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October 31st, 2015 at 11:20 PM ^
Yeah, the meltdown against Ruddock was becoming cringeworthy. I think some fans are secretly happy he was injured.
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Can't tell if you are serious. If so, that sucks.
October 31st, 2015 at 11:21 PM ^
Yeah, the meltdown against Ruddock was becoming cringeworthy. I think some fans are secretly happy he was injured.
October 31st, 2015 at 11:04 PM ^
The team we saw tonight is NOT a playoff contender or a conference title contender, but they still got the W. Learn from your mistakes and move on.
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November 1st, 2015 at 12:18 AM ^
I disagree. Playing with a backup QB for the last quarter and a half in a close game was basically like Nebraska 2012. Halloween night, hostile environment, and a team playing extremely well for their retired coach.
This team faced adversity well. They persevered.
I'm proud of them and need to follow their example.
Kudos to the team and I do feel bad for Minnesota for losing in that way. Either way glad to get the win.
October 31st, 2015 at 11:07 PM ^
Offense was humming before Rudock got hurt. They found running room off tackle with Drake and was getting consistent yardage on intermediate passes. That game is a comfortable win if Rudock stays healthy and Thomas and Peppers make those gimme interceptions.
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October 31st, 2015 at 11:10 PM ^
Up 14-3 and got too cute on offensive play calls. Tried to make Ruddock into something he is not. He is not a long ball super accurate thrower. Look at Leidner - he played well and darn near pulled it out, but he was used appropriately.
October 31st, 2015 at 11:11 PM ^
I don't know I kind of think the good teams win close games thing is crap. I understand the philosopy and the emotion of Kill reitring but this is a team that literally can't pass the ball outside of the tight end position and they shredded us. I wondered which team would come out after the MSU debacle and thought they'd either re-group and say we need to massacre everyone or a team that was still snake bit and thought the season was loss after the MSU game and that's what I saw. i
October 31st, 2015 at 11:11 PM ^
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October 31st, 2015 at 11:11 PM ^
Up 14-3 and got too cute on offensive play calls. Tried to make Ruddock into something he is not. He is not a long ball super accurate thrower. Look at Leidner - he played well and darn near pulled it out, but he was used appropriately.
November 1st, 2015 at 12:15 AM ^
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October 31st, 2015 at 11:30 PM ^
Speight. Entered the program behind much higher rated QB's. Speight didn't give no ****s.
The media focused on Jake and Shane for the QB position for the season. Speight didn't give no ****s.
Harbaugh signed 100 QB's during his first "official" signing period where he had 3? months to prepare for? Speight didn't give no ****s.
Jake went down during a play that deserved a penalty and recieved none. Speight gave no ****s.
Speight, under tons! of pressure needed to score a TD to win. Speight gave no ****s.
One touchdown, a 2-point conversion later. Speight still doesn't give a fuck. Speight is a starting Michigan QB and has earned it.
If Speight never gets the nod for another start in his career I will always remember him. He was subbed into a game during a HUGE point in Michigan's history.
Losing this game, Michigan would reasonably never be in the BIG 10 Champtionship game conversation agian, for the year. Michigan would have lost a conference trophy...again.
Speight stepped in during a TREMENDOUS point of the game. No time to warm up. No time to gauge the defense. Speight gave no ****s.
Speight is a Michigan QB. Speight stepped in and delivered. He gave no fucks.
November 1st, 2015 at 12:22 AM ^
but you don't have to post it in every single thread on this board
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November 1st, 2015 at 12:02 AM ^
Any thoughts on our challenge in the first half? I wasn't sure it was a great idea to challenge a call that didn't look like it would obviously be overturned, and only for the difference of a few yards (though to be honest in that situation a few yards could make a difference). Still, that meant that we didn't have a challenge to use later in the game. I think I would have saved it, but then again I'm some guy commenting on the internet and Harbaugh is . . . Harbaugh.
November 1st, 2015 at 12:09 AM ^
Props to Minnesota's coach for a helluva game most people gave them no chance at winning. Some of us, me included, worried about the emotion factor which pretty obviously pushed Minni players into a different zone. Their QB was playing like Tom fuckin Brady making throws / catches that were clearly supernatural.
Harbaugh was awesome in his creative use of personnel and overcoming injuries and stupid mistakes by our players.
We benefited from the bad clock management of Minnesota's interim head coach. I suspect this will probably go down as being his finest game.
My only other thought is why, oh why, do teams have their otherworldly finest games in the history of their schools...always against us?
November 1st, 2015 at 12:12 AM ^
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November 1st, 2015 at 12:47 AM ^
Their coach may have cost himself a fortune by his end-of-game (and end-of-first half) game calling. I know there are an incredible variety of jobs open and it's going to be tough to attract a good coach to a program that hasn't won a conference title in 50 years, but I don't see how they can take the interim tag off of him after that performance.
November 1st, 2015 at 1:50 AM ^
You mean the one where they basically kicked our assets until they didn't. He has been Kill'sstaff for years and has done a good job as an interim coach before. Minnesota could do a lot worse if this performance holds.
November 1st, 2015 at 1:41 AM ^
And at the end - it's dreadful to not know the clock is running there, and even more so to call a fucking shotgun snap when the ball is set 18 inches from the Endzone.
I'm not as down on their decision to go for it...yeah I like our DL, but it's still likely to eek out a half a yard in that situation. And as an underdog if you have one play to win it from the 1/2 yard line...it's hard not to take that chance. There's no guarantees on in OT...that may have been their best shot at a win.
November 1st, 2015 at 1:50 AM ^
First, we absolutely caught a break that the refs (correctly, as far as I could tell from the replay) brought the ball back to the half-yard line instead of letting the touchdown stand. As we well know, just because it was the right call doesn't mean they call it right.
Second, the big issue was Minnesota using up 17 of their 19 seconds on the first play. You should be ready to run a pass, then another play (with timeout if needed), then decide about OT.
Third, I know that I was both happy and nervous that they chose to put it on one play. Happy because one play against our defense is emotionally our best case scenario, but nervous because stopping someone from a half-yard is really hard. People always think OT is better than it is, but in this case given no FG is automatic, OT is less than 50% to win, and getting a half-yard seems like it should be more than 50%, even against our D. After all, they racked up 461 yards - even if a third were lucky, that's still 300 yards on the day. If they had run something to the side opposite Peppers or made one of our CBs defend a triangle route, we might yet be sunk in gloom that they had the balls to go for it.
November 1st, 2015 at 8:24 AM ^