Michigan Football: 3 ways to fix the Wolverines offense

Take advantage of the offensive talent

One thing Gattis preached during the offseason was speed-in-space and getting the ball to playmakers with a chance to do something with it. So far, that hasn’t really happened.

To anyone watching Michigan football on offense, without Peoples-Jones, Nico Collins is the best player, so why does he have just five catches for 81 yards in two games? That’s unacceptable.

Black has seven receptions for just over 100 yards and Mike Sainristil and Giles Jackson, two freshmen most thought would make an early impact, have one catch for zero yards.

Ronnie Bell has been awesome and when Peoples-Jones gets back, those two plus Black and Collins should form one of the best pass-catching groups in the country. Yet, that’s what makes the past two weeks so frustrating.

Michigan football had the talent to be a big-time offense last season but it refused to get away from a conservative approach. Deep balls were a rarity and first-down runs were far too frequent.

That made last Saturday disappointing. If Army could draw up how it wanted Michigan to play, running the ball 33 times with a freshman running back probably would have been ideal. So why play into their hands?

It’s just like when Michigan decided not to attack Ohio State’s pass defense, which was a huge weakness. Instead, UM ran right at the Buckeyes, who knew was coming along with everyone else at the Horseshoe that day.

Those things weren’t supposed to happen anymore. The offense was supposed to be fast, aggressive and explosive. This team is loaded with talent, so for the love of everything holy, it’s time to take advantage of it and if Gattis and Harbaugh can’t figure that out, that’s the issue.