Indiana Snowflakes: The Offense

Regarding RZ: I think it was take The points and trust the defense. I remember a couple years ago where we had our frequently used creative Red Zone scores... and then with the game on the line OSU has them downloaded and was running the routes with the WRs and got the game finishing INT. 

Today felt like there was a reluctance to go beyond the basics. When any creativity was used, there were huge holes or wide open guys. This felt like win with showing as little as possible. 

I used to joke that since Jedd left our offense wouldn't be setting records any time soon, but lo and behold

Patterson was off. But yes, he was a gamer.  He needs to stay another year.

If Gentry doesn’t drop that TD and we don’t screw up right before the half, the game looks a lot different.  I am actually not unhappy that we struggled today.  Gives the team things to work on that should pay off next week, and probably makes their focus even more intense after all that went wrong.  Oh, and fuck Indiana, played MSU-level dirty football today.

Seriously, who is the officiating crew next week? Anyone know? 

Without Winovich, the hill is much steeper in Columbus.

That's two key players in three weeks sustaining broken collarbones, and I can't help but think of the skimpy-looking pads they wear these days in comparison to two decades ago.

Was the offense very vanilla today? had to work and missed the game. I expected M to put up more points than they did.

Good but just could not finish drives. No idea why...I think partly was playcalling, and partly just one of those things.

But I also wanted to take the time to say THANK GOD FOR JAKE MOODY. Player of the game. We absolutely needed a kicker today, and even missing one of those kicks would have made it more nerve wracking at the end than it already was.

Where was JUWANN BUSHELL-BEATTY?  Is he injured?

10-1 with all those hard road games. 

And Edwards will probably be OK.

Not a lot of reason to be down about this team. Unless you are a typical Michigan fan and always searching.

Rather than enjoying.

Fire Pep Hamilton. Terrible play calling in the red zone. Why do we run 2 times in a row inside the 10 with no timeouts. Horrible.

I felt like they held back on offense a little bit today. The rotation of the running backs felt more like they wanted to keep Higdon fresh for next week. 

Redzone playcalling was terrible. If we don't finish drives next week, we'll lose. It was worrying seeing how many times we stalled down there.

If we want to win next week it probably can't be with FGs.  Improve the Red Zone offense.

I hope everyone is healthy. I don’t think this offensive performance against Indiana has any relevance whatsoever to what we will see next week. 

Go Blue

Bright spot for the O - Jake x 6.  That's about all that can be mustered up - way too many times settling for 3s.  Thankfully later in the game Shea was like 'F this' and tried to push the ball on his own.

Jake Moody!  

clock managment at the end of the half was terrible - yes the ref should’ve thrown a flag on the kick but we basically did that to ourselves

also not sure why we insist on running evans up the middle all the time. he’s good in space but not very effective as a ‘traditional’ running back. rather tru get those snaps and get evans some stuff outside, screens, flares, reverses, etc. 

on the other hand, this team plays smart and hard, and doesn’t crumble when things go wrong -so the coaches deserve credit for that

It was an ugly game, the entire team had an off day, and we wasted tons of opportunities - and still won by two scores.

This was a good team on a bad day. I'll gladly take the W.

On to Cesspool-umbus!

Shea ran the ball much more than I was comfortable with. Happy we will have a healthy QB heading into the Toilet Bowl. 

Did the announcers say anything about the Indiana asshole kicking the ball away from the ref at the end of the half? They showed a replay in the stadium and it was obvious. Should have been a delay of game. 

Higdon was great, Shea was very good in second half, no turnovers.   Tight ends were wide open. Wish DPJ was more involved but maybe they save some new plays to him for next week.   

Felt like we pretty much drove at will, just for whatever reason couldn’t punch the ball in. 

Based on how we dealt with the QB, we absolutely cannot let Haskins find his ryhthm.  Ramsey could even run a bit too which again, can give us trouble in Haskins if he finds rhythm and decides to switch it up to dagger a drive for the unsuspected TD. Oan,  I think we hold our ranking because we DID display a new and dominant kicking game.

Seems like Black could have dove for that one deep pass.? Only seen from one tv angle though. Thoughts?