Snowflake Thread: Coaching Vs. Purdue

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This will be the repository for your hot takes on our coaching in the game against Purdue. 

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AlbanyBlue

September 24th, 2017 at 2:03 AM ^

I agree with most of this. Over the course of the season, it has seemed like the offensive gameplan has been overly "safe" - extra protection, emphasis on running, especially on 1st and 2nd down, and calling pass plays with sideline/back of EZ routes. I think this was done because, even though WS was seen to have the mental abilities necessary to play QB at a high level, the coaches knew he couldn't make some of the throws without mistakes.

With JOK, the coaches seemed to start safe and then once they saw him settle in, they opened things up with more receivers.. His mobility also surely played a role here.

--OR--

Either Pep or Drevno was more in charge of calling plays in the 1st half and 1st part of 3rd quarter, and that was abruptly changed by JH.

Either way, I say keep rolling with JOK and the playcalling in the last 25 minutes of game action.

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Perkis-Size Me

September 23rd, 2017 at 8:00 PM ^

Adjustments were made at the half. Brown dominated like Brown does.

We may have our new starter at QB. I’m grateful to Speight for everything he has done. Laid his body and everything else on the line for Michigan, but it looks like it’s time for a change. Nothing personal against Speight, but it looks like it’s the difference between winning and losing football games.

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The Fugitive

September 23rd, 2017 at 8:04 PM ^

O'Korn = Griese.
Defense is lights out, no points allowed in the 4th quarter just like 1997 until we met up with Penn State.

Fuck it, let's go unbeaten and kick the shit out of PSU and their version of Eric McCoo, Wiscy and OSU while we are at it.

GO FUCKING BLUE

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umich1

September 23rd, 2017 at 8:09 PM ^

So here are some snowflakes for the PURDUE coaching staff.

I haven't seen such continuous goonery since the Narduzzi "60 minutes of unnecessary roughness" game against MSU when they tried to decapitate Denard Robinson.

Their coach was a goon who bullied the refs and threw chairs in the pregame speech.

Their players were goons who clearly intended to injure Michigan players on 4 distinct plays. They successfully caused injuries on 2 of the 4.

To hell with Purdue. Let's hang 80 on them next year a la Bo against Illinois.

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Wolverine Devotee

September 23rd, 2017 at 8:34 PM ^

Speight will be in my prayers tonight and going forward. He took a dirty cheap hit to the neck area. 

The only world-shocking done today was by John O'Korn, not a mediocre Purdue receiver.

OUTSTANDING job. Didn't even look like the same guy we saw last season. Notice how the run game picked up once he started hitting those big throws. That's exactly what we need offensively.

And how about Zach Gentry and Sean McKeon?!?! What great individual games. 

Now it's time to prepare and improve. This is not a bye week. It's an improvement week. Let's go kick state's fucking heads in in 2 weeks.

GO BLUE!!!!!

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michfan23

September 23rd, 2017 at 9:01 PM ^

To your point, Brohm was talking about the Boilermaker statue before he threw the chair. He was saying that he "keeps hammering" and "keeps hammering". I'm not an expert, but do Boilermakers hammer frequently, I was under the impression they were the ones that shoveled coal into steam locomotives. Then Brohm threw a chair for emphasis. It just seemed so staged.

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Bigly yuge

September 23rd, 2017 at 8:42 PM ^

Aparantly a bunch of keyboard quarterbacks know more than Jim Harbaugh does about the quarterback position. There is a reason Speight was still the starter today. Harbaugh isn't starting Speight just for the hell of it.

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michfan23

September 23rd, 2017 at 8:57 PM ^

I don't disagree with your opinion, but I do wonder if O'Korn fits this years offense more because of his mobility. The change in "passing game coordinator" and personnel (players) might better suit JOK. I'm not questioning Harbaugh, just wondering if the change in assistants might make a difference. The play calling seemed to be more focused with O'Korn than with Speight.

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michfan23

September 23rd, 2017 at 8:53 PM ^

At half I was so dissatisfied with the offensive play calling aside from JOKs first drive that resulted in a TD. The second half was a well called half of offensive football. TEs catching passes, some screen passes (Higdon would have had a first down, but he fumbled), nice crossing routes, and physical running game. That's the stuff we saw last year and need to see more of this season. The players bear responsibility for missed assignments, but the coaches have to use the talents of the players to achieve success. I thought the second half had more creative play calls. I also think O Korn used his feet to make plays that made a huge difference. The coaches seemed to pick up on this and increased his movement in the second half.

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nappa18

September 23rd, 2017 at 9:28 PM ^

To jump ship, way too soon. Harbaugh's had only two full recruiting cycles. Our OL is only average with the right side of Onenwu and Ulliizo below average. Receivers except for Perry are inexperienced, our running backs are not elite. Tight ends are by far the best position on the offense. I don't see any easy games except maybe Rutgers.

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JWG Wolverine

September 24th, 2017 at 2:38 PM ^

Don Brown is amazing. Special teams coaching is solid.

WHAT IS WITH OUR OFFENSIVE PLAYCALLING?

This was the worst problem all game IMO. And here is why:

They kept running it up the middle on first down every, single, time. It was essentially throwing away a down each time we got the ball, as Purdue's defense isn't completely stupid and caught on to the obvious fairly quickly.

It makes absolutely no sense. Especially in a game where we're trying to help our QB as much as possible considering the unexpected QB change.

By the way: JOK is a TON better at play action than Speight, a lot less obvious.

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