Penn State Snowflakes: The Offense
October 15th, 2022 at 3:36 PM ^
Great game plan, great execution... ran them into the ground!
October 15th, 2022 at 4:04 PM ^
Just saw this stat... PSU gave up 399 yards and 3 TDs rushing through the first 5 games. Michigan put up 418 yards and 4 TDs rushing. Go Blue!
October 15th, 2022 at 6:12 PM ^
It’s impressive because the box was loaded on our run tendencies. So they got some stops here and there. Our Oline and our RB’s were dominating! Even when they had guys there for the stop, Corum and Edwards juked them out of the play and it was a thing of beauty!
Oline reset the los on so many plays, hit their doubles and peel to the 2nd level was so good psu couldn’t do much but load the box trying to get stops.
October 15th, 2022 at 6:37 PM ^
The way to beat Ohio State is to keep their defense on the field. The way to do that is run the ball down their throat. Starting to look like we can do that. Penn State was a great defense up until we sent them back to State College broken and bleeding.
October 15th, 2022 at 3:36 PM ^
Hello, rushing component of Donovan Edwards.
October 15th, 2022 at 3:54 PM ^
It was like somebody told him at halftime, "look for the cutback lane and profit." Then those 2- and 3-yard tough-it-outs became gashes and home runs. Great adjustment by him.
Offensive line play was phenomenal. Like '95 and '21 OSU phenomenal.
October 15th, 2022 at 4:56 PM ^
*someone = MIKE HART
October 16th, 2022 at 5:02 AM ^
We already knew he was a gifted and versatile athlete. But his ceiling as a hard-nosed and elusive runner is considerably higher than I thought.
October 15th, 2022 at 3:36 PM ^
O-line DOMINATED !!
October 15th, 2022 at 3:44 PM ^
JJ, Corum and Edward's need to buy them a shit ton of gifts.
October 15th, 2022 at 3:53 PM ^
If you are an offensive lineman, being recruited by Michigan, how do you not look at a game like this and just salivate? Nothing better than beating another man for 3 1/2 hours, slowly removing his soul.
And how close did Stokes come to breaking that second to last carry? Man, that would have been incredible.
October 15th, 2022 at 4:07 PM ^
I wonder the same about RBs. Why wouldn’t you want to come here?
October 15th, 2022 at 4:28 PM ^
Well, we've recently had Hassan Haskins, Blake Corum, Donovan Edwards and Zach Charbonnet in our backfield, so getting good guys to come here doesn't seem to be an issue.
October 15th, 2022 at 6:33 PM ^
Mike Hart joined the team in 2021, so these guys were already here - but clearly whomever is helping to recruit them is doing the job.
October 15th, 2022 at 6:44 PM ^
Chris Evans too
October 15th, 2022 at 8:12 PM ^
The RBs do come here, if you recall, a guy who transferred because he wouldn’t get playing time is destroying the PAC12.
October 15th, 2022 at 10:16 PM ^
You could say this about sooo many positions at UM
October 15th, 2022 at 4:15 PM ^
Zinter (I think it was Zinter, anyway) patted Stokes on the head, essentially saying, yeah, you almost broke that one.
October 15th, 2022 at 6:05 PM ^
I was happy that Stokes saw some success. I don't think he'd been on the field since he fumbled a few games ago.
October 15th, 2022 at 8:55 PM ^
True but it's a double edged sword because wrs aren't seeing the ball, and won't go unnoticed. Here is to hoping we air it out a few games and keep the wr room happy with all the talent we have.
October 16th, 2022 at 12:49 AM ^
With this logic, why would any RB go to B12 teams? Didn't JJ throw for 300 plus yards last game?
October 15th, 2022 at 10:17 PM ^
Likewise, if you're a WR or QB - why on earth would you even consider Michigan?
It's a high school offense folks.
October 15th, 2022 at 10:45 PM ^
lol. it takes a truly miserable fucking sonofabitch to complain about an offense after a game like that.
October 16th, 2022 at 3:56 PM ^
Or a sparty! Sorry redundant.
October 17th, 2022 at 1:11 PM ^
Kiss My Maize and Blue Ass.
We were losing the game in the 3rd quarter when we should have been up 20.
How many 12 play drives you going to have and then not even attempt to put the ball in the end zone, but settle for 3?
Tired of the ultra conservative bullshit.
Harbaugh is turning JJ into Cade.
Good thing we were playing an extremely overrated PSU squad.
October 16th, 2022 at 12:53 AM ^
LoL. Yeah, High schools are running all the various formations that UM runs to get the running backs free. High school running most of the time make plays because they are better than anyone around them, especially those ones who have offer from P5 teams.
OSU throws the balls so much and I don't see their QBs doing anything in NFL. They still get 5 star QBs. It seems you are just upset Michigan won.
October 16th, 2022 at 8:29 AM ^
I see you know nothing about the game of football. Michigan's offense is very complex. You just have no idea what you're looking at.
October 16th, 2022 at 9:09 AM ^
Hold on… a “high school offense?”
