Penn State Snowflakes: The Coaching
October 19th, 2019 at 11:13 PM ^
predictable
October 20th, 2019 at 2:41 AM ^
Harbaugh never has the team prepared. The stats on first half score differential in these types of games is all you need to look at.
October 20th, 2019 at 2:54 PM ^
Thing that gets me is that first play when Michigan had it third and one on the forty nine yard line and I called the play before they ran it. Right through the center of the Penn State defensive line and they got stuffed. Why not fake it and run Shea around the line .Need more new plays for the top teams away from the big house.
October 19th, 2019 at 11:14 PM ^
Just too many fucking mistakes when it matters as usual. Maybe don't dig a huge ass hole every single big road game. But we didn't lose by much so we'll have to endure blaming the refs all week until ND.
October 20th, 2019 at 1:19 PM ^
The team did better than 98% of the people who follow this blog expected before coming in. Gattis' adjustments worked. Brown's adjustments worked. And yeah, I'll blame the refs, they accounted for as many as 14 points with the missed PI calls. In that environment with the refs working against you like that we scrapped and had still had a chance to win.
October 19th, 2019 at 11:14 PM ^
KJ Hamler arguably the quickest WR in the conference being covered by a safety/LB hybrid and a Josh Uche. Brilliant.
What? Was Hill busy doing something else this game?
October 19th, 2019 at 11:14 PM ^
I for one think the coaching was solid.
In a vacuum this is a good loss. But we don't live in vacuums.
So the narratives probably continue
October 19th, 2019 at 11:21 PM ^
Didn't he commit the penalty that extended the drive that led to the final TD?
Edit: No idea how this reply ended up here.
October 20th, 2019 at 12:22 AM ^
Best thing for Dax Hill would be to enter the transfer portal and get out of this cluster fuck defense ASAP.
Hawkins a 3-star WR recruit is better than the best DB recruit since Woodson. Get the fuck out of here.
October 20th, 2019 at 8:07 AM ^
Great idea!
October 20th, 2019 at 10:50 AM ^
Not wrong about Hawkins
October 20th, 2019 at 12:36 AM ^
Perfecting his holding technique.
October 20th, 2019 at 6:55 AM ^
Don’t try and bring any Levity
October 20th, 2019 at 9:20 AM ^
Solid coaching? Maybe in the 2nd half.
he had to burn a TO BEFORE THE FIRST play. What???? Then, a total lack of discipline (coaching) lead to a handful of bonehead penalties. Then a punt on 4th and 1, and a 58 yard FG attempt. Yeah, solid.
i want Harbaugh to succeed as much as anyone but he’s simply not living up to what we expected.
October 20th, 2019 at 8:26 PM ^
Not living up to his paycheck either.
October 20th, 2019 at 9:33 AM ^
He was on him one time with safety help over the top and he didn’t even make the catch because of decent defense. If you wanna be mad about a defender on Hamler, you should be mad about Josh on Hamler near the end. Also you should be mad at Hill for tackling a guy when Michigan has stopped PSU on 3rd and long with about 5 minutes to go right before Hamler scored that bomb.
October 20th, 2019 at 9:41 AM ^
Was that an assignment or Uche just making a hell of a play?
October 20th, 2019 at 3:10 PM ^
THAT'S the one thing about the coaching in this game I just don't understand. Why does the trips to one side mean that a safety is covering the slot even if he has zero chance of, you know, actually covering the slot? That's not on Hawkins and it's not on Metellus. That's on Brown. They're being set up to fail and they did.
October 20th, 2019 at 8:21 PM ^
Love me some Don Brown but this WTF is on the same level as a 4.8 Mike McCray covering a 4.4 Saquon Barkley.
Brown is overconfident in his dudes to a fault.
October 19th, 2019 at 11:14 PM ^
I think we are better than them. I didn't love Brown's game plan. You knew if we manned up they would hit a couple. I wish we would have made them put some drives together and beat us. I don't think they could have done it. Big plays killed us. Offensive game plan was good. Kids played hard. Best offensively we have been all year.
October 19th, 2019 at 11:15 PM ^
University of Moral Victories
Hail to Moral Victors!
Hail to the 'we did our best'
Hail!
Hail!
To Michigan the 3rd best team in the East!
October 19th, 2019 at 11:53 PM ^
And possibly second best in the West!
October 20th, 2019 at 12:01 AM ^
Never mind.
October 19th, 2019 at 11:15 PM ^
I think we are better than them. I didn't love Brown's game plan. You knew if we manned up they would hit a couple. I wish we would have made them put some drives together and beat us. I don't think they could have done it. Big plays killed us. Offensive game plan was good. Kids played hard. Best offensively we have been all year.
October 20th, 2019 at 12:20 AM ^
Yes, fuck Brown. He seems content going down by a few scores when on the road to "adjust". It didn't help that it took Patterson 2 1/2 quarters to settle down.
October 20th, 2019 at 2:28 PM ^
Yes Shea was pissing his pants most of the first half, but finally someone started calling quick passes to the perimeter— and wow, a different team on offense... Anyone else notice?
October 20th, 2019 at 2:56 PM ^
Pissing his pants when he hit 3rd and long on the first series? First play TO was atrocious but that was about it. He didn't drop balls. He kept the ball a time or two, which, maybe one wasn't a great keep but it wasn't a sign of pissing his pants. The narratives some of you create are interesting at a minimum but mostly ignorant.
