Maryland Snowflakes - The Offense
November 2nd, 2019 at 3:17 PM ^
Who's O?
November 2nd, 2019 at 3:33 PM ^
Opposite of d
November 2nd, 2019 at 5:11 PM ^
did you talk to d?
November 2nd, 2019 at 3:10 PM ^
So yeah...Shea is definitely the best QB on the roster as of right now
November 2nd, 2019 at 3:10 PM ^
Shea is clearly the best QB, meaning we could not be possibly be more screwed four weeks from now.
November 2nd, 2019 at 3:20 PM ^
That’s an absurd statement. We almost beat OSU with John O’Korn at quarterback.
November 2nd, 2019 at 4:15 PM ^
This OSU team is way better than 2017's, to begin with.
November 2nd, 2019 at 6:30 PM ^
How do you almost beat someone yet lose by 11, without scoring a point in the fourth quarter???
Almost beat was 2016.
November 3rd, 2019 at 1:08 AM ^
Michigan was driving late in the fourth to win and okorn throw a bad pic. OSU then scored on a longish run while trying to run the clock out.
They had the lead most of that game.
November 2nd, 2019 at 3:22 PM ^
Why is Shea clearly the best option? Because DM had receivers drop passes and made 1 bad decision/pass? You watch Shea play? He has a minimum of 1 bad pass her possession. Confused why people think DM sucks after today. I liked what I saw (liked not loved, could be better clearly. I like seeing him pass and less run. He had 2-3 bad drops.
November 2nd, 2019 at 3:11 PM ^
Dylan with experience will be a great QB. Shea is the 500lb gorilla on Gattis’ back. The play calling can only do so much when your QB can’t make reads.
It is what it is for this year.
November 2nd, 2019 at 3:21 PM ^
I see the cult of Shea can’t handle the truth
November 2nd, 2019 at 4:08 PM ^
I think everyone who negatively says "Cult of XYZ" is the same person with multiple log ins.
November 2nd, 2019 at 4:42 PM ^
Neither player deserves a “cult” of any kind. Nor does the head coach. Beat MSU. Beat Indiana. Beat OSU. Then let’s talk coaching contract extensions. But “cult” status for any of this current regime or players is ridiculous.
UM fans are clearly blinded by love for their past and their dusty brand, just dying to slap the warm and fuzzies on anyone in a winged-helmet. But the product has been mediocre crap for well over a decade. The brand built on elite football is eroding.
And y’all are talking cults.
November 3rd, 2019 at 12:03 AM ^
We were elite for exactly 1 year in the past 70. It's not eroding, it is what it always has been. What you are seeing is the result of not being able to keep up with osu.
November 2nd, 2019 at 3:11 PM ^
Still clunkyish. If they can't pave defenses on the ground, it looks labored.
November 2nd, 2019 at 7:45 PM ^
It is indeed a head scratcher as to how we could pave ND's front but not Maryland's.
November 2nd, 2019 at 3:11 PM ^
Looked like complete ass against one of the worst teams in power 5, but other than that pretty solid
November 2nd, 2019 at 5:34 PM ^
Confirmed Josh Gattis needs to have Coach Ed call the run plays going forward. This inside zone crap just stinks. It was nearly a regress to Army.
November 3rd, 2019 at 6:57 AM ^
Hitting their stride....ugh.
November 2nd, 2019 at 3:11 PM ^
Offense flashing the early season clunk in the junk look. That won't work for us in the final 3 games
November 2nd, 2019 at 3:11 PM ^
Glad to see all the trash posts back after a break last week
November 2nd, 2019 at 3:20 PM ^
So you are ok with the offense?
November 2nd, 2019 at 4:07 PM ^
Exhibit A ^^^
November 2nd, 2019 at 3:20 PM ^
So you are ok with the offense?
November 2nd, 2019 at 4:12 PM ^
Today yeah. They won by 31 points. Didn’t look particularly sharp but when you win by 31 points it’s hard to be overly upset.
I don’t get all the hemming and hawwing quite frankly. Just like, enjoy 31 point wins?
i mean, y’all do remember when they turned the ball over 3 times a game, right?
November 2nd, 2019 at 4:38 PM ^
It’s not that difficult to both enjoy a win in the moment while also being honest that the performance is just another data point that this team isn’t anywhere close to elite
November 2nd, 2019 at 4:41 PM ^
You actually enjoy it a lot more when you're rational. Shea isn't great, the offense has some problems, and we'd be lucky to score three points if we somehow made it to the playoffs.
We still blew out Maryland and spanked ND in primetime. Let's enjoy the good.
November 2nd, 2019 at 4:41 PM ^
“Looked like complete ass” -ak47
Yep, perfect balance of enjoyment and hard nosed realism right there.
November 2nd, 2019 at 6:33 PM ^
I was in the stadium, I had a fantastic day with my friends. The offense looked like complete and total shit. All of those statements are true. Not sure why that is difficult to grasp
November 2nd, 2019 at 6:43 PM ^
did You go into this game thinking UM was elite? Because that may be your problem.
November 3rd, 2019 at 11:48 AM ^
You are right, that is the problem. All of you negging every post that is calling out the offense, I don't want to see 1 post bitching about getting trucked by osu for the 30th time.
