The Snowflake Thread: Defense

no snowflakes.

Played pretty well. No Venric Mark but I'll take it.

Greg Mattison is a hell of a cordinator.  The jury's still out on Borges.

Somebody tweet Hand.

Thank you D.

Hard to complain about three field goals in regulation.  If someone had told you after the ND game that we'd hold Northwestern to 9 points, you'd assume we were going to win by 30+ easy.  This was a sad, ugly game.  But unless you came in expecting perfection, it is pretty difficult to put much of the blame on D.

Good performance but had me scared at times.

I expect the D next year to go from good to very good/great. Black, Washington, Gordons are gone but everyone else is back plus maybe a contribution from Peppers. 2015 will be the year for the D though.

Also I think Henry played great.

Happy to see Michigan's defense give us a chance. Go Blue!

B+ defense plays A- game.  Good job team!  Also, I'm pretty sure Henry is part of that scramble FG drill team.  So even more kudos to him.

They seemed to be in good position most of the game. Did well versus the run. Decent pass rush. OK coverage. Excellent coaching by Mattison.

Gordon's INT least important INT ever?

and solid is the floor with Mattison in charge.  With a few playmakers like those coming in and developing in the program (sigh, too bad no Hand), they will be elite.  If they had an offense that could possess the ball they could be bad ass.

Love the defense peformance today. 

Kinda bummed to see this thread has less comments than the offense and coaching threads. People would rather discuss the negative things that happened today than the positive things. The defense has put us in a position to win for the last two weeks and deserves a ton of credit, especially with all the youth we're running out there. They got the ball back with enough time for the offense to put together the game tying drive and delivered the knockout punch in OT. Game ball goes to the D.

Loved the defense today. They are keeping us in every game. Way to go defense!

9 points in regulation. The only thing I could think of to remotely complain about would be Northwestern's touchdown in OT or a couple of near-interceptions, but I think that's being nitpicky. They played very well.

They played great!!!

Mattison had tears in his eyes coming off. He was spent emotionally. It was great to celebrate with the players coming off. Each one stopped and slapped my sons hand.

Huge win!

Defense played pretty darn good today. I thought we'd have real trouble with NW's spread. Keeping them out of the end zone at home is an accomplishment.

A lot of bending, some of it unnecessary but overall a nice performance.   Of course NW really misses Mark.

Coach Mattison really drilled the team on defending the option this week. The D was all over it, for the most part.

Defense, by all accounts, played outstanding today against a dangerous Northwestern offense on their own home turf. Yes, they're without Venric Mark, and yes, they're 0-6 in conference play, but they are nowhere near as bad as their record. This is a team that pushed OSU to the absolute brink, and OSU only won because Hyde was there to bail them out.

Of course it's always easier to give criticism than praise, but the defense deserves our praise today. Mattison had his boys ready, and I have no doubt that he'll have them as ready as they can be to take the field against OSU in two weeks.