Peach Bowl Snowflakes: The Defense
December 29th, 2018 at 11:30 PM ^
Fire brown and Pep.
December 29th, 2018 at 10:32 PM ^
Don Brown was hired to stop JT Barrett. He pretty much did so, twice.
Unfortunately, we couldn't counterpunch well enough in 2016 and we couldn't stop Haskins in 2017 and 2018.
Time to make another change, Jim.
December 30th, 2018 at 12:23 AM ^
I have a feeling that Zordich is gone.... have no evidence... but Harbaugh wont fire Brown and this will be blamed on the backfield...
December 30th, 2018 at 2:14 AM ^
Hate to say it but I was hoping Brown would have been hired as a HC somewhere else. Good teams are learning how to defeat his pressure defense. But when there is no pressure, which is usually the case with good OL, our secondary gets torched going man to man. May be we really don't have the lock down secondary that is needed for his defense and we may never have such a secondary. Especially when teams are using quick pass slants to destroy us. Overall, Durkins' defenses were much more sound and better than Brown's, especially against bigger and faster teams. It will be interesting to see what way Harbaugh goes. I'm sure Harbaugh does not like defenses that give up a bunch of yards and points like our D has done lately. Next season will not be much better for us under Brown's blitzing system. I think we lose a lot of talent and teams will be torching us. I thought the offense would just score more points but I'm not sure that will happen after watching how they played against a meh Florida defense.
December 30th, 2018 at 7:36 AM ^
It became clear that an active Bush (and healthy Winovich and Gary and the pressure they brought, especially from the backside on runs) covered up for a lot of weaknesses in Michigan's defense by not giving the opposing offense's plays time to develop. Without them present and healthy, Michigan's defense was often mediiocre.
December 30th, 2018 at 10:08 AM ^
Thought Brown was great - but then good teams prove every time he isn't. Send him packing...
December 30th, 2018 at 10:31 AM ^
Second game in a row our team quit. This was the most disappointing thing I saw.
We always make adjustments at half and play better in the 2nd half. Yesterday after the interception the momentum switched and we just payed down