Colorado Snowflakes: General Observations
September 18th, 2016 at 8:47 AM ^
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September 18th, 2016 at 8:56 AM ^
I'm not as concerned with Speight as others. Yes the 3/12 start is ugly, but Colorado had the #1 Passing Efficiency Defense coming in, with a legitimate lock down corner. After Speight's 3-12 start he went 13-18 for 200+ yards 1 TD and 0 INT. I am willing to say that this might be the best secondary we see all season.
September 18th, 2016 at 9:16 AM ^
'Time for this team to become the hammer.
September 18th, 2016 at 9:41 AM ^
We look good. I remember hearing we were down 14-0 and thinking "we'll come back" did we ever come back after being down 14-0 under either of our last two coaches?
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September 18th, 2016 at 9:56 AM ^
-Gary week3 > week 2 >> week 1. The turning point in the game was the second quarter when Gary was going nuts. He made 3-4 huge plays.
-Peppers needs 9 more games like today to be a Heisman threat. But Action Jackson in Louisville might make that race academic. But holy cow is it fun watching him.
- I think O'Korn might have been the better QB yesterday (highly speculative). Our WR's weren't getting open against what looked like very good CBs. Since our running game is pretty suspect we became pretty 1 dimensional on offense. Good thing Butt is awesome. Speight/Darbo/Chesson need to be able to produce against anybody. If not, I want O'Korn's legs out there.
-Looked like the coaches rewarded Isaac with a bunch of caries after he turned a 5 yard gain on 1 and 20 into a 20 yard gain.
September 18th, 2016 at 10:33 AM ^
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September 18th, 2016 at 10:39 AM ^
The adjustments made all the difference in this one. Colorado came ready to play and seemed to know how Michigan was going to attack them on both sides of the ball. What they weren't prepared for was Michigan's talent and fight.
Even so, if Liufau recovers quickly this could be a PAC12 South run for them. They miss Washington in the cross-over and I don't really see them running with Stanford, but every other team on their schedule looks like someone they can at least run with. These could definitely be more of an 8-4 to 10-2 kind of unit; rather than the 6-6 we thought them to be (or 4-8 before the season). Their DL and cornerbacks give them a chance to frustrate teams without divierse athletes and playbooks, and if they can keep that deep passing game going they've got a proper RPS (run-pass-screen if you will) offense that can burn even the best teams a couple times.
Offensive coaching from Michigan looked top-notch after adjustements came in. Still, it was frustrating and surprising to see a team be able to matchup with both Darboh and Chesson... They had no answers for Butt in coverage though, and our edge blocking (after being rickety at best against UCF) ripped open some big holes for the RBs and jet-sweeps.
All-in-all I think this was a great game to have early in the season. There's plenty of coachable moments caught on film for the team to analyze and improve upon. Plenty of weaknesses exposed that our offensive and defensive braintrusts will now find ways to schematically mitigate. It wasn't fun watching our boys in blue struggle, but they've got a much clearer picture of what and how to improve from this game than I think we've seen in a W for a while.