SMU Snowflakes - The Defense

Agree 100%. Pill of chill needed for these "fans". We were C level against s spirited opponent. Sometimes that happens. Still a good defense.

That view makes sense if you are satisfied with Michigan being a no. 15 to no. 25 ranked team.

But this team is very far from being at top 5 team.  That should be the goal.

SMU converted in third and long over and over. It was similar to the way Haskins chewed up Michigan last November. It was a solid performance. That said, without more variety, this defense isnt good enough. It’s okay to rush four and help those safeties underneath with a linebacker. Michigan absolutely needs to mix in more zone. 

You can’t expect people here to have perspective, my Labrador has more perspective than the rejects around here

did the bath salts wear off? i was expecting more of the idiotic hot takes you were spewing throughout the geme thread.

people like you make this board damn near unreadable when things don’t go well. it’s one thing to be disappointed, but it’s another to constantly gripe and bitch like my 5 year old when he doesn’t get his way

We can do this in the next 3 games but not so sure about after that. 

Hilarious!  You think Michigan is going to score 45 on Penn State and OSU? 

Unless the OL can really improve by the time we play a good defense, I would say there's a chance but I think Shea will be under extreme pressure when we play WI, PSU, MSU and OSU. We really need our D come around. Just watching the game, I was surprised how SMU handled our D LINE. Brown's defense are all based on the DL getting pressure on the QB with single coverage. That is not going to well this season.

Metellus got clowned on the TD that was called back.  Didn’t even try to turn his head.  Easy pick if he does.  

Metellus got clowned on the TD that was called back.  Didn’t even try to turn his head.  Easy pick if he does.  

Roughing the passer on Hutchinson: Bullshit

Targeting on Hudson: Bullshit

At least 2 of the PIs were bullshit and were flagged because the DB dominated and the receiver fell down. 

There were legit instances of PI today, but refs colored our perception of the defense today. They were trash.

Don Brown has not adjusted significantly since he's been here. No confidence he will now.

It's a decent defense, maybe top 25, but with a DL not getting push, they're not world-beaters.

Why do fans think that a great defense means they have everything under control at all times? Perfect offense beats perfect defense. Every time. Sometimes, offenses execute perfectly. There is no defense for a perfect pass. They happen sometimes. You tip your cap.

There is one legitimate complaint about this defense: over-pursuit. Misdirection still hits for big plays most of the time. Guys need to be better at playing their gaps responsibly, especially in the back side vs the run. That 4th and 1 counter pitch was too easy, and I can't believe SMU only ran it once.

This may come as a surprise to some, but college quarterbacks are pretty damn good at throwing a football. You have to pressure and confuse them. Don Brown's defense does a lot of the first but not much of the second. And when the pressure doesn't come home, you get all those "perfect" throws.

Buddy, people don’t need to see us beat EVERYONE by 50. They want to see us beat teams by 50 that are supposed to get beat by 50. Like WMU or SMU.

If we win an ugly slopfest by 1 against an undefeated OSU where the defense commits 20 PI penalties, you think anyone here is going to really care about all of the penalties? 

Context, pal.

Don’t think so. Everyone gives those up, hell, Bama has let Ol Miss do this 6 times so far. You gotta be ready to bend somewhere.  This isn’t what hurts us so chill

Yeah, Wisconsin's demon attack that racked up all of 21 points against BYU.

It’s the troll police.  The same douchebags who want to control the narrative on the board neg anyone who questions Harbaugh or Brown. 

After every game where Michigan gives up more than a score some people go "Brown has been figured out now!" Dude's been coaching for many years, has been a FBS DC for a decade. He was 'figured out' before he was even hired by Michigan. Every coordinator out there is 'figured out'.

Unsurprisingly, there's trade-offs in every scheme you run. Unsurprisingly some offensive methods work better against some defensive methods and vice versa. If a QB can run like a RB, has a credible downfield threat and some capable option backs at his disposal, he's gonna shred. That's what an offense like SMU's is designed to do and there's no silver bullet to stop that. They executed well today and still lost by 20+ points.

And to this day the same holds true - if our offense was even approaching the quality of our defense, we'd be a playoff contender for real. We're a less than great team because our offense gets stifled by good defenses, not because our defense gets routinely torn apart.