I was just thinking...

Submitted by ThePonyConquerer on September 22nd, 2019 at 4:17 PM

I wanna go back to the old offense.

Harball sized HAIL

September 22nd, 2019 at 4:24 PM ^

They made a crazy adjustment on O.  Remember in the Army game how they were snapping the ball every time SPatt clapped his hands?  Well yesterday they snapped the ball the SECOND time the QB would clap.  That shows some serious innovation right there.

OwenGoBlue

September 22nd, 2019 at 4:38 PM ^

Michigan's offense being a disaster because Harbaugh listened to the outside noise and gave up control is almost poetic. 

The switch made sense just looking like they picked the wrong guy to hand the reigns too.

Mondeo Five

September 22nd, 2019 at 4:42 PM ^

Harbaugh's success was built off of a hard nosed, gritty style of football. After two seasons in a row of losing to Ohio State & Michigan State the fan base & media panicked.  They wanted to see more explosive plays. More spread offense. Unbelievably Harbaugh bowed to outside pressure & hired outside offensive minds. They started implementing offensive schemes that appeased the fans & media but began to get further & further away from Harbaugh's style & persona. Mix this with subpar QB play in which some can be blamed on these QBs having new offensive coordinators & QB coaches nearly every year. They have to learn new formations & verbiage. No consistancy. Now we are at point that the hard nose three yards & cloud of dust is so far from what we do that Harbaugh is completely out of his element.  The nah sayers are right we have no identity. Harbaugh gave away his identity to appease the nah sayers. To save his job & this program he may have to start over. Get back to the gritty style that won him games elsewhere. It may be to late at this point. But what else does he have to lose? 

UMxWolverines

September 22nd, 2019 at 5:03 PM ^

He wasn't forced to hire Pep Hamilton or Josh Gattis. You can say the offense was better at times last year, fine. But it was still janky, slow, and not efficient and was awful in 2017 as well. People wanted to blame it on O'Korn but forget it looked awful when Spright was still playing as well. He could have done more to keep Jedd Fisch, but maybe Fisch was tired of Harbaugh meddling too and left willingly. 

bluescreen

September 22nd, 2019 at 5:22 PM ^

Harbaughs offenses are successful when they can run the ball, we had zero run game against Wisconsin. We had a total of 40 rushing yards for the game. Supposedly our offensive line is good but they didnt show it, Our #1 RB is hurt apparently but I didnt see any of those option runs where the QB can keep it, especially in the first half we just seemed to be airing it out alot. The second half I think we tried to get back to a run first attack. Maybe Harbaugh started overiding some calls. Wisconsin destroyed us in the Time of possession.

jabberwock

September 22nd, 2019 at 5:59 PM ^

Jim Harbaugh arrived here with 98% of the fan base and likely 99% of the Athletic Dept.s full throated support and you think that after 2 years the media (I assume the Big Bad Media®) and the fans "forced" him to change his offensive coordinator?  TWICE?!!!

AhHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

ow exactly did the fans & the media do this,?  Did they slip a hastily scawled note into the pocket of his khakis?  Did they hire a sky-writer and hope Jim saw it?  Wait, was it an anonymous phone call in the middle of the night?  Such influence!

Chicago Blue Fan

September 22nd, 2019 at 7:47 PM ^

I hate that we made him hire shitty coordinators and install a new offense that doesn't work, and not have any answers at DT, and hang on to his BFF Drevno for way too long. And think a DC who holds TUOS to 62 is a good idea.

All our fault . I feel terrible.

db012031

September 22nd, 2019 at 4:44 PM ^

The offense will work but not with Shea as QB.  The word is out: he cannot read a defense, is a one read QB and panics the second pressure is on.  I rewatched the game this morning and he missed open recievers so many times it was comical.....

Harbaugh needs to really give the keys to Gattis and stay the hell away.  You think it was Gattis that wanted Mason at RB the second play of the game? Get real, that was Jim.  It's the 3rd OC in 5 years and we still have the same problems...News Flash, it's the head coach that's the problem.

Despite the shit show, the offense looked a bit more competitive when Dylan was at QB. 

Meritocracy my ass...Jim is so obsessed with practice performance but not so much actual game performance.  

DPJ and Zack are hurt, barely play the first half and then magically get playing time in the 4th when the game is basically over?  

username03

September 22nd, 2019 at 4:52 PM ^

This isn't the old offense? My apologies, I guess all the tight ends, FBs and DT/FBs playing 'RB', ten straight runs to end a tie game in regulation, complete lack of quick passes, criminal underuse of talented WRs, inability to get a play called in a timely manner, and complete lack of tempo threw me off the scent.

Sopwith

September 22nd, 2019 at 5:13 PM ^

We had something going in 2015 and 2016, not the most talented QBs but functional and the O made a lot of sense. After that, it's been messy, but the wheels didn't come off entirely until this year. 

MWolverine7

September 22nd, 2019 at 5:15 PM ^

What do you want to do about the defense?  Because the way it looked to me is that both sides of the ball are issues right now.

blueday

September 22nd, 2019 at 5:18 PM ^

That folds on the road. Thank God our Dads didn't do this ... or anyone else that served this country. We have a team "led" by a walking mess that just talks and makes jokes. Harbaugh is dead. Just watch his interviews. No way this guy graduated from Michigan.

Eng1980

September 22nd, 2019 at 6:00 PM ^

Run last year’s offense but please call those plays where Patterson throws to Collins, DPJ, or Black.

Call better plays.  No one should be confused.