One Frame At A Time: Army
When I was in high school, we occasionally terrorized the quiet streets of Ann Arbor by drifting around corners in our crappy cars. This wasn't an unusual thing at the time; The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift would come out the summer after my senior year. We weren't particularly daring, however, so we only drifted after heavy snowstorms at speeds just fast enough to induce a short, thrilling skid—which, in that weather, one could do on accident.
One winter evening, I was in the back seat when a friend decided to attempt one such drift, but there were two problems: the snow wasn't as deep as he thought, and we were in his parents' Subaru Outback. As we approached the intersection of Lincoln and Cambridge, he turned hard to the left, and the car went into a sideways slide as intended.
Then the wheels caught asphalt, cutting the skid short just as my friend was trying to accelerate out of it. The Outback hit the electrical pole on the corner hard enough that my glasses bounced off the back of the passenger seat and back into my chest. We were okay; the car was totaled. At least two of the three of us can still laugh about it. But we were never drifting again.
Anyway.
The image of Uche after the game was like what happens when you finally get home after surviving your first car crash.
— Jane Coaston (@cjane87) September 7, 2019
Service academies! Not even once!
[Hit THE JUMP for a bunch of fans who felt like you did.]
THE WHOLE ALBUM
10. Elaborate Dap
Posting this instead of the touchdown-that-wasn't for everyone's sake.
9. Hello, Dax
Will Hart looks excited to see you.
8. The Game-Saver
Let's not consider what would've happened if Lavert Hill didn't rediscover his hands after last week.
7. Feeling It/Not Feeling It
The crestfallen look of the student on the right as she turns to witness the dad-dancing makes this one.
6. A Wild TFL Appears!
What an individual effort from Aidan Hutchinson.
5. Linebacker Assassin
Okay, sure, Zach Charbonnet got a helpful shove on that blitz pickup from Mike Onwenu, but the freshman back was cracking blitzers all afternoon. It doesn't look particularly fun to tackle him, either. Here's the overtime touchdown, which required a physical finish:
At least one fan looked genuinely pumped.
4. Slump
I've already forgotten what prompted this. There are a lot of candidates.
3. It's Going Down, I'm Yelling Timber
Oops.
2. Fun!
The low-key star of the show above is the guy on the far left, who's mastered the maneuver that helped make me thin up top.
That corner had quite the afternoon, as this might be an even better reaction.
Meanwhile, someone should check to make sure these guys aren't still frozen in place.
We do this for fun!
FRAMES OF THE GAME: IT'S OVER
Oh, thank goodness.
Let's go home.
VOTE
September 10th, 2019 at 10:41 AM ^
My poor shredded soul. I'm a husk of a spirit now.
September 10th, 2019 at 11:12 AM ^
Dude- this comment along with the student section frames has me back to laughing.
September 10th, 2019 at 10:50 AM ^
Disappointed you couldn't get anything out of the 4 hours of Harbaugh-cam.
September 10th, 2019 at 10:51 AM ^
I haven't gone through it yet. Wanted to get a post up and that's gonna take, uh, a long time.
September 10th, 2019 at 1:38 PM ^
I assume you plan ondoing this anyway, but PLEASE line up the actual game coverage in another window & synchronize the videos to each other. I'd be fascinated to see exactly what Harbaugh did (other than slumping) during certain key stretches of the game.
September 10th, 2019 at 11:06 AM ^
In frame 5, "linebacker assassin," it looks to me like both wideouts are clearly blowing past their guys and wide open, especially if Shea could get the ball out there quickly. Am I seeing this wrong?
September 10th, 2019 at 11:50 AM ^
Yeah that's a common criticism of Patterson since last season -- seems to have trouble getting the ball out early -- often makes the right pass a second too late
September 10th, 2019 at 4:40 PM ^
Of the two, Black is open early but he's running a 5-yards hitch. I don't remember down-and-distance here. Nico is open there a bit before Bell, but requires throwing over the DB before the safety gets there. It's a tough throw but not one that he shouldn't attempt given Nico's height advantage. It's hard to argue this is a bad decision by Shea given that he hits Bell in stride 12-yards downfield.
