PFF on Gattis' offense
Interesting article on how offenses have done under Gattis and what we can expect from Michigan this year.
August 29th, 2019 at 1:29 PM ^
There has never been an offense under Gattis. They couldn't wait a few days to write this one?
August 29th, 2019 at 1:44 PM ^
Get out of here with your fancy pants logic.
August 29th, 2019 at 1:48 PM ^
Apologies. Super article. Can we pretend Juwan Howard lead the Heat also?
August 29th, 2019 at 3:22 PM ^
Yes absolutely, you're not a real fan if you don't
August 29th, 2019 at 3:11 PM ^
I am offended.
August 29th, 2019 at 4:14 PM ^
Yes, but are you triggered?
August 29th, 2019 at 5:25 PM ^
Gattis looks like the star among last year’s Alabama OC team of Locksley, Enos, and Gattis.
It’s interesting how many one and done assistant coaches there have been at Alabama. Many had crap careers before and will have crap careers after. And its amazing that they can go to Bama for one year and suddenly all the shit is washed off. Locksley is a great example. Just look at his HC record. Enos isnt much better.
Gattis may be the one exception. Let’s hope. He has a good to great track record at every stop. You can argue it was Morehead’s offense at PSU but at least he learned something there and had his fingerprints on it. He certainly had his fingerprints on the Alabama offense last year which went to a new level. And looking at Locksley’s track record Gattis was probably the biggest influence at Bama.
We will know soon enough.
August 29th, 2019 at 1:30 PM ^
All the talk about the offense sputtering against OSU, but I think that narrative wouldn’t have taken hold if one (since departed and still revered) TE hadn’t dropped multiple key passes.
The defense, though …
August 29th, 2019 at 1:31 PM ^
The offense didn't really sputter, it only looked that way because OSU scored on every freaking drive.
August 29th, 2019 at 2:02 PM ^
Agreed. If you would've told me we'd have 19 points at halftime, I'd expect us to be ahead. If you would've told me we'd have 32 points with 10 minutes to play, I'd think we were up big.
The offense needed a complete overhaul, but our defense got worked.
August 29th, 2019 at 2:31 PM ^
If you recall our D was without the services of Bush for most of the 2nd half, Solomon didn't dress, Long was carted off in the first half.
On O JBB didn't dress, Patterson went out with an injury late in the game, Perry was injured and Gentry was concussed.
That's a lot of talent off the field in one game.
August 29th, 2019 at 3:30 PM ^
The key to beating OSU, or any really good team is having your best players play like they are supposed to in those games. Our best players haven't stepped up in that game since Denard. Even in the game that got stolen from us, our best players made the biggest mistakes.
August 29th, 2019 at 8:27 PM ^
Devin Gardner says hello, er, his broken foot maybe.
That was the grittiest performance vs OSU that I can remember watching. Even better than 313 yards rushing.
But Gorgeous Borges got the final word that day.
*painful sigh
August 29th, 2019 at 6:36 PM ^
Little attention is given to loss of JBB. I believe he was lost right before the Indiana game.
August 29th, 2019 at 4:31 PM ^
7 points were due to OSU's ST miscue. If OSU didn't make a mistake or shoot themselves in the foot in the 1st half, they would be up 34-3. It was the matter of time before the dam bursted in which it did in the 3rd quarter.
Michigan offense struggled to move the ball all game long except for 4th quarter which is essentially garbage time
August 29th, 2019 at 2:04 PM ^
Without the very improbable muffed kickoff before halftime, Michigan’s offense generated 13 of their own points until 14 minutes were left in the game and the game was over for all intents and purposes.
Not it to mention, the offense was directly responsible for 7 osu points and indirectly responsible for another 7 with blocked punt touchdown after a sputtered 28 yard drive. This two drive span put the game out of reach independently of the defense (who yes, also were playing poorly)
Sick of all the apologists acting as if the garbage time points meant that the offense had an acceptable output against a very mediocre defense
August 29th, 2019 at 2:30 PM ^
the game was over for all intents and purposes
Boy you people and you're lack of grammaticallity correctedness. The game was over for all intensive purposes. FIFY.
August 29th, 2019 at 2:46 PM ^
Pretty sure it's intensive porpoise's
August 29th, 2019 at 3:20 PM ^
Insert joke over head GIF.
August 29th, 2019 at 3:35 PM ^
I was with you man. I chuckled sensibly.
August 29th, 2019 at 2:47 PM ^
"Intents and purposes"
Lol. It's intensive purposes, ya moran!
(I don't need the /s, right?)
August 29th, 2019 at 2:58 PM ^
On MGoBlog? Making a grammar joke? Are you crazy?
August 29th, 2019 at 5:36 PM ^
Some people just don't speak blog.
