MSU Snowflakes - The Coaching

Some questionable play calls and decisions on offense in the rainy portions of the game, but overall a good job and great defensive coaching.

I think we should throw out the jet sweeps, though. They don’t seem to work much for us and we have enough other offensive weapons.

Does Harbaugh coach the QBs to be too conservative? That’s was a big problem last year too, and now Patterson is leaving opportunities on the field. If Patterson, Collins, or Gentry have a step, and nothing open? Throw the ball! Most of these are not dangerous plays to take a shot. Way too many times where Shea eats a sack or throws away when you can take a shot at a big play with the downside being an incomplete. And on 3rd down when you don’t trust your kicker? Even an arm punt that gets picked off is a wash. Take the chance. 

We need a “MSU Snowflakes The Snowflakes” thread as well.   I’d like to bitch about the GD weather for the GD MSU games.

Need to be more aggressive early.

Need to stop the penalties.  

Should have been 17-0 at half but for the play calling.

Told buddy of mine before the game it seems Michigan has shied away from MSU when they play, like they play scared and back down when things get tough. This was not the case here. Faced with some adversity on the road in a tie game in the 2nd half they looked like they woke up and become the more competitive team. 

This to me was a program changing win cause of that reason. This was the look I was hoping for when Harbaugh came back to town.

After Sparty ties it, Michigan finally got less predictable. Still disappointed they didn’t attack down the field more often. Still think Pep is the weakness on this team. 

Go Blue.

I'm sure people have discussed this before, but what are everyone's thoughts on the chances of Don Brown coaching here until he retires? Can't really imagine him making a lateral job move and he seems to old to start getting into head coaching. 

That 2nd quarter hurt. 4 drives stalled in plus territory and we punted on a bunch of em. I get that Nordin has the yips but i feel we need to go for a few of those. Esp the 4th and 5

Debateable obviously but that feels like the kind of offensive performance than can cost you games. Gotta captalize on at least SOME of those opportunities

Jim Harbaugh's biggest coaching win at Michigan.  That's fun.

I resisted posting during the game because I knew that my temporary emotion was dumb. Any victory against MSU is a good win. This folks was domination. To criticize the coaches would be a poor choice. MSU scores a TD because Evans fumbled on the 6. Other than that, no movement. The mistakes today, and there were some, were typically bad reads or mistakes by the players. I’m not ripping the players, they made far more plays than MSU, but they did make errors that cost points. 

Harbaugh is a good coach, people who want to fire him are just dumb. 

Didn’t see a special teams snowflakes thread, but this is a apart coaches question.. does anyone else think they were trying to punt squibs in order to hopefully peg one of our blockers and recover the “fumble?” I thought they actually hit someone on one in the fourth quarter and was very scared for a second.

Joel Klatt said it perfectly during the fourth quarter.  In between Lloyd Carr and Jim Harbaugh, Michigan was 46 and 42.  Take out an 11 and 2 season, and that record is 35 wins, 40 losses.  Harbaugh is now 35 and 12.  

Perspective.

We won so I think our coaches were good. 

Offense - made too many mistakes that absolutely positively cannot be repeated against OSU: the two fumbles, various bad playcalls to piss away field position, and Shea taking a sack when he could've thrown a fade to DPJ.

But: All teams make mistakes.  And unlike in 2015 or 2017, we executed consistently enough to where the mistakes didn't cost us the game.  The two sustained TD drives were just us being better.  And if you wanna ding Shea for the bad sack, you also gotta give him props for the perfect dime to DPJ that wound up being the winning touchdown. We did enough and then some to get the win on the road against a not-totally-butt team and that's all you can ask.

Need to prepare the team better obviously not to get involved in the extracurricular personal crap when you’re the much better team.  We were getting draged into the EL gutter where their whole team and fan base is very used to being.

There are a few things that need to be cleaned up on offense:

• Shea needs to give his receivers a chance - they are simply better athletes
• The receivers need to learn to break back to the QB on breakdowns, several plays they simply stopped their routes and stood when Patterson was running around looking to make a play
• The TEs were getting handed their ass on many of the stops by MSU, the DE was killing them and collapsing the edge, must be better than that consistently
• The PA pass from tight formations are not creating any confusion on what is actually coming
• Would be great to see some tempo - 2 min offense concepts mixed in, waaay too many snaps happen in the last 5 seconds of the play clock giving D time to set up, rest and not create any confusion on snap of the ball
• Would be great to also see some more spread concepts, earlier in the game, weather was still good, should have tried the deep ball a few more times to back off the defense early on

The 4th and 2 conversion took Sparty's will.  Great call Harbaugh.

If I had one complaint with the coaching today it was the emotional penalties.  We answered stupidity with Sparty.  A little more disciplined play will be needed in the remaining big games. 

The plan and execution on both sides of the ball were pretty good .  Liked running it down their throats.

Ha ha Sal. You suck! We more than covered the spread fuckface!