Rutgers Snowflakes - The Coaching
September 28th, 2019 at 3:11 PM ^
Yay we looked good against Rutgers !! Time for the overreacting
September 28th, 2019 at 3:15 PM ^
Thanks for this incredible comment. Bravo. The comedy is gold. ??????????
September 28th, 2019 at 3:25 PM ^
This post lacks self awareness.
September 28th, 2019 at 5:43 PM ^
Lol you’re sarcastically pointing out overreaction when I know for a fact you’d overreact like a bitch if any single thing goes wrong.
September 28th, 2019 at 7:04 PM ^
As opposed to overreacting to a top 15 road loss?
September 29th, 2019 at 11:36 AM ^
Michigan looked great against a high school team.
BTW, did you see the Iowa game?
September 28th, 2019 at 3:13 PM ^
I saw more fire and passion on the sidelines today than any game in the past two years...
September 28th, 2019 at 3:20 PM ^
Having Gattis on the field is the emotional tone setting we can lean on offensively. Hope to see it the rest of the season. Play calling seemed a lot better in sync even though the running game still is not where it should be. But loved to see some ACTUAL emotion on the sidelines. Keep on bringing that!!
September 28th, 2019 at 3:42 PM ^
Agree and all, but we also played perhaps the worst P5 team. It’s easy to get excited when you are beating on someone. Less so when you are facing adversity.
That said, I really do agree with you that Gattis on the sideline is an emotional positive.
September 28th, 2019 at 3:52 PM ^
I’m not an X’s & O’s guy, and yes Rutgers sucks. But one thing that seemed much better & should be somewhat opponent invariant is the flow of gameplay.
I thought it looked improved. The moment that really stood out for me was when we had a decent gainer to maybe the 2 or 3 yard line. Unlike the Wisconsin game, the team got up, immediately lined up, and got a play off when Rutgers was still on their heels.
I don’t recall if that exact play got us the TD, but it’s almost besides the point. The team organization, readiness with the play call, etc was much sharper in that situation situation compared to last week against Wisconsin.
To me, that was clear proof that Gattis is on an improvement trajectory.
The dude is learning.
September 28th, 2019 at 9:55 PM ^
I remember this and remember thinking the same thing, but I do believe it took us at least a good 10 secs before we actually hiked the ball. We lined up quick, then waited way to long to actually run the play.
September 29th, 2019 at 11:34 AM ^
well, you do need some time to actually call a play
September 28th, 2019 at 10:58 PM ^
I don't think you can say anything is opponent invariant when the opponent is Rutgers. It's easy to have a pep in your step and play quicker when you're kicking the other team's ass. Much harder to do when you're getting actual resistance to what you are trying to do and facing adversity each down. Let's see how the offense looks next week. Even if we lose a close game to Iowa it will be a step forward if we show organization and passion on both sides of the ball.
September 29th, 2019 at 3:53 AM ^
Almost nothing on the field, and between the sidelines and the field, is "opponent irrelevant." The least of which is the flow of gameplay.
September 28th, 2019 at 8:00 PM ^
Gattis was on the sidelines only because he ate Taco Bell for breakfast and they didn't want him in the booth- that "fire" you speak of? Now you know.
September 28th, 2019 at 3:13 PM ^
GREAT FUCKING JOB against Butgers. A solid win agains a pathetic team but damn we needed this!
September 28th, 2019 at 3:14 PM ^
Hire a top notch RB coach for fucks sake
September 28th, 2019 at 5:10 PM ^
I don't understand this take. The fact that Charbonnet can pass block as well as he does as a true freshman should be proof of Jay's skills as an RB coach. Also no one seems to have problems finding the right lane to run through. The O-Line needs works still, surprisingly. It still doesn't make sense that they went backwards after improving so much last year.
September 28th, 2019 at 8:15 PM ^
The coaches agree with you. The starting five was out for most of not the entire game
September 28th, 2019 at 8:40 PM ^
Christian Turner looked improved today, too. Seeing the hole and even pushing the pile sometimes!
September 29th, 2019 at 12:02 AM ^
The rbs work with wariner on pass protection. The rb coach is a recruiting position plain and simple
September 28th, 2019 at 3:14 PM ^
Team looked ready to play today, dominated, scored all the points, and only had one turnover.
September 28th, 2019 at 3:17 PM ^
And that turnover wasn't bad. A hair higher and it was a TD, and don't mind Shea being aggressive.
September 28th, 2019 at 3:42 PM ^
Yup. Downed at the 5 yard line so no big deal.
September 28th, 2019 at 5:11 PM ^
Hopefully this doesn't make Shea get scared of throwing deep again.
September 28th, 2019 at 9:51 PM ^
Scared of throwing deep? If he throws this well it’s a TD. The INT was on him...it wasn’t because he was “throwing deep”. His tall athletic receiver was open and he missed him. Pretty simple.
