SIAP - Mikey gets the pick for the win TITANIC! I dare you to watch only once
I’ll never let go! The Rod Moore rendition of this i Iike slightly better cause O How I hate Ohio state.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQV4AKFzzC0&pp=ygUkbWlrZSBzYWlucmlzdGlsIGludGVyY2VwdGlvbiB0aXRhbmlj
January 19th, 2024 at 1:56 PM ^
Never noticed until now the block that McGregor lays on the Washington RB #7
January 19th, 2024 at 2:09 PM ^
Initially I thought it was Penix and had a moment of sympathy because he was already getting the shit kicked out of him.
January 19th, 2024 at 2:16 PM ^
I was watching a replay this morning and noticed his block. But also wished he simply turned around and got in Westover’s (37) way. Sainristil would have scored and the stadium would have exploded. Westover busted his ass to get back and make that tackle. Washington was an easy team to like before our game. I salute their efforts.
January 19th, 2024 at 2:19 PM ^
Tons of hustle from Westover not unlike the guy that caught Semaj on the punt return at the B1G championship game.
January 19th, 2024 at 2:23 PM ^
yeah I noticed that too. He's kind of skipping around because he nailed 7 but misses a chance to pick up 37 and thus enable the TD
January 19th, 2024 at 2:28 PM ^
Terrific hustle from Westover(37).
Great interception and patient run by Sainristil, and I do not know if this were discussed at the time, but should we have simply safely knocked the ball down, rather than intercept it?
Just asking, not critiquing.
January 19th, 2024 at 2:41 PM ^
If we could kneel to run out the clock, yes. You never know when the ball could get punched out.
You could even make an argument for it under those conditions, or for Mikey to take a slide/knee before contact.
Good game theory question!
January 19th, 2024 at 5:43 PM ^
I prefer Mike driving a stake into their hearts.
January 19th, 2024 at 6:28 PM ^
Along those lines, part of the reason Mikey got tackled was because he was trying to cut around Penix. If he drives into Penix, he possibly scores because I'm not sure the guy had much fight left in him at that point. Either way it underscores who the big dog was for that game.
Something I like to think about anyway when I see that play (many times).
January 19th, 2024 at 2:48 PM ^
If we could kneel to run out the clock, yes. You never know when the ball could get punched out.
You could even make an argument for it under those conditions, or for Mikey to take a slide/knee before contact.
Good game theory question!
January 19th, 2024 at 3:00 PM ^
Not only a great hustle but look at the angle he took. He played that better than most safeties would play it
January 19th, 2024 at 2:39 PM ^
Westover initially gets blocked by Barrett right after the interception. It was quite a play on his part to get all the way down the field after that block. The angle of pursuit worked out perfectly for him. Great hustle on his part. It was a bummer that Mikey didn't get the pick six after all that work!
January 19th, 2024 at 2:46 PM ^
Mikey also would've scored had he not cut back!
January 19th, 2024 at 2:44 PM ^
Both Harrell and McGregor failed to block 37 running past them.
Also, Sainristil definitely did not have to cut back - had he kept running he would've easily been able to get around the Washington OL who was also being blocked by Sabb.
Really was an easy TD if any one of those 3 things happened. Good thing is that it got Blake another 1-yard TD - which is fitting since that's been our staple all year long!
January 19th, 2024 at 4:33 PM ^
I’m glad he didn’t take it back. It’s more poetic with the legend that Sainristal is getting the interception and long run back and another legend, Corum, taking us home for his last TD as a Wolverine. Could not have scripted it better
January 19th, 2024 at 4:48 PM ^
Even with all that Westover hustle, he probably isn't there in time to prevent the touchdown if penix doesn't make it back to force Mikey to cutback inside the ten
January 19th, 2024 at 2:19 PM ^
Aggravated assault.
January 19th, 2024 at 2:26 PM ^
I had watched that over and over to make sure it wasn't a blindside block and he definitely saw it coming but got clobbered nonetheless.
January 19th, 2024 at 2:04 PM ^
🎶And you know that Mike Hart will go on....🎶
January 19th, 2024 at 2:10 PM ^
We are the King of the world!
January 19th, 2024 at 2:18 PM ^
May the glory of this season last 10 lifetimes, and shall they remember the names Sainristil, McCarthy, Corum, Keegan, Zinter, Johnson, Graham, Jenkins, Moore, Edwards and all of Team 144 long after they bury me in this earth.
January 19th, 2024 at 2:23 PM ^
Interesting thing about "for the win", whenever that occured: ESPN's win tracker gave us a 75% chance before kickoff, and we never went below that at any point in the game. Did you feel like we had a 75% chance to win in the third quarter when we only managed a 12-yard field goal drive off of Will Johnson's interception and then punted 3 straight times? I know I didn't.
We had a 89.5% chance to win the game at the start of the drive that would see us go up 27-13 and a 98.6% chance by the end of it. That's when I started to relax... I figured by that point we needed about 6 really bad things to happen in a row to lose the game. Penix hitting Odunze for 44 yards was 1 out of 6... they did not get another.
January 19th, 2024 at 2:30 PM ^
Mikey's INT return yards would make him one of the top receivers on the team. Just a notch below Barner/Edwards and more than Morgan. What an absolute beast.
January 19th, 2024 at 3:49 PM ^
I had to do some quick research but no deep dive.
Interception Return Yards is a stat that has only been kept since 1976.
Mikey had 1 INT in 2022 and 6 in 2023. 7 total in his 2yr defensive career. He is the highest Michigan player on this IRY stat list at #182 with 240 yards. However, the average for him is 34yds/IR. I would bet that would land him in the top 10 in that stat.
Terrell Buckley - #1 in IRY at 501yds (21 INT over 3yrs) has a 24yd avg.
Eric Berry - #2 in IRY at 494yds (14 INT over 3yrs) has a 35yd avg.
Can't see how Mikey wouldn't be way up on that list for IRY avg.
January 19th, 2024 at 2:58 PM ^
January 19th, 2024 at 7:07 PM ^
I don’t know why, but I could not stop laughing at the sound of that recorder! I imagined a young kid trying her heart out to play along with the song. So many missed notes to match so many missed Ohio opportunities!
January 19th, 2024 at 3:05 PM ^
Man, I hate that song. I love Mikey, but I hate that song. It's nearly unforgivable to put anything Mikey does on the football field with that song.
If that stupid, awful song is playing somewhere within her hearing when Mikey's little baby girl utters her first word(s), it will be, "Nope" or "Dad, WTF?!"
I also thought it must have been an act of shear respect and decency that Mikey didn't smash Penix himself on the return, from which Penix (warrior that he truly is) might not have arisen.
Carry on and Go Blue!!! 〽️
January 19th, 2024 at 4:38 PM ^
It's a great clip and best watched with the sound off.
January 19th, 2024 at 4:05 PM ^
Went low at the end, should have gone for the hurdle. That would have been epic.
January 19th, 2024 at 10:54 PM ^
So much to say about this. To be really honest, the pass to Loveland on the previous drive was probably the "big play," because it led to Corum's TD that put us up by two scores with about 5 minutes left. But a lot can happen in 5 minutes! (See: Rose Bowl, 4th Qtr, 1/1/24.) So this was the dagger that sealed the win. And, no, you don't take a knee when you are running as free from traffic as Mike was. House it if you can (and he almost did).
And, yes, I can watch this one on an infinite loop.