buddhafrog

December 23rd, 2021 at 5:49 AM ^

Brian's weekly updates of KFATA was so surreal, seeing Ronnie Bell in the top 10 throughout the year after playing less than one game - but damn, what a game. He was the #1 KFATA with a eight points. And sat at eight points the entire season which still puts him near the top.

Dude is going to be a major piece of our remarkable offense next year.

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Durham Blue

December 22nd, 2021 at 9:27 PM ^

My three favorite TD's: 1) Corum's 67 yard run against Washington; 2) Andrel Anthony's 93 yard catch and score against MSU; 3) Donovan Edwards' TD pass to Roman Wilson against Iowa.

So many other really electric TD's throughout the season.  We haz a good offense.

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MichiganMan406

December 22nd, 2021 at 9:39 PM ^

I counted 13 TDs over 50 yards.  Pretty impressive! This offense is 3 yards and a cloud of dust a lot of the time but has that Barry Sanders element and can take it to the house on any given play.  GO BLUE!

 

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LDNfan

December 23rd, 2021 at 9:38 AM ^

This is one of the most remarkable elements of the whole season. UM has an EXPLOSIVE offense among the best in the whole damn country but they are doing it in such a sneaky way that it seems most fans still think of the offense as being more '3 yards and a cloud of dust' than right up there with all of the fancy stat, wide open, spread offenses. 

People complained throughout much of the year, but especially the first 2/3rd about an offense that was building into something exceptional...truly explosive and dominant but built around the run instead of the pass. 

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Hail-Storm

December 23rd, 2021 at 9:53 AM ^

I think this was brought up in other threads, but it is the equivalent of a boxer making jabs and body blows all match, then you see a huge KO out of seemingly nowhere.  

All those 3 yard positive plays from the line of scrimmage set up these explosive plays.  Michigan get beat you by just staying ahead of the sticks and getting a long drive, but as soon as you sneak up to protect against those, they hit you with a huge play.  

Sometimes those 3 yard plays turn into explosive plays too because of the set up by the line and incredible runs by the dynamic running backs. 

Such a fun offense to watch. Everyone works so well and seamless.  It also seems telling that they are spreading the TDs around.  Feels like the documentary on the Bad Boys where all the players had to understand what their role was to make a champonship team.  It may mean they aren't the star every week, but the buy in from everyone was crucial to make a championship team.

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LDNfan

December 23rd, 2021 at 11:04 AM ^

All great points and love the Bad Boys analogy....its a GREAT team working together and filling their roles with great efficiency.

It was basically genius too. All of that running early on paid off strategically later in the season. I felt that it was meant to forge an identity to what seemed like an identity-less team coming into the season. What kind of team would this be? When they were running and running and running some complained...but it seemed to give them confidence and toughness. They were not going to be Ohio State-lite. They were going to do it their way and beat OSU with this toughness and confidence that was built game after game. The passing came and as you say the passing and running set up each other up...masterfully. 

 

 

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GoingBlue

December 22nd, 2021 at 9:46 PM ^

Watching Corum from early in the season, he was the best weapon on the offense. I hope he is back to 100% by the Georgia game. I love Haskins, I really do, but Corum is a game changer. 

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jhayes1189

December 22nd, 2021 at 10:19 PM ^

My favorite is when Junior Colson scored a rushing TD, and then the next Haskins TD they didn’t have anyone’s name. Good job BiG10 network (aka FOX). 
 

edit: another “every TD” video on YouTube shows the TD graphics from the NIU game I believe and they had Junior Colson instead of Hassan Haskins as the only number 25 I guess on the roster. This video did not show it 

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Midukman

December 23rd, 2021 at 7:39 AM ^

I know Georgia fans considers us slow and basically have no business being on the field with their blue chips and OSU was a fluke because it was during a blizzard lol. But rewatching our TDs says Georgia better watch the fuck out. Granted we can come out flat and Georgias D may actually be that good, but if we play anything like we did for most of the year I look for Kirby and his players to look like they just got ran over by a Mack truck. I pray it happens. 

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blue in dc

December 23rd, 2021 at 8:28 AM ^

Thanks for putting this together, but I feel like there is a TD missing?    A fumble recovery?   I guess I shouldn’t blame you for missing it.   The refs missed it too.

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Hail-Storm

December 23rd, 2021 at 9:42 AM ^

God that was fun!

I don't think I can remember a time when Michigan has had this many playmakers.  I remember thinking that Michigan offense would take a huge drop when Bell went down.  There are 4 receivers that can make magic happen on the field at any time.  2 Elite TEs that can make plays happen. 3 legit running backs that can beat you with a ton of different ways (running behind an O-line that is a legit unit) and two QBs that can make shit happen. 

And the best part? A cohesive called offense that takes advantage of each of these pieces to create misdirection and use them to their full talent. 

What a fun year.

(one complaint is they should have kept the Hutchinson TD ;))

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Midukman

December 23rd, 2021 at 2:35 PM ^

And the best part is that they just kind of came out of nowhere. I mean we all knew that Harbaugh and Co had recruited “some guys”. But I certainly didn’t envision everything coming together the way it did. If I could be Biff from the future, I’d have my old self, make this self, put 100k on Michigan making the playoffs pre season. Guarantee I’d be driving something better than a Nissan lol. 

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Powdrkeg7

December 23rd, 2021 at 9:54 AM ^

Thanks for putting this together! Very cool and makes you really appreciate Cade.  Also Blake was a beast before he got hurt.  Hopefully he's good to go.

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