan ran away from them.

Having an outstanding defense is part of the puzzle but far from the only piece. As Clemson showed, you need an offense that can score 40 on an elite defense and that was not Michigan last season, even though it could be.

At times, the Wolverines were their own worst enemy and hopefully, with Gattis on board, that will no longer be the case and with that in mind, here are five reasons the offense will not only take a step forward in 2019 but why it will dominate.