After 4 Games...what changes (if any) would YOU like to see?

This is nuts, he's the best play by play guy working right now.

Agree, blind to obvious Aiden holds but sure as hell wants a flag for PI on our secondary if he sees close coverage.

With the advancement of tech, how is there not an option to mute announcers while watching sports on TV? I'd rather just listen to the sound of the game and crowd than ever hear Sean McDonough, Gus Johnson, or any other college football announcer ever again. 

Would you rather have Gus Johnson?

Not me. 

To be fair this is exactly what they did against Washington and the entire board ripped them apart for it. 

And if you find something that doesn't work, STOP running it.

You too want a new offensive coordinator?

I don’t think I’ve ever seen Gattis make in game adjustments. 

This is where we are going to run into trouble against better teams. It was very clear Rutgers made adjustments at halftime and Harbaugh and co didn’t. I get the “do what it takes to win the game,” but in-game adjustments would make me feel a lot better about the prospects of being down in a game, something we haven’t seen yet this year

There were times where the run up the middle looked like it had an RPO component to it, based on where McNamara’s eyes were when the running back hit the mesh point.

Seemed he just never pulled it back and ran, until the last play before the missed field goal. The play before, if he’d done that he gets an easy first down and may have even scored. If he doesn’t pull back on that last play, Corum possibly or even likely gets the first down after he bounces it outside. Just a bad day from that standpoint.

Exactly. On the final UM drive before the kneel down, 1st and 10 on the R 30, McNamara handed off to Corum for 3 but could have kept it for more. On 2nd and 7, Corum was stuffed, and McNamara had a huge running lane - could have made the first down or at least made it an easy 3rd down. Then on 3rd and 7, he keeps and is nailed for a 2 yard loss when it was clear the Wolverines were going to run, and might get cute with McNamara keeping.

Almost like they’re “ robots” out there. 

This is the most befuddling thing. Literally every coach knows how effective play action is. How can we not even ... not even try it? 

I literally don't think Harbaugh/Gattis are play-calling up to even a basic high school level. I'm not kidding. I don't ... I don't understand what they're doing. 

Everyone rips on Harbaugh, but I literally didn't have any of these complaints with Rudock or Speight. What's happened, since that Army game, to make the coaches so single-minded, so weirdly uncreative, so convinced that there's really only one way to win a football game???

If his name wasn’t Mike Hart and he wasn’t a former player and was just some random assistant coach doing a solid job coaching the RB’s, would you still hold the same sentiment?

You win the award for dumbest take of the weekend.

That’s the thing it is simple. It should be simple. Everyone can see how easy and simple it is, except for Gattis apparently. 

They tried this in the second half and McNamara repeatedly missed open receivers.  2 quick slants, a 5 yard out and the crossing route for TD to Schoon (end of the 1st half).  If your coordinator makes adjustments and the QB flat out misses, what do you do next?  If McNamara hits those 4 easy throws, the defense has to respect it and the game is never in question.  He didn’t…

The scary thing is, I don't think we have any idea how good Rutgers is. They literally put every available defensive player in the box, and we kept running anyway. Sure, they might be ok. But they might literally be terrible.

Schiavo must have been amazed at how unwilling we were to change our game plan.

People talk like it's easy to win week in and week out. Just win.

Clearly, if opposing defenses can't stop the run, UM can beat up on you.  But, we're still looking to evaluate if/when teams can shut down the run game if UM can find other ways to win.  Against WMU they tested the edges and threw lots of short throws and screens.  Washington, largely shut that down, but UM was able to run up the middle.  But, Washington never committed their safeties to the run game, and NIU is NIU.  When Rutgers brought their safeties down in the second half UM had trouble running.  It seems likely other teams will see that and force UM to beat them in other ways.  It's warranted to wonder if UM can beat better defenses that are willing to commit their safeties to the run game and if the WRs & QB can beat single coverage consistently.  That's really the question the team is facing and I think rightfully so.  Happy for the win, but cautious about expectations against the better defenses.

Sure winning is great and we all want to win. But along with that we want to see improvement being made. But when play calling keeps doing the same thing over and over that’s not called improvement. If it works against those first 3 teams then fine, but it’s not too irking yesterday so what do you do? Keep running up the middle time after time into a wall of defenders. 

Where are the outside runs? Screens? RPO’s where the QB actually keeps it? If your QB is obviously off why is the next guy not coming in? This is a team that stubbornly clings to playing a certain way and only that way no matter what the opponent does. This garbage won’t fly against most of the B1G or top 25 teams. If we are willing to live with it this garbage because we are beating inferior opponents only, then we are no better than Rutgers or any other middling team. 

We should be better than that. 

Boom. We don’t have to be an air raid team by any means. But an extra deep shot or two and some play action to re-open the running game makes the entire offense more efficient. 
 

I mean hell, only the service academies are throwing the ball less than we are. Adding 5-7 more attempts per game would be huge and would help keep the defenses from keying in so hard on the run. Use the passing game as a complimentary piece to the running game instead of passing only when we have to.