Indiana Snowflakes: The Offense
November 23rd, 2019 at 6:48 PM ^
Air Raid R Us
November 23rd, 2019 at 6:50 PM ^
Patterson has been dealing these last two weeks.
November 24th, 2019 at 3:10 AM ^
It’s almost like we realized we have huge receivers to throw to. Last year I had a pit in my stomach going into the game. If I were a buckeye fan I’d have that same pit.
November 23rd, 2019 at 7:20 PM ^
Yeah, if they get down early next week, then they have some horses to get back into it.
November 23rd, 2019 at 7:37 PM ^
Near the end of the game, one of the announcers said: “the only question is if Michigan believes they can beat Ohio”.
At this point in the season, I believe they do.
November 23rd, 2019 at 6:52 PM ^
I was almost triggered thinking this was pitbull
November 23rd, 2019 at 7:04 PM ^
So, … real good time?
November 23rd, 2019 at 7:17 PM ^
Actually today was a real good time!
November 23rd, 2019 at 7:44 PM ^
Yeah...it was! So were the last few weeks. Too bad it took a half season to get the offense in gear. Sigh.
November 24th, 2019 at 8:28 AM ^
It's always disappointing to not win the B1G, but I'd rather lose to Wisconsin away and PSU away than MSU and ND at home. If we beat OSU then this season is a huge success. (Adding a bowl win against a top opponent would help too.)
If we lose to OSU this season is what was predicted, but with a little hope. If we lose to OSU and lose a bowl game, the 'fire Harbaugh' crowd will get louder.
November 23rd, 2019 at 6:49 PM ^
It was good. Beat Ohio!
November 23rd, 2019 at 6:49 PM ^
Significant improvements since PSU. Will it be enough?
November 23rd, 2019 at 6:49 PM ^
This offense can beat OSU. Some people seem to be confused about what happened last year. The defense is going to give up a lot of points to OSU. What they need is an offense that keeps them in the game. This offense is clicking at the right time. I believe.
November 23rd, 2019 at 6:57 PM ^
We’ll both sides are going to have to step up. We’re not scoring 62 points next week although that would be awesome. I’m hoping we can pull off the upset with scoring somewhere around 35.
November 23rd, 2019 at 7:28 PM ^
Penn State held them to 28, and our defense is better when it's clicking.
All we need is the run game from the ND game, and today's passing game, to beat them.
OSU may win the NC this year, but they'll be doing it with a loss to Michigan.
November 23rd, 2019 at 8:32 PM ^
We also have OSU in the Big House. They haven't played a tough road game yet.
November 23rd, 2019 at 8:59 PM ^
Upvoted MadHatter, b/c awesome take, but “all we need is our best run game, our best pass game, [and our best defense & special teams] and we win”? Cool: We so got this!
Seriously, though, against their best team since the Ntl Champs, maybe better: we have an appreciable chance? I agree & After how the year started: I’ll take it and be up about it!
November 24th, 2019 at 10:07 AM ^
Our defense is better, but OSU should have had 28 or 35 at half. PSU was VERY lucky not to have given up more points.
November 23rd, 2019 at 8:57 PM ^
Not gonna lie, Chase Young vs. Mayfield is nightmare fuel. I hope we find a way to mitigate Young. I'm not convinced we can option him since a. Hes super talented and b. Our QB never pulls it. Maybe we just continue airing it out with quick passes?
November 23rd, 2019 at 9:01 PM ^
Based on some of the new formations with mason, I think we’re going to see a lot of chips where mason tries to put his face through Young’s face.
November 23rd, 2019 at 10:16 PM ^
there's no one I'd rather have rudely greet Chase Young at the line of scrimmage than an angry Ben Mason.
November 24th, 2019 at 12:27 AM ^
Maybe an angry Onwenu.
November 23rd, 2019 at 10:16 PM ^
there's no one I'd rather have rudely greet Chase Young at the line of scrimmage than an angry Ben Mason.
November 23rd, 2019 at 6:49 PM ^
Speed. In. Space.
November 23rd, 2019 at 10:54 PM ^
Revenge is a dish that is best served cold. It is very cold...IN SPACE
November 24th, 2019 at 10:18 AM ^
KHAAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNNN!!!!!!!!!!!!!
November 23rd, 2019 at 6:49 PM ^
Blah blah blah Patterson sucks, Gattis sucks, Blah blah blah blah.
Insert dumb hot take comment here.
/s
November 23rd, 2019 at 7:24 PM ^
I’m just bummed they ruined their season long plan to keep Nico Collins under wraps. Now OSU is going to know he is actually good.
