January 1st, 2018 at 4:04 PM ^
I pray Patterson is eligible next year.
January 1st, 2018 at 4:20 PM ^
That play calling.
January 1st, 2018 at 4:08 PM ^
failed when it counted most. That running play call to McKeon where he fumbled may have been the worst playcall by Harbaugh (or whoever called it) I've seen under this staff. 2 yards to go deep in our territory with the game in jeopardy and that's what they run? Holy Jesus.
In the end, Peters AND the entire team collapsed in the late stages of the game and I'm speechless as to what to say or think about this team. Time to drink heavily and watch some teams that seem to know what they're doing.
January 1st, 2018 at 4:07 PM ^
It sucks.
January 1st, 2018 at 4:07 PM ^
story of this season :-(
January 1st, 2018 at 4:07 PM ^
Where it's fine to say, fire them all. I think he should his son back to ST coach. They should let Pep and Drevno go. It's time to modernize the Michigan offense to take advantage of the wide splits on a college football field and mobile quarterbacks who can run RPO's. I've said that they should grab someone from Clemson, but I can also see grabbing a guy who runs something similar to what Oklahoma State does. Much like Gundy, Harbaugh needs to go out and find the best possible offensive coordinator he can possibly find and hand him the keys.
January 1st, 2018 at 4:11 PM ^
I guess if he hired an OC and hands him the keys, then not sure how he coaches?Considering he’s an offensive guy. A cheerleader like James franklin? I guess that could work. Sounds like they have Dan Enos coming in already.
January 1st, 2018 at 4:23 PM ^
I'd be fine with Harbaugh giving up a lot of the structural elements of the offense to a different coordinator. He would still be involved coaching quarterbacks and helping to tweak the run game. I don't know that he'd be absent. However, I think it would be in Michigan's best interest for him to get rid of Pep and Drevno and give up some of his input. Again, as I think about it more, I think Michigan could plausbily run an offense similar to Oklahoma State since they mix the run and pass well. I'd be very disappointed to see Michigan come back next year with a similar staff and plan.
January 1st, 2018 at 4:37 PM ^
If he's been real hand's on with the QB position lately, maybe he should back off some. Feels like he has a prototypical mold into which he's trying to fit these kids instead of planning around their skill sets.
January 1st, 2018 at 5:20 PM ^
He's more of a CEO type coach or at least should be. Harbaugh's not an elite offensive mind.
January 1st, 2018 at 6:46 PM ^
Didn’t we just get rid of a cheerleader and his O guru just a couple years ago? Don’t know that this is a good answer.
January 1st, 2018 at 4:33 PM ^
Look at every playoff team offense. 3 spreads, and a prostyle with 2 first round rbs and a top five defense. Even Saban has a Mobile qb running rpo's even after bringing in an NFL guy as OC. Patterson is the perfect guy to make the transition.
Harbaugh would be an amazing CEO coach. He's got great motivational/recruiting skills and his hires have almost all been A+. His problem is he's too loyal to guys o his side of the ball.
January 1st, 2018 at 4:07 PM ^
Can anyone name a consistent bright spot on this year's offense. People, the answer was "there were no consistent bright spots on this year's offense beginning at the top down through to the PAT kicker." Write that down, it looks to appear on next year's test too.
January 1st, 2018 at 4:22 PM ^
I'll go with the FBs and maybe the TEs.
January 1st, 2018 at 4:39 PM ^
Tarik Black was good in every game he played. That's all I got.
Robbins had me yelling at the TV today. I don't do that.
January 1st, 2018 at 4:08 PM ^
Please stay, Wilton. You were so much better than these other guys.
January 1st, 2018 at 4:08 PM ^
would rather have a Denardian offense that beats up cupcakes in the most exciting fashion than this boring stinkfest that plods its way through every game.
January 1st, 2018 at 4:09 PM ^
QB - D
RB - C-
FB - C-
WR - D
OL - D+
TE - C+
January 1st, 2018 at 4:41 PM ^
Someone's feeling generous.
January 1st, 2018 at 4:09 PM ^
you are absolutely right...
January 1st, 2018 at 4:10 PM ^
It stinks like rotting dog crap. Hasn’t been good in a decade or more. I don’t understand how we can be incapable of downfield passes for years and years.
January 1st, 2018 at 4:10 PM ^
4th and 1 pass?!? Handoff to a TE?!? Peters had time to throw for the most part, but not one receiver can get separation...
January 1st, 2018 at 4:14 PM ^
I know it's Harbaugh's thing and everyone still has ptsd from richrod, but can we please drop this supposedly impossibly complex prostyle system and adopt what seemingly every good P5 offensive team already has? Put Patterson in an RPO spread and let him run around like Baker Mayfield. We can still use fullbacks and tight ends in pistol. Hell, Alabama is a spread team now.
Otherwise, hire Matt Canada.
January 1st, 2018 at 6:09 PM ^
Almost everyone hates the offensive coordinator. It's the job we all think we could do better. I can think of only one time in recent memory where he team lost its offensive coordinator and the fans were legitimately upset about it.
