Indiana Snowflakes: The Coaching
November 18th, 2018 at 2:21 AM ^
That's not what that means.
November 18th, 2018 at 8:42 AM ^
Its like they have M's cell phone number and make an annoying telemarketing call during dinner, and then M demands to have its number removed from IU's marketing list, and they have to talk to a supervisor, and they get put on hold, and they have to yell at some people, and it winds up taking 2 hours. But eventually that shit gets deleted from the database.
November 17th, 2018 at 8:43 PM ^
I’m in the doghouse. I kind of went off on the Michigan coaches (via my TV screen) during and after the end-of-first half play calling and clock debacle. F bombs, other expletives. My wife was none to happy with me, watched the game from another room and expressed her displeasure after the game. She is pissed.
I may be relegated to the couch tonight. At least the couch is not at risk of burning.
???
November 17th, 2018 at 8:50 PM ^
That was a tough one to watch. I DVR'd it and was about 1 hour behind from when the game started (I can do yardwork and zip through commercials, halftime, etc.)
There were a few times I paused it, took a shot of top-shelf tequila and took the dogs outside for a few minutes.
November 17th, 2018 at 8:55 PM ^
Choose your team wisely!
November 17th, 2018 at 9:00 PM ^
Give her a foot rub. Mostly works for me when I am a bad example for my children when watching sports.
November 17th, 2018 at 9:14 PM ^
That’s a good suggestion, thanks. I made a commitment to be well-behaved for Ohio State. My three kids will be home and I really do want it to be a fun time.
November 18th, 2018 at 12:52 AM ^
Good game to pick to be that way. Hope you have a nice dog house outside. Kidding...
November 17th, 2018 at 9:34 PM ^
Dont worry, my friend. She'll get over it. I was right there with you with the expletives. Good thing my wife was upstairs away from the TV. That game took it out of me to watch. Thank goodness we won.
November 18th, 2018 at 10:20 AM ^
Fuck your wife! . . . I mean it. That will make things better.
November 17th, 2018 at 8:44 PM ^
At least we won, and Shea finished healthy. Otherwise, this game was about as shitty as it could of been.
Hard hitting? Yep
tons of defensive snaps? Yep
key player(s) injured? Yep
exactly what you don’t want from a game like this
November 17th, 2018 at 8:51 PM ^
Just wait until we drop to 5 in the next cfp rankings.
November 17th, 2018 at 10:40 PM ^
4 or 5 may not matter. If Georgia narrowly beats Alabama in the SEC championship, good chance Michigan would be shut out regardless.
November 18th, 2018 at 1:09 AM ^
I used to believe UGA could win that game. IDK anymore.
November 18th, 2018 at 8:51 AM ^
UGA hasn't played anyone and is painfully overrated
November 17th, 2018 at 8:46 PM ^
Pretty clear we were trying to be conservative on play calls. Wasn't a huge fan of the clock management right before halftime. Harbaugh tried to get cute there, but we ended with nothing (partly because of the refs, but thats besides the point).
November 17th, 2018 at 8:46 PM ^
Puzzling.
Brown: First time I've seen him outguessed on the regular. Putting in zone? Hopefully there was a driver for it because it was a baaaad decision every time.
Harbaugh: Big ups for him putting in Jake for FG duty.
Pep: All of the ultra conservative calls. Ugh. That 'body blow' poodoo spewed by the announcers only works when you're actually making them pursue you after awhile. Big guys running tire faster than big guys not running.
Tom Allen: Should have a brick thrown at him. Fosters extremely dirty play. Should kick that player who leveled Edwards off the team, but he won't. Announcers kept whitewashing it saying it was the result of the kickoff coverage. Way way way way wrong. What that player did was so NOT part of kickoff coverage and was all dirty intentional play.
Mike Hart: Coached his guys up well.
November 17th, 2018 at 8:56 PM ^
Cant abide people being critical of the offensive play calling by blaming Pep. You people know nothing about the play calling and who does it. No one knows. You really cant blame anyone but JH for playcalling, he decides everything. So if you blame Pep for this, eat a bag of stinky D's.
