Michigan vs Purdue / Afternoon Games Open Thread

Just run, Fitz! Don't dance!

That play was three yards if Fitz rides his momentum. Attack the hole.

Snake oil!

Denard throwing the fastball. Nice toss.

so close

Fitz is reminding me of Montee Ball so far this year. They just aren't running with power. Montee just started to come on a little so hopefully Fitz will follow suit.

Gardner has got to catch that one..

That girl had P on her face.













#childish

Hager-up woo woo. Hager-up

Robert Marve is in.

geez

All Jake does is win...

Diggin' deep into the playbook now.

Marve is a 6th year senior? Redshirt and a medical?

That was a cool play

Cackle with knowing glee if... The ACLeohant is in

Hook and lateral. This play brought to you by 2008.

Tackle!

Too little, too late? Where was this offense earlier?

He has no knees left. Blitz his balls off!

Defense starting to come back down to earth...

Oakland has started as well, for any Tiger fans out there. Unfortunately, it is 1-0 Oakland in the first on a leadoff HR.

Love seeing Campbell repeatedly hustling to the play at the sideline on the WR screens.

Come on, D.

What the hell?!

That's peachy.

WTF? that wasn't a late hit and it should have been intentional grounding

Roh beastmode!

knees like that?

Defense getting back into beast mode...

I got to applaud Marve on this drive though. It's clear the boy can hardly move but his gutting it out. Well played sir.

A hit!

Love me some Jake Ryan

 wreaking havoc today

31-13 12:46 4Q

Way to hold, D!

Watch the onside kick here. Hope knows they don't have much chance if they trade possessions with us.

Let's go O! Score a few more times to make me feel better.

These idiot fans are cheering like thewy're about to take the lead when they're down by 3 touchdowns.... do they understand football?  And why even bother with the FG?

Tigers just tied it up @ 1

Arkansas over Auburn 24-7

Army over Boston College 34-31

North Carolina over VTech 48-34

DENARD!!!

Denard looks slower today? Or am I crazy?

Denard. Umm. Wow.

dammit tackled by the shoelace.....

It's time for Fitz to sit.

I see Arizona is still up a service break in the third set on Stanford.

He seems to be reading/waiting for blocks instead of just running past everyone

runs there is big gaping hole, Fitz runs and there is two or three guys in the backfield immediately. I don't think the issue is with Fitz, the push is just completely different. Not sure what people are expecting from Fitz, when there is nowhere to go. I don't think the other RB's would be having anymore success.

Is in for a rough film session.

Fitz is averaging less than 2 yards per carry. I know Purdue's interior D line is good, but this is ridiculous. We should give Rawls, Hayes, or Norfleet some carries here or there just to see what comes of it.

Wow. Can we get a TD?

This half has sucked, offensively.

That's it Gibbons!

Tipped at the line when denard is throwing twenty yards downfield?

Kickoff coverage is streaky at best.

What ever happened to booting it through the endzone on kick offs?

Turf monster ate the Purdue returner.

Where the hell was Roh going?

Pretty good tackling today all around

Has been playing some very solid football, interception baby!!!

WTF is Bolden doing cold cocking that guy?  I think we've been watching too many sparty games

Woo! Gordon!

Wooooo! We're gonna win.

Please get a TD .

nice interception, now for a td

a good thing

Fitz with another impressive two-yard run.

I love TDs

Marve looks like Miggy

who was supposed to be blocking for Fitz on that one?

Assume the position, Purdue.

And Fitz grabs a loss from the jaws of a two-yard run.

Like that play, if he just drives forward, it's 4 yards. instead he gets nothing.

Of daylight all year for some reason..

Let's stop running Denard now that we have a sure victory. Please.

Looks like they might be headed for a third-set tiebreaker.

Arizona has 598 yards, Stanford 572.

I was really looking forward to a full season of fitz tearing it up before the season started. I can't understand why he's so ineffective now.

 this half. The D is playing well and Purdue's O is obviously mediocre at best. Normally I don't like when teams sit on the lead, but sometimes the circumstances are appropriate to do so.

Fitz's stats right now. 17 carries for 20 yards. 1.2 yards per carry. It'll be big for him to get going during conference play.

FYI, Denard has 89.9% of our offensive yardage right now.

Gibbons now 3/4 on FGs today.

Now that's a classic RR score.

Arizona-Stanford going to OT tied at 48. Could we see another 67-65 3OT-esque game?

Denard dings his throwing hand. Fackitty Fack Fack.

Was I drunk, or did JT cut his dreads off during the off week?

4th down stop!

Has been very impressive, great fundamental football being played

Please put Bellomy in the game now. Not only for Denard's health sake, but for Danny Hope as well.

What do you know. Running forward, huh?

Look at Rawls take on that first tackler!

may be earning many more future carries.

Rawls? Let's get it!

Bowling ball!!!

purdue in an upset? kiss my ass, herbstreit.

Starting RB controversy... BEGIN!!!!

Fitz goes down after that first hit I think.  I'd love to see a lot more of Rawls going forward. 

Wolverined.

Um, Rawls had more yards on this drive than Fitz did all day.

Rawls earning some playing time, perhaps?

307 rushing yards for Michigan versus 47 for Purdue.  Not bad.  To think that there were talking heads that really thought this was going to be a Purdue win. 

Zona is toast.

I think rumors of Michigan's demise/Purdue's resurgence were slightly exaggerated. Suck it Herby, Corso, Valenti, Stoney, et al. Hootie was the only sane one on the Gameday set today.

He always has somethin negative to say about Michigan

Hoke is thinking am I gonna have to bench my thousand yard rusher and start Rawls?

Purdue turnover. LOL

Victory!

who is the guy in the suit chatting with Denard on the sidelines?

I'd like to see Bellomy air it out one of these days..oh well awesome win boys

44-13 is the final from West Lafayette. See you in Indianapolis.

I thought Purdue was going to win...

open to question.

If nothing else get Fitz's head back in it

remember this game going forward

to Indy if the defense plays the way they have in the last two games, and turnovers on offense are kept to a reasonable level. Only missing link, at the moment, is the RB running game. Not sure what do to there, I still think it is largely due to a lack of holes, but maybe a couple more carries for Rawls may be in order.

Dominant road performance today, they looked sharp in all facets of the game, it truly seems like this game was never in doubt.

yeah, I don't see how it's possible for Fitz to gain, what, 17 yards on 17 carries, while denard pops over 200 easily. Unless purdue's gameplan was, uh, yeah, let's shut down toussaint and make denard beat us, those numbers make no sense. I to this day, am actually shocked that he was a 1000 yard rusher last year. That's kind of crazy, because he really doesn't run like it. Not particularly big, not particularly strong, and not all that quick. Either he's the recipient of Borges' worst plays, or he's just not really star material. Either way, we need to find a workhorse back (Derrick Green, maybe?) for the future.

Also, I think we can remove the possibility of Fitz going pro after this season.

last season for the running game to develop. I think once it does we will be unstoppable in the B1G at least!