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[After THE JUMP: All things borked]
1. Offense
starts at 1:00
Shea and his reads: Harbaugh's job is to lie but we think Shea's definitely injured. Sometimes there was an overhang read but mostly: yeah. His passing too was probably affected by that.
Ready to buy Charbonnet as a star. We got a lot of data this week. Missed Runyan a lot—not great from Hayes, huge missed pickup by Turner. Giles Jackson has freshman slot disease: need to teach them to cut inside the blocker. VanSumeren screwed this up too. Quarterback has to play better, period. Targeting call: can't call that—have to account for a guy changing position.
2. Defense
starts at 26:38
Irrelevant to the rest of the season. Uche had a good game, Hutchinson had a good game, can't blame him for Army doubling him by having another guard slam into the guard blocking him to get a short gain. Michigan chose to go with a 3-3-5, take the dives to prevent anything big. You're going to
3. Special Teams/Game Theory
starts at 55:10
Ronnie Bell: making us miss DPJ/Peppers. Third punt was yikes, and fumbled a punt. Liked how Michigan played the 4th quarter—problem wasn't going for it; it was the playcall. Michigan got RPS'd by Army who called something to beat the arc read. How did ULSM not go for two? Michael Sessa on FG blocks. Commercials: so many in this game that Michigan ran out of their in-game frippery before the 4th quarter.
4. Around the Big Ten wsg Jamie Mac
starts at 1:20:25
Wisconsin Rutger'd CMU (hey we could have played CMU) and Quintez Cephus is back. Both teams have a bye now. Indiana had their fun. Buckeyes had their fun; Justin Fields completes 80% of his passes. Iowa found a receiver against Rutgers—not the one we gave them. Michigan State gets 51 points wearing the Mountain Dew uniforms against the Broncos (hey we could have played WMU). Penn State got outgained by Buffalo; 23 for 24 is a bad run game. Maryland what? Illinois has former Michigan guys and beat UConn, has EMU (hey we could have had a bye then played EMU) next week. Colorado-Nebraska was a Lions job. Tried to have their punter kick the OT field goal. New center is taking some time to get used to it. Two signs Nebraska is back to the Osborne years: Colorado rushes the field, and they're playing a criminal right out of jail.
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- “Don't Leave Me THis Way”—Lee Fields
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JFW
September 9th, 2019 at 6:47 AM ^
Speak comfort to me...
Joined: 10/20/2010
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Wal-Mart_Wolverine
September 9th, 2019 at 7:07 AM ^
Jesus. Bring on the BPONE.
Joined: 10/28/2016
MGoPoints: 9
CLord
September 9th, 2019 at 1:17 PM ^
I'm deep in the BPONE. I still see a light above me, but it's distant. Made more so by the crazy housings teams like Maryland, MSU and Wisconsin have been laying on cupcakes in ways never (and in MSU's case rarely) seen.
Two yards wide right from a season feeling very 7-5.
A season where it seems JH put way too much faith in Gattis when, after watching what Locksley has been doing at Maryland, it appears we might have gotten the shorter end of that stick.
Still time to turn it all around and hope springs eternal from down here, deeply rooted in the BPONE. 8-4.
Joined: 09/11/2011
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DonBrownsMustache
September 9th, 2019 at 7:32 AM ^
If Shea is injured and is having trouble throwing and running he should not be playing.
Joined: 07/21/2019
MGoPoints: 284
bronxblue
September 9th, 2019 at 8:40 AM ^
He struggled running the ball; he was largely fine throwing it. It wasn't an amazing day, but other than that last drive in OT he was pretty on point and made a number of hey throws to keep drives going.
Joined: 11/22/2008
MGoPoints: 69841
BlueFab5
September 9th, 2019 at 10:48 AM ^
I think we may have been watching different games. Patterson made a few good throws but missed a lot of reads/open receivers and was inaccurate on many throws. Not to mention the fumbles. I'm hoping it's due to the injury and he can rebound. But he did have issues with decision making last year too. If it's not because of injury the QB position is a problem.
Joined: 11/20/2008
MGoPoints: 285
bronxblue
September 9th, 2019 at 1:21 PM ^
I rewatched the game and it didn't feel like a lot of guys were as open as people think. Army is good at disguising coverages and making you read through progressions, and while he bugged out at times a little early the lack of a run threat let those lbs sag into passing lanes more than they could if Patterson was running free.