That was Matt Canada at Pitt.
January 1st, 2018 at 4:11 PM ^
Coaching = pathetic
That's all I got.
January 1st, 2018 at 4:11 PM ^
All the Peter beaters ..... welcome Patterson
January 1st, 2018 at 4:12 PM ^
points, momentum, defense gets gassed. So much to work on in the offseason but for sure we need to develop better OL play, it is the offensive Achilles heal.
January 1st, 2018 at 4:12 PM ^
Why is Khalid Hill not on the field? Seems like he has been used less and less and he should have been the one taking that TE hand-off
January 1st, 2018 at 4:33 PM ^
I think Harbaugh said he was injured during bowl prep.
January 1st, 2018 at 4:49 PM ^
I heard that in the press conference as well - he didn't seem injured when they were playing football on the beach. Seems like he was barely used this year and he has been such a big weapon the last 2-3 years.
January 1st, 2018 at 8:18 PM ^
Totally agree with that. Seemed like a number of guys were not playing during key moments, like the coaching staff was using the bowl game as a means to sort out starters for next season. I say dance with the girl you brought.
January 1st, 2018 at 4:15 PM ^
I don’t want to be this guy...but I got a sinking feeling today after the game that Harbaugh is going to the NFL.
I don’t want it to happen but I just got that feeling today
January 1st, 2018 at 4:21 PM ^
Hello: Head Coach Jedd Fisch
January 1st, 2018 at 4:17 PM ^
Fucking Drevno. What were there, three plays in the playbook? Run up the middle (stuffed every time), one-read passes to a tight end, one-read out routes. That's basically all we ran.
And handing off to a TE? Got any more brilliant ideas, like maybe making Mo Hurst cover a receiver, or having Peters line up at OT? I don't blame McKeon for dropping the ball, because taking handoffs is not a thing he does. It's like wondering how come Devin Bush can't run a route.
I've had it with Drevno and never did see what Pep has done for this offense except make it less creative.
January 1st, 2018 at 4:19 PM ^
I'll never get over having the ball on the 6 yard line first and goal, down by 4 with only about 9 minutes left, and the drive ending on third down when Peters panicked and just heaved the ball into the end zone like it was the last play of the game. Nor will I get over Peters just crumpling to the ground when he was a yard away from the first down when time was of the essence and Michigan proceeding to just chucking the ball down the field on the next two plays. Why not run just to get the first down, stop the clock, and move on from there?
Peters is clearly not the future. Has awful instincts and isn't that good of a thrower, either. The playcalling is atrocious. Get a new OC, actually have a WR coach, and hope Patterson lives up to the hype.
January 1st, 2018 at 4:19 PM ^
Michigan is now a punchline. Harbaugh is going to ride Drevno and this offense all the way back to mediocrity. Hate to say it but, looks like Toomer is right on the money!
January 1st, 2018 at 4:20 PM ^
When does it start?
January 1st, 2018 at 4:22 PM ^
The play calling on offense has been crap all year. The majority of pass attempts are to a stationary receiver facing the QB 5-8 yards deep wearing a defensive player on their back like a cape. We just witnessed Daffy Duck calling down plays to Goofy playing QB. We have Harbaugh doing his part, we have Don Brown bringing it every year on D (how many more years do we have him?), and we are squandering it with shoddy offensive play calling. Don't buy into the cupboard is bare on O, lesser teams are doing it with 2&3 * players. Shae Patterson is not going to be better in this system.
January 2nd, 2018 at 11:26 AM ^
I gotta believe Wile E. Coyote is also involved somewhere in the play-calling process.
January 1st, 2018 at 4:25 PM ^
We need some WRs who can get open ....
January 1st, 2018 at 7:11 PM ^
We need a wr coach to teach our talented wrs to get open
January 1st, 2018 at 4:27 PM ^
some confidence and not act like so many plays (4th & 10, 4 & 1 long pass to sidelines) are hail mary situations. Throw more over the middle until our QB gains some confidence.
January 1st, 2018 at 4:29 PM ^
I wasn’t on the liveblog and didn’t hear anything on TV, was Kugler replaced for performance or injury?
January 1st, 2018 at 7:09 PM ^
The TV crew, in a fit of ineptness equal to our offense, didn’t even mention that he was out, much less why.
January 1st, 2018 at 7:13 PM ^
He rolled his ankle... tried to play but had to quit
January 1st, 2018 at 4:31 PM ^
Fire everyone
January 1st, 2018 at 4:33 PM ^
Can someone with knowledge of Drevno’s history tell me if he’s always been this predictable and unimaginative? Was he ever innovative? (Genuine question- wondering if he has ever been different or better.)
January 1st, 2018 at 7:13 PM ^
He was mostly an ol coach in the past.
January 1st, 2018 at 4:34 PM ^
How the hell does Peters not know where the first down line is on that last series? No first down, clock keeps running, ...ARRRRRGHHH!!!
January 1st, 2018 at 5:08 PM ^
Sadly, there was so much bad in the game this memory was obscured until you mentioned it.