Focusing on PSU...
It's a pretty difficult task spinning the college football headline narrative in Top 25 2-1 Michigan's favor at the moment.
There's varying degrees of anger from the bad performance against Wiscy. The good news this season is MSU (in 3 weeks in Madison) and OSU both have to play them in the regular season also. PSU lucked up and missed out on all that slobber knocking fun.
Judging by Wisconsins remaining schedule they'll be 11-1 at worst, setting up a rematch in Indy with one of these teams.
Since we lost in embarrassing fashion, everybody concludes we suck just like the same Wisky team, MSU, and PSU we destroyed just last season.
So what will the PSU narrative be if/when we beat them in Beaver Stadium this year? Is their coach gone if he loses to us, MSU, and OSU for the second straight year?
PSU is actually a MUCH bigger game than Wisconsin due to our recruiting footprint, division record, and season sanity.
**Also, We play PSU in 4 weeks... Is there any way, with all the analysis our fans do with breaking down our own film of already played games, we could get discussions on PSU's games from this season?
Their defense is much improved, but their offense is much of the same and not as good as their final scores would indicate. They've struggled all the first halves.
September 22nd, 2019 at 5:49 PM ^
hmmm, i'll try and be as analytical as possible:
1Q - PSU bends us over
2Q - PSU breaks one off in us
3Q - PSU bends us over
4Q - PSU breaks one off in us
Final
Gapers - 44
Gapees - 13
September 22nd, 2019 at 6:05 PM ^
Might as well not even show up then, we know were just gonna get our butts kicked anways
September 22nd, 2019 at 6:09 PM ^
eeeyurp
blood in the water; franklin will be out for blood; for some unknown, ungodly reason, we'll be looking ahead to ND (and still lose to them).
Phil Steele had us in the CFP; wow was that a dumbass prediction, we're not even making it out of the Schembechler division.
September 22nd, 2019 at 6:37 PM ^
Now this is the kind of attitude I can get behind.
September 23rd, 2019 at 12:31 PM ^
This... is... awesome lol
September 22nd, 2019 at 5:50 PM ^
Is there a point? If so, I don’t get it...
September 23rd, 2019 at 6:08 AM ^
Of course there's no point; Blue-Ray is the OP.
September 22nd, 2019 at 5:50 PM ^
I take it you're conceding a loss to Rutgers.
September 22nd, 2019 at 5:51 PM ^
And Iowa and Illinois.
September 22nd, 2019 at 6:53 PM ^
Iowa worried me before the season started.
September 22nd, 2019 at 8:04 PM ^
Brandon Peters 1 game Revenge Tour
Illinois 69
Michigan 0
September 23rd, 2019 at 11:08 AM ^
Illinois stinks lol
September 22nd, 2019 at 5:54 PM ^
I'm kind of really curious how this team comes out next week. I don't care it's Rutgers, but I want to see if they play with determination, focus and a sense of purpose moreso than how many points they put up or give up. Do they go through the motions against a far inferior opponent after getting embarrassed yesterday or do they fight for a sense of pride.
September 22nd, 2019 at 5:58 PM ^
^^^ THIS ^^^
Michigan needs to come out with some fire in their belly, or all the negative narratives we've been subjected to over the past 24 hours will be proven correct.
September 22nd, 2019 at 6:04 PM ^
Im sure this will be unpopular, but its a fact. We have players acting like little pussy 8th graders and "liking" posts on SM that shit on their coach. They are so worried about being open and their own stats, fuck that shit man. So who knows how we will play. Harbaugh obviously is responsible for the shit show, but the players who fucking around on SM after that debacle are truly pussies.
September 22nd, 2019 at 6:10 PM ^
I would like to add that while I love our players they do not seem to be playing very hard this year. They got punched in the mouth and then physically abused by Wisconsin. I mean WAKE UP! ITS FOOTBALL! The good teams are going to try and beat us up! MSU , ND, PSU they are going to bring it, so get ready to fight! We had no fight yesterday. Mason getting sloppy with the ball , Patteron playing panicked, Players talking shit even when they dosomething positive and turn into a negative with a dumb personal foul, Come on!, we can do better!
September 22nd, 2019 at 6:15 PM ^
Now that I am one post removed from the pussy talk, I'll jump in.
I do think some player accountability is not uncalled for as well. Harbaugh can't be 100% responsible for player attitude.
September 22nd, 2019 at 6:33 PM ^
I don’t think the players believe they are being put into a position to win and they are acting out because of it. They aren’t pros, they really need coaching, they rely upon competent coaching to put them in positions to succeed.
Of course Mason fumbled the ball. He has gained 30 pounds since last year, has repped exclusively at DT, and hasn’t played a down of offense this year. You give him a red zone carry? From the gun? What in the actual fuck? It was like a guaranteed fumble.
The players see things like that, they don’t have any sense they are being steered toward success.
September 22nd, 2019 at 9:37 PM ^
People bitched that we need to give Mason short yardage carries (including Brian) and now y’all Bitch he got a carry. You guys are out of control.
September 23rd, 2019 at 12:08 AM ^
Yeah but we aren't coaches, we're FANATICS.
The bitching was more a reflection of "why did we make this move because Mason is now worthless" whereas he could've at least been short yardage specialist or blitz pickup king.
September 23rd, 2019 at 12:48 AM ^
We wanted him to get the ball on 3rd or 4th and 1 or 2, not 1st down from the 8 yd line out of the shotgun. That's just more proof of Harbaugh's (lack of) intelligence (and yours also).
