Michigan Football: 5 things we learned about Wolverines spring game

Wide receiver make plays after the catch

If you are a Michigan football fan than you have heard the term speed in space. Well, Saturday night, we saw it, in a very limited fashion.

As Josh Gattis said, Michigan didn’t huddle and they went up-tempo a lot. All the quarterbacks seemed to handle it well. Last season, Michigan threw a lot of passes downfield and part of what we saw Saturday was quick passes that turned into nice gains with yards after the reception.

Ronnie’s Bell touchdown was an example of that. He caught a short out and made Josh Mettellus miss and then he was off to the races for a touchdown. Tarik Black also scored because he got a short slant near the end zone and was able to make his man miss to put up six points.

Another example was Mike Sainristil on the first drive. He got a bullet from Patterson across the middle and probably would have scored in live tackling situations because he appeared to make the defenders miss, but when Gattis means speed in space — that’s it.

It’s not complicated and it doesn’t mean a ton of deep shots, although Michigan football took a fair amount of those. Yet, a lot of times, it’s the quarterback distributing the ball with high-efficient throws to guys who have the speed and moves to make people miss.