September 10th, 2016 at 3:32 PM ^
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September 10th, 2016 at 3:42 PM ^
Great insights.
September 10th, 2016 at 3:34 PM ^
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September 10th, 2016 at 6:57 PM ^
September 10th, 2016 at 3:34 PM ^
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September 10th, 2016 at 3:50 PM ^
Bredeson will take over that LG spot soon, i bet.
September 10th, 2016 at 4:15 PM ^
September 10th, 2016 at 8:41 PM ^
if you ask me ;)
September 10th, 2016 at 3:35 PM ^
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September 10th, 2016 at 4:22 PM ^
for the season. You cannot block like that against the teams Michigan plays later in the season.
And you definitely can't block like that and hope to get into the playoff.
September 10th, 2016 at 3:35 PM ^
September 10th, 2016 at 3:57 PM ^
Probably going to be a tough film session this week. Butt deserves to get ripped for his blocking along with the OL.
September 10th, 2016 at 4:19 PM ^
When it comes to blocking, it seems to me that Butt has had a four year regression. He's not a lick better at blocking today than he was four years ago when he was compared favorably to Funchess.
September 10th, 2016 at 8:45 PM ^
Do we call it constipation?
Relax.
September 10th, 2016 at 3:35 PM ^
I'll throw my comment onto the offensive line pile. Not good. They will need to step up next week in a big way.
September 10th, 2016 at 3:36 PM ^
September 10th, 2016 at 4:28 PM ^
I can only go by what Jim and Dan were saying on the radio, but from what they were relating, the OL owes Speight a huge apology.
Should Drevno be the new whipping boy for an OL that can't runblock against a mini-me defense?
September 10th, 2016 at 5:40 PM ^
Is the UCF defense really that bad? They did pitch a shutout last week. So either SCS is even worse than Hawaii or the UCF defense is fairly decent.
September 10th, 2016 at 3:36 PM ^
The second half was a yawner.
September 10th, 2016 at 3:37 PM ^
September 10th, 2016 at 3:40 PM ^
The scary thing is he may have passed Braden on the depth chart today.
September 10th, 2016 at 4:18 PM ^
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September 10th, 2016 at 3:37 PM ^
September 10th, 2016 at 3:40 PM ^
That's no excuse.
September 10th, 2016 at 4:05 PM ^
Nor is it something we shoud expect from a Harbaugh coached team. Not very characteristic for them to 'overlook' an opponent and not take them seriously.
September 10th, 2016 at 5:11 PM ^
is determined by how highly you regard your opponent? When you get beat badly after the first drive you dont regroup and think time to wake up?
September 10th, 2016 at 5:50 PM ^
September 10th, 2016 at 3:37 PM ^
I don't think I saw 7 or fewer players in the box on any of our runs, there were always 8 or 9. I learned today the Speight has the ability to find the mid-range and deep receivers, and if teams continue to stack the box, our passing game will be lethal. I wish we could run regardless of what the defense throws at us, but that isn't going to happen.
September 10th, 2016 at 4:14 PM ^
Thought I may have seen as many as 10 in the box. They wanted to take away the run and make us throw. It didn't work.
September 10th, 2016 at 5:14 PM ^
It worked...to their detriment. They did take away the run though and they did make us throw the ball. Again, to their detriment.
September 10th, 2016 at 5:14 PM ^
It did work. We couldn't run and had to pass.
September 10th, 2016 at 3:38 PM ^
Was not at all impressed with our run blocking. We had 119 rushing yards TOTAL. Against UCF. That's only 34 yds better than S. Car St.
Hopefully this is cleaned up before Wiscy comes to town.
September 10th, 2016 at 3:39 PM ^
I suspect there will be a lot of RPS minuses that account for some of the run blocking issues. On several plays I saw the OL blocking adequately but Michigan getting swarmed by numbers. Given Speight's passing success, it seems reasonable to think that UCF sold out to stop the run and that affected the numbers.
...But against a small DL like that Michigan should have blown them off the ball, and even in basic man-on-man battles there just wasn't a lot of push.
This is not promising for the higher-end hopes for this team. Can scheme overcome this most of the time? Yes, most of the time. But we have some big time DLs to play later.
September 10th, 2016 at 3:43 PM ^
Agreed. Looked like we were happy to run against stacked boxes just to keep the playcalling vanilla because we can.
September 11th, 2016 at 3:53 PM ^
because i was on an airplane. I was worried about the lack of running success when I looked at the stats, and wondered if UCF had been stacking the box. After watching today, my general observation was that they weren't consistently stacking the box, but that the safeties were racing forward at first sign of run. As a result, Michigan went to repeated play action passes, and Speight had a good game. UCF consistently called rock, so Michigan's coaches alternated between rock and paper.
September 10th, 2016 at 3:40 PM ^
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September 10th, 2016 at 3:40 PM ^
Trying to look on the bright side and believe that this was simply a game where the OL was, for whatever reason, kind of unfocused. Granted, that's not an excuse - there was a lot about run blocking in particular that was...not good. HOpefully they can get it where it needs to be for Colorado and beyond though.
September 10th, 2016 at 4:33 PM ^
Dierdorf was none to happy with the pass protection, or the absence thereof. He sang high praises for Speight standing in there and taking the punishment.
September 10th, 2016 at 3:41 PM ^
OL looked horrid
September 10th, 2016 at 3:45 PM ^
On the other hand, we had 328 yards of passing and Speight had four TDs. So ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
September 10th, 2016 at 3:41 PM ^
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September 10th, 2016 at 3:42 PM ^
I'm impressed by Speight so far. He seems to improvise well.
I'm not impressed by run blocking but playcalling is just as much to blame. Jury still out.
September 10th, 2016 at 3:49 PM ^
Though let's not forget that UCF was selling out to stop the run on almost every down and basically daring Speight to beat them. I'd imagine that had a lot to do with our run game's production today.
September 10th, 2016 at 3:55 PM ^
thats why I said playcalling deserves equal blame, they needed to audible out of a bunch of those plays but it's no need to show your playbook in a 30pt win. Withholding judgment until later.
September 11th, 2016 at 3:58 PM ^
When the safeties are racing forward at the snap, it's hard to block everyone. The solution is to run play-action, and make them pay. You still have to hand it off sometimes to make them think run and keep them racing forward. As a result, running numbers will look bad, but passing numbers look good. The 51 points indicates that play-calling was effective, so no need to blame play-calling. It doesn't mean everyone executed perfectly, but it does mean there doesn't have to be much blame passed around.
September 10th, 2016 at 3:56 PM ^
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