September 22nd, 2019 at 7:47 PM ^
Maybe they are all getting ready for the draft.
September 22nd, 2019 at 7:06 PM ^
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September 22nd, 2019 at 11:53 PM ^
For sure. Wonder which player's brother was that knucklehead Saturday who joined during the game and ended about 150 posts with the #FireHarbaugh hashtag?
September 22nd, 2019 at 6:57 PM ^
Not to thread hijack, anyone catch Pete finebum take his opportunity to pile on?
whats this dudes deal. His kids must have gotten denied by Michigan
September 22nd, 2019 at 7:05 PM ^
Pandering to his listeners
September 22nd, 2019 at 8:07 PM ^
Hating on Michigan Football is big money business in case you haven't noticed. Its not just OSU and MSU that likes hearing people shit on Michigan. Everyone does. Because our fanbase has been too cocky for no reason and for too long
September 22nd, 2019 at 5:58 PM ^
Last time we went into a Rutgers game at home with lots of panic was, wow, just two years ago. And it started like complete and utter shit. Had to bench JOK and put in Peters.
Can't put in Peters this time.
Is McCaffrey alive? Not sure we can put him in after Shea fumbles/gets hurt.
Hello Joe Milton.
September 22nd, 2019 at 6:00 PM ^
Would anyone at this point be shocked if Michigan wins 9-7 and the 9 is all FGs? If Michigan wins big, is it all smoke and mirrors?
September 22nd, 2019 at 10:32 PM ^
Not possible, we will always go for it on 4th and short. Doesn't matter if it will keep us out of overtime or not.
September 22nd, 2019 at 7:03 PM ^
We recruit well in New Jersey. NJ high school players will be watching.
September 22nd, 2019 at 7:47 PM ^
Unranked team in the big house. This is their speciality.
September 22nd, 2019 at 5:57 PM ^
Osu will destroy Wisconsin.
September 22nd, 2019 at 6:14 PM ^
Not so sure about that,.I was legitamately impressed with Wisconsin. Taylor is the best RB in the country and will be in New york for the heisman ceremony. That was some tough hard-hitting football they were playing. I think they definitely beat MSU, The OSU game is at Ohio state though, that will be a good game..
September 22nd, 2019 at 6:31 PM ^
I’d put it on anything. Osu will merc em my dude.
September 22nd, 2019 at 6:44 PM ^
Well see, im not betting on it though lol. Whats really interesting is that whoever wins the east , theres a good chance they will have to play Wisconsin again.
September 22nd, 2019 at 6:40 PM ^
Lol osu will blow out wisky. We didn't learn anything from wisky yesterday that we didn't already know. When they play an average team or a good D like msu, we can revisit this talk....
September 22nd, 2019 at 6:48 PM ^
September 23rd, 2019 at 1:36 AM ^
Yes.
The last time a Wisconsin team looked this dominant, with a Heisman contending RB, OSU crushed them 59-0 with their 3rd string QB starting his first game, holding Melvin Gordon to 2.9 yards per carry.
OSU is dealing with a number of DL injuries, they had 5 on the injured list vs. Miami (NNTM). If those linger, UW may have what it takes to eek one out if funny stuff happens. But against a reasonably healthy OSU line, it will be a display of 5* athletes in space against marginal 3* over-achievers.
What we saw on Saturday was a very good OL against a very, very bad and undersized DL. Yes, that's going to lead to a team looking incredibly dominant. It also says very little about what will happen when that very good OL goes up against a DL that rotates 8 players that will all be in the NFL.
September 22nd, 2019 at 5:59 PM ^
This team doesn't look capable of a double digit win over Rutger right now.
September 22nd, 2019 at 6:03 PM ^
Can't disagree with you; in fact, had you left out "double digit," I'm still not sure I could disagree.
September 22nd, 2019 at 6:05 PM ^
How about trying to focus on getting better every week. Something we can hopefully look forward too.
September 22nd, 2019 at 7:05 PM ^
Since we didn’t get better in two weeks, yes let’s focus on getting better in one week.
September 22nd, 2019 at 6:06 PM ^
Penn State is going to kill us until we're dead and then fuck the corpse if we don't get our shit together.
Unless we pound the hell out of Rutger, I'm not optimistic.
September 22nd, 2019 at 6:28 PM ^
Is it possible to get out shit? I've heard of out hit...
September 22nd, 2019 at 7:02 PM ^
Only if Michigan could play the Loins...it would be a 2 hour blooper reel.
September 22nd, 2019 at 7:29 PM ^
Oh god, you just made me realize that beating Rutgers by a few touchdowns will result in a week of fans saying that the team has solved their problems. FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, EVERYBODY PLEASE WAIT TIL AFTER IOWA TO TRY TO DRAW ANY FURTHER MEANING FROM THIS TEAM. Rutgers can only be a measuring stick for how bad a team is, and not for how good they are.
September 22nd, 2019 at 6:14 PM ^
Yah lets predict every game with a coach that doesn't have a clue..
my prediction is all losses...surprise me with a cohesiveness team that has heart and intelligence .. ain't happening. Our coach is traitor.
September 22nd, 2019 at 7:41 PM ^
^Hot Take Harold
September 22nd, 2019 at 6:26 PM ^
Rutgers QB put up 304 yards on BC yesterday. I wouldn't take them lightly after seeing how hapless Michigan can be.
This is a take one game at of time type year.