September 28th, 2019 at 6:36 PM ^
Absolutely. Not a good throw but the fact that he took that shot was enough.
September 28th, 2019 at 10:00 PM ^
It was also a hell of an interception. It was a little underthrown, but those are balls that our receivers win pretty often. Excellent timing and hands from the DB.
September 28th, 2019 at 3:14 PM ^
I loved Gattis on the sideline. Really great move.
September 28th, 2019 at 3:15 PM ^
Passable. Now let’s see what we have next week with Iowa. Rutgers may be one of the worst teams in the country but did what we should have here.
September 28th, 2019 at 3:15 PM ^
Team played hard, pretty clean, and with spirit. All you can ask for against a bad team.
Hope it sets a good tone for next week. Beat Iowa!
September 28th, 2019 at 3:16 PM ^
It all looks just a little herky jerky, but they won in dominating fashion. You have to crawl before you walk before you run, so I'd say today was a success on that path and hope like hell that they take another step forward on the way to next week.
September 28th, 2019 at 3:16 PM ^
Here comes all the naysayers again, “But it’s Rutgers”... you people suck. Go flush your comments down the toilet where they belong...
September 28th, 2019 at 3:20 PM ^
We beat a nobody yep but at least we didn't look unprepared today...this game.means nothing ...neg away!
September 28th, 2019 at 4:59 PM ^
Disagree. This game means we can out together, and execute, a coherent game plan. Given the last 3 weeks that’s a win. It isn’t a huge win, but it’s a win.
if Michigan has won sloppily, lethargically, barely, (like the Akron game) or worse not at all (like Toledo) this would have been horrible
September 28th, 2019 at 7:08 PM ^
I mean...compare today to the game vs MTSU, who we know now probably isn’t very good (they’d prolly beat Rutgers, but it would be close)
September 28th, 2019 at 3:37 PM ^
That isn't "naysaying" dude--it's objective reality.
September 28th, 2019 at 3:42 PM ^
Please, keep your objective reality to yourself!!
September 28th, 2019 at 3:42 PM ^
Please, keep your objective reality to yourself!!
September 28th, 2019 at 3:16 PM ^
I think Gattis should stay right there on the sideline. It seemed like players were feeding off his passion. We will need that next week and for the remainder really.
September 28th, 2019 at 3:20 PM ^
What say you about that scene where Gattis was clearly pissed at someone. I'm still not sure if he was getting into it with Harbaugh, a referee, or a player. Sure looked like Harbaugh to me.
September 28th, 2019 at 3:35 PM ^
My lip reading may suck (it does), but I thought I saw Harbaugh say something like "What the fuck was that?" and Gattis responded with something like "They stopped us. They stopped us. Coach. That's it."
This could also be way, way wrong and Gattis really said "It's scrumptious. This octopus. It's great." I have no idea.
September 28th, 2019 at 4:14 PM ^
That was my first impression but when I watched it again it seemed like maybe he was hollering at an offensive player coming off the field just on the other side of Harbaugh.
It almost seemed like Gattis stepped onto the field to chew the kid out & Harbaugh was sort of ushering them back to the sideline so they wouldn’t get a flag.
September 28th, 2019 at 4:26 PM ^
I thought they asked about subs—like Gattis was mad at whomever was put in the game for that play. And it looked like at JH but likely at a player or at another offensive coach in charge of getting right players in for each formation.
September 28th, 2019 at 10:38 PM ^
Wasn't Gattis yelling at a ref?
September 28th, 2019 at 3:21 PM ^
Any downside you can see? I read somewhat about how it benefits an OC to see the whole field, but I would think a good assistant can make the same assessments and radio down to the OC.
September 28th, 2019 at 3:56 PM ^
Said it in another thread, but will repeat that I think it subtly moved Gattis to the head of the line as the playcaller, and maybe helped give him more legitimacy in everyone's eyes. I also loved that the team did some hurry-up goal line stuff to clear good effect.
September 28th, 2019 at 3:18 PM ^
Honestly, the most important moment of the game was probably Michigan stopping them near the goal line.
Felt like entire team's confidence got a big boost.
Edit - probably should have said this in defensive snowflakes.
September 28th, 2019 at 3:21 PM ^
So, it’s Rutgers, I don’t care. I’m happy. They looked good and had fire today. If they come out like that next week, they can win.
Gattis called a good game. Harbaugh has some fire. It was nice. Brown, I’m not impressed at the vulnerability to the crossing routes.
Some fans will still call for Harbaugh’s head...what bothers me is that he didn’t look apathetic today. Hopefully he’s sharp next week too.
September 28th, 2019 at 8:36 PM ^
Lots of the crossing route stuff was blatant uncalled OPI. Some of it was putting LBs on a slippery Blackshear, but I thought we set up better to defend that stuff overall.