Rewatch Snowflakes

during the game and the replay. I have mixed feelings. Didn't see him make any big plays. He was slow off the line on some plays. He showed speed and quickness getting down field on other plays.

Evans looked even better in the replay. Good speed, agility and a burst. Runs like a veteran. Can't wait to see them expand his role.

All of our QBs looked impressive.

I wonder if our punting team is any good.

1. I was impressed that Gary during one of McCray's sacks (2nd half) stuck with his assignment (the back in a route, I think) enabling the sack.
2. McCray looked very good - fast and attacking.
3. Winovich also seemed in good position off the end.
4. While the hole was big on the Evans long TD run, he squirts past four defenders after the hole - I am going to suggest that neither Smith or Isaac escape their clutches.
5. Have no idea why McKeon is catching passes and not other candidates in need of touches: Wheatley (please), Bunting (WTF is he behind freshmen?), Gentry.

Maybe we don't need to use Jabrillium on offense as much to make up for lack of a home run threat? Even better, Jehu, Eddie, Chris and Jabril would be a critical mass of Jabrillium with Bikini Atoll results!

butt blew several blocks. kugler played very well. kalis did too but thy keep pulling him, but he has gotten alot better. mags Cole seemed invisible which is fine. Newsome seemed solid. very happy. he looked and played part McCray played well but overran several plays, and msu will see this and gameplay ard it, believe it. hopefully itll be fixed. glad to have McCray. gary was getting held alot. he will break out by mid season, just watch. the DL will get stronger as we go on. hair away from many sacks

Hawai'i is a terrible team. Michigan is ahead of last year's bell curve offensively. That bodes well for the defense being fresh deeper into the season. On to the next. Also, Colorado will be a good test before the B1G season starts.

Gary was held a decent amount. I'm confused by the complaining about his first step. Looked very good to me, the bigger problem is the hand usage was off at times when he speed rushed. He looked damn good to me. Evans has great feet and hips. So smooth.. very natural in his movements with zero wasted movement.

To confirm that Michigan played pretty crisply. No sloppy spells, especially on offense. For an opening game, that's impressive. Clealy a sign of good coaching. Nice to be able to say that. Even when the second and third strings played things were pretty clean.

I'll admit I'm not rewatching, and I didn't watch the game that closely either. I'm listening to the friday podcast and one thing Ace said he would like to see was a deep ball, which I don't remember having. Looking a Speight's line, 10-13 145 yards it seems like most of his passes were in the 10-20 range without a bomb. Definitely not necessary, but like Ace said it would have been nice to try to make sure he has the touch, like Rudock took time to get last year. Did I miss one? Or will we have to wait until next week for a Speight-Chesson bomb?

I haven't been able to rewatch in full, but here were my takeaways:

I think we saw some good things from Speight. He just needs more time to develop chemistry with his receivers and gain more confidence in his reads. Reminded me a lot of early season Rudock last year.

The defense came out exactly how most of us expected. Ol Don Brown (ODB) isn't going to let anyone run on us. Our DL and LBs proved that. McCray obviously stood out, but I thought Delano Hill stood out against the run, as well.

It will be interesting to see how the defense reacts to teams spreading and passing. Hawaii could've done more to dink and dunk us from 4 and 5-wide sets. That final drive of the first half exposed some things that we will need to shore up.

Overall, total domination from an athletic and skill standpoint. I said we would cover the spread because they couldn't prevent our 2s from scoring and our 2s could still shut them out. The game bared that out.

There are some things to take away from games like this, but a lot we can't because the weak opponent just papers over things. IMO we will still have some question marks going into the Colorado game. We will know a LOT more about this team after PSU and Wisconsin than today.

Haven't had a chance to rewatch, but for anyone that has... How does Evans look without the ball? Clearly he can run, but can he do the blocking, blitz pickup, etc. that we need out of the position?

Stuff I saw after watching WD's highlights. Quality of opponent caveats apply because Hawaii is probably a bottom 20 FBS team but it's all we've got so far. At least we didn't look like State: - QB is definitely ahead of last year this time. Speight made some really accurate throws and made all the right decisions save the first play. Need to see him hit some deep ones but so far so good. - Backup QB will be good too. This isn't going to be like when Denard goes down vs Nebraska, if we need OKorn or even Morris for a few drives I think we'll be fine - McCray is very good. I can't remember and ILB getting involved like he did since David Harris. He was all over the field, and he was so fast that with the single digit number I kept getting him confused with Peppers. Peppers is a guy you want to be confused with. I bet all big ten type honors beckon - Delano's coverage is a plus, he defended one deep ball really well and read the QBs eyes in what looked like a robber zone, tracking the slant all the way for his pick six. Excited to see him pop up in short zones where teams don't expect, especially on blitzes - OL looked good. Big holes all around and good pass pro generally - Chris Evans. Man, Chris Evans. He has an acceleration to the hole that none of our other backs have. He also sees holes and blocking very well, and has a sneaky strength and ability to break tackles for a guy his size. He's gonna have a nice career, especially when he puts on a little more weight - Play calling was very vanilla, on purpose. They seem to really like that jet sweep and I bet they build in some very cool tweaks to mess with teams keying on it. - DL is fine, I think their lack of production was probably more due to Hawaii using quick hitting plays in passing game