Maryland Snowflakes - The Defense
November 18th, 2023 at 3:48 PM ^
Defense wins championships. The D line and Mike Sainristil made winning plays in winning time. I love this D. I love this team.
November 18th, 2023 at 4:23 PM ^
Mikey S is an a-maizing football player!!
Don't understand why Kenneth Grant doesn't play more. After destroying their oline, they have Goode in their own the next possession...SMH 🤔
November 18th, 2023 at 4:29 PM ^
Maybe by Grant being 360 lbs, it limits his plays
November 18th, 2023 at 3:49 PM ^
Credit where it's due. The second and third quarters were bad, but they played their ass off in the 4th quarter. Good job.
November 18th, 2023 at 4:55 PM ^
Remember in the game thread when all you did was shit on the team?
November 18th, 2023 at 5:02 PM ^
Listen, Reply Guy, I celebrated when the team made good plays and caterwauled when they didn’t. Like 99% of people in that thread. The defense got lit up in the 2nd and 3rd quarters and I pointed out they were getting killed. Then they clamped down in the 4th and I celebrated the turn around. I don’t know why you’re obsessively singling me out, but it’s weird.
November 18th, 2023 at 5:18 PM ^
“This offense blows.”
“Again, the defense fucking sucks today.”
I didn’t have to dig too far. These are your quotes.
November 18th, 2023 at 5:20 PM ^
And you would also not have to dig far for all the times I praised the team and individual players when they made great plays. Just as I said I did. And those comments aren’t nearly as critical as what other people were posting, but apparently instead of simply being happy about the victory you need to obsess about me.
November 18th, 2023 at 6:07 PM ^
“Completely outschemed. They have no idea what they're doing.“
“OSU can run the ball and Michigan can't. Game over.”
“J.J. can't throw the fucking ball to save his life.”
Just some gems from you during The Game last year.
November 18th, 2023 at 6:59 PM ^
Are you kids gonna start kissing? Get on with it.
I think most folks agree that game thread comments are allowed to be emotional and not necessarily supportive and analytical.
November 18th, 2023 at 7:58 PM ^
Just tired of the toxic game thread.
November 19th, 2023 at 7:14 AM ^
I brought my son to the Indiana game this year. Some of our UM fans sitting directly in front of us were having toxic verbal explosions and aneurysms in the first quarter. It’s hard when you love your team and things don’t go the way you expect them to. Our experience was an eye opener for my son, but it was definitely unpleasant to witness.
November 18th, 2023 at 3:49 PM ^
Mike F'ing Saintistril!!! So fricken clutch. Have yourself a day kid!
November 18th, 2023 at 10:37 PM ^
Mikey! He likes it!
November 18th, 2023 at 3:49 PM ^
Definitely a feast or famine type of game defensively. Should’ve had 3 safeties
November 18th, 2023 at 4:14 PM ^
I think the first non-safety call was the right one. Taulia had left the pocket and the pass made it across the LOS.
November 18th, 2023 at 4:46 PM ^
No, the one that everyone is complaining about was the right call. Forward progress is a thing
November 18th, 2023 at 3:50 PM ^
Trap game, on the road, against our former OC with something to prove, and all the outside noise. Not pretty, but great 1000th win.
November 18th, 2023 at 3:50 PM ^
Never any doubt.
November 18th, 2023 at 7:05 PM ^
That makes one of us
November 18th, 2023 at 3:50 PM ^
D line won us the game. Would rather get the bad game out of our system now, but the back seven really needs to practice zone coverage.
November 18th, 2023 at 4:25 PM ^
Grant is a beast.
November 18th, 2023 at 3:52 PM ^
Reality check today.
But only a bit.
Michigan beat OSU two years ago with a D that got annihilated by MSU. This is not that bad.
All that matters is next week.
November 18th, 2023 at 4:26 PM ^
we just llet up too early.
TT is always a challenge against us.
November 18th, 2023 at 5:15 PM ^
Really felt like a classic 'keep it all in the garage and not get key players hurt' game plan. Then Hinton goes down and hopefully Wilson is back and ready next week. But I do wonder in the back of my mind if HC/OC and OL duties are too much for Moore. I'm not even a big fan of the HC being the OC too. But I don't see how we can hand off either of those duties, especially next week.
Games like these infuriate me as a fan though, no reason we can't open up the playbook a bit even if we know we can beat a team with vanilla play calling. No need for close calls like this the week before OSU. I no longer scoff at the Alabama philosophy of scheduling FCS teams the week before Auburn.
November 18th, 2023 at 3:52 PM ^
Go Blue! The D struggled today but stepped up when it mattered the most! On to THE GAME!
