Official Vent Thread

This is the worst mgoblog has been since Penn State 2010. This thread is the definition of overreaction. 

is very disappointing to me. He has killed Denard's mojo and natural instinct by forcing pocket passing on him. It is frustrating that our D is championship caliber while our offense has been stagnant and lacks explosiveness when we have the MOST explosive player in the country!

That being said, we need to win out and hope for some help along the way. Season is far from over.

• I refuse to blame this loss on Russell Bellomy. Yes, he didn't perform well at all. But he has had little playing time. None with ANY significance. About 98% of it was in garbage time. He is a RS Freshman going into one of the most hostile environments (nice fans though) in the conference. At night. Oh, and it happens to be one of the most important games of the season and has HUGE division significance.
• Denard is going to be okay.
• New defensive front for most of the game I noticed. DE-DT-NT-DE = Beyer-Black-Washington-Roh
• Smith is the new #2 RB. Rawls didn't play at all.
• Mario Ojemudia was seen limping off the field (Per Mark Snyder). Leg injury supposedly.
• Defense is elite. No help from offense though doesn't exactly keep the defensive players from not being exhausted.
• This is where I have really just started noticing the departure of Darryl Stonum really hurting the team's passing game.
• Gardner is ineffective at WR. Need to get him back to QB ASAP and start prepping him for next year.
• PLEASE STOP WITH THE OBVIOUS SUB INS OF REYNOLDS AND JACKSON WHICH ARE RUNNING PLAYS. K?

This was the last week I planned on rooting against sparty anyways so for now I am hoping that msu runs the table because it only benefits us. It may be too late to say this, but I really hope we don't become the main joke for twis this week. Keep the faith ladies and gentlemen lots of season left.

How the zone run blocking has failed the RB. Most of the time it seems there are 3 defenders in our back field ready to tackle our RB after he takes a hand off.  A lot of the time Robinson will make a big play by running up the middle. I have to blame the O-line coaches for failing on technique since we do have some talented OL!

Never liked the idea of moving Gardner to WR! He should be the back up QB and be in the competition next spring for starting QB next fall with Bellamy and Morris.  Gardner has much more talent at QB than Bellamy and should be the starter when Robinson is out.

At the beginning of the year I had Michigan losing to AL, ND, NE and OSU to finish 8-4. After noticing how average NE and OSU looked,  I thought this was a good year for us to run the table in the B1G.  If Robinson is injured and cannot play for the remainder of the season we may end  up losing at home to Northwestern and IA.

We may have to get use to the 7-5 and 8-4 records for the next few years. Once we get more depth and better skill players, we should turn it around by 2015 during Shane's RS Sophomore season.

even uglier while he was gone. I think we pick ourselves up and Denard will be good to go against Minny next weekend. All I care about now is winning out which I still think we  can do. Yes Ohio St looks tougher now but keep in mind how poor their secondary is at adjusting to the passing game. I have confidence in our DL but our defensive secondary fell asleep way too many times downfield tonight and allowed some major yard gains for Nebraska. Put this game in the back seat and focus on keeping the LBJ in Ann Arbor for another year. We're still very much alive. I hate to admit this though but if Denard can't stay healthy thru the rest of the season up to the OSU game then we are in serious trouble. I am still stunned Borges won't give Gardner a shot at backup QB. Weren't we told he was the better backup?

Michigan's defense played well most of the football game. But when you're on the road in a veyr loud, hostile stadium, your offense has to get first downs and score some points on it's own, otherwise the momentum gets out of hand. Nebraska's defense shifted the momentum completely the other direction.

The refs were bad, but they effed over Nebraska too in this game on a number of plays.  I'm sure Pellini is going to ask that crew be shit-canned after the game - even though Nebraska won said game.

I will say this. Nebraska fans I met with and sat next to were a class act - very gracious, laughing and having a good time talking with Wolverine fans. Some were drunk, but they were very happy after what happened in this same game last year. They kind of realize that they beat a Michigan team that was not at full strength today and the drop off with Bellomy was very surprising to them.

