Michigan Iowa thread

We need a few miraculous offensive plays and Iowa to Notre Dame their way to a MICH victory.

ditch the coaches not have the team prepared for the damn game?

This is all my fault.



I've had an atrocious weekend in Vegas so far -- never had such a bad streak at the tables before, and I bet on Michigan with the hopes my fortunes would change.



Everything I've touched turn this weekend has turned into herpes-infected poop. Sorry.

Need a quick score to have a pulse.

What are you trying to do borgues? Go back to the flippin stone age?!

What is this newfangled QB Draw play that has Denard walking into the line of scrimmage for either no gain or 3 yards? Bring back the Rich Rod QB Draw for 7 yards per carry.

Hey, let's run the spread and score at will!

TD Michigan but a flag

Let's go baby! Bounce back!

...unleash Denard!

Borges hurry up and put Gardner in.

Denard found a flow, let's see what Devin can do!

So Devin get 0 snaps and Denard drives us for a quick TD. Sounds about right.

next week we should play to our strengths the whole game.

Why do we wait so fucking long to run the O around denard.

Let me get this straight... A combination of designed runs by denard and short throws to the perimeter is legal?

might come back to haunt us.

I don't get why you don't go for two? Makes no sense

Quick, effective, showing where the strengths of the team on O lies.

One strong, fast stop and we are right there.

Screw MsU

We should run that hurry up/jet offense at least 3-4 times per game.

JT is getting killed!

can Countess please cover nut the rest if the game? thank you

JT Floyd is bad.

I just found out that Borges missed the last drive as he was in the restroom. He is furious that Devin was left out of that drive.

Ok keep doing that!

Now stop em D! All they've done is slants and rollouts all game!

They are attacking Floyd. He's playing to far off.

we didn't kick it out of bounds

Here is the game.

Wow a defensive stop

Well looks like we can expect a pass to JT's side every time they throw.

I have noticed a pattern.

Every time Countess covers McNutt, he makes a nice play to either hold him to a minimal gain, or deflect the pass.

Every time JT Floyd  "covers" McNutt, Iowa gets a first down.

Got to stop this fourth

LOL Take that

Y U CALL TIMEOUT?

Borges just called the TO

That was the funniest Allstate commercial to date.

Not so sure about the TO. You may need those if the 2 pt conversion fails.

When is the last time we blocked a punt?

This should be fun

So many bad pass interference no-calls

Spielman is saying exactly what I've been saying for the last 2 months, Denard needs to scramble off of pass play not just designed runs. It's like Borges put cement on Denard's feet. The offense is schizophrenic.

We need to force a turnover.

WTF is so hard about scrambling, screw these designed runs!

It seems Iowa is playing a lot with 2 "spies" straight up the middle.  One stays closer to the line and waits for Denard runs, and another follows the deep receiver looks for the Denard overthrow.

Good stop on 3rd and 1 again!

LET'S FUCKING GO!!!

DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDEFENSE!!!!!!!!!!!

Fucking beautiful D.

This is an emotional roller coaster

The ghost of Lloyd Carr* could come back to haunt Iowa.

*Even though Lloyd's not dead.

LOL Td MIchigan

come-on denard here's your chance to redeem yourself for that 2009 game.

Awesome.

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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!HGNUR REUNGER0IUN6QQ35IKJTYRT

Are you kidding me???!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

exciting anyway

Do we even have a punt block play???

Fuck

Fuck

ONLY his elbow is down, and the player is down???

Not even 2 points of contact down. Oh well.

more touch

If you can't throw it, run it Denard!!!!!!!!

We missed a big one there.

Tacopants with the touchdown.

He can't throw long at all. Terrible.

I wish Borges didn't have such a hard on for calling fly routes.

I smell run

many drops

Please Denard if there is a hole take off and run.