October 20th, 2019 at 3:22 PM ^
I don't know what game you watched. Shea was balling all night. He put that offense on his back. This was the guy we thought we were getting this year.
October 20th, 2019 at 1:09 PM ^
I agree, Brown is what is holding this team back from being with the big boys. But wait, his defense can shut down anemic offenses.
October 20th, 2019 at 1:37 PM ^
It's a team game! If the offense had scored more than 1TD in the first halfand not gifted PSU a TD with the short field INT, UM wins this game going away. Add in the way more than usual homer calls and Don Brown had a great game plan.
October 20th, 2019 at 3:03 PM ^
Was thinking during the game that you want to stop the flow of the game which gets the home crowd out of it which drives momentum for the home team. Every first down feeds mo. If the deep catches are kept to a minimum, it could be part of his reasoning. 1 Hits on the QB due to pressure that man allows. 2 Disruption of offensive flow which bleeds off momentum. Just a thought
October 19th, 2019 at 11:15 PM ^
University of Moral Victories
Hail to Moral Victors!
Hail to the 'we did our best'
Hail!
Hail!
To Michigan the 3rd best team in the East!
October 19th, 2019 at 11:15 PM ^
I thought there were some poor situational calls during the game, most notably, putting a safety with no over the top help on Hamler which directly led to 14 points. Otherwise I thought there was improvement all around, and it seemed like the offense got into a rhythm in the second half.
October 19th, 2019 at 11:30 PM ^
I cannot believe that with Michigan having an unlimited IT budget, that this forum fucking sucks this bad. I have 200Mbs internet, and yet, almost EVERY time I try to do anything on this POS website, I get errors, and js errors... functionality is garbage, errors 2 out of 3 attempts to do anything on this forum... OMG fix this shit. The forums appear to be mediocre like the coaching staff @ Michigan.
Don Brown sux, his inability to adapt to any offense has cost us at least 8 games over the past few years. Why can nobody see this? This coaching staff has turned these kids with championship talent into mediocre trash bags.
End Rant... Good game Michigan...
PLEASE FIX THIS TRASH WEBSITE.
October 20th, 2019 at 12:12 AM ^
What does Michigan having an unlimited IT budget have to do with this website?
October 20th, 2019 at 12:20 AM ^
Um... what?
Get your basic understanding straight.
Unfathomably ridiculous
October 20th, 2019 at 1:53 AM ^
LegacyATrain, take a bow. This might be the single dumbest post I've ever seen on MGoBlog.
Kudos to you sir or madam.
October 19th, 2019 at 11:47 PM ^
Maryland and Sparty might argue UM is the 5th best
October 20th, 2019 at 12:27 AM ^
You keep posting this crap. It’s not clever. When you see your 10th grade creative writing instructor next week, come up with something better.
October 19th, 2019 at 11:15 PM ^
Not sure about the decision to have Moody try the 58-yarder, but I think it was probably a good halftime speech.
So I'm cool with most of it.
October 19th, 2019 at 11:15 PM ^
Look they fought for 60 minutes and I think it’s fair to say they were the better team.
There are no moral victories but this was a hard fought game.
But please Jim, appoint someone else in charge of time outs and game strategy. You suck at that.
October 20th, 2019 at 12:26 AM ^
I think if we went for it we could've won the game. We were money on third and medium the whole game. Get it within a score and that's a W.
October 20th, 2019 at 12:41 AM ^
So... what you're saying is that Harbaugh is Day's/Meyer's lap dog.
Just like Teddy was Stalin's lap dog...
Name checks out
October 20th, 2019 at 12:42 AM ^
Harbaugh said in his press conference that Nordin was injured. Still would have preferred to go for it, but at least the Moody part of it was explained.
October 20th, 2019 at 9:24 AM ^
The spot challenge that cost us a timeout at the end, however.....
October 20th, 2019 at 12:03 PM ^
The challenge had a better chance of helping than fielding a punt with a couple seconds left.
October 20th, 2019 at 1:11 PM ^
Penn State would have been able to run out the clock. Unless you are allowing for an unfathomly stupid move by Franklin, which I guess is within the realm of possibility.
There was 1:45 left (105 seconds) left. It was pre-1st down and Michigan had one timeout. Which means PSU would have been able to let the clock run three times. If you optimize, once before 1st down with 25 seconds on the playclock, and two other downs with 40 seconds on the play clock. That's the whole 105 seconds, and downing the ball takes a couple of seconds each on 1st-3rd down.
Game was over. It was a Hail Mary, but the only chance we had (hoping to see an unexpected premature knee down).
October 20th, 2019 at 1:12 PM ^
As someone noted in another thread.
PSU would have snapped the ball with about 1:06 on the clock on 1st down if Michigan didn't challenge.
Timeout after 1st down stops the clock at about :58.
PSU would then still have 2 plays to run out the clock. They have never needed to punt.
October 20th, 2019 at 3:25 PM ^
I'm fine trying for the FG but you got to put Mr. Big Leg Shotgun in to try it.
Harbaugh was right-- that actually was their finest hour or so in the second half. Too bad the hour before that kinda sucked, or we'd have walked away with a well-deserved W.
October 19th, 2019 at 11:15 PM ^
University of Moral Victories
Hail to Moral Victors!
Hail to the 'we did our best'
Hail!
Hail!
To Michigan the 3rd best team in the East!