November 2nd, 2019 at 3:12 PM ^
I feel like there are still aspects of this offense that are uncomfortably disjointed, but when it is working, it seems to work quite well.
November 2nd, 2019 at 3:13 PM ^
May not even be good enough to beat Indiana on the road let alone OSU. They need some serious work (or magic) on the passing game
November 2nd, 2019 at 5:18 PM ^
Totally rational take that gets negged. Oh well, such is MGoBlog.
Here's one back for you. I do think they eke one out at Indiana, but I agree, they may lose.
I bet Michigan wishes they had some Penix right now (NTTAWWT).
November 3rd, 2019 at 3:06 AM ^
We'll beat IU on the road. Calm TF down.
November 2nd, 2019 at 3:13 PM ^
This team will have to play better offensively on the road against Indiana, or we are going to be looking at yet another tight game against them.
November 2nd, 2019 at 3:13 PM ^
Janky. Clunky. Disjointed. Lifeless.
November 2nd, 2019 at 4:12 PM ^
And, oh yeah, 31 points.
November 2nd, 2019 at 4:34 PM ^
Give me a break. The offense looked like crap. If you can’t see that then you can’t see
November 2nd, 2019 at 4:45 PM ^
Maybe stop wearing sunglasses indoors.
November 2nd, 2019 at 7:43 PM ^
Minnesota put up 500 yards and 52 points on this D a week ago. OSU will put up 50-60 plus easily. Sorry if I’m not too impressed by 31 points and 331 yards.
Multiple 3 and outs. Dropped passes. Missed throws. Missed blocks. I stand by my comment. It was a below average-poor offensive performance for a team with the talent level that Michigan has.
November 3rd, 2019 at 12:26 AM ^
Maybe Michigan doesn't have the talent that you think they do.
November 3rd, 2019 at 1:48 AM ^
Comparisons don't work that way in football. Last year we beat Maryland and PSU by a combined score of 84-28, while OSU beat both teams on the literal last play and gave up 51 in OT to Maryland. The result when they played each other? OSU wins by 23.
It's college football. People will freak out when MSU scores more against us than they did Arizona St, but that won't mean we have a worse defense. The sport is wonky and inconsistent and that's partly what makes it fun. Purdue can blow out OSU, Minnesota can stomp on Maryland, and yes, Michigan can struggle with Army and then blow out ND
November 3rd, 2019 at 8:47 AM ^
I understand the transitive property doesn’t work in college football. I guess the point I was trying to make was that it was Michigan’s own lack of execution and attention to detail that caused such a meh/blah performance. I didn’t see Maryland’s defense stepping up and making great plays. I think Michigan has a tendency to sleepwalk through these type of games. Multiple drives stalled out or never even got started for reasons that had nothing to do with Maryland playing great defense.
My personal favorite was the 3 and out that went like this: 1st down: Patterson slightly misfires but Eubanks drops a decent ball that would have been 15 yards.
2nd down: Run where Eubanks barely lays a finger on a blitzing player who crosses his face. But if you watch the play Runyan pulls and it sure looks like Turner should have been headed up the middle instead of outside. Botched play where you can’t really tell who made the mistake. Loss of 5 yards.
3rd down: No sense describing it because UM doesn’t have a 3rd and 15 play that works. RB screen or draw. They chose screen. We suck at setting up screens. This one might have actually worked but Ruiz whiffs on a second level block on the LB. Seriously, we haven’t properly executed a RB screen this entire season. That’s not an overstatement.
Every single play had poor execution, miscommunication, or both. It’s not that hard to figure out why we can’t beat elite teams. Sorry for the mini UFR. I can see why Brian sometimes has a hard time talking about UM football if this is what he sees every week.
November 2nd, 2019 at 3:14 PM ^
I've gotta say hats off to shea. He's not a stud, won't be playing on sundays, but I don't know a single qb in Michigan history who's taken more shit from us, deservedly or not. He started the season as a liability, and has grown into a serviceable qb. I would've folded before this, he's stuck with it, improved from bad to good enough, and continues to do so. No turnovers, he makes reads, runs through progressions, and doesn't scramble out of clean pockets anymore. He didn't set the world on fire today, but found a way to win despite Maryland completely shutting down the run in the first half. Respect, young man.
November 2nd, 2019 at 3:18 PM ^
He’s a good to very good QB. Ridiculous the amount of hate he takes from some fans that know nothing about about football.
November 2nd, 2019 at 3:20 PM ^
You must not have been around when Navarre was the QB.
November 2nd, 2019 at 3:35 PM ^
I was most certainly around when he was qb, but Twitter wasn't.
November 2nd, 2019 at 3:27 PM ^
Turtle. I am with you on most of it. I don’t like ripping players so not going to do it here. However he does not go through progressions well. Also, like that pass to Eubanks over middle. Eubanks was wide open and threw it high. Almost botched throw on TD pass to him as well. This is the game I would have cut Shea loose. Get him in rhythm and feeling it. Build is confidence. But unfortunately the call plays regressed. As far as McCaffrey goes. Give him more reps. I think when it is his turn next year he will carry this team. You can tell he is pressing when he gets a chance.