PFF Article: What is Needed to Beat Georgia (w/ analytics)

Trickeration!

One of the weirdest terms ever created by the talking heads.  

I think we have to figure out how to attack Georgia in a balanced way.  Very doubtful that we can just line up and run it over them.  We are going to have to keep them guessing and hope we can catch them out of position, because if they know what we are coming at them with, they will stuff us.

time to dial up the annexation of puerto rico

Analytics has become a necessary, if annoying, part of sports journalism.  I'll point out that Analytics had OSU beating us as well as us beating MSU.  It seems to me what is needed to beat Georgia boils down to having a good game plan that lends itself to adjustments series to series and having a coherently motivated team.  Seemed to work against OSU, anyway.

My opinion as to what Michigan needs to win:

x = Number of points scored by Georgia.

Michigan needs (x + 1) points to win.

Why make things so complicated. The equation is simple.

Lock the thread.

Michigan tends to score enough points if they

Dont false start

Dont drop routine catches

Dont miss the easy passes

That is simply the difference this year. Dont need to be spectacular but in so many years we have been beating ourselves. 

Im just over here waiting to see Corum take a stretch play to the house.

If the Georgia D makes the same error as the OSU D did, thinking that stopping Michigans running game after a 3yd gain is a victory for them. They will lose the game. Watching OSU defenders celebrate after Haskins went for 3-4 yds on them was absolutely glorious to me. We are, or certainly can be, a genuine old school football team when we want to. Our O line & TEs have the patience to keep on plugging away at the chains. This frustrates the HELL out of todays defenses that simply don’t have the discipline & patience to stay focused on the details. They’ve been trained all their adult lives to defend “space” and we can play in a phone booth. I LOVE our offense against Georgia. 

Just play Michigan football and knock the piss out of them.  I hate when the old “you haven’t played anyone” scenario gets thrown around. But Georgia was only in one game with a team that could score and they got rocked. According to Georgia fans, we’re basically on par with Kentucky or  Arkansas. I said I didn’t care what happens after winning the big, but hearing their SEC arrogance makes me want a complete and utter ass kicking for the ages on them. 

Tempo their D line. They love to sub they all get gassed. Lock them on the field you’ll thank me in the fourth quarter when they’re all just walking to the ball. 

Just viewed Klatt's breakdown of the game (FYI - he is picking Michigan). He noted the UGA likes to play with only 7 in the box and 2 high safeties. Mainly because they are good enough to do it. I expect Michigan to come out with multiple TE and force UGA to put the 8th man in the box thus creating 1 on 1 match ups for play action passing. 
 

This plays to our strengths and forces UGA corners to play man to man coverage.  I’d expect stretch zone, sweeps, and jets (with all the counters to go with it) as the base of our offense. 

I am totally on board with Cade at QB so don't get me wrong...but..  I think we might catch them off guard if we trot JJ out there for the first series.  Play Cade the rest of the game or whatever but I don't think they would be prepared for JJ immediately. 

1. Attack the perimeter offensively, Inside Zone won't end well

I think Gattis actually made mention of this in his press conference today, however, I still expect us to at least try to establish the run inside