Land of 10 Expecting Lots of TDs from Shea Patterson
Land of 10--Michigan is expecting more than 23 TD passes from Shea Patterson this year.
Link: https://www.landof10.com/michigan/michigan-football-shea-patterson-touchdown-projection-2018
After just 9 TD passes last year, that would certainly be MORE than welcome.
Lots of blame for last years painful passing game was put on the QBs, the receivers, and the O Line, in other words, the players. Not much was placed on the coaching. I personally don't think that was completely fair. The passing game looked dysfunctional most of the time. And wouldn't the coaching share some of the blame for that? Seems they should....
Either way, forgetting last year would be good. 23 TD passes would do it for many fans.
26 second video of Shea Patterson's first TD pass in college: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETaXvRgM4gc Yes, that was his first TD pass in college.
May we see this type of excitement in some plays this year at Michigan!
If everything was the same last year except we had 23 passing TDs instead of 9 that would bring our points per game to 32.77. That's a good offense would put us right around where Wisconsin was last year, which I think is a realistic place for us to be.
Of course there are so many other variables and who knows what will really happen in 2018, but I think 23 passing TDs is certainly in the realm of possibility.
Alabama had 23 passing TDs last year. Their passing offense was ranked 88th.
With Michigan's defense, 23 passing TDs could, possibly, put them into the final 4.
about the passing game last year. To me the oversimplification results is a TD Pass.
Essentially everyone has to do their jobs to complete a TD Pass....
.....The coaching staff has to call the right play.....
..... The QB and OL have to make the correct Pre-snap reads (Blitz / no Blitz...Man/zone)
....... The OL has to provide enough protection.....
...... The QB has to read the coverage correctly and make a good throw
......The receiver (WR/TE/RB) has to make the catch
While perfect execution is always desirable, functional execution is needed and on some plays one factor can override a shortcoming for that play (ie Patterson scrambles to avoid the rush).
But again, functional execution of all those factors will result in a 2+ TD/game ratio and if that is achieved, we will win a minimum of 10 games with this defense......
1 - Pep is a good coach as indicated by the Amazon series and not by last year's offensive performances
2 - Drevno is a bad coach and hence addition by subtraction
3 - Warriner is a good coach and can improve o-line play dramatically
4 - Shea throws 23 TDs!
Even if those things are just moderately true, given our defense, it should be a very entertaining year instead of the stress of watching our offense struggle to do much of anything and make every game agonizingly close or a loss. With our schedule if we win 10 games (as long as we don't lose to MSU & OSU) it would be a very successful year.
Ball security, ball security, ball security.
That first, then touchdowns.
Just my opinion.
While I recognize 9 TD is horrible will anyone be mad if we have 9 passing TD but Higdon, Mason and Evans have 40 rushing TD's? Just score!!
Hell, if we beat Ohio State 2-0 no one would complain.
Not only does he have a proven track record of winning, but Warde trusts him enough to publically say he wants Harbaugh to coach at Michigan for the rest of his coaching career. Let's hope the coaching dysfunctionality is solved with Drevno's exit and the new hires this year.
Beat Notre Dame!
Shea has a "2011 Mattison Effect" on our passing game. Correct me if I'm wrong but didn't our total defense go from triple digits nationally to top 12 in just one year, from 2010 to 2011? If Shea has that kind of quantum leap for our passing offense, I will book my CFP tickets already right at this very moment
The passing game coordinator is in charge of the passing game. If the pass game sucks then how can Pep not be respsonsible?
The run game improved throughout the year and the guy in charge of that is off the team. Is it ok to blame Drevno for issues but not Pep? Speight regressed, O'Korn never improved, and Peters didn't look any better from Rutgers to South Carolina, arguably worse.
Your pass blocking sucks? Call more quick short high percentage routes. Your wide outs too young? Call more TE heavy sets. Why didn't Chris Evans get catches every game? Pep failed to scheme to his offense's talents and to mask weaknesses. This is on him.
Obviously we had multiple issues on offense last year and fault is not on one sole person but we have only had 1 year of Pep and the thing he is in charge of was an embarassment. Hopefully this year is different but Pep has been a poor coach for us thus far.
The run game did improve when Jim Harbaugh started to move away from Grey Frey's philosophies, i.e., when we saw Ilizio taken out of the starting lineup, and Tim Drevno left being in the booth and came down to the sidelines.