Bask. But don't drop your load too quick.

Submitted by bhallpm on
Great game. Still re-living the physical poetry of that final drive by Forcier. But... Watching the highlights, it's clear that Michigan still has several holes, particularly on defense, can't afford to lose a starter to injury, and most importantly, Weiss is simply not a head coach at this level. Meaning... We f-ing beat Notre Dame! Worry about the other games when they happen.
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jonny_GoBlue

September 13th, 2009 at 12:24 AM ^

Watching from the stands it appeared that Notre Dame kept running weak side really taking advantage or Roh. Also, Cissoko got completely pwned. Many times. He even decided to not make up for it by dropping an INT that was as easy as they come. Scary stuff on the defensive side of the ball.

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petered0518

September 13th, 2009 at 1:05 AM ^

Cissoko struggled at times, but he also made a lot of big plays. I tried watching the coverage and it looked to me like Gerg many times left warren/cissoko without safety help. That is a big big vote of confidence. Both those guys really clamped down in the fourth. I heard a lot of students railing on Boo Boo but I thought he fought really hard and played well. Seriously, I don't even want to imagine what those receivers would have done to Floyd.

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ATrain32

September 13th, 2009 at 1:17 AM ^

Great win today. I think the UFR will help make some sense of things, but ND looks like they have a good offense. 490 and 34 sounds bad and Cissoko struggled mightily, but I'm thinking that's more about ND's O maturing and playing well rather than M being terrible on D. The depth issues have been well chronicled here, but ND's blocking on O seemed much better than I thought it would be and Allen was running into open spaces. Other than a few plays, our tackling seemed better than last year. It just seemed challenging to get consistent pressure on Clausen. Given time, he's pretty effective. Thinking the D side will sort itself out barring major injury given we won't face an experienced qb like Clausen for quite a while.

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Scott Dreisbach

September 13th, 2009 at 12:26 AM ^

I agree. The defense seems a bit thin. If I recall correctly, we had some top rated defensive talent with William Campbell on the D-line and Turner and Emillien as DB's. Are these guys going to get a chance to play or what? Maybe they are red shirting this year, or maybe Rich wants them to get some serious PT in a game where that has already been decided. Injuries in the secondary scare me real bad.

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