Michigan missed 28 tackles vs Indiana according to Michael Spath
By my (unofficial) count, @umichfootball had 28 missed tackles against Indiana, 7 by LB Desmond Morgan: https://t.co/PkYEXczk1s
— Michael Spath (@Spath_Wolverine) November 17, 2015
November 17th, 2015 at 8:14 PM ^
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November 17th, 2015 at 8:16 PM ^
Great question. What is good, bad and average?
November 17th, 2015 at 8:19 PM ^
November 17th, 2015 at 8:22 PM ^
Actually, no. Dammit, foiled again!
November 17th, 2015 at 8:52 PM ^
I don't know if you are being sarcastic, but I googled it... It seems like profootball focus tracks these things. I could only find information on Pro Teams. New Orleans is the worst this year, which I am not surprised. They miss .136 missed tackles/snap. Best is Browns with .086 missed tackles/snap. Given IU ran 54 plays by half time, I am going to guess this number of missed tackles is not good.
Sorry if you were being sarcastic. I went too geeky here.
November 17th, 2015 at 9:04 PM ^
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November 18th, 2015 at 7:24 AM ^
I don't think you have to be an expert. Anyone watching the game could see that Howard broke a lot of tackles.
November 18th, 2015 at 9:26 AM ^
...cuz it seems bad.
November 18th, 2015 at 1:45 PM ^
Yeah, I remember that play.
November 17th, 2015 at 8:14 PM ^
That stat seems about right to me... A little troubling, but its nice to not have to hit the panic button anymore when seeing a stat like that.. Harbaughs got it under control.
November 17th, 2015 at 8:16 PM ^
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November 17th, 2015 at 8:36 PM ^
No. That was the Rose Bowl against Texas and Vince Young.
November 17th, 2015 at 8:46 PM ^
The goggles, they do nothing!
November 17th, 2015 at 8:52 PM ^
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November 17th, 2015 at 9:53 PM ^
November 17th, 2015 at 9:57 PM ^
Which brings up the other really interesting question: How many of these happened in the fourth quarter? Missed tackles seem to be the sort of thing that can be caused by fatigue. And, you know, that would make sense given how many pays the D was on the field for.
November 17th, 2015 at 9:22 PM ^
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November 17th, 2015 at 8:17 PM ^
November 17th, 2015 at 8:18 PM ^
I knew they missed 8, just didn't know how many times.
November 17th, 2015 at 9:36 PM ^
Fauxpelini is that you?
November 17th, 2015 at 8:19 PM ^
Sorry guys, it's only Tuesday, I'm trying to be optimistic.
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November 17th, 2015 at 8:44 PM ^
November 17th, 2015 at 9:56 PM ^
November 18th, 2015 at 9:29 AM ^
Combined with Howard being an EXCEPTIONAL back. We can't look past that. Barry Sanders used to make a lot of people miss tackles even when they were in position. Not saying the dude is Sanders, but he's a great college back -- one we haven't seen yet this season.
November 17th, 2015 at 8:20 PM ^
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November 18th, 2015 at 11:09 AM ^
I think the fact that Michigan won, despite the horrendous play on defense can't be overlooked. I'm hard pressed to believe that looking back on the season, the IU game wont be the worst game the defense played.
Ohio State wont be nearly as run heavy and I fully expect the D to get at least one turnover. Peppers usually makes one or two impact plays on D and I didn't see that either (example of that IU Freshman catching that first down in the second half while Peppers covered him).
8-2 is a heck of a start and a win is a win.
November 18th, 2015 at 12:02 PM ^
When he sold out and hit the big man at the five, stopping him stone cold dead in his shoes can and is interpreted by many to be quite impactful on the outcome of that game.
November 18th, 2015 at 1:46 PM ^
Indiana has lost 13 of their last 14 regular-season conference games. Ohio State's won their last 30.
It's a long, long way from barely-good-enough-to-beat-Indiana to what's going to be needed in a couple of weeks. Let's not pretend otherwise.
November 18th, 2015 at 2:16 PM ^
is a much more run oriented team than IU. For the season this is how OSU and IU's run/pass play selection breaks down:
IU: 345 runs 444 passes
OSU: 430 runs 263 passes
Rush attempts are about 43% of IU's play calls. Rush attempts are about 62% of OSU's play calls.
November 17th, 2015 at 8:30 PM ^
Were both charmin soft on Saturday. I saw guys trying to tackle at the laziest level...without using their legs. Just reaching for the runner - it was awful.
Spielman would've LOST it.
Hope we never have to witness that again.
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Moving forward, the LBs will be better versus PSU. Just a better matchup all around. That said, I haven't seen Morgan make a play all year and Bolden looks like an undersized DT. There's no speed unless he's the only one running 2 seconds before the playclock expires.
Hopefully we can figure out the DL to help those guys out, because they're not good enough to be the playmakers on the D.
November 17th, 2015 at 8:45 PM ^
If I knew how to post pics, I would post a pic of Morgan's interception... ;-)
November 17th, 2015 at 8:50 PM ^
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November 17th, 2015 at 9:29 PM ^
November 17th, 2015 at 8:47 PM ^
Morgan isn't an explosive playmaker but he's generally very solid. 7 missed tackles looks bad but I think it's due to the sheer volume of opportunities he got.
November 17th, 2015 at 10:16 PM ^
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November 17th, 2015 at 8:31 PM ^
What about AFTER the first play?
November 17th, 2015 at 8:32 PM ^
November 17th, 2015 at 8:37 PM ^
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November 17th, 2015 at 10:16 PM ^
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November 17th, 2015 at 8:33 PM ^
Dang. I didn't even know we had that many on the roster. No wonder we had to use Strobel at that position.
November 17th, 2015 at 8:36 PM ^
play is becoming an issue.
November 17th, 2015 at 11:06 PM ^
Michigan also was all over the place with what it wanted from its LBs. We started out a few years ago with Ross playing inside, then decided we needed to get bigger. Now we're bigger but slower there, and lacking instinctiveness. The DL had hidden all of this the first half of the season, but this issue is getting exposed now.
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