The guy behind me lamented after Denard Robinson ran for another first down "That kid is just such a phenominal athlete!"  And NU fans around him nervously agreed. That was the highlight of the night I'm afraid.

GO BLUE! BEAT MINNESOTA!

A lot of people got sent to Bolivia tonight, but most of them deserve much worse. And let me be the first to say I believe this is the worst loss of the last two years, given the way we just totally threw in the towel. But the season is far from over. Stop trying to make TWIS.

I realize there's a wee bit of drinking going on but please, read through your post at least once before saving...

My fiancé is a physical therapist and said an ulnar nerve injury which is what sensed had could take a day or a month to heal depends on how badly it's damaged

drunk TWIS drunk TWIS drunk TWIS drunk TWIS. Today sucks. Michigan, in all sensse of the word, loses. The world wins. Me = sad.

"One Saturday you're drinkin' the wine, the next Saturday you're stompin' the grapes."

If everything in football "starts up front," as the cliche says, why is it so hard to look at Michigan's lack of offensive production and realize that it's due to a very weak OL?  Is it because it's somehow more satisfying to bitch about the OC?  When a running team, in a running conference, CANNOT RUN THE BALL, it's a serious problem.  As Bill the Butcher said, if you think the OL looks good, you're really not paying attention, and as such, you're arguments are meritless.

Glen Mason's Ugly Wife, et. al., can bitch all they want, but they're just pissing in the wind.  Michigan ran the ball quite well last season, with the same guys running the ball.  What's changed?  The big guys up front giving Denard and Fitz holes to run through.  For some reason people seem obsessed with the OC, and refuse to admit the fact that no OC can scheme around weak OL play.  Yes, the OL is realatively good at pass blocking -- I say relatively because Nebraska, ND, and Bama were content to sit back and not pass blitz as they wanted to contain Denard -- but unfortunately, Denard isn't the most accurate passer, and the WR's aren't the best at getting separation.  But, the OL is fucking horrible at run blocking.

Again, why is this so hard to understand?  Why do so many of you assume that it is incompetence/stubbornness of the coaching staff.  Last year, Michigan pounded the ball over and over with Fitz.  They ran "predictable" plays, the ran zone-read after zone-read.  They ran inverted veers, and QB powers, to great success.  Nobody cared that it seemed conservative and predictable, because the OL was blocking it well, and it fucking WORKED!  Then, as you all SHOULD know, things open up because you're able to run.  This year, not so much.  When you cannot run your base offense with any effectiveness, the defense has the upper hand.

You guys are complicating something that is very simple!

The University of Michigan should hire a quaterback coach.

The rest of my venting will be mostly directed at UM football fans that like to pretend how much more knowledgable they are than other fans, etc. etc. etc.

I love Denard. He's a once-in-a-generatior talent, and i'll win and lose with him. They'll be some loses because he has deficiencies (perhaps correctable with a QB coach). But for Denard to be successful, the offense pretty much has to be designed around him. And on this blog, most have bitched up a storm when Borges tries to do normal football things like establish a vertical passing game. Whenever Borges deveates from the script of designing the offense around Denard, he sucks. Well, this is what you get when that offensive design loses Denard.

Oh sure, Bellomy looked awful. Hard not to look awful when Nebraska is playing video game defense: just overload blitz again, and again, and again. Where would his meaningful snaps have come from? Two top five teams in the OOC schedule, and a starting QB that still needs refinement in his senior season.

Also, it will take more than a year or two to climb out of the recuriting black hole and be a team where injuries to stars or near stars mean replacement with the next star or near star.

I think the offense will start to click once we stop trying to turn Denard into a pocket passer.  How many time last night when he stood, and stood, and stood in the pocket, could he have taken off and got some meaningful yards.  Denard wants to play QB in the NFL, but I don't think it will happen, so stop trying to fit a square peg in a round hole.  If Denard is in the pocket for more than 3 seconds, he should bolt.