September 16th, 