Defensive Annihilation Muppets
These are admittedly tenuous but Michigan did just convincingly win a road game against a team with a winning record to ensure themselves a better season than they had last year, so…
And you can't have one without the other…
How about JT Floyd? He just destroyed AJ Jenkins. I have no idea how this happened. Gibson minus all of the points.
November 12th, 2011 at 8:40 PM ^
Wow our defense is really good. Sometimes I think to myself what would this team look like whit this year's defense and last year's offense? Not only this year but long term.
November 12th, 2011 at 9:32 PM ^
Sometimes I ask myself what our team would look like with LSU's defense and Okie St's offense. Man, that would rock. I love hypotheticals because they always win...
November 12th, 2011 at 8:44 PM ^
Or was Craig James, sans Mike Patrick, actually tolerable? If so, Justin Kutcher may be more of a makeover genius than Greg Mattison.
And, the second the Illini dropped the easy pick I stopped lamenting all the botched drives in the 1st half.
November 13th, 2011 at 11:25 AM ^
You may be giddy (which is cool), but James was horrible. I lost it on the red zone play where Denard got a bad snap and got stopped. James went on and on about how having a smallish QB be your running back on the goal line wont work, blah, blah, blah. Forget the first two times where it worked fine. James completely missed the presence of the running back in pitch relation with Lewan leading the way. It was a pitch (or an option). The QB was not the running back. He was going to suck the outside backer in, pitch the ball and Lewan was going to take the safety while Tousiant cruised in. The bad snap blew the timing and the play fizzled. How in the hell does a former RB miss that if he is actually watching the damn play? Ugh.
November 13th, 2011 at 1:40 PM ^
My beloved option play fell apart on 4th down. Sad face.
November 13th, 2011 at 2:49 PM ^
James was still awful, but not Mike Patrick seemed tolerable to good?
November 12th, 2011 at 8:54 PM ^
But I was sorry to see us give up that last garbage-ish TD at the end, because your tongue-in-cheek score prediction was almost half right. Which would have been all kinds of awesome.
November 12th, 2011 at 9:07 PM ^
Brian, Michigan's performance was UNACCEPTABLE.
/liveblog'd
November 12th, 2011 at 9:21 PM ^
I AM ANGAR...
November 12th, 2011 at 9:12 PM ^
BIG UPS to Coach Mattison for putting in all the hard work and long hours to restore Michigan's defensive unit to it's dominating, physical self. The tackling looked a lot better than it has in a long time.
I particularly loved some of the NFL-style disguised rushes he called for the front seven. I love the fact that he wants to challenge the guys on the team to execute more complicated schemes than what is typically seen at the college level.
November 12th, 2011 at 9:35 PM ^
November 12th, 2011 at 9:38 PM ^
Congrats to JT Floyd on showing he is not the new Morgan Trent
November 12th, 2011 at 10:07 PM ^
We sat right by his dad and family at the game today, it was awesome to see how excited and proud they were after his INT. There were more Michigan fans in the stadium than Illini fans with 3 min to go in the game, what a dominating performance by the defense.
GO BLUE!!!
November 13th, 2011 at 11:33 AM ^
Cool. I hope you had the chance to tell Mr. Floyd how happy we all are to see JT playing so well. He deserved that INT!
November 12th, 2011 at 10:45 PM ^
Greg Mattison and Co. are flippin geniuses. They took the same personnel and some true freshmen and turned them into a good-great defense in a summer. I mean, the secondary has been AWFUL for several years and no suddenly it's all like...good and stuff. I feel comfortable going against any big ten team with Kovacs, Gordon, Countess and Floyd back there. Go defense go
November 12th, 2011 at 11:31 PM ^
Would somebody please tell me why we don't incorporate more widereceiver screens into the offense? I almost forgot Odoms was on this team before this week. Odoms and Gallon catching the ball in open space is alot of untapped offensive production, not to mention high percentage/low risk plays for two quarterbacks that struggle with their vertical games. I saw one tunnel screen today and it worked beautifully. If we don't throw more tunnel/bubble/middle screens I'm going to head-butt my television.