November 18th, 2023 at 3:53 PM ^
They got a scoop and score. Sainristil get 2 INTS. They got the big plays when it mattered.
The defense gets the game ball.
November 18th, 2023 at 3:53 PM ^
Don't let the other guys get to the 1-yard-line, I guess.
November 18th, 2023 at 4:13 PM ^
Even that doesn’t look tooooo bad. Big guy specializing in that didn’t get much push.
November 18th, 2023 at 3:53 PM ^
This defense can do it next week. They had some breakdowns today but Minter will have them locked in.
November 18th, 2023 at 3:53 PM ^
Kenneth Grant for Heisman
November 18th, 2023 at 3:54 PM ^
Sainristil with the two ints and two safties (!!). Add the scoop and score to that. The D didn't break, but Tags was chillingly effective when he had time in the pocket.
November 18th, 2023 at 3:54 PM ^
They took half the game off and we won. Can't let that happen next week
November 18th, 2023 at 3:54 PM ^
Forcing the grounding safety was huge. Which was so clearly 100% grounding, there was no discussion.
November 18th, 2023 at 4:27 PM ^
Yeah, I don’t know what the hell Klatt on was talking about with that. It was like 10+ yards from anyone, and he didn’t get hit while throwing it.
November 18th, 2023 at 4:33 PM ^
Also we deserved a make-up safety from earlier
November 18th, 2023 at 3:54 PM ^
The defense was great in the 4th quarter but the first three quarters had a lot of busted coverages, sloppy tackling, and mental errors. I assume the intensity will be better next week.
November 18th, 2023 at 3:54 PM ^
The intentional grounding call was very good by the officials I have to admit. It was blatant and really not close (although his receiver could've helped make it not so obvious by running and/or diving back to the ball). But that was a clear "get rid of it to no one with pressure bearing down". I immediately thought grounding and it didn't seem they were going to rule it properly. But it wad clear int. grounding.
November 18th, 2023 at 4:16 PM ^
I think it was only so short because he pulled back, not wanting to risk an int.
November 18th, 2023 at 4:39 PM ^
It was a good call but they blew a safety call on the previous series. Refs always give the benefit of the doubt to the ballcarrier in those cases. It's annoying.
November 18th, 2023 at 5:33 PM ^
The tackle started outside of the endzone. It's called forward progress. Great play by the D, not a safety though.
November 18th, 2023 at 3:55 PM ^
I'm glad that the defense came up big when it needed to, but they don't look ready for the CFP.
November 19th, 2023 at 12:52 AM ^
As long as they're ready for The Game.
November 18th, 2023 at 3:55 PM ^
Way too vanilla and tackling must improve. Henderson won't go down easy and neither will Harrison.
November 18th, 2023 at 3:55 PM ^
#3 is a BETTER QB than what's at OSU. I personally think it was an awesome test and will 100% better prepare us for next week. We will need to "spy" Harrison (2 guys watching him) next week and if we can keep his catch count down we are good!
Wasn't a fun game but it was a good tough win and we got it done. Maryland gave us their A game and fought hard the entire game. We needed a game like this to be honest.
November 18th, 2023 at 3:57 PM ^
Harrison Jr will have opportunities with one man in coverage. We can't afford to double all day. Bracketing sure but they've other talent that needs covering (Egubka, for sure).
November 18th, 2023 at 3:59 PM ^
OSU has better talent overall and they will play hard next weekend. The ohio state we watched at the beginning of the season isn't going to be the ohio state we play next weekend. Henderson is back and he seems to be going off, so now we have to worry about the run and pass
November 18th, 2023 at 5:36 PM ^
Harrison Jr is gonna get his catches and yards....Even last year he was over 100 yards although it seemed relatively quiet. I think Josh Wallace is a weak link in the secondary, but they've been able to hide it because of our pressure and the fact that we haven't faced many great passing teams. I fully expect OSU to throw at Wallace, hell even Will Johnson was getting beat. We have to be able to pressure McCord the way PSU did, otherwise they will toast our secondary. Also I think OSU having Henderson is going to make it that much tougher on our defense. Michigan needs to play much better overall on defense than they did against Maryland. I don't think Mccord is going to make mistakes like Tua always does, and lets face it Maryland was moving the ball pretty easily for most of the game.
November 18th, 2023 at 3:55 PM ^
As crappy as they looked at times, the defense crushed Maryland on its last two drives. Pass rush overwhelmed their line. Helped that they were backed up.
November 18th, 2023 at 3:55 PM ^
Win 1000
Thanks for the INTs, scoop and score and the safety