New Season Outlook

Submitted by AMazinBlue on

After watching this debacle and how ineffective our offense is again once we play better competition, hoe do you see the rest of the season?

This may be the best defense we face all season, credit MSU with that, but thew playt calling and execution by Michigan's offense has been atrocious today.  Where do we see Michigan now that we have been brought back down to earth?

We may go 10-2, but the offensive execution must improve and Denard needs to be on the field whenever we have the ball.

estrombe2015

October 15th, 2011 at 5:11 PM ^

Am I the only one seeing an 8-4 season after the performance today?  Im not feeling good about the OSU, NEB, and ILL games.  And the @Iowa game has potential of being the Penn State from last year.

The FannMan

October 15th, 2011 at 5:21 PM ^

What were your expectations at the start of the season?  Did anyone have us undefeated? Or 10-2?  I had this year's team 7-5 with losses to: either ND or SDSU, MSU, @ Iowa, Nebraska, OSU. 

Well, we are still one game ahead of my expectations.  Iowa looks winnable, but Illinois is better than I thought.   OSU looks shaky and I really don't know how good Nebraska is.  So my season outlook is that we will do better than I thought and end up with 8-4 or maybe even 9-3.  For this year, that is fine with me.  We are moving in the right direction and 10 wins appears reasonable for next year.

I think it is a mistake to reset your expections based on wins we expected and a miracle against ND.  There is just no way in hell that we were the 11th best team in the nation.  

If we go 10-2 this year, it will be an awesome accomplishment give recent years, the transition, etc.  But you shouldn't expect it.  We are going in the right direction, and Hoke will get us there, but not this year.  Freaking out becuase we lost a game that we all expected to lose is a bit crazy.

AMazinBlue

October 15th, 2011 at 5:34 PM ^

is due to poor play calling and an O-Line that couldn't stay on the field with MSU's defense.  Denard and the backs had no time to make any kind of move.  We were out manned in many places and unfortunately Denard is proving that he just can't pass the ball well at all.  He doesn't handle the pressure well and continues to make poor decisions.  He got lucky, he should have had three ints today.

I think we can rebound from this, but I wonder if the recruiting by the previous staff is affecting the Oline, they don't seem big enough or strong enough to handle a defense like MSU or Ohio State.  10-2 might be a stretch.

OSU is looking much better with Herron and they still have a good defense.  We might be in for more disappointments later in the season.