November 17th, 2018 at 9:00 PM ^
Hi Pep's dad.
November 17th, 2018 at 10:48 PM ^
It's analgous to blaming Kinnel for everything.
November 18th, 2018 at 12:03 AM ^
Well if it was JH, Pep, or Pep/JH that made the the red zone play calls, anyone with eyes can see that it most mostly a bad set of play calls.
63 possible red zone points. Only got 31 point.
Sorry but that is not mostly down to poor execution on a few plays.
November 17th, 2018 at 9:07 PM ^
Play calling was OK. Execution wasn’t. Many dropped catchable passes.
November 17th, 2018 at 10:49 PM ^
Or a would be TD pass thrown way to late and behind Gentry.
November 18th, 2018 at 8:55 AM ^
It's essential for M to run some zone defense to defeat OSU. The strength of OSU's offense is their speedy slot guys and H-backs: Campbell, Hill, and Dixon. They like to run those guys on crossing routes so they can get YAC. It's very difficult to cover crossing routes man-to-man, but OTOH zone is very effective against crossing routes. OSU also likes to hand the ball off to those guys on jet sweeps and such. Zone defense is better for stopping outside runs. So M needs to at least play some underneath zone from time-to-time, either to stop those kinds of plays or to make OSU think twice about calling them.
November 17th, 2018 at 9:07 PM ^
Have to wonder if Harbaugh even saw 72's dirty dive on Chase after what looked to me like was nearly or was a crack back block. I actually had a feeling Mason would get the ball on the first down run at the end of the first half, but doing that, with no timeouts the next play should have been a pass into the end zone. Aside from that small clock management nit pick, Michigan owned the second half, resilient team, and we are 10 & 1. Everybody deserves credit for that.
November 17th, 2018 at 9:17 PM ^
Screw #72, Indiana, O'Neil and his entire crew.
Question: was Quinn Nordin hurt or was this position change the result of all the awful field goal kicking in the past several weeks?
November 17th, 2018 at 10:13 PM ^
On TV they showed Nordin with his usual (lately) awful-looking kick trajectory in warmups. The change seemed to be performance, not injury-based.
November 18th, 2018 at 4:24 AM ^
i was in the stadium 30 min before kickoff and didn't see nordin kicking at all. moody was. nordin was just walking around with a winter hat on. normally, all the kickers are practicing. nordin also did no kicking at halftime like the other kickers.
November 18th, 2018 at 7:32 AM ^
Yes, the attempt they showed during the broadcast was from much earlier, before the gates were opened. Nordin isn’t 100%, and hasn’t been for a while. Would explain Harbaugh’s reluctance to use him in recent weeks for anything other than points after.
November 17th, 2018 at 9:31 PM ^
I Haven’t been this upset about cheap play in a while. And coach Allen seem to be enjoying it!
November 17th, 2018 at 9:41 PM ^
QB runs were beyond maddening. Haven’t seen so many contain breakdowns since ND. And Ramsey is not a dynamic runner. Serious regression there. DB didn’t seem to have a spy much at all on passing downs.
November 17th, 2018 at 10:15 PM ^
Frustrating when you send 5 or 6 on the rush/blitz and nobody gets home. Any QB with speed and vision will get their yards when that happens. I hope Don Brown has better answers next Saturday.
November 17th, 2018 at 11:33 PM ^
It was often a clever setup that we never adjusted to. Multiple times IU motioned the RB allllll the way to the sideline because they knew we were in man and that effectively took Bush off the field. A number of QB draws came in that circumstance. Other times it seemed like we just didn’t leave a linebacker in the middle to spy and I cannot understand why after Ramsey cpmverted his first few big runs
November 17th, 2018 at 9:54 PM ^
Didn't like that the two plays that kept beating our D - kept beating them. Slant over the middle, QB run up the middle. Rinse and repeat.
Usually halftime completely cleans things up; this week not so much. Gives us stuff to work on this week, for sure.
