Kornacki: How Wolverine O-Line Imposed its Will on Cornhuskers
Haven't seen this posted yet - apologies if previously posted. Great job by our offensive line Saturday. Shout-out to them and Coach Warriner! Did anyone else notice the number of illegal use of hands instances against both Runyan and Mayfiled at LT that were not called? I was focusing on the LT position, so don't know if others on our OL were also being grabbed by the throat like Runyan and Mayfield were.
This link won't imbed for some reason: https://mgoblue.com/news/2018/9/22/football-kornacki-how-wolverine-o-line-imposed-its-will-on-cornhuskers.aspx
September 23rd, 2018 at 2:29 PM ^
Nebraska was undersized and just bad. I know we looked good up front and that’s encouraging but it’s hard to learn anything while beating up on the JV.
September 23rd, 2018 at 2:37 PM ^
Disagree. On Friday analysis was all about Nebraska defense being solid vs run and averaging five sacks per game. Most had Michigan probably pulling out a close win. Nebraska gets housed by the better team and now they are JV? #revisionist
No guarantee this line is any more than average by end of season but average could be enough...
September 23rd, 2018 at 3:04 PM ^
It's revisionist to comment on what we all just saw? We beat a very bad team and go take a look at the prediction thread again because most of the board saw a blowout, I predicted 55-13. All I am saying is that Michigan executed the way they should have against a bad team and that is encouraging. That hasn't always happened but we need to temper our excitement. Just because some people thought it may be close game doesn't really mean much. I saw us run a bad team off the field and they were worse than some of us thought. Hell, there was a thread about how they as a team are not buying in to the Frost message on the board. That may be the worst Nebraska team we'll ever see.
September 23rd, 2018 at 3:12 PM ^
Oh. Well. If YOU predicted 55-13, then that's all we need to know.
September 23rd, 2018 at 3:20 PM ^
go take a look at the prediction thread again because most of the board saw a blowout, I predicted 55-13.
Hmmm, let's take another look at that.
There were a few people confident of a big victory, but most of them thought Martinez wouldn't play. The consensus was that Martinez in the lineup was "scary".
September 23rd, 2018 at 3:32 PM ^
I'm skimming through it right now and it's safe to say that half of the predictions are 14+ wins.
September 23rd, 2018 at 4:23 PM ^
95% of this board predicted wins, most easy, over ND too. What anyone on this board thinks generally should be taken with a massive grain of salt.
September 23rd, 2018 at 4:29 PM ^
Completely agree, I didn’t bring it up as a reason to get excited about blowing out a terrible Nebraska team.
September 24th, 2018 at 8:11 AM ^
After a disastrous and uncharacteristic first half for the Defense at ND, it is not unreasonable for one to think they were going to win that game. And since, all easy wins; dominant, really. What games going forward will Michigan not be favored to win?
September 24th, 2018 at 11:19 AM ^
If they would have caught the 3 interceptions that Wimbush tried his best to throw, they would have won easily. Now you see Wimbush is what we thought he was.
September 23rd, 2018 at 5:13 PM ^
the vegas line was 18 and UM won by 46. and my Neb friend said before the game that their DL was the team's strength. take that for what it's worth. the team deserves credit, especially the OL, for that beat down.
September 23rd, 2018 at 5:03 PM ^
You are right to not get too amped up over the win. However, Nebraska outgained a decent 3-0 Colorado team by over 150 yards.
Against us we were outgaining them by nearly 300 yards at halftime. Halftime. Had we not played over 80 players, we had a legit chance of outgaining them by 600.
It was a nice win to completely clown stomp them the way we did. It doesn't mean we are 'Bama, but nice nonetheless.
September 23rd, 2018 at 5:57 PM ^
lots of people around here aren’t good with this team not sucking and being terrible. Even when we have a good game, it’s not us, it’s the other team that sucks.
September 24th, 2018 at 7:24 AM ^
You can't win. If Michigan goes out and pulls out a closer than expected win, the board melts down into self-pity. We go out and curb stomp an inferior team and the comments are, "you can't take away anything positive from this because Nebraska sucks".
I can't fathom what it must be like for these fans who can take no joy out of Michigan playing well.
September 23rd, 2018 at 2:40 PM ^
Clarkie from Canada is right. Nebraska's front 7 were supposed to be pretty good.
If you watch the highlights, our O-Line executed better than I have seen from a Michigan team in a LONG time!
Let's keep it rolling in Evanston! Go Blue!!!
September 24th, 2018 at 7:29 AM ^
If you watch the highlights, our O-Line executed better than I have seen from a Michigan team in a LONG time!
