Cade’s biggest issue in this game was his deep ball, where he’s usually sharp. If he hits one or two of his misses this game feels very different.
For example, Mikey walks into the EZ if there’s more air under his pass, but that turned into 3 points.
I was never a huge Cade believer but I thought he did what he needed to to win the game (minus the one big mistake). He made a lot of key 3rd down conversions on TE seams and out routes. Credit him for not turtling up after he threw the interception.
My problem with the play calling is that it’s just so damn incoherent. There is no flow to the offense. We are seemingly knocking the d line off the ball for a series, get it down to the 2, and then, inexplicably, decide to expose our biggest weakness by dropping back to pass. We do 1 thing we’ll: run between the tackles. Everything else should be a constraint off of that. Higdon should have had 120 rushing yards tonight.
Instead this feels very much like Borges 2013 where we are throwing all the shot against the wall to see if anything, mercifully, will stick. Occasionally we have enough talent that something stick (see Nico’s deep reception) but for the most part we have no real identity.
It all has to be taken in context. If your upperclassmen are as low upside as ours seem to be, you’d love a younger guy to push through and seize the opportunity with both hands. The fact that Hudson, as a second year player, hasn’t done that gives some pause about his viability this year. On the other hand, the fact that a true freshman might be our best left tackle this year is promising for his future, but is scary because it puts a pretty hard ceiling on how good our line can be, and raises questions about recruiting/depth.
When I heard the news I was sitting with my roommate and my girlfriend, and had to fight back tears. Neither one of them knew who KJ was, and it was hard to explain to them what it meant to me that a voice so inexerably tied to my childhoold would never be heard again.
I don't think I realized it until this weekend, but Jackson was one of the reasons I fell in love with Michigan Football. He had that special way of capturing the spirit of fall Saturdays that I'll forever associate with the turning leaves, banner planes, the Goodyear blimp flying overhead and maize and blue wings. He brought an emotion to the game that I've never heard in any other announcer and now his voice is instant nostalgia.
You could tell we were bothered by Texas’ size at first. But we figured it out about half way into the first half. Bamba is a beast on D but Texas was lost without a go to offensive threat. Good win overall but I think UT really missed Jones in this one.
Also, I hope our 3-point shooting gets better real soon. We can’t get far shooting in the low to mid 30’s.
I happened to sit next to Zia at graduation in '05 and he was super a friendly, genuinely happy guy. He told stories about the team and praised coach Carr as a great man. It was clear he was fully appreciating life after what could have been a very tragic incedent. It was great to see.
As evidenced by being forced out of bounds on that long completion. I thought the last PI against Long was complete bs. He dominated Cobbs on his route and got call for basically having too good of coverage.
and if it were only a mental/experience thing, we would see the frequency of mistakes correlate to experience. At this point the breakdowns are constant, and spread across the entire line. It's hard not to look at the coaches when stuff like that happens. Blaming the players' abilities at this point really feels like a Hoke "failure to execute" excuse. The coaches need to do a better job teaching and repping the scheme for various scenarios like DL slants and blitzes, plain and simple.
I'm pretty sure that play #2 is actually well designed to defeat AF's defense. It looks like an RPO where WS should have pulled and thrown to Perry. The CBs were playing off and McDoom is setting up for an edge sealing block. I would attribute the failure of this play to a BR from Speight.
I think we've been incorporating more option plays for Speight this year as we see more teams load the box against us (his zone read keeper against Cinci, for example). Considering this is all new, not surprising that he's struggling to diagnose at times, but getting a couple of these executed per game could really make a difference in how effective the offense feels.
It is almost verbatim what you wrote in your post below.
"He then communicates the audible to the line, who adjusts their protection scheme accordingly. Speight then typically will communicate the new play to he receivers via hand signals. "
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Agreed - let's leave the obsessing over our cross state rivals to RCMB.
LFG!
Cade’s biggest issue in this game was his deep ball, where he’s usually sharp. If he hits one or two of his misses this game feels very different.
For example, Mikey walks into the EZ if there’s more air under his pass, but that turned into 3 points.
I was never a huge Cade believer but I thought he did what he needed to to win the game (minus the one big mistake). He made a lot of key 3rd down conversions on TE seams and out routes. Credit him for not turtling up after he threw the interception.
This board is descending into some kind of psychosis, man… weird year.
This doesn’t seem fair. Gary never became the elite pass rusher we expected but he was a beast holding the edge against the run and was all B1G 2x.
By all accounts he was a strong locker room guy. The 2018 defense was elite (until it wasn’t), in large part due to Gary.
