Jason Beck

And we are back, folks, here on the Michigan Insider on the Big 1050 WTKA, online at thebig1050.com. Sam Webb, Mr. Ira Weintraub on the other side, and joined again by Teddy's dad, John U. Bacon, and Bakes, the last sort of question on this whole Michigan football, Kyle Whittingham, Jason Beck topic.

You mentioned Michigan fans aren't going to be happy if Kyle brings Jason Beck back, right? Yes.

So it begs the question, let's assume for the sake of argument that Kyle wanted to move on.

I'm not saying he does.

I'm just giving you a what if.

What if he's in that place? Can he just do that unilaterally at this point, given...

The contract, I think the buyout is for Jason Beck.

I think they might have to pay $9 million or so to get out of the contract.

So,

so this is not a totally, as we get to a break, this is not a totally apples for apples comparison because Brad Holmes has achieved much more than Jason Beck.

All right.

He's achieved much more.

So he deserves the benefit of the doubt.

Make no mistake.

But he is at a moment, much like Jason Beck, where it's now or never.

Like, you got to show that you can do this job to a higher level right now.

DJ Sin City is back with another one.

He says, do you think Jason Beck is struggling with play sequencing? Outside of play scripts at the beginning of the game, it looks unorganized and predictable, but we start off the game looking sharp.

Have either of you guys noticed that?

I think there's something to that.

After this season, it makes you think about the great beyond.

So we have a gimmicky top five, which is gimmicky top five people who are doing slightly better at their jobs than Jason Beck.

Are we ready? Yes.

Read your top, your number five.

It doesn't make much sense, but they love Alabama.

They're going to keep them in the top 10.

But the pollsters this year, they have a lot of craziness to work with, but they're doing a slightly better job than Jason Beck.

Seth, you're number five.

You want to see all these types of things.

But if like, if you want to see, like, I think the last thing you want to see is the perimeter run suddenly like working, but not because like, Oh, they're blocking better, but just because Rutgers is so inept and then Jason Beck stays with it.

Right.

But like you, you want to see them regardless get better at doing what they're doing, but you don't want it to see, we'll get into more of that in segment three, but you know what I'm saying? Yeah.

Fool me four times.

Right.

Like when it comes to Jason Beck in the offense, it's the same as him.

Right.

We have Bronco Mendenhall on every Monday, and he was listening as we were bringing him on.

And we were talking about Michigan and how the heat is on Jason Beck and all that, and Kyle obviously too.

And so Jason Beck played for Bronco and then coached for him, and he said that he went overboard with his language, and he said to think that Jason Beck isn't a good coach, quote, asinine.

I mean, I was shocked when he said,

yes.

And I'm not making excuses because it is Michigan.

They have all the resources in the world, and they should be a heck of a lot better than they are now.

I would say my criticism of Jason Beck is that he's coming in and you see, I think we've seen this many times with coaches, especially early on in a program or their first year, and they're trying to force feed their entire system with the personnel they have.

But now they've won four out of five.

Well, the coaching staff was so bad, they wanted to fire Jason Beck.

Ooh, nice.

Green Bay is 5-3, although in the hyper-competitive NFC North, that puts them in last place.

Can you believe that? But I do think it's the right call sticking with Tommy Carr at this point.

Needless to say, Wolverines offensive coordinator Jason Beck has taken a lot of heat for sticking with schemes that are not working, and Whittingham is taking heat for sticking with him.

See how that's going.

Now on the bright side, they should have a big day on the ground versus Rutgers because Rutgers gives up a lot of rushing yards.

Okay, real quick before we get to that.

Multisabering, can you explain why Jason Beck is failing as an OC for Michigan? Everyone's saying his scheme isn't doing his favors to his personnel.

I'm not entirely sure what that means.

So from what I understand, and I haven't watched as much Michigan film this year because they just haven't been as relevant this year, but I think we can actually look to the leak group text as a pretty solid example indicator of what has gone wrong.

Jason Beck, when he was at Utah, ran a system in which they loved to prioritize getting an extra O lineman on the field, and they loved to run horizontally.

They loved a lot of outside zone, right? Because you take off a tight end, you put an extra lineman, and then critically, when he was at Utah last year, he had two first-round NFL tackles.

He had Spencer Furneaux and Caleb Lomu, both of who were absolutely dominant, would have started on any team in the entire country.

And this is where...