This one stings
This one stings a lot. Its probably going to be hard to recover from this one. Might be a tad hungover in the morning. Listen to me tho I feel bad for Harbaugh and the whole team. Now A lot of you will get mad and bash on me for saying this but, the heart and Emotion Ronnie Bell showed on the sideline after the drop is something I appreciate it. Haven’t seen it in a while. Wish all players played with that kind of heart and emotion. He probably should of caught the ball but in the end he cares like we all do and probably cares more tbh. However, it’s Next up. AND THROW DON BROWN THE MONEY BAG. WE CAN’T LOSE HIM.
October 20th, 2019 at 12:39 AM ^
We can't lose Don Brown? Why? Because he devises an awful scheme against every good team Michigan plays?
October 20th, 2019 at 12:41 AM ^
We can’t lose Don Brown? The guy whose D gets lit up pretty much every time it faces a good offense? Lol ok.
October 20th, 2019 at 12:46 AM ^
Michigan wins out if Harbaugh fires Brown tonight.
October 20th, 2019 at 1:43 AM ^
I think this post wins the award for the hottest take crammed into the fewest characters.
October 20th, 2019 at 8:52 AM ^
He should just fire himself
October 20th, 2019 at 12:56 AM ^
And Brown of course also causes the players to play out of position at times and makes them go offsides to give the other team easy first downs. Yep ... always all his fault. Players can't be blamed at all.
Brown is a good coach .... his 2nd half adjustments were great. The offense played good 2nd half too .. if they had played like that 1st half its a different story.
The same thing over and over - Our offense just needs to be more consistent for both halves and we are fine.
I think the team looked MUCH better this game, as a whole, minus the mental mistakes at times. I for one think it sucks we lost but felt we took a step forward tonight. Just my take of course. Neg me if you like. =)
October 20th, 2019 at 1:09 AM ^
Though that's been one of the knocks about Don Brown. He can make some good half time adjustments, but a lot of times it's because he didn't start with the proper game plan.
He didn't seem to have the best defensive schemes in the first half to check Hamler.
October 20th, 2019 at 3:23 AM ^
Didn’t have good schemes to stop Hamler in the second half either.
October 20th, 2019 at 5:35 PM ^
Really? That ONE WHOLE TOUCHDOWN PSU scored in the entire second half? The ONE long pass Hamler caught?
I mean, it is not like Hamler is any good and does not torch every team he plays at least once per game.
The offense is the problem with this team. Seven fucking points in the first half. Of a BIg Game. With Harbaugh--the alleged offensive GENIUS who in year five is on his third OC, doesnt have an offensive identity.
I mean, how many All Americans and All Big Ten performers has Brown lost in the last three years? ALOT. Yet he keeps retooling. Sure he got burned, but his defense also had a short field with the interception in the first half and the offense didnt do jack until very late.
The only scapegoat on this team is the head coach, who is largely, at best, underwhelming.
October 20th, 2019 at 12:40 AM ^
"Should have "
Not going to waste anymore time on what you said .
October 20th, 2019 at 12:41 AM ^
This loss sucks, but it was a good game to watch. I'm not upset. Penn State made more big plays & was the better team, but Michigan was one catch away from a likely overtime after taking it on the chin early (by both the opponent & the officials.)
Sucks to be the team that plays spoiler, but if they can learn from this and play the way they did in the second half... Beat Ohio. Just fucking beat Ohio.
October 20th, 2019 at 2:00 AM ^
Penn State was NOT the better team. Michigan actually dominated the game from about the 9 minute mark of the 2nd quarter. I was at the game and the home crowd was very aware that Michigan was controlling both lines of scrimmage. Look at the stats Michigan won in every stat.
The problem was one guy for Penn State. One guy that should never have single coverage on deep routes.
Go Blue!
October 20th, 2019 at 12:43 AM ^
Throw Don Brown $ for what? I hope he moves on or is fired at the end of the year.
October 20th, 2019 at 12:47 AM ^
Yep, the one thing Michigan needs is more coaching turnover. Helped our offense so much this year
October 20th, 2019 at 1:28 AM ^
Yes there is nothing worse than a transition cost. It's literally worse than Sharknado!
It's so unfair that after 5 years of jim Harbaugh, the Michigan football program reacts to an OC change like an epileptic seizure.
Just life I guess.
October 20th, 2019 at 12:44 AM ^
Agree with every word. Would be nice to have a difference maker on offense like they had tonight.
October 20th, 2019 at 12:47 AM ^
We have one for sure and his name is Nico. Also, we may have a couple on the bench but we dont play them because, well, they are freshmen and those guys tend to not play year 1.
October 20th, 2019 at 9:26 PM ^
Nico and Bell. That guy gives 100% all day long. I know he had the crucial drop but that guy is fun to watch. We have plenty of good WR's period. We just need a QB that doesn't **panic** 80% of the time in the pocket.