September 10th, 2019 at 11:10 AM ^
Statue brothers pretty much sums up my Saturday starting from 11am Central time until whenever that F***ing game ended. Brutal. But all of the student section frames are priceless and has allowed me to laugh hysterically- thank you for posting. Bring on Wiscy! Go Blue!
September 10th, 2019 at 11:14 AM ^
#6 is looking like a touchdown if Hutchinson doesn't make that play.
September 10th, 2019 at 12:28 PM ^
Oh God. You, sir, are correct.
September 10th, 2019 at 1:09 PM ^
I think the play-side safety (Hawkins?) shed his cut block enough that he could at least make a play to keep it out of the end zone. But, woof.
September 11th, 2019 at 10:44 PM ^
thank God our guys all still have knees after this game. oooooof!
September 10th, 2019 at 4:41 PM ^
Our safety has a shot there. But if he can't make that play...
September 10th, 2019 at 11:14 AM ^
So- for the slump, you've got three fumbles, two 4th and 2 fails, multiple penalties, a plethora of Shea bad throws. Yes, I can see coach slumping on any one of those plays which is exactly what Wolverine nation was doing- slumping into BPONE.
September 10th, 2019 at 11:17 AM ^
It's going down, I'm yelling timber.
Suddenly I'm in the mood for some Dr. Pepper.
September 10th, 2019 at 11:31 AM ^
Thanks Seth.
That cheered me up a bit. I'm still not ready to rewatch the whole thing again.
September 10th, 2019 at 11:54 AM ^
Me either. It is going to take at least 2 more days, maybe more.
September 10th, 2019 at 12:09 PM ^
Ace says hi.
September 10th, 2019 at 11:33 AM ^
Harbaugh is sucking the life out of me. This year should be very telling when it ends. What happened to...Who's got it better than us?
September 10th, 2019 at 11:54 AM ^
Man I bought into all the hype during the B1G media days when he said he was more excited about this staff than ever- excited about the season. I sure hope things look up during Wisconsin game.
September 10th, 2019 at 11:53 AM ^
Ace - you are wonderful ... a good-hearted look back to a brutal game. Thanks !
September 10th, 2019 at 11:59 AM ^
Nice reference to drifting at Cambridge and Lincoln. My buddies and I lived about 100 feet from that intersection. When it snowed we often went "skitching" through that exact neighborhood - essentially skiing in boots behind a crappy car. After a few practice runs we would add a second skitcher and the survival battles would commence.
So glad Ring didn't exist back then. Thank you for the blast from the past, Ace!
September 10th, 2019 at 12:18 PM ^
If I could sum up this game in a clip, it would be this (though I don't like to think of us as Ogre...)
September 10th, 2019 at 12:28 PM ^
The Onwenu/Uche moment at the end of the game summarizes the prior three hours absolutely perfectly. I felt the exact same way.
September 10th, 2019 at 1:04 PM ^
On the one TFL, Hutchinson spent so much time around the QB’s neck that I was afraid they were going to call the old horse collar penalty on him. He appears to get him with a reverse horse collar, somehow contorting his arm to grab the QB by the back of the helmet instead of the back of the jersey.
September 10th, 2019 at 1:33 PM ^
I'm going with "Linebacker Assasin" because of the hilariously disproportionate results that Onwenu gets versus Charbonnet gets for his efforts.
It looks like Onwenu puts in just a modest effort to slightly shove the blitzing LB, yet the LB is almost ENTIRELY de-cleated from the modest shove. Meanwhile, Charbonnet puts his entire body/shoulder into the job, but all it seems to do is ensure the LB can't recover.
Don't get me wrong--Charbonnet is solid & is going to be a beast in blitz pick-ups for the next several years. But the very fact that Charbonnet is a solidly-built guy only underscores how damned POWERFUL Onwenu is in comparison.
September 10th, 2019 at 3:06 PM ^
The unheralded star of the reaction shots is the gentleman just quietly shaking his head in a Hawaiian shirt and a visor for no one in particular it seems.
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