I also saw a couple of non-calls on PIs that may have erased options downfield.
It wasn't some amazing game by Patterson but until this final series he was 19/26 and 6/10 or something on third down throws. He has struggled a bit but he still looks pretty good, at least to me, throwing. Running is a different story.
Joined: 11/22/2008
MGoPoints: 69841
turtleboy
September 9th, 2019 at 1:18 PM ^
Army sacked 4 times, and pressured enough they scored him with 8 rushes, even though I believe he only actually ran by design twice. Also he didn't have a good day passing, he wouldn't throw to wide open targets right in front of him, and his incompletions were due to badly missing open players, because of being injured and being spooked about being injured worse on top of it. Also we were missing our starting left tackle. We also have two top national recruit quarterbacks on the roster who aren't injured. I really see no incentive to play him, and every incentive to not play him against army.
Joined: 04/22/2011
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CRISPed in the DIAG
September 9th, 2019 at 7:51 AM ^
Colorado needs Nebraska more than the B1G needs Nebraska.
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lbpeley
September 9th, 2019 at 7:57 AM ^
I thought Sainristil (sp?) was going to take college football by storm this year. I guess he gets the "the one player every offseason with bullshit hype" award?
Joined: 01/29/2009
MGoPoints: 19544
Sleepy
September 9th, 2019 at 8:10 AM ^
Takes time to trash a freshman two games into his career, but is too lazy to google his name.
This is anonymous message board posting at its absolute finest.
Joined: 10/23/2012
MGoPoints: 6507
lbpeley
September 9th, 2019 at 8:22 AM ^
Trash a freshman? Where did that happen, cupcake? We were told all year watch for that guy. Where is he? That's not an indictment of him, it's the same old thing we get every year with "watch this guy" or "watch that guy" that never happens.
Joined: 01/29/2009
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burtcomma
September 9th, 2019 at 8:31 AM ^
2 Games in, and you know everything about a freshmen receiver’s year...🙄
Joined: 11/01/2009
MGoPoints: 3327
bronxblue
September 9th, 2019 at 8:45 AM ^
It's two games into the season. Maybe, and stay with me now someone who thinks calling a person "cupcake" in 2019 is a worthwhile insult, we're looking at a small sample size and he could prove the coaches right as the season progresses.
Joined: 11/22/2008
MGoPoints: 69841
rice4114
September 9th, 2019 at 11:30 AM ^
Jim Harbaughs offense will never pass enough to make 4-5 WRs happy, let alone our fanbase. I dont care if he hires an Air Raid OC.
Joined: 08/26/2010
MGoPoints: 7371
The Fugitive
September 9th, 2019 at 8:10 AM ^
Did Shea piss himself or is that photoshopped?
Joined: 01/26/2016
MGoPoints: 54453
Glennsta
September 9th, 2019 at 12:22 PM ^
Everything (almost) you wanted to know.
https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/19769575/what-do-athletes-do-to-pee-games
Joined: 01/28/2011
MGoPoints: 2265
theytookourjobs
September 9th, 2019 at 8:22 AM ^
Somebody please enlighten me on why the fuck McCaffrey isn't playing if Shea is hurt?
Joined: 11/24/2008
MGoPoints: 13030
maize-blue
September 9th, 2019 at 9:14 AM ^
Meanwhile Brandon Peters has 7 TD passes in two games compared to Shea's 3. I'm not trying to say Brandon Peters would be a better option, but that many other teams in the country can manage to put together a good passing attack. Teams I didn't even know were in the FBS average 10 yards a throw. But UM with a former NFL QB head coach and future NFL receivers fails to utilize it's talent over and over again.
Joined: 01/10/2013
MGoPoints: 40565
Blucifer
September 9th, 2019 at 9:36 AM ^
This is the biggest question of the weekend. If the coaching staff does not feel comfortable letting McCaffrey take on Army, how is it going to go when Shea's crap play mandates a halftime switch against a stouter opponent? Shea should have been pulled when he put the ball on the ground in the first quarter. The fact that he wasn't says all you need to know about the state of the QB position, and I, for one, am scared.
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