August 29th, 2019 at 3:04 PM ^
If Gentry didn't have his first drop, Michigan scores a TD to go up 10-7. Assuming all else plays out as it did (minus the TD after the muff which you don't count), that's 17 points in the first half, just about half of their average ppg for the season, and more than they scored in the first halves of wins against Michigan State, PSU, Wisconsin, Northwestern, and Indiana.
If Gentry didn't have his second drop, Michigan doesn't punt, Ohio State doesn't block it and take it in for the 7 points the offense was "indirectly responsible for."
If Gentry didn't have his third drop, Shea doesn't have to take a chance on a third-and-12 down 15 in the third quarter, doesn't get picked, doesn't give OSU a 22 yard field and the 7 points the offense was "directly responsible for."
So, like I said, I seriously doubt the "sputtering offense" narrative ever comes up if Gentry could catch the ball.
August 29th, 2019 at 3:24 PM ^
Are you saying that if the outcome of 5 pivotal plays changed then the result would have been a less ugly loss?
because I’m not going to disagree with that
August 29th, 2019 at 3:40 PM ^
I clearly stated my point twice, but I'll post it one more time:
"I seriously doubt the "sputtering offense" narrative ever comes up if Gentry could catch the ball."
August 29th, 2019 at 5:54 PM ^
In other words, if our offense hadn’t sputtered, no one would have talked about our offense sputtering.
Gotcha.
August 29th, 2019 at 9:21 PM ^
fabricating rationale for losses that somehow should have been wins never gets old. We would be undefeated if we weren't...
August 30th, 2019 at 10:41 AM ^
Not talking about winning or losing that game. The defense played so poorly, I don't think we could have won even if the offense played its best game of the year. I'm talking strictly about the perception about the offense in that game.
Man, you UNACCEPTABLEs!!!! are a testy bunch.
August 29th, 2019 at 6:11 PM ^
Shea didn't put points on the board against our top opponents. ND. NW. MSU OSU. FLA.
August 29th, 2019 at 8:40 PM ^
And just in time for the season, THEY’RE BACK!
August 29th, 2019 at 2:18 PM ^
The offense looked like ass in that game.
August 29th, 2019 at 3:00 PM ^
I agree, but the offense looked like ass in a lot of games until the defense suffocated the shit out of the opponent and we began to do whatever we wanted.
Had 13 points at halftime against Wisconsin. Ended with 38, won by 25.
Had 7 at halftime against MSU. Ended with 21, won by 14.
Had 14 at halftime against Penn State. Ended with 42, won by 35.
Had 15 at half against Indiana. Ended with 31, won by 11.
Had 19 at half against OSU.
It was a normal-ass 2018 Michigan game on offense.
August 29th, 2019 at 3:08 PM ^
For sure. It just happened to be asstastic against the best team we played while the defense shit all over the field.
Its pretty clearly not reasonable to expect to win games against good times while being able to score only 35’ish points. It might work sometimes, but not enough.
Who cares though? Pep is fired and the first game is this Saturday!
August 29th, 2019 at 3:11 PM ^
+1 for presenting facts.
August 29th, 2019 at 1:50 PM ^
We left some plays on the field certainly, but you if you had told me going into that game that Michigan would put up 39 points, I would've thought we had delivered a massive blowout, not the other way around.
August 29th, 2019 at 1:31 PM ^
Super article. We're going to hang big offensive numbers on the opposition this year.
August 29th, 2019 at 1:33 PM ^
Super article.
We're going to hang big offensive numbers on the opposition this year.
The defense will come through.
Go Blue!
Deja vu double post.
August 29th, 2019 at 1:45 PM ^
Just calling attention to your own double post is grounds for an additional upvote.
August 29th, 2019 at 2:03 PM ^
Probably not the correct incentive.
August 29th, 2019 at 2:13 PM ^
We are 2 days from the start of our season. I'm treating everything as a posbang.
August 29th, 2019 at 3:28 PM ^
F you!
Posbang that you bald headed, foul smelling excuse for a primate.
August 29th, 2019 at 3:48 PM ^
Now we have reptiles trying to get in on the simian-marsupial border war.
August 29th, 2019 at 4:05 PM ^
Just testing you. Wanted to see if you were really treating EVERYTHING as a posbang.
August 29th, 2019 at 1:33 PM ^
Michigan had 129 RPOs last year? 10 per game? I wonder if they're seeing regular old PA and counting it as an RPO.
August 29th, 2019 at 1:42 PM ^
They are probably over-estimating just as Brian et al. underestimated the number of RPOs. PFF is probably looking at a play and saying, "could that have been an RPO? Okay, mark it as one" whereas this site seemed to only interpret the obvious RPOs as such.
Like most things, the truth is probably in the middle.
August 29th, 2019 at 2:27 PM ^
I haven't seen film of every game last year, but the fact they are that far off implies either this site or PFF can't identify an RPO. A generous reading of the situation would imply a difference in terminology--Does Bubble or Slip Screen count as an RPO for instance?
August 29th, 2019 at 4:40 PM ^
Generally, you can tell the RPO by the OL's action.