This is not normal.
I have no words, I have never seen a collapse like this before. I don't even know where to begin. Is it the coaches? Players? Inexperience? I don't know. But this did not feel normal today, something is wrong in the program. Maybe I am overreacting after losing 19 starters, maybe it is just lack of execution. I just don't know and I am just sad.
January 1st, 2018 at 3:38 PM ^
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January 1st, 2018 at 3:47 PM ^
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January 1st, 2018 at 3:42 PM ^
NO LEADERSHIP AT ALL.
And Peters plays like a high schooler.
January 1st, 2018 at 3:39 PM ^
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January 1st, 2018 at 3:43 PM ^
Yeah, about Don Brown. The dude's defense has fallen apart after strong starts the last three games. At least Wisconsin and Ohio State are good. Allowing this against a shit stain of an offense like South Carolina's is atrocious.
January 1st, 2018 at 3:45 PM ^
January 1st, 2018 at 4:03 PM ^
Yes, the turnovers were huge. And no, this is not mostly on the defense.
However, the defense shares blame and did not play well enough. You can be too aggressive. When South Carolina has no conventional offense, not sure why we are bringing tons of pressure every play just to get murdered on easy screen plays.
January 1st, 2018 at 4:04 PM ^
This is such a stupid fucking take.
When it was 19-3, South Carolina scored three straight TD drives. Two of them went for 77 and 81 yards. One of them had a 3rd and 17 inside their own ten.
But yeah tell me more about turnovers or exhaustion or whatever stupid excuse people want to make up to pretend like there are no issues with the defense.
January 1st, 2018 at 4:21 PM ^
They seem to fade in most games. I fear that we have a mediocre culture on our team. The longer it goes on the more ingrained it becomes. Maybe Harbaugh can't break us out of it.
January 1st, 2018 at 4:29 PM ^
Also, given the number of times the safeties got burned, I don’t think Bush Sr.’s on-job interview went very well.
January 1st, 2018 at 4:38 PM ^
Yeah, that totally explains giving up drives of 77 and 81 yards.
January 1st, 2018 at 3:50 PM ^
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January 1st, 2018 at 3:51 PM ^
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January 1st, 2018 at 4:19 PM ^
These are just young men, not grizzled NFL veterans. If the defense loses confidence in the offense and sees them constantly screwing up, they're going to get demoralized at some point. Football is a game of inches and razor thin margins of advantage. 5 turnovers in one half will kill any team.
Did anyone notice the referees basically not calling any holding or pass interference penalties? That just encourages teams to do it, and I think SC started doing more of it in the 2nd half, which didn't help.
January 1st, 2018 at 4:32 PM ^
Why does this only affect Michigan?
South Carolina's defense was in the SAME FUCKING POSITION ONLY THEY WEREN'T UP 19-3.
Michigan's defense gave up THREE STRAIGHT TD DRIVES up 19-3. Two went for over 75+ yards.
Do you guys dying on this "the defense was demoralized" hill even watch the games?
January 1st, 2018 at 6:35 PM ^
January 1st, 2018 at 4:09 PM ^
I always wonder at what point (if any) is there any finger pointing by defensive players toward offense. From the games I've seen, our D starts out smoking and utterly dominant but the offense seems to take the wind out of their sails with costly turnovers and 3 and outs.
January 1st, 2018 at 6:40 PM ^
January 1st, 2018 at 3:39 PM ^
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January 1st, 2018 at 4:02 PM ^
January 1st, 2018 at 3:39 PM ^
January 1st, 2018 at 4:02 PM ^
The problem is Harbaugh has the ultimate say and no competent OC is going to come here just to have Harbaugh overrule/undermine them.
January 1st, 2018 at 3:39 PM ^
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January 1st, 2018 at 3:49 PM ^
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January 1st, 2018 at 3:53 PM ^
where was the hammering panda???
January 1st, 2018 at 3:58 PM ^
January 1st, 2018 at 4:20 PM ^
When will we stop this bullshit youth excuse...Making excuses for redshirt sophomore, redshirt freshmen who have had multiple years in the progrm. True freshman that have had an entire year to improve...we are still making the same mistakes, with plenty of new ones as well. Other teams are playing freshmen, RS freshmen, and walkons at key positions and improved all year. SC made enough mistakes for us to win by 30 today. Kicking it out of bounds, turnovers, untimely penalites, their offense could hardly move the ball most of the day. I like to think I'm usually an optimist but I do not see 2018 being our year like so many seem to think. If we looked like shit at the begining of the year and continued to get better each week, maybe I'm more optimistic...but to come out and play a game like that after "christmas camp" or whatever the fuck they call it...should tell you all you need to know. It is not just the players...all year our play calling has been terrible....capped off today handing it off to the TE who has never taken a handoff at a crucial time, running delayed draws out of the shotgun in goal line situations, pass plays that are either essentially WR screens to the sideline or routes that take way too long to develop...nothing in between. Continuing to throw the fade routes...I honestly don't know if we have hit one of those all year.
Our defense will keep us in most if not all of our games again for 2018 but our offense needs a big time wake up call. In my opinion Tyrone Wheatley, Jedd Fisch, John Baxter and recruiting coordinator were not properly replaced and it has showed big time. We need to get a stud WR coach/ passing coordinator type guy immediately. Jay Harbaugh needs to go..our pass protection from the RBs was a weakness all year and seemed to go totally unaddressed. I could write a small book on the failure of a hire Pepp Hamilton has been...but I'll keep it short and say we need to cut our losses and start over in that role. Mistakes showed up all over the place on special teams this year...the foundation that was started by Baxter is unraveling, return game was terrible all year, our pressure on kickers went from one of the best in the country to non existant.
I will be a Michigan fan until my death, I would watch every game even if we lost them all, but the team, and coaching staff I have seen this season will not beat Wisconsin, PSU, MSU, ND or OSU next year without drastic improvements across the board. We have good enough players to win all those games..but we need the staff to develop this talent. This is a defining offeseason for Harbaugh if he is not willing to look at the failures of this team, this staff, and himself personaly, we will see the same results we got this season.
January 1st, 2018 at 3:40 PM ^
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January 1st, 2018 at 3:43 PM ^
But, evenyoubrutus, aren't we going to win the conference next year!? Still carrying that idiotic flag for everybody here?
January 1st, 2018 at 4:00 PM ^
January 1st, 2018 at 5:31 PM ^
You've done an amazing job for years of demonstrating just how worthless your opinion is. Keep beeing wrong, buddy.
January 1st, 2018 at 5:37 PM ^
January 1st, 2018 at 6:33 PM ^
You've been so outspoken to me in specific that it'd be hard not to notice. But you probably think I'm just a "sparty troll" so that you can dismiss everything anybody that isn't blindly pumping Michigan's tires about how great they are.
January 1st, 2018 at 3:40 PM ^
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January 1st, 2018 at 3:41 PM ^
Literally the only thing that gives me any comfort during this game is how often I heard the word freshman today.
It's a young team. That and Shea Patterson are the only things to hang onto in hope for improvement going into next year.
Everything that happened on offense isn't entirely on Peters (the line is bad, the receivers don't help out, playcalling questionable) but that didn't look like the QB of the future. Thought he'd look a lot better than he did today with all that time to prepare.
January 1st, 2018 at 3:47 PM ^
January 1st, 2018 at 4:00 PM ^