October 20th, 2019 at 12:46 AM ^
Idk about all this don brown talk. He's very good. Prolly the best in game adjustor. If he can find away to have his defense start fast, we'll be on to something. Defense was good enough to win, the offense was even better tbh. It just wasn't our night and unfortunately its not our season either. Idk what else to say or do. This team takes way too much out of me
October 20th, 2019 at 12:48 AM ^
The best game adjuster put two shitty safeties on PSU’s only offensive weapon and had a fucking DE in pass coverage 30 yards down the field.
October 20th, 2019 at 1:28 AM ^
Come on man I'm just as pissed as you are but we gave up 7 points in the second half. Yes, metellus on hamler is unforgivable but the defense was lights out after being down 21-0. It was the beginning that screwed the game for us..
October 20th, 2019 at 5:38 PM ^
All season long people have been saying the offense is piss.
Now the people have turned their anger on Don Brown.
The offense is still piss. The defense is good enough.
October 20th, 2019 at 9:28 PM ^
Totally agree.
October 20th, 2019 at 12:52 AM ^
This one stings because the team had a shot. A shot on the road vs a higher ranked team, which in the past few years has been an extreme disappointment. But, tonight they flipped the script. It was just too late to really change the narrative...
But, the fight was there and I am legitimately excited for next weekend. Looking into buying tickets and hoping the home crowd can bring the momentum!
October 20th, 2019 at 12:57 AM ^
Nope was pretty similar to the loss vs ND last year. Let the other team jump out in front only to come up short when it matters.
Gotta love ptsd induced memory loss
October 20th, 2019 at 12:56 AM ^
At least they didn't lose to Illinois.
October 20th, 2019 at 1:13 AM ^
If Brown would have put Dax Hill on Hamler and double teamed him we would have won the game. That’s all penn state had. No one else hurt us. Other than the t.d. To the tight end who pushed off and didn’t get called. Fucking refs.
October 20th, 2019 at 1:22 AM ^
The last time we beat a top 15 opponent on the road was in 1999. Think about that. we haven’t had a really good road win in a full 2 decades.
October 20th, 2019 at 1:33 AM ^
Oh wide open
October 20th, 2019 at 2:05 AM ^
#2 Notre Dame in 2006. Not recent, but this century at least.
October 20th, 2019 at 1:32 AM ^
Don Brown is replaceable, like we all are...
October 20th, 2019 at 5:31 AM ^
so you think the defense was the problem
you didn't have any issue with those screens called when you could see the defense perched in that zone?
the continual short passes coming up short of 1st downs were great? no problem?
it was the defense that you point you?
October 20th, 2019 at 1:32 AM ^
Nope. Doesn't sting. Finally starting clicking on offense. Felt good. Seemed they got better as the game went on. Finally something to get excited about. Beat ND. Next Saturday can't get here quick enough.
October 20th, 2019 at 5:27 AM ^
let it go man
October 20th, 2019 at 3:05 AM ^
There's an antibiotic for that.
October 20th, 2019 at 3:10 AM ^
I feel bad for Ronnie bell. Kid played his ass off. But I’m done with Harbaugh. The experiment was a failure. Stop making excuses and accept it. Either enjoy mediocrity or accept the inevitable change in head coach. It’s too bad. I really believed this was our year
October 20th, 2019 at 10:28 AM ^
Most thought this was our year. Of course, I've been thinking that way since our last B1G title in 2004
October 20th, 2019 at 4:25 AM ^
I'm with the original poster.
Along with everyone else, I wish it were a win, but I'm more excited about the future after this game, not less so. There were a lot of excitingly good plays in this one, and the team had lots of fight in it, even after being down big.
Also, I think some really bad calls stole huge momentum from Michigan and contributed to the early points disparity. Stuff like that happens, but I think it was worse in this game than most. Still, the team battled back as best they could, which I admire.
October 20th, 2019 at 5:26 AM ^
you mean you thought they would win?
have you been watching them this year?
October 20th, 2019 at 6:06 AM ^
At least David Koch is dead
October 20th, 2019 at 7:34 AM ^
You're a special kind of stupid, aren't you?
October 20th, 2019 at 9:00 AM ^
The outcome of the game doesn’t “sting” at all to me. It actually gives me hope that we can actually be competitive against good teams this year. I was proud to see them fight like that.
What does sting to me is: We LOVE to get these small 3-star WR’s from Florida (McDoom, etc), but nobody on this damn staff evaluated KJ Hamler, who was in our damn backyard, to be some version on that?
What also stings is Ronnie Bell being our most explosive WR means I clearly need to lower my praise on the rest of the WR corps. Shea is clearly flawed, but I’m not seeing DPJ/Tarik get open w/ any level of consistency fitting of what was expected from them.
October 20th, 2019 at 9:25 PM ^
Don Brown has schematic failures every single big game! It's really hard to explain because he otherwise seems like a great coach. Like many on here, I've watched a lot of football and sometimes the other team is clearly better or just makes more plays that game. That's not what happens to Don Brown's defenses. His players are ROUTINELY in position to fail. Every single big game. If you don't see that as a failing of his you're not watching the games close enough.