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5 things we learned from Michigan football's loss to Washington

Michigan football lost a winnable game against Washington and here are five things we learned about the Wolverines.

By Chris Peterson

Oct 5, 2024; Seattle, Washington, USA; Michigan Wolverines head coach Sherrone Moore reacts to a blocked field goal attempt by the Washington Huskies during the second quarter at Alaska Airlines Field at Husky Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Joe Nicholson-Imagn Images
Oct 5, 2024; Seattle, Washington, USA; Michigan Wolverines head coach Sherrone Moore reacts to a blocked field goal attempt by the Washington Huskies during the second quarter at Alaska Airlines Field at Husky Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Joe Nicholson-Imagn Images / Joe Nicholson-Imagn Images
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Sherrone Moore whiffed on both coordinator hires

There's never a right process for hiring assistant coaches. You just need to get it right. Sherrone Moore chose an outside hire for defensive coordinator and Michigan football is paying out of the rear for a dude who should be on the unemployment line in six weeks.

Wink is too old to change his spots. He can't resist sending weird blitzes at weird times. But what ends up happening is that he blitzes players who don't blitz much and aren't good at it, so they fail and the play succeeds for the offense.

Wink's calls are easy to diagnose. He's not fooling offenses and the pass rush is the only thing on this defense that's working. Rush four and play coverage all game long. He just can't do it and looking back, hiring a guy who was let go by the Ravens and Giants, and who hadn't coached college football in 20 years -- whether he was the "OG" of the system or not -- was probably a bad move.

Steve Clinkscale should be the defensive coordinator. But that doesn't mean promoting from within is always the way to go, because Kirk Campbell has been just as bad, maybe worse. Campbell can recruit quarterbacks but his lack of flexibility with Alex Orji was stunning.

You had all offseason to build an offense around Orji and didn't even try. Say what you will, but he's the only quarterback who isn't turning the ball over multiple times per game. Beyond that, not playing Donovan Edwards and Kalel Mullings more together is an even bigger indictment.

It shouldn't take a genius to realize those are two of the only players on the entire offense WORTH having on the field on every play, yet one is usually on the sideline. Like why isn't Edwards in the slot on every single play that Mullings is at running back?

Campbell is a fine quarterbacks coach but this team needs an actual offensive coordinator -- one capable of adjusting to the talent he has, instead of trying to force the talent fit a system.

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