More evidence that Michigan can't let Jason Beck keep calling plays

The Michigan offense doesn't pass the eye test. It's not hard to watch the Wolverines and realize they aren't a very good offensive team.

Michigan football goes beyond not very good. It might be the worst offense in the FBS. The Wolverines are ranked outside the top 100 in scoring offense, total offense, rushing offense, and passing offense.

It's been brutal. The 13-6 loss to Indiana was a new low. Michigan squandered three first-and-goal chances in a game that ended up tied 6-6 at the end of regulation.

This isn't a one-game issue. Michigan's offense has been terrible since the first game. The Wolverines have only scored more than 20 points two times this season. Those were the 21-point game against Penn State and the 52-point effort against UTEP.

Everything else has been a struggle. The offense functioned pretty well against Iowa; it failed in the red zone. Saturday's loss to Indiana was similar. Michigan missed a field goal at the end of the half, missed a field goal after it had a third-and-goal at the one, then didn't score on two other first-and-goal opportunities, one in the final seconds of the game.

Everyone is focused on the third-and-one call. That was terrible. It was a play-action pass to the Rhino in an effort by Jason Beck to show everyone how smart he is.

It blew up in Michigan's face. It's not crazy to say that Beck's play-calling is the reason Michigan football lost its third game of the season. Seven games in, it feels like Beck needs to go.

Well, everyone except for Kyle Whittingham, who continues to stand by the highest-paid offensive coordinator in the country at $3.1 million this season, even though the results have been terrible, as Bill Radjewski details in this post on X.

Experts are calling forJason Beck to go, too

Maybe it's because it wouldn't look great for Whittingham to fire the hand-picked offensive coordinator he brought with him from Utah. It's easy to have hindsight now, but at the time, most Michigan fans wanted Beck and felt like he was a no-brainer,

Now, we are all longing for Chip Lindsey.

Firing Beck also wouldn't be cheap. Tony Garcia of the Detroit Free Press broke it down, but it would be an expensive move. You wonder who could call the plays if Beck were fired. Nebraska brought in Dana Holgorsen late in the season back in 2024, but outside of that, Whittingham doesn't have many options.

In that sense, it might not be the best move to say he doesn't support Beck when he's trying to get the players to keep playing. Maybe Beck will figure things out. This team still needs to win two games to reach a bowl game, but outside of that, and winning rivalry games, there isn't much to play for.

Maybe if the Wolverines upset UCLA and Ohio State in back-to-back weeks, on top of three other wins, they have have an argument, especially with all the chaos in college football right now, but six wins isn't guaranteed the way Beck is calling the offense.

Fred Jackson is assistant running backs coach. He's been an offensive coordinator for 11 seasons in the past, including two at Michigan. So there are some options if Whittingham wants to take away the play-calling duties.

Either way, the offense has made the season feel hopeless, despite an elite defense. Teams win when they allow 20 points or fewer 87 percent of the time. Michigan has limited all seven opponents to 20 points or fewer, and they are barely above .500.

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