Michigan Monday is up
tl; dr Credit where credit is due, but the jury's still out on whether or how it translates to The Game.
The intro:
Last week I insisted that if Michigan football wants to develop any kind of offensive identity or consistency, they need to take the ball out of Shea Patterson's wee porcelain doll hands and at least try and conjure a reasonable facsimile of a Running Team. My reasoning for this was that Patterson has been overall disappointing as Michigan's signal-caller, and given that the most functional part of their offense had been the running game, it might be smart for Harbaugh and Gattis to stick with what works. This turned out to be extremely dumb.
November 18th, 2019 at 10:32 PM ^
Shea was pretty good huh?
November 18th, 2019 at 10:33 PM ^
Wasn’t Michigan Monday on the Ozone and not Eleven Warriors?
November 18th, 2019 at 10:35 PM ^
Yeah, whatever this is... it's not Michigan Monday.
November 18th, 2019 at 10:35 PM ^
Ah shit. You're right - threat level Michigan.
Let the negbang commence. I'll start us off.
November 18th, 2019 at 11:07 PM ^
Just go back and edit the OP.
...or wait, I forgot.
November 19th, 2019 at 12:19 AM ^
I was wondering why MM was so short and crappy today.
November 18th, 2019 at 10:36 PM ^
That's not the Michigan Monday, the Ozone, or Gerdeman. It's a decent read, but it's the 11w version. Typically not as good of a write-up.
November 18th, 2019 at 10:38 PM ^
Yeah I was reading it thinking this is much more biased and snarky than usual without the more intelligent puns used by Gerdman. He hasn’t posted it yet for this week, I just checked...
November 18th, 2019 at 10:39 PM ^
Uh, this isn’t Michigan Monday, is it? Isn’t that on the Ozone not 11douchebags?
November 18th, 2019 at 10:41 PM ^
This isn't Michigan Monday
November 18th, 2019 at 10:42 PM ^
11 bonerboys
November 18th, 2019 at 10:48 PM ^
Damnit Hab, I was just going to bed. Now I have to read this first.
Edit: not Michigan Monday. This can wait until the 4am trip to the bathroom.
November 19th, 2019 at 2:51 PM ^
You should get a prostate exam...
November 18th, 2019 at 11:45 PM ^
I did read the comments though. They're smug sons o' bitches, though rightfully so, I suppose.
November 19th, 2019 at 12:04 AM ^
https://theozone.net/2019/11/michigan-monday-o-brother-went-thou/
Thats the real one. Not a particularly engaging read. Short on snark surprisingly...
November 19th, 2019 at 7:45 AM ^
Well, we've now got a truly multifaceted offense that the team has looked comfortable in running over a four-five week period, and that likely bodes very well for IU and suggests we may be able to give OSU by far their biggest challenge so far this season.
What bugs me about the Shae criticism from our local overlords is that it's so like the crap criticisms of screechy fans: when the guy isn't godlike on your demand or whim you start popping bponers. This when the guy's basic competency, godlike dimensions or no, is there in black and white in the stats. You guys are supposed to BE the cool heads who notice that despite criticism the guy has been largely successful, despite three systems in three years, etc. Instead you enlist with the screechers. . . and in my view have lost considerable credibility.
You know who you are.
November 19th, 2019 at 7:52 AM ^
Shae be Shea.
November 19th, 2019 at 3:04 PM ^
I always get "excited" around:
It's pretty bad when we come to expect Shae to fumble at least once per game. Trust me, other fan bases see this as well, thus the joke "he's legally obligated per Michigan law to fumble at least once"
November 21st, 2019 at 4:20 AM ^
Shea is certainly looking better, but still a long way to go. Open receivers were having to leap or dive to make catches rather than hitting them in stride. I am hopeful, but he will have to play the game of his Michigan career to beat Ohio State.
November 19th, 2019 at 8:55 AM ^
This is not Michigan Monday.
November 19th, 2019 at 11:31 AM ^
The Threat Level meter is pretty cool.