Snowflake Thread: Offense Vs. Air Force
September 16th, 2017 at 5:16 PM ^
Well you could probably just ask him if his offensive coaching staff or himself even bother coaching the offense. I mean Coach Harbaugh why does your defense look so competent and your offense looks likea complete fucking joke against a service academy. Coach Harbaugh do you coach your offensive lineman to get zero push against d-lineman giving up anywhere between thirty and sixty pounds. Coach Harbaugh why is your offense softer than butter and do coaches Frey and Drevno even hold there o-lineman accountable for getting man handled by men the size of most teams linebackers. Coach Harbaugh is Don Brown the only one who shows up to practice. COACH HARBAUGH ......WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU GOING TO DO ABOUT YOUR PUTRID OFFENSE AND PLAY CALLING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!. Coach Harbaugh you do understand there are two sides to football. Ya Coach Harbaugh I can see your getting pissed so just nod your head.
September 16th, 2017 at 5:31 PM ^
September 16th, 2017 at 7:22 PM ^
Do you think Harbaugh is a bad offensive coach? It seems like you do, but all evidence from his last 10 years of coaching at college and the NFL is evidence otherwise. It seems a little crazy to get this frustrated by a game in which we still won and the offense got into the red zone 4 times. I'm not saying it was a good coaching performance but that line of questioning makes me think you think Harbaugh is a bad coach, which is completely irrational.
September 16th, 2017 at 7:03 PM ^
What the hell do you mean, "He should be held accountable"? Should he be fined? Fired?
Just Curious.
September 16th, 2017 at 7:11 PM ^
September 16th, 2017 at 7:36 PM ^
September 16th, 2017 at 8:06 PM ^
September 16th, 2017 at 8:11 PM ^
Is Brian a huge jackass? Pretty lame of you to call someone a jackass and then lie about when they said something.
September 16th, 2017 at 8:31 PM ^
September 16th, 2017 at 3:20 PM ^
September 16th, 2017 at 10:33 PM ^
I'm WAY too busy tweeting recruits.
September 16th, 2017 at 3:21 PM ^
Whine in public until the outcomes improve then take credit for the improvement.
September 16th, 2017 at 4:26 PM ^
September 16th, 2017 at 3:55 PM ^
Forgive me for picking a nit, but I don't know if I'd call that a garbage time TD. AFA would have needed a TD and a field goal to win -- not likely in a minute and a half but crazier things have happened. Bottom line: if I were coaching I'd have my first string offense out there to add points or run out the clock just to be sure.
Agree on everything else though. We shouldn't have needed that TD.
September 16th, 2017 at 4:17 PM ^
September 16th, 2017 at 4:17 PM ^
September 16th, 2017 at 5:03 PM ^
I personally consider it garbage time due to the fact it was 100% obvious we were going to run the ball in order to run out the clock. The D knew this and sold out to stop the inside run. This made a bounce wide open and Higdon did great to take advantage of it. The game was over whether Higdon falls down in the back field or scores, aka garbage time.
September 16th, 2017 at 5:08 PM ^
Are you serious? Michigan was up two scores with 90 seconds left and a down to burn. The game was over.
September 17th, 2017 at 1:34 PM ^
September 16th, 2017 at 3:57 PM ^
it would turbo charge the offense. Instead its an offense running on fumes.
September 16th, 2017 at 3:59 PM ^
September 16th, 2017 at 6:42 PM ^
September 16th, 2017 at 3:16 PM ^
September 16th, 2017 at 3:15 PM ^
September 16th, 2017 at 3:16 PM ^
is the biggest problem.
Why not call plays that take what D is giving? AF was selling out to stop the inside run, so Dreveno kept calling the inside run. Reminded me of the Carr era (but worse).
D was very good, except 1 bust.
September 16th, 2017 at 3:22 PM ^
September 16th, 2017 at 3:35 PM ^
was arguably worse.
Just like today, the Carr era has OCs that would stubbornly stick to a plan decided on Wednesday before the game, refused to realize that the opposing D is daring you to deviate from your completely predictable base play (especially on 1st down), refused to take the easy gains the opposing D was given, etc.
OTOH, Carr always had QBs that were very good and could bail him out.
Now, on D, what we have now is WAY better than the Carr era. Carr's D coordinators never figured out how to deal with mobile QBs.
September 16th, 2017 at 3:16 PM ^
The offense better not have any helmet stickers outside of Ty Isaac. Wilton Speight is not good enough to be a QB at Michigan. Full stop.
September 16th, 2017 at 3:16 PM ^
BUT BRIAN SAYS HE MAKES GOOD READS SO ITS OK. ALL HAIL BRIAN.
September 16th, 2017 at 3:18 PM ^
I imagine Brian will reconsider his position this week. Speight's decision-making in this game was horrendous.