You watch these blocking schemes in the run game and the play action off it and you think, “high school offense?” Gotta love people who think running the ball = simple = high school offense.
Tell us you don’t know shit about football without telling us you don’t know shit about football.
October 16th, 2022 at 1:04 PM ^
We win, Matte
October 15th, 2022 at 3:37 PM ^
Does OSU think they can stop this?
October 15th, 2022 at 3:57 PM ^
If they sell out to stop the run how confident are you that we can win the game through the air? because I'm not
October 15th, 2022 at 4:04 PM ^
I am.
October 15th, 2022 at 4:07 PM ^
The potential is there. Definitely.
October 16th, 2022 at 3:41 AM ^
Anyone who cannot see this is, IMO, intentionally looking the other way.
If anything, you understated it to be conservative. It is potentially explosive, especially as the QB grows by the week in experience.
October 15th, 2022 at 4:10 PM ^
Well they can sell out to stop but if UM can play like today, it would not matter. They will pound them anyway. Did you think they did not sell out last year?
October 15th, 2022 at 4:14 PM ^
I think JJ is pretty damn accurate. I've been saying it all day, and in the end it didn't matter, but I wish he'd run it a little more. He's such a threat that if he held it a few times early, I'm not sure osu could sell out on just the up the gut runs.
October 15th, 2022 at 4:21 PM ^
Given how JJ played at Indiana, I think JJ gives us a shot to win in Columbus if the run game is bottled up.
To slow this run game, OSU would have to commit 8 to the box, and JJ has shown he can carve up the LB level and a bit beyond (e.g. 29-yard DO to Anthony) even in road environments. Dial in the deep ball, and we're a Death Star, honestly. More run-focused than OSU's Death Star, but "we're no moon", that's for damn sure.
October 15th, 2022 at 4:40 PM ^
With each game, JJ learns more, and the offense is clearly gaining confidence. To a degree, close games are about confidence, and Michigan is gaining more with each game.
OSU's offense is stellar, of course. Could be shaping up as a great matchup.
Not that I want a great matchup, I want utter clobberation!
October 15th, 2022 at 4:32 PM ^
It's a reasonable question. If by win the game with the pass you mean score every possession, then no. But can JJ and the WRs beat single coverage often enough to get to ~35 points? I think there's a chance
October 16th, 2022 at 9:45 AM ^
Here’s the OSU game plan. Punish them with the run and make OSU decide whether they want to:
A) stack the box and put the weakest passes of their defense (corners) in man coverage against Ronnie Bell, Roman Wilson, CJ, and Andrel Anthony. We saw how this worked out for them last year when our WRs burned them when they chose this option.
B) Respect the receivers and leave the box with 6 or 7 defenders and hope that Blake the Great and The Don don’t channel their inner Hassan Haskins/Tim Biakabutuka.
Have fun figuring this one out Ryan Day.
October 15th, 2022 at 4:57 PM ^
Their corners are the weakest part of their defense.
October 15th, 2022 at 5:03 PM ^
My word, 1987. How sad that after THAT game, this is where your mind is.
Enjoy the day - we were fantastic!
October 15th, 2022 at 5:26 PM ^
There's that fan I've been waiting for since our 24 point victory over PSU. Right on cue...
October 15th, 2022 at 6:23 PM ^
Go away
October 15th, 2022 at 7:15 PM ^
Won’t know until we know. This years D looks better as a whole than last years. What I saw today was a great NFL gameplan and executing it to a T on both sides of the ball. Bama, Georgia and LSU won it all with similar systems. Even Urbans 2014 team played manball and not Ryan days basketball on turf. If OSU thinks that stars protect from a punch in the face then they may be humbled even more than last year and the tides will have for sure finally turned.
October 16th, 2022 at 12:32 AM ^
We won at Indiana through the air…
October 15th, 2022 at 6:07 PM ^
Absolutely
October 15th, 2022 at 9:39 PM ^
OSU fans certainly think they can. Just check out 11W and see the shit they talk amongst themselves about their D. I find solace in the fact they sound a lot like us after MSU beat us in 2008... Blind squirrel finds a nut... Congrats on winning once every 15 years... We learned the pain of arrogance the hard way back then. I think OSU fans start to learn it this year once they experience a loss in Columbus.
October 16th, 2022 at 8:16 AM ^
Osu fans think we’re one dimensional and that it’s such an easy thing to stop. Good for them. Saying stop the run and doing it are two different things. Should we be as successful on the ground as we have been, I look for their D line to be waiving the flag the second half much like every team we’ve played. We’ve always had a “body blow” mentality, now we have the lines and depth to do it.
OSU is for sure force to be taken as seriously as a prostate exam. I’m still not sold that they’re a team that plays with old school toughness. I’m convinced we can and doing that gives leaves their quick strike offense on the sidelines. Nothing would make me breathe easier than seeing our D line planting one of their gelatinous assed lineman on his backside.
October 15th, 2022 at 3:37 PM ^
Still want to see more from the passing game… Great win tho