January 3rd, 2023 at 3:10 PM ^
Well, I didn't intend this to be a Posbang, but what the hell! The laughs are worth it!!
January 3rd, 2023 at 3:11 PM ^
I think the internet refs overturned the post on review and now the TCU bloggers have to finish it.
January 3rd, 2023 at 3:11 PM ^
We should get a refund.
January 3rd, 2023 at 3:11 PM ^
Just because there are not comments on the post and I just watched the highlights, there is a great, albeit incredibly painful, moment of cat and mouse between TCU and Michigan on the last TCU touchdown. So many calculations have to be made. Moore crowds the line of scrimmage, but Duggan waits a split second to recognize the blitz. So much so that it appears as if Moore has an inclination to fall back into coverage and does not shoot off the line. He probably gets there if he does.
Once the pass is complete, Johnson almost certainly has the first down, but he slows down a half step to bait Turner. Turner, realizing what a huge stop this would be, takes the bait. If the receiver does not slow down a beat, Turner has no chance to make the play and he breaks toward the sideline to stop a 10-12 yard gain but Michigan lives to play another series.
Good news - Will Johnson makes the play next year. Bad news - It wasn't Will Johnson on that side of the field this year.
Michigan was on the wrong end of the play but man what a play it was to watch.
January 3rd, 2023 at 3:16 PM ^
The play gutted me and I watched it several times and saw exactly what you saw... I was like WTF would Turner just not stop him after the fist down and live to play another series. That WR baited him into thinking he could stop him and he went for broke and Michigan got broke....
January 3rd, 2023 at 3:23 PM ^
I mean, we are talking fractions of seconds. Man it hurts so bad. Also, just a spectacular football play to watch.
January 3rd, 2023 at 3:29 PM ^
If I had to choose, I would simply not play against the best WR in the country in the playoff!
Hat tip, as painful as it is. What a play.
January 3rd, 2023 at 4:01 PM ^
Now I can't un-see it again and I want to drink.
January 3rd, 2023 at 3:57 PM ^
he slows down a half step to bait Turner
Sounds like something that happened to my team a few weeks ago. You probably remember it.
January 3rd, 2023 at 4:06 PM ^
DJ was in position to push Johnston into the sideline short of the first down. If he used that position, it would have forced Johnston to either run over DJ or cut back to the field, at which point Will Johnson or Mike Morris would have been there to make the play. Instead, DJ committed to the open-field tackle at the 27, and the rest is history.
January 3rd, 2023 at 4:39 PM ^
He does not have that closing speed. He attempted the only play he had to stop them short of the first down. He could have met him at the sticks but it would not have been short. It still would have been the correct play in the circumstances.
Ahhhh, beer me!!!!
January 3rd, 2023 at 4:53 PM ^
DJ Turner was the fastest player on that field, for either team. He had the positioning to force the play into the sideline. Whether short of the sticks or not, it would have been close rather than a long touchdown.
January 3rd, 2023 at 6:06 PM ^
I agree that he is fast but I disagree that he gets there on that play to stop the first down in a “meet you at the sideline” type situation.
January 3rd, 2023 at 3:12 PM ^
Short answer, yes with an if. Long answer, no with a but.
January 3rd, 2023 at 3:14 PM ^
It’s NP complete but we don’t know if it’s P.
January 3rd, 2023 at 3:14 PM ^
the abrupt end, combined with no open comment field, made me think it's either not finished.
that said, i'm not sure he needs to add anything. he hit the nail on the head as to why that game's outcome is both tough to swallow and easy to accept - if one of any of a handful of plays go the other way, we're talking about a rematch with the Dawgs.
January 3rd, 2023 at 3:17 PM ^
Brian flushed and posted what he had finished.
January 3rd, 2023 at 3:15 PM ^
A bunch of Brian's posts have started that way for me this fall
It'll be fixed in a few minutes I'd wager
January 3rd, 2023 at 3:16 PM ^
Could be.
January 3rd, 2023 at 3:16 PM ^
It got intercepted and returned for a touchdown.
January 3rd, 2023 at 3:16 PM ^
What is inappropriate about a sudden, jarring, and unsatisfactory ending to this specific game piece?
January 3rd, 2023 at 3:18 PM ^
I'm pretty sure he
January 3rd, 2023 at 3:21 PM ^
he had to cut the writing short, because he was getting a call from...... 'a source close to Jim Harbaugh'.
I mean why wouldn't he? everyone else is.
January 3rd, 2023 at 3:23 PM ^
No timeouts left. The clock expired.
January 3rd, 2023 at 3:26 PM ^
And here I was thinking he just wanted to avoid MOAR comments like this from grumpy MGoBloggers:
I HATE the officiating screw up didn't matter because still should've scored argument. No next play, no fumble, no nothing but a Moody extra point needed to come after a clear TD was overruled by some anonymous pinhead in a review booth who faces no consequences and has no accountability to anyone - yet this is a multibillion business. This isn't quaint cute little college football anymore where awww shucks they missed a call, good thing these kids are amateurs and it doesn't really matter. Nope, it's a half step below the NFL at the highest level and officiating generally and replay specifically are just broken. What kind of game is it when, more often than not, you have to beat the other team and hope to not get screwed by the officials?