Precisely. All the mistakes on the OL that FanNamedOzzy has been diagramming in diaries the past couple of weeks, I saw much of that get corrected on Saturday. Very encouraging.
Sure, Nebraska proved to be undersized and not up to the task of challenging our OL, but that doesn't take away from the fact that I saw very few dorfs from our linemen on Saturday. We didn't grind out yards and big plays despite mistakes, the OL executed their assignments well and that was reflected in the offense's overall performance.
September 23rd, 2018 at 2:50 PM ^
Except that everything we heard before the game was that the DL was the strength of their defense and that we'd probably have to gameplan around our pass protection having lots of breakdowns.
September 23rd, 2018 at 3:45 PM ^
Lol uptight UofM fans:
We win, then the other team must have sucked. Opponents win, and we are the worst program ever.
September 23rd, 2018 at 4:21 PM ^
Yeah, we really are a bunch of cunts. Our team played really well and it was wonderful to watch. End of story.
September 23rd, 2018 at 5:56 PM ^
Furthermore, the definition of a "big game" at Michigan is a game that first of all we must have lost because if we won it wasn't a big game unless it's OSU (and then OSU must have had no more than 2 losses.)
September 23rd, 2018 at 5:40 PM ^
This team hasn’t bullied teams since 2016.
Yes this is encouraging. OL looks better every week. Warinner knows how to coach them up.
September 23rd, 2018 at 2:36 PM ^
Nice article. I'll try to embed the OP's link. https://mgoblue.com/news/2018/9/22/football-kornacki-how-wolverine-o-line-imposed-its-will-on-cornhuskers.aspx
September 23rd, 2018 at 2:48 PM ^
My favorite bit from the article:
"I watched film all this week and would talk to my dad," said Runyan. "He's helped me out a lot. I'd missed a few blocks this week, and so we got some face time on the phone. My mom was holding the phone, and my dad was being me and my sister was being a defensive end.
"They ran plays, and it helped me both in the run and pass plays. I went to the Wednesday and Thursday practices to try that stuff out, and it worked pretty well."
September 23rd, 2018 at 3:19 PM ^
why have they not done it in the last 4 years?
September 23rd, 2018 at 3:46 PM ^
Bad data plan.
September 23rd, 2018 at 3:22 PM ^
Michigan family from top to bottom.
September 23rd, 2018 at 4:04 PM ^
His sister deserves some kind of scout team hero award.
September 24th, 2018 at 6:28 AM ^
Her & Chase Winnovich's half-sister would make a great addition.
Is there an All-sibling Team? even imaginary ones?
September 23rd, 2018 at 6:12 PM ^
Can JH bring Runyan Sr in as an analyst? I'm sure the NFL wouldn't mind.
September 23rd, 2018 at 9:18 PM ^
I hear his sister has good pad level
September 23rd, 2018 at 2:46 PM ^
I believe "cross blocking" is what the blog has been calling "down G"
September 23rd, 2018 at 9:20 PM ^
Thanks, googling “down g” just results in a lot of hip hop stuff
September 24th, 2018 at 6:31 AM ^
Well I'd rather have them block down g than Ali G.
September 23rd, 2018 at 5:59 PM ^
"We won't know anything until...(fill in with your favorite time frame here)."
September 23rd, 2018 at 7:20 PM ^
You know what this thread could use? A post telling us all that perspective is in order.
September 23rd, 2018 at 7:37 PM ^
JBB sure as heck looks the part and is a fine run blocker... If Warinner gets him to step up pass pro then he would be very adequate.
Steuber looked good too.
Mayfield isn't ready yet, watch him on the Bell TD.
September 23rd, 2018 at 7:37 PM ^
JBB sure as heck looks the part and is a fine run blocker... If Warinner gets him to step up pass pro then he would be very adequate.
Steuber looked good too.
Mayfield isn't ready yet, watch him on the Bell TD.
September 23rd, 2018 at 10:28 PM ^
"Michigan’s OL confirmed indicators of development pushing Nebraska round."
"As a substitute, the Wolverines’ entrance 5 pushed their first Large Ten opponent round with out a lot problem."
“We had been feeling good concerning the holes that we had been making, and the backs had been ending them,” stated beginning left guard Ben Bredeson. “We had been completely satisfied about that.”
http://www.pressmask.com/michigans-ol-showed-signs-of-growth-pushing-nebraska-around/
September 24th, 2018 at 9:23 AM ^
Awesome, and Wisconsin runs a similar D, don't they. So that's good.
But--and here's a question for the OL specialists--how portable is this to, say, a quarters defense with 4 down linemen?