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probably more on Carr and the O-coordinator, but when you have Braylon Edwards and Jason Avant on the otuside and Breaston in the slot there's no reason the RB should get 40 totes a game

I'm guessing the TE was open as well

I can't call Perry a "great" RB in 2003 at 5.0 yards per carry.  400 of his yards were against CMU and Houston.  His 200 yard game vs MSU required 51 carries.  He's in the Hart/Johnson group of RBs, not the Wheatley/Biakabutuka group.  Now don't get me wrong, it's great to have a guy that can tote the ball 50 times when you need him to, but for a college RB, 5.0 ypc isn't great.

To me Perry isn’t in the Hart/Johnson category because he had the NFL 1st round type of raw physical talent those guys clearly didn’t have. Perry was 6’1, 225 lbs with legit 4.5 speed. He was big, physical, strong, and he could run away from people.

He’s most definitely in the same Wheatley/Biakabatuka category in my opinion. He’s actually got a few things over both of those guys- his blocking and catching. Perry was a fantastic pass blocker and he caught the ball out of the backfield as good maybe even better than any Michigan RB that I’ve seen.

He doesn’t get to control who he plays. Doesn’t matter that 400 of yards were against Houston and CMU. The MSU game was as impressive of a game as I’ve ever seen from a college RB. He physically wore down that MSU defense on the road in East Lansing. To take 51 carries and take the beating- he just kept converting short yardage and controlling the clock and taking the hits and kept coming at them. Perry also completely dominated reigning national champs Ohio State in Ann Arbor.

The 3 games Michigan lost that yeast were because Perry couldn’t get rolling. He only had a handful of carries against Oregon and against Iowa and USC both those teams sold out to stop the run and Perry was only able to get 80 ish yards against either team. When he had his 25-30 carries and ran for 100+ Michigan rolled. He was the key to that entire operation.

That offensive crew Carr included weren’t exactly the sharpest knives in the drawer.

I think a lot of that though was them not having complete confidence in Navarre. He was an inaccurate passer and his TD to INT ratio was 2:1. OK. Not exactly great. Especially not when really good college QBs are often 3:1 or even higher. Haskins this past year was 6:1 for example. Baker Mayfield’s in his 3 years starting at Oklahoma? 9:1.

I want to say that by nature, pro-style QBs are prone to throwing more interceptions than their dual-threat counterparts.  They are heavily-reliant on good pass protection and timing, so when the pocket breaks down, they don't necessarily have the capability to roll out and throw "on the fly".  You know you have a great pocket QB when he has a strong understanding of what his strengths and weaknesses are - instead of throwing the ball up for grabs, he'll either take the sack or throw the ball away to save a down or preserve field position.

However, in today's game even pro-style QBs need to have at least a little mobility to succeed.  Defenses are getting faster and faster and love sitting ducks.

And that's not to say that dual-threat QBs don't have their weaknesses - very few have simultaneously strong and accurate arms, and make their living with their feet or throwing short and medium passes and let their playmakers do the rest.

Another data point is that in the 2003 Jug game, Michigan came back at the same time Perry started ripping off 30 yards every time Navarre threw him a bubble screen. I think he's still running through the Metrodome end zone.