Rutgers Snowflakes: The Coaching

has Harbaugh not put Peters in earlier this year? I get that he wants to protect his young QBs, but come on man.

Couple things:

Seemed to take too long to make the move to Peters. JOk simply wasn’t getting it done. I would’ve made the change when JOK couldn’t make the pass to either Gentry or McKeon when they had about a 7 or 8 inch height advantage over their line defender.

Thought Peters was mostly good. His TD pass was short, something the defender could’ve gotten had he turned around. Also unsure if he was getting hit as he threw that ball to McKeon on fourth down that was short.

But Peters did a lot of really good things. First he MADE PROGRESSION READS. JOK was still zeroing in on one guy presnap and forcing the ball. Purdue looks like he just got really lucky he presnap decisions worked.

Peters also went down before taking a hit he didn’t have to take. That’s a good thing. He was finding the checkdown when needed and he just seemed to know where to look.

I welcome the start if the Peters era.

Positioning Kareem Walker to score against his NJ homeboys....

Peters made reads and throws O’Korn hasn’t been making. And It wasn’t like O’Korn was running some super complex O.

on the sideline instead of in the booth.

Discuss...

Peters was the ultimate coaching decision. Guy is just way better than JOK whose numbers couldn't be worse for a QB. JOK's stats have to be the worst in history for a Michigan QB.

Pretty nice work today.  Wish we had made the move to Peters at like halftime of Indiana, but good that we've got there.  Game plan is to run and throw just enough to keep the safeties honest.  Which is what it seems like we're good at.

meaningful time.  While appreciating the passion of those who post in game blogs, an MGoBlog shoutout to those many of us who continue to be aware that the coaches know more about important things concerning our football team than any and every well intended blogger.

Great debut for Peters today.  Our running game looked the best it has all year too, with some good holes today.

 

Alex Malzone is gonna a be Heisman candidate before the season is all said and done.

To everyone saying Peters should've played two games ago, I'm sure the coaches have been getting him more and more reps and prepping him for this. 2 weeks ago and he might've been terrible.

Really hoping to see him split more time between slot and rb.  I think it would be a huge weapon to have him there more.

Height, arm, timing, athleticism. He was miles ahead of WS and JOK at the spring game. No doubt he has the capability - we have to see if he has the fight in him to battle thru tough times and tight games. The O has an entirely different look already. The D should feed off the renewed O.

I actually think simplifying the offense was the best thing I saw today. Peters 10/14, probably could have gone 12/14. Really bright days ahead, just need to keep working. Getting the youngins these snaps will help greatly for ‘18 and ‘19. Also thought Aubrey Solomon starting in place of Mone was a positive. Gary played lights out.

So through the first 8 games of the season, the starting QB performance has ranged from questionable to abominable (8 data points).  The relief QB performance has been satisfactory to good (2 data points).  O'Korn has been on both sides of that equation.  We will see if Peters also regresses with a week of practicing as the starter (if that is Coach Harbaugh's decision).  If so, I think we will have to ask some hard questions about what the coaches are doing to prepare the starting QB.

Hopefully, everything will come up roses (if not Roses, sigh), and we will be able to dismiss this as a weird coincidence.  My son and I are going to the game.  His first ever, and my first in far too many years.

Good to see Drevno on the sideline. Good to see a competent offense again even if it was Rutgers. Peters doesn't look like a flash in the pan or limited in what he can do or what we call. Playbook was definitely limited for JOK Hope this gives defenses more to think about and opens up deep balls and gets Safety's out of the box I'm willing to bet Peters doesn't mind seeing a loaded box so he can open up and sling it

And it was great to see a more opened up offense.

Good to see that, after a month of watching a shit show of a qb, Jim decided there's someone even a little more competent. I heard Stevie Wonder gave him a call and said even he could tell Peters was better.

Uhhh.  Thinking the head coach of Rutgers isnt the hardest working guy.  Apparently he didnt know UM's backup QB for today's game, nor did he know that Michigan had a bit of a QB controvery, nor did he know that UM fans were hoping Peters would play today...

 

This is the kind of stuff the whole Rutgers staff should know, let alone the head coach.  Did Rutgers do any prep for the game today?!?

 

http://www.mlive.com/wolverines/index.ssf/2017/10/rutgers_reacts_brando…

I liked it after Peters came in. Limited his throws and let the run game do the job. This was good in the sense he had some success but not too much to get ahead of himself (especially against Rutgers). Keeps him hungry for next week and still lots to prove.

Thought it was good coachin' to put Peters in when they did. A lot of coaches would have waited until the half. Good gameplan all day and Peters looked to read it well.

Keep in mind that Peters might be playing well in part because the coaches didn’t toss him out there before he was ready. QB development is complicated.

The quarterback play overall has regressed this year. Speight played worse than last year, & Jok was awful. The coaching difference from 2016 is Hamilton, who has been a failure every place he coached. I hope he doesn't ruin Peters.

Better players make things simpler, easier.  Coaches seem to coach better too.