Michigan vs. Akron SNOWFLAKES Thread

Drinking beer instead of whiskey

What snowflakes?  It's a win, but they played like poo.  Not well formed healthy poo.  Squirty liquidy, intestinal distress poo.

 

This thread should almost not be tempted.  There is nothing productive to say except for different words for poop.

Michigan played a complete game today.  They managed to play completely awful in every facet of the game. Had this been against pretty much anyone but Akron it would have been a loss.

Anybody up for headlining TWIS? Yeah, me neither

On how many times Taylor was targeted the last two games? Seems like very completion is to his guy

Fitz and maybe Chesson the only bright spots today

4 Gardner turnovers. Hot and cold Toussaint. Lewan injury. Wile punted like garbage. Weak 4th and 1 punt. 3 missed FG combined between the teams. Interior line mostly getting blown to little bits. No backups. Strobel didn't fucking get to play because he was injured. Spiritually another Horror, even if we "won" the ballgame.

Good: Chesson catch/TD, did not lose the game on the scoreboard.

They just didn't seem ready and definitely didn't execute. Michigan played it's worst game since Toledo today.

Anyone?  Anyone?  Bueller?

This effort was unacceptable - yes, I said it.

The OL and DL would've been beat up by my local peewee football squad today.

Akron is actually a good team.  They were losing all those games on purpose and saving everything for Michigan.

 

Watching them today. OL dominated and Gardner has a TO in 24 straight games. How many multiple TO's? Well, 3-0...

It stinks. It's over. We will forget about it in three weeks, as long as the team gets things together and starts playing well.
I think it's a massive let-down game and little more. Lousy week of practice, vanilla gameplan, noon start.
I hope so.

Yeah I know he's already used this but it's SOOO appropriate.

Mattison's bend dont break is getting old.  If you cannot pressure with 4 you have to take risks.  This is Akron and they dominated 2nd half on offense.  How many blitzes did he bring? 3? Yes it exposes your back but so does a QB with 8 seconds to throw.  You dont give Manning or Brady all that time because even with 7 playing passing defense they find holes.  This philosophy doesnt work for this defense who does not have ability to create a pass rush.  Yes Nebraska has no defense but this defensive philosophy is going to cost 50+ against that offense. OSU too.  p.s. Frank Clark = most overhyped player in past 5 years. Nothing today against a MAC level OL. 

They had better blow out UConn and Minny, because I really want to believe this game was a fluke.

at least nobody saw that, right? Tell me no one else watched that game...

Neb getting asswhipped is not a silver lining b/c BIG TEHNNNNN!!!

Borges did his best Brian Kelly impersonation, abandoning the run

DL is opposition invariant: not a good sign

Looked like lots of issues up front - gonna be a long season if we can't get the run game going against Akron. Also still no pressure from the DL and thus a lot of coverage issues in the secondary. Hopefully this is just hangover from the ND game.

Devin definitely isn't going to the NFL after this year.  Wooot

I feel bad for Akron - they totally deserved to win this stinkfest.  

Postives

• A win

Negatives

• Offense
• Defense
• Special Teams
• Coaching
• Crowd/attendance
• Shitty delivery pizza for lunch

But in all seriousness, I don't think I've seen a UM team just so disinterested and totally unfocused.  I'm hoping its a wake up call and that starts with the Captains/Seniors.  Could be a very long season or one to remember - only time will tell.

The offensive line is putrid. Gardner still makes horrible decisions. The defensive line cannot give pressure. Simply put, we won because of sheer luck.

Fortunately that's now just a teachable moment, a portion of the Big Ten TWIS, and a drop in the meaningless polls, instead of Horror II: The Horribler Horror.

Hopefully it means the coaching staff gets the team to take everyone as seriously as Notre Dame.  Almost makes me root for ND to just blow the crap out of Purdue to make us feel better about last week.

I blame donuts

This has to be a preperation/readiness/emotional hangover issue right? Remember, this team beat ND. I'm just trying to reconcile the difference between this Saturday and last, but I'm having a very hard time doing it.

Crowd - terrible

student section - terrible

O Line - terrible

D Line - terrible

Garder - terrible

the Mr. Spots I had - terrible

everything - terrible

I don't even remember what it was like to be happy.

Every good team has a bad game now and again. Towson, an FCS team, took LSU, a top-10 FCS team, to the wire in Death Valley last year. Bad games suck, but they happen. We've seen what this team is capable of when it's on it's game.

We've got a lot of crap we need to clean up on, but a win is a win. Shake it off, accept the fact that you played a bad game, and move on to next week.

Too many donuts?

now we all know how Sparty has felt the past couple of weeks. Dear Sparties: I'm Sorry. I was mean. That was wrong. You have a very good defense. Can we borrow it?

Jesse Palmer was "disappointed" in the play of Devin Gardner.

 

Yeah, no shit sherlock.