September 16th, 2017 at 3:28 PM ^
September 16th, 2017 at 3:31 PM ^
The fact that you equate him not throwing interceptions to his performance being commendable shows how low of a bar you have for him.
September 16th, 2017 at 4:26 PM ^
September 16th, 2017 at 4:28 PM ^
September 16th, 2017 at 4:48 PM ^
September 16th, 2017 at 5:28 PM ^
Split hairs if you will, but nothing excuses Speight going on three weeks now of throwing balls into one on one coverage out of bounds, not even giving his 6'3" receivers a chance to make a play or get a PI call. Did it again more than once today. Awful.
September 16th, 2017 at 6:02 PM ^
September 16th, 2017 at 4:55 PM ^
September 16th, 2017 at 9:06 PM ^
Can people please stop defending Speight because he threw a couple good passes please?
September 16th, 2017 at 3:34 PM ^
At the end of the day, it is his job to score TDs, not throw the ball above or behind the wide reciever, nor simply just out of bounds. This should have been a team he could score 1 TD while the game was still in doubt. He can show leadership with a young offense. He could audible out of an obviously dead draw play. Congrats...he didn't throw a single INT. Still a garbage game, which is no longer a one-off performance
September 16th, 2017 at 4:17 PM ^
I only saw one good chance to make a play in the red zone that he missed, the one where he threw it in front of a breaking WR. Even there, the thow wasn't that bad (would have been caught if the WR broke a hair earlier), and he was rushed by pressure. Otherwise Speight basically got crappy opportunities and failed to create miracles.
Yeah, he threw a fade to Black (heh) OOB, but that play was covered and super-low percentage even if the throw was on target. Other than that throw, did he have any other throws to Tacopants? Seemed like he improved on that at least.
In the game thread, there were posters ripping on Speight for throwing a screen pass to Black (who was immediately tackled) as if the playcall was his fault. WTF?
It's pretty clear at this point that a segment of the fanbase has determined everything is Speight's fault, and will interpret reality in whatever way necessary to maintain that narrative.
What I saw all game was well-covered receivers and a lot of pressure - both of which are disturbing against AF (and neither of which are on Speight). Frankly his worst decision all game was running OOB and losing yards instead of throwing it away, and that's a brain fart but hardly a game killer.
It sure would be nice if everything were Speight's fault... but unfotunately this was a failure by the entire O, coaches included. Except for poor damn Isaac, who deserved 2 TDs.
September 16th, 2017 at 5:16 PM ^
Not throwing to Isaac in the flat for an easy wide open first down and forcing it to Black on a shoulda been INT was his worst decision. His fumble play was his 2nd worst decsion.
September 16th, 2017 at 4:21 PM ^
September 16th, 2017 at 5:07 PM ^
I'd bet he grades him equally as he did the first 2 games and remains content with Speight's decision making.
September 16th, 2017 at 6:06 PM ^
MGoSheeple
September 16th, 2017 at 5:41 PM ^
He can't gain seperation and catch the fuckin ball. More importantly he can't and should not gain 100 pounds and move someone off the ball. The thing is if you run a pro style offense, the very first thing you do in recruiting is secure one of the best gunslingers in high school. One hundred and fifty percent on Harbaugh. The real NFL quality QB's should be running to Michigan, but....................................................nooooo. I will cut the line some slack because air force wa selling out to stop the run but so what. You are supposed to be bigger and stronger. Minus Cole are o-line are straight out weak. We should have exploted the constant blitzing but our coordinators don't have a clue. I have become reasonably sure we only coach Defense at Michigan. It is like a reverse Rich Rod thing. Speight might not be Johnny Unitas but our o-line is flat out weak and soft...minus Mason Cole. The rest should not be playing at Michigan. One all big ten and the rest ........ nothing but mac level. Crawford can't catch anything contested and should be passed as young guys come along. Don't really know what is wrong with our offense, but except for long runs it is flat out worthless and we will start racking up the losses just like last year. Why the fuck isn't Ian Bunting playing?. Don't like our offensive coaching staff, but hey maybe it is Harbaugh and we would be doing much better with a different QB. Peters could be good but who ever heard of a introverted QB.
September 16th, 2017 at 6:37 PM ^
September 16th, 2017 at 11:28 PM ^
If Speight isn't good enough to be a QB at Michigan, then we currently do not have a QB good enough right now. Peters isn't the answer. O'Korn isn't the answer. Morris isn't the answer (half joke).
I am not near as pessimistic about Speight as most of the board, but even if I have to take the stance that Speight isn't good enough, is that entirely Harbaugh's fault? He wasn't exactly given a good QB depth chart coming in.
My biggest fear about Speight's performances is that there's a bunch of idiots who will be doing their absolute best to make sure Speight knows how they feel about his performance. Which, honestly, despite the fact that it's extremely idiotic, how in the world is that supposed to help Speight play better?
September 16th, 2017 at 3:16 PM ^
September 16th, 2017 at 3:17 PM ^