Nice gain...told you this was going to be fun

TD Michigan

WHAT

 WHAT

Michigan Fable wr history

3rd down for Michigan

Shotgun

Robinson

THROWS

TCAUGHT

NO NO

Last gasp 4th and game

Shotgun

INCOMPLETE

Horrible officiating

What a blown call

Absolute great officiating. Fitting the game would end on a phantom pass interference.

How was that not a td?

fuck the refs

THAT WAS A TD. HIS KNEE HIT THE GROUND IN THE ENDZONE FIRST

As long as Denard is our QB we will never be good. If Devin is our QB we will be even worse. This is what the call a no-win situation.

Our receivers got raped the whole damn game!

Wish he could make a few comments of that officiating. PI!!!!!!!!

Fucking jobbed, sickening. I don't mind losing if we don't play well - which we didn't really. But that was bad.

Of phantom pass interference?

worst reffing job I've seen in years.  pathetic.  They steal a touchdown away from us then let the Iowa coverman get away with being draped all over roundtree on the final play.  Complaints need to be filed for this game.  Such horse shit.

He has Denard Robinson and doesn't call one roll out with 4 shots from the three.

I'm not a big fan of Al Borges after this.  Why are we using the Gardner sets so much?  Apparently, we have to throw away some plays every game for no reason.  

No rollouts on the goal line?  The MSU game was a worse called game than this, but this one was still awful.  Put another one in the "Borges has no idea how to maximize this personnel" column.  

So disappointing.

I'm not a big fan of Al Borges after this.  Why are we using the Gardner sets so much?  Apparently, we have to throw away some plays every game for no reason.  

No rollouts on the goal line?  The MSU game was a worse called game than this, but this one was still awful.  Put another one in the "Borges has no idea how to maximize this personnel" column.  

So disappointing.

So embarrassed for this officiating crew. What an unmitigated abortion.

It's funny how the TV announcers can have such an impact on viewers' opinions.  Because Spielman kept blabbering on about the need to call a rollout, a bunch of posters are parroting him now.  I would not have called a rollout because 1) Denard doesn't throw that well on the run and 2) you can't afford to be tackled inbounds with no timeouts.

There was nothing wrong with the playcalling.  The second-down play was a TD, but the officials blew the call.  The third-down play should have been a TD, but Smith dropped it.  The fourth-down play was clearly interference.  This is on the officials.  The only coaching move I'd second-guess was calling the timeout instead of spiking.  If we'd saved the timeout, we could have called a running play, but OTOH, we would have lost a down.

Home-field advantage is truly nothing more than the psychology of refereeing. Refs are more likely to give the home team the benefit of the doubt in order to please the fans.

Anyone else read that Sports Illustrated article from last winter that talked about this? It's actually been studied statisically by several independent groups, and most come to the same conclusion.

We should have called a rollout run/pass option on the 4th down however.  I totally agree with before, since you can't afford to have the clock run out.

The officials were terrible this game, but let's be honest.  Our offensive play-calling didn't work in our favor.  Edge running wasn't working, drop back passing wasn't working, only running up the tackles where they were weaker was.  We got away from that and had shitty production.  Then we switch back to the spread option (which this offensive skillset is built around) and have two ~80 yard drives at the end when its basically too late.

I get the need for Borges to transition, but why don't we wait till we have the personnel?

I hate being that "IT WAS THE REFS" guy but, goddammit, It was the refs.

I know Gardner has not played very well, but I think it might be worth a shot to start Gardner over Denard. 

Hear me out.

1) We need to establish the pass early. 

- Denard simply cannot pass well. Gardner has a better arm and has a better chance of completing passes.

2) By playing Gardner, the defense will not know if Denard is going to throw or run. 

- If you use Denard as a runningback/quarterback/ widereciever, BUT stiil continue to give him some passing opportunites, it might be a better attack

3) Establish Ftiz and STOP RUNNING VINCENT SMITH UP THE MIDDLE

- Fitz is our best back period. Stick with him, and hit V.Smith on the slants or dumps, thats the best use for him

Just some thoughts.

Go Blue!