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I’m not an expert by any means, but from what I can gather from those who know more (TFJS, Sam, MGoBlog,etc)… the run game issues are more related to scheme and the way defenses are playing Michigan than they are to specific O-line performance. That’s also what has been the issue with the RHINO package. Defenses have been uber aggressive against Michigan’s jet motion. They’ve timed the snap to it, they send their ends upfield as fast as they can, and they crash the safeties. This makes it so difficult to run, and a bit reason why the o-linemen haven’t been effective at blocking to the 2nd level. In the 2nd half against UTEP, they limited how often they were running the net motion and switched to more downhill running or perimeter runs that started differently. And that certainly worked. I think Beck is basically acknowledging that defenses have an answer for the net motion run package he used heavily at New Mexico and Utah. And if that’s how they’re going to play against Michigan, they need to do other things to keep the defense honest. There’s a reason Carr’s designed run against UTEP had much more room. UTEP was no longer able to play with the reckless abandon they were earlier, which is also what Oklahoma did.