November 23rd, 2019 at 6:50 PM ^
Beat Ohio
November 23rd, 2019 at 6:50 PM ^
Today’s performance allowed a small amount of optimism to creep into my mind for next week. Go Blue!
November 23rd, 2019 at 6:51 PM ^
Our Wolverines are a dangerous and unpredictable team. I like them.
November 23rd, 2019 at 6:51 PM ^
Need this passing game to show up next week. Great job by all involved.
November 23rd, 2019 at 6:51 PM ^
Nico and DPJ finally getting to do Nico and DPJ things.
Running game a concern, but enough to keep them honest.
Shea decent overall, but the stats are better than the UFR will bear out.
November 23rd, 2019 at 6:56 PM ^
Lol like the UFR is some infallible and unbiased analysis. Nobody pays attention to them outside of this website.
November 23rd, 2019 at 7:18 PM ^
Wait, you mean to tell me that an analysis by a fan who owns his own large, successful, website read by thousands is not picked up by ESPN and discussed on Gameday? WTF man, this place is a fraud!
Jesus dude, this take is bad
November 24th, 2019 at 10:23 AM ^
I think that most of us realize that Brian is not an NFL or D1 coach, and that his UFR does have some real and obvious limitations. He admits as much (that he often has to guess who screwed up a play or what the intent of a play was).
But, in terms of drilling down and analyzing a player’s performance over the course of a game, or analyzing why an entire aspect of the game is struggling, the UFR gives a really thorough analysis.
Much as we would all like to, most of us can’t just pick up the phone and say, “Hey Jim, can you take a few minutes and explain to me in detail why our running game struggled this week, because o really want to know.” And ESPN is certainly not putting out that level of analysis. Like many, I sometimes disagree with Brian’s conclusions. It’s not infallible but it’s way better than anything else available.
November 23rd, 2019 at 6:58 PM ^
I like that when teams take the run away, the coaches are like "ok," and proceed to torch any DB trying to cover 1v1.
November 23rd, 2019 at 8:59 PM ^
It's about time. It feels like this has been needed for about 6 or the last 7 years.
November 23rd, 2019 at 8:25 PM ^
Our running plays seem to take hours to develop. Haskins, Charbonnet, and for god-knows-why-he-is-playing Tru Wilson are going to have to step it up to get ANY yards. I don't think OSU has to respect our ground game unless Shea is en fuego
November 23rd, 2019 at 10:56 PM ^
I’m not an X’s & O’s guy, but it seemed today there was a lot fewer read option type plays where Shea ran—or even really tried to present himself as a run threat.
I suspect they’ll have more read option or designed QB runs next week to force OSU to respect that, which loosens up the regular run game.
November 23rd, 2019 at 6:52 PM ^
I said early on, we should score 40 on these guys because really their D struggled all day to stop us. The fact we didn't really came down to self-inflicted problems.
Of course it is nice to see us actually running something that looks like it's out of the current decade and run it pretty decently at that. Now Indiana's D is miles, miles away from OSU so it will require a much better effort next week for sure.
November 23rd, 2019 at 6:55 PM ^
"We should score 40". We only scored 39. We suck.
November 23rd, 2019 at 7:56 PM ^
I don't think you got the point. The point is that 39 points on this Indiana D given that they couldn't cover our receivers for shit isn't some massive overachievement. OSU put 51 on them. We did a solid job on offense, but we could have really put this game away much earlier if we cut out some of the mistakes.
I'm not normally someone who puts everything into the context of OSU, but given that they're next week's opponent it seems like as good a time as any to put these things into context.
November 23rd, 2019 at 8:00 PM ^
You know that, like us, Indiana has been playing much, much better the past month than it was early in the year? Evidently not. OSU doesn't put 51 on IU if they play that game last week.
November 23rd, 2019 at 8:11 PM ^
Yes they do. Osu offense isn’t at least 12 points better than ours? Come on man. Osu would smash Indiana at any point this year
November 23rd, 2019 at 8:16 PM ^
OSU was like their first Big Ten game of the year. I don't know on what count you could possibly say they're better today than they were then. They held UConn to 3 points the week after OSU. UConn sucks of course, but I just don't see this massive trend of improvement. Their schedule changed. Sure, early season MSU put 40 on them, but then fairly mediocre MD and Nebraska put 28 and 31 on them respectively a few weeks ago too.
Let's face it - D isn't their forte. An offense with a pulse will put 30 on them with ease. We put 39 on them. Our offense has a pulse, no, more than that. Our offense is actually pretty decent now. The fact that this is now seen as 'negative talk' shows how weird people here get when they talk themselves into delusions of grandeur.
November 23rd, 2019 at 10:25 PM ^
He got the point, you are just being churlish
November 23rd, 2019 at 10:26 PM ^
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