Our Offense: Pure Gattis, Pure Harbaugh, or a Frankenstein?

It's clearly a hybrid.

The things I am happiest about is that we seem finally willing (or able?) to attack the edges of the field, utilize our WR talent more, and actively scheme to attack opponent weaknesses.

Shea is also improving, and if he can get a bit better with his accuracy and decision-making, we could be a top-20 offense by year's end. 

If Dylan is Shea-plus (or at least Shea) and we can reload on the OL, next season looks pretty bright.

Our offensive is offensive.  Prior to Penn State, the bad kind of offensive.  Since then, the good kind of offensive.

Beyond that, don't know don't care as long as it works.  

Any good offense evolves, borrowing useful plays from other offenses (whether that be other teams' offenses or even the same team's 18 offense). The amount of consternation around clearly defining these elements and pinpointing the individual coaching contributions is just message board/radio blather.

finkel is einhorn, einhorn is finkel

I blame the existence of this thread on the title for the other one being so terrible.

I think Harbaugh may have been leaning on the playcalling early on (though I could be wrong) and there has certainly been elements of the Harbaugh/Warinner stuff added. But this is Gattis stuff we're seeing now. Michigan passed significantly more than it threw, even after some early playcalls weren't executed well. That is not the Harbaugh way. 

Has there been staff influence? Well, let's not kid ourselves--as much as we want Harbaugh to be more hands-off, most coaching staffs see OCs get input from other guys, including the head coach. More eyes and more brains equals more opportunities to find weaknesses in defenses and find stuff that works. 

As critical as I was of what I believe to be Harbaugh's influence early, and as disappointing as the Gattis gameplans were early, the MSU gameplan was outstanding and it had Gattis's fingerprints all over it. 

Pure Gattis power spread, but collaborative in the meeting room so game plans are definitely heavily influenced by Harbaugh and especially Coach Ed

Hybrid. 
 

Gattis needed Harbaugh’s guidance when we hit our deep rut. Ever since we’ve seen Gattis’ concepts work because we have established some toughness that comes from a Harbaugh offensive mentality. It’s a mix. 

Well Harbaugh wouldn’t have thrown the ball all over the field like we did against MSU. 
 

This is a positive development. Loved the fact that we exploited MSU’s weaknesses instead of stubbornly running into their strengths. We do some of what we did last year. The nice thing is Harbaugh realized a change was needed and while it took longer to click than anybody hoped they seemed to have stayed the course and improved throughout the year. 

Hopefully it’s a mix of designer genes!  Frankenstein would be the equivalent of 1911 football.  

The biggest impact, by far over the past 3.5 games is the Quarterback is playing better and with more confidence.

That is it.

Last week was all Gattis, the ND game was all Harbaugh. I think a super Frankenstein blend may be so potent that no defense can stop it!  Hopefully it will all come together against IU on Saturday and then continue against OSU.

Yes. Yes it is.

It was Michigan blowing away a team having a down year.

September Defensive Tackle Mason would say its all Gattis.

November Fullback 20 carry Mason would say, well his position was eliminated up until recently.

You make the call