Shocking behavior from an OSU fan.
Keeping people intrigued is kinda rule #1 in the media business.
Don’t bury the lead!
I'm confident OSU will still drop 60 on us somehow.
Are you bragging or frustrated?
Move on, son.
Mork4Lyfe
Or, you know, running into an unblocked player.
This is not on the D. It’s 100% on the O and the 3 turnovers. D had a game sealing TD unfairly called back.
Bahaha. JBB was a total disaster. This screencap says it all:
My problem with the play calling is that it’s just so damn incoherent. There is no flow to the offense. We are seemingly knocking the d line off the ball for a series, get it down to the 2, and then, inexplicably, decide to expose our biggest weakness by dropping back to pass. We do 1 thing we’ll: run between the tackles. Everything else should be a constraint off of that. Higdon should have had 120 rushing yards tonight.
Instead this feels very much like Borges 2013 where we are throwing all the shot against the wall to see if anything, mercifully, will stick. Occasionally we have enough talent that something stick (see Nico’s deep reception) but for the most part we have no real identity.
Yo man the bandwagon has a busted axle and the hitch rusted out.
Probably true. But one thing we know for sure is that Urban will still be a complete scumbag on that day.
You ask a buckeye to hammer something in for you.
That’s definitely not what happened. If we did that we probably win.
Red herring doesn’t mean what you think it means.
I am right there with you. 15 years of severely underperforming potential and expectations will do that to a man.
Dropping back to pass from the 2, with our tackles, isn’t aggressive, it’s stupid. Whoever called that play had their head in the sand.
Yes
3rded. Logged on just to make this comment. Not a fun dynamic to listen to.
I sincerely hope this is satire.
It all has to be taken in context. If your upperclassmen are as low upside as ours seem to be, you’d love a younger guy to push through and seize the opportunity with both hands. The fact that Hudson, as a second year player, hasn’t done that gives some pause about his viability this year. On the other hand, the fact that a true freshman might be our best left tackle this year is promising for his future, but is scary because it puts a pretty hard ceiling on how good our line can be, and raises questions about recruiting/depth.
For that tribute to Keith Jackson.
When I heard the news I was sitting with my roommate and my girlfriend, and had to fight back tears. Neither one of them knew who KJ was, and it was hard to explain to them what it meant to me that a voice so inexerably tied to my childhoold would never be heard again.
I don't think I realized it until this weekend, but Jackson was one of the reasons I fell in love with Michigan Football. He had that special way of capturing the spirit of fall Saturdays that I'll forever associate with the turning leaves, banner planes, the Goodyear blimp flying overhead and maize and blue wings. He brought an emotion to the game that I've never heard in any other announcer and now his voice is instant nostalgia.
RIP.
I think I can speak for most of the MGoCommunity when I say we love and appreciate the work you do here and can't wait to have you back.
Here's the original post:
http://mgoblog.com/mgoboard/speculation-fuller-possibly-m
NYC Fan was worried about you.
I happened to sit next to Zia at graduation in '05 and he was super a friendly, genuinely happy guy. He told stories about the team and praised coach Carr as a great man. It was clear he was fully appreciating life after what could have been a very tragic incedent. It was great to see.
and if it were only a mental/experience thing, we would see the frequency of mistakes correlate to experience. At this point the breakdowns are constant, and spread across the entire line. It's hard not to look at the coaches when stuff like that happens. Blaming the players' abilities at this point really feels like a Hoke "failure to execute" excuse. The coaches need to do a better job teaching and repping the scheme for various scenarios like DL slants and blitzes, plain and simple.
I'm pretty sure that play #2 is actually well designed to defeat AF's defense. It looks like an RPO where WS should have pulled and thrown to Perry. The CBs were playing off and McDoom is setting up for an edge sealing block. I would attribute the failure of this play to a BR from Speight.
I think we've been incorporating more option plays for Speight this year as we see more teams load the box against us (his zone read keeper against Cinci, for example). Considering this is all new, not surprising that he's struggling to diagnose at times, but getting a couple of these executed per game could really make a difference in how effective the offense feels.
It is almost verbatim what you wrote in your post below.
"He then communicates the audible to the line, who adjusts their protection scheme accordingly. Speight then typically will communicate the new play to he receivers via hand signals. "
and my buddy brought a full shark mascot costume. Can't wait to see Florida fan reactions!
Was a guy who was ostesibly a WR out of HS, moved to safety, then LB. Ended up a decent role player at OLB.
http://mgoblog.com/content/2009-recruiting-cameron-gordon