November 13th, 2011 at 3:29 AM ^
is that given limited practice time, midline and bubble screens do not add new dimensions to our game, because the bubble screen is really a run play to the outside. Michigan's offense has been generating pressure on the edges via Michael Shaw a la Chris Perry at times this year. The tunnel screen makes most sense as a counter to big blitz packages so we'll probably see at least one or two a game since we have it installed already.
Source: http://mgoblog.com/diaries/ff-210-screen-package
Two things to look for on offense for the next two weeks. Michigan has to keep increasing YPC and YPA for I-form plays. Two ways to accomplish this: as long as Fitz keeps channeling Anthony Thomas and not losing yards on power handoffs and Denard generates yards with his feet 5 to 10 carries a game, and hopefully not generating three turnovers.
I thought sending in Devin for the second half was a good way to split the duties (even if the timing was dictated by Denard's injury and struggles). It shows that Devin can manage the game and is progressing as a QB.
November 13th, 2011 at 1:14 AM ^
Thinking through an alcohol haze, but I think it was the Demens hit of one of their Rb's in the backfield that could be felt through the TV and summed up perfectly the identity of this Defense, finally, it does have an identity. Love it!
November 13th, 2011 at 1:20 AM ^
Either That or the 1 desmond morgan put on the running back
November 13th, 2011 at 1:23 AM ^
That stands out to me as the biggest play of the game. I know there were more important plays, and maybe even bigger hits, but that play got the entire room I was in jumping up and down. It was awesome, and I'm looking forward to some big things from Mr. Morgan.
November 13th, 2011 at 1:18 AM ^
So happy I'm going to The Big House this weekend for the Nebraska game. My first game at Michigan actually means something in November!
November 13th, 2011 at 2:25 AM ^
November 13th, 2011 at 7:47 AM ^
Gallon has really improved jis returns. I hope he pops one in 2 weeks!
November 13th, 2011 at 9:08 AM ^
Ewww.
November 13th, 2011 at 9:42 AM ^
that is a hillariously unfortunate typo.
November 13th, 2011 at 11:26 AM ^
November 13th, 2011 at 12:48 PM ^
i think everyone's gone a bit overboard. just last week a pretty awful iowa team marched up and down the field on us at will. i wouldn't say one dominant game against meh competition makes us a great defense. they aren't awful like they used to be that's for sure.
November 13th, 2011 at 1:18 PM ^
Not too sure that's "marching up and down the field at will"
November 13th, 2011 at 2:07 PM ^
total yards than we did.
November 14th, 2011 at 3:25 AM ^
Oh. You must've watched the 2010 game. Silly you.
We outgained Iowa last week, and if some certain refs got their eyes checked we'd have 9 wins right now.
November 13th, 2011 at 1:49 PM ^
What I enjoyed most about the game was seeing Coach Hoke sporting the Superman™ hair curl.
November 13th, 2011 at 6:32 PM ^
1. ) Defense was a rock. Loved watching them.
2.) Huge game for Devin's development. Multiple drives helped him experience the cadence of a game. Swapping plays, or getting pulled directly after a poor play, got him nowhere. Contrast that TD pass with his pass in the trash tornado 4-yards past the line of scrimmage. Again, though, the D made it possible to not have to put an injured Denard back into the game.
3.) Illinois loves the song "Freeze Frame" by J Geils...I can only assume their song is actually something like "Thunderstruck," but our D said, "no, today, your song is Freeze Frame. Put that sh*t on loop, too."
November 13th, 2011 at 9:33 PM ^
Wow. Muppets for beating a 6-3 Illinois team to stay tied for second place in the Legends Division of the Big Ten. Times have really gotten tough for us.
Here's hoping that the next appearence of Muppets is for us getting to 10 wins by beating the tat's off Ohio State.
November 14th, 2011 at 8:39 AM ^
November 20th, 2011 at 4:29 AM ^
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