January 3rd, 2023 at 3:27 PM ^
Brian had to run out for a hamberder and covfefe.
January 3rd, 2023 at 3:27 PM ^
"Maybe "fuck" is the only reasonable statement that can be made, after all."
Seems like that kind of sums it all up. Not sure what else needs to be said.
January 3rd, 2023 at 3:29 PM ^
It's complete. He said "game analysis can wait until the TCU UFR" and then he pointed out the thing he thought decided the game. That's all for now
January 3rd, 2023 at 3:30 PM ^
I think it’s complete and he disabled the comments because nothing else needs to be said about the game and loss. There are dozens of other threads and thousands of posts about it already on this very blog.
January 3rd, 2023 at 3:33 PM ^
Well that's a clear violation of the 1st amendment...
January 3rd, 2023 at 4:09 PM ^
He didn’t disable the message board, so now we have this thread.
January 3rd, 2023 at 3:34 PM ^
First of all, thanks Brian. We need the warm embrace of a fellow Michigan fan who cares as much as us. I refreshed the blog at least 200 times Saturday night looking for the game recap and I am very grateful that Alex took on that painful yet comforting task.
If I had to guess I think he disabled the comments, which, I kinda get. Alex soothed our broken hearts and yet someone immediately hijacked the thread in the comments section and it took us about 50 angry back and forth's to get back on point. I suspect most of us were as annoyed as I was by that.
Which is about 1/1 billionth as annoyed as we are by how M was coached Saturday night. Nobody messes with linebackers like the Joe Moore award winning OL and coach Jim and our OC's. Until they decided to just try and run into the teeth of a massive dose of mindless run blitzes.
Go Blue forever
but...sigh.
January 3rd, 2023 at 3:36 PM ^
It’s a glacial mistake. Some TCU blog just picked up the rest of the post, outran Seth and scored.
Edit - that was supposed to lighthearted, but I may still be working through some feelings.
January 3rd, 2023 at 3:41 PM ^
It was fumbled on the goal line.
January 3rd, 2023 at 3:41 PM ^
Sources close to Brian are telling me the post may be incomplete but they stress it is only a possibility and that post could just be shorter than usual or some type of glitch.
Stay tuned.
January 3rd, 2023 at 3:43 PM ^
Brian's waiting for more NIL funding to post the rest. To get the transformational experience you need to complete the transactional portion.
January 3rd, 2023 at 3:48 PM ^
I quit reading after, " "Everything happens for a reason" is the biggest lie in the history of humanity." I've been waiting for someone to say that for so long...
January 3rd, 2023 at 4:02 PM ^
Just your classic arrogant Nihilism. Just because our brains can't think of a good reason doesn't mean there isn't one. Reality is just a story your brain is telling itself so it can interface with whatever reality is and assign meaning to it. The actual truth is we have no fucking clue about the degree to which things happen for a reason or don't at various levels of existence (molecularly, cellular, cosmos, etc.) and we never will and that's understandably uncomfortable for a lot of people. The annoying part is when others then decide they DO have an idea, like their some omniscient being instead of a human, and tell you what reality is. In the same breath they say there can be no god or no meaning as if they could know that without being some kind of God like entity they say can't exist. Pretty fucking wild if you think about it. Besides all that, even if there was no meaning, practically speaking, humans are still gonna live as if there is meaning because our perception of reality is literally all we have which makes it as meaningful as anything could possibly be from our limited perspective, relatively speaking.
January 3rd, 2023 at 6:23 PM ^
Your 5 yr. old child is raped and murdered. Do you really want to hear your neighbor tell you everything happens for a reason?
January 3rd, 2023 at 3:53 PM ^
I definitely think the post is
January 3rd, 2023 at 4:03 PM ^
I’d say it’s pretty impartial.
January 3rd, 2023 at 4:17 PM ^
We all saw the game so the recap is just another knife to the gut. I tried recapping it and it took 3 days and my last bit of will. Feels like a bit of a wake right now and so I'll just wait.
January 3rd, 2023 at 4:36 PM ^
Actually I was on a plane, and after some DishNetwork glitching I was assisting the crew with a passenger having a medical emergency, so didn't see much of the second half. We were headed for the shuttle during the last few minutes, so I did get to watch that on my phone, and that was targeting as fuck. I haven't gotten around to watching the whole game on the DVR, and don't know if I want to.
January 3rd, 2023 at 4:18 PM ^
fuck
January 3rd, 2023 at 4:21 PM ^
"Not in here, mister. This is a Mercedes!"
January 3rd, 2023 at 6:21 PM ^
"Even in the future nothing works"
January 3rd, 2023 at 4:21 PM ^
i honestly love it. too many pixels have been spilled already.
January 3rd, 2023 at 4:27 PM ^
It was actually written by Franz Schubert.