Notice he has no real football logic reasons for why Michigan is definitely going to get better, it's just "they just will get better that's how it goes".
You can tell the difference when a team is just having a bad first game and when it's actually bad bad and going to be bad going forward. Michigan is in the "bad bad" category offensively. They looked worse than I thought they would, I at least thought they'd run on command on Fresno State, that didn't happen either.
Only 1 starting QB had a worse YPA in 2023 vs Fresno than Warren did against them Saturday, and it was Nevada's terrible QB.
The deflection seems to be to act like Fresno was some elite G5 last year, they were "good" for a G5 team but nowhere near a elite G5 team. Especially on defense. NewPhone is talking like they smacked Boise around when Boise was in their prime winning 10-11 games every year.