SIAP - Chait with a good DON'T PANIC article

What does SIAP mean?

I believe it means Seen In Another Place.

If I'm wrong, FML.

LOL (Lots of Lewan)

Robinson was looking at the biggest hole he had seen all season long. There was nothing between him and the end zone. But as he headed into the cavernous opening, his foot was inadvertently stepped on by a defensive lineman who otherwise was being controlled by Patrick Omameh. Robinson stumbled, fell backwards, recovered, scrambled to the outside, and picked up seven yards.

I remember that play distinctly, but in real time did not pick up just how unlucky we were.  Hoping we'll get a video clip on the UFR this week.

Thanks for sharing.

I have been trying to tell my friends this exact same thing all week, but no one wants to hear it.  All they say is Robinson got shut down and Michigan got destroyed.  That game very easily could have gone the other way.

There can never be too many.

most of the media are jumping off the Michigan and Denard bandwagon faster than you can say "Just like last year".

The MSU game was a deflection and a couple of bad passes away from a completely different outcome.

The Indiana game was a 1-yard fumble away from a blow out.

We are already written off as being frauds and people are predicting 5-7 or 6-6. They say MSU "figured out" Robinson and that is a template for all the rest of the teams - so bye-bye season and bowl. Ha Ha - swoon like last year.

What did they "figure out"? How to get Denard to throw into 3 man coverage and ignore the open guy? Did the 3 guys all yell "I'm OPEN!" to deceive him? Is this what Iowa is practicing right now?

I think there are going to be more teams DENARDED this season if their game plan is based upon 3 Denard picks per game.

So the team will be ok if I have my towel?

MSU had a game plan, they challenged Denard to beat them throwing the ball, it didn't happen on that day.  I do believe that Denard learns from it and will continue to grow.

  MGoShoe has it correct.  On Denard's second pick, once he pumped the ball he should have tucked and ran with it.  I hope the UFR shows the snap shot where that entire side of the field is wide open and no one on Sparty had contiain on him.  The only MSU player on that side of the field appeared to be Treadwell and he actually "jumped" on the pump.  I believe the coaches will point this moments out to Denard as an opportunity to take advantage of his speed.  Tuck and run.  Need to learn that balance between when to sit in the pocket and when to run.  With Denards special skill sets, yes there are times when running will be an excellent option....

When the game ended my thinking was "they dominated us."  After rewatching the Every Snap videos, I revised my take.

Defense: surprisingly solid apart from 2 huge run gaffes and Christian being thrust into action too early by Rogers' injury.  Apart from those three plays, very solid.

Offense: picked up good yardage consistently running, had guys open consistently passing.  It was just poor execution throwing and catching it.  Obviously, make 4 of Denard's throws accurate and maybe we score 31-42.

My opinion now: we were dominated in the sense that a team that makes the 6 biggest plays is going to dominate the game.  MSU did that and it's no small thing.  It's everything.  You have to make big plays.  But we were not dominated in the sense that we got beat on the line of scrimmage, or beat schematically.

And for all the "they don't get the rivalary" / "they don't care enough" talk, that's not what I saw.  We dominated the first quarter.  (No, seriously: http://espn.go.com/ncf/playbyplay?gameId=302820130)  But it looked like we were trying too hard at times.  And it looked like we played too emotional, which splattered us when things started to go south.