As for the offense, I think it was more a problem with execution than play calling. We had a bunch of flubs near the goal line which could have made this a much easier win.
That said, I like that we kept our cool despite very dirty play by IU.
Stayed focused, won the game. That's what matters.
November 18th, 2018 at 6:19 AM ^
Yard-wise maybe. But they only scored 3 points after half-time.
Just sayin'
November 17th, 2018 at 10:01 PM ^
Fire Pep. Red zone playcalling was horrific
November 17th, 2018 at 10:14 PM ^
Defense struggling to get off the field on 3rd and medium and long, coupled with red zone screwups, are the reasons this was a fist fight into the fourth quarter. This game should've been in hand by middle of the third quarter with the backups getting reps. Defense looked gassed late in the game. It didn't look like the same Michigan team that we've been spoiled by this season. I hope it's an anomaly but color me slightly concerned.
November 17th, 2018 at 10:17 PM ^
I'm just glad we got the W and got the hell out of an O'Niell-officiated game. John O'Neill is a corn-studded, mucus-encrusted turd of a referee and would be shitcanned out of any conference that had any integrity (lol big ten hahahahahah)
November 17th, 2018 at 10:24 PM ^
Should’ve played the Citadel or UMASS or Rice
November 17th, 2018 at 10:59 PM ^
Team has regressed a little since the PSU game. Kind of uncertain about why they keep peaking at the wrong time of the season.
November 17th, 2018 at 11:22 PM ^
Stop.
You cant say we’ve regressed. Teams don’t have the same amount of intensity every week.
November 18th, 2018 at 12:48 AM ^
Nor do they have the same game plan. The playbooks was wide open during the 3 Gane stretch ending with PSU and there was not much rotation of guys that don't normally see a lot of time. The last two weeks was treated more like a scrimmage in regards to the amount of players getting in early in the games.
They are not regressing, they are just not showing much and have different goals the want to accomplish in said ganes.
November 18th, 2018 at 12:03 AM ^
Embarrassingly bad play calling from Harbaugh in the red zone.
This game shouldn’t have been close.
Same old conservative bullshit.
November 18th, 2018 at 12:25 AM ^
Pep called a pretty bad game tonight. That ply at the end of the half was pretty dumb.
But he and Jim made a great game plan for The Game last year and Warinner knows that OSU defense well enough. They should come out with a good script I think.
November 18th, 2018 at 6:22 AM ^
1.) Dumb in retrospect. It was designed for a TD; good defense stopped it.
2.) Harbaugh called the play. He said it in post-game presser. Nevertheless, Fire [Person we hate].
November 18th, 2018 at 3:06 PM ^
tasnyder01
6 field goals in 7 red zones...
And how many balls thrown in the end zone?
At what point does the play calling blow? 7 FG, 10FG???
And the defense that stopped the throw to McKeon was nothing special, but then again why are we throwing the ball to McKeon in that position in the first place>???
November 18th, 2018 at 1:54 AM ^
Michigan went pretty vanilla, tried to avoid contact to Shea. Finally let him run the ball late a bit when needed. Nothing wrong with today's gameplan we have practiced a couple RPO's in game action. Put the ball in the endzone and that's a 30 point blowout.
November 18th, 2018 at 3:28 AM ^
Harbaugh must of wanted to play conservative in the redzone. Given some tall athletic WRs and TEs, we should have some good targets to throw to in the end zone. Also, the time management on the drive before half was not good. Don't thrown a dink pass at the 5? Go for a shot in the end zone and if you miss, then kick a FG and take the lead into the half.
November 18th, 2018 at 6:24 AM ^
He didn't think it was a dink pass. Or at least, that wasn't the call.
Actually, screw it.that was the call. Harbaugh intentionally told his QB throw it short.
November 18th, 2018 at 7:32 AM ^
I agree with other takes on the horrible clock management at the end of the first half that cost us at least 3 points and probably 7.
I also have to question the red zone play calling. Whereas the running game was working well between the 20's, every time we got into the redzone, the running plays got stuffed. And the coaches kept doing it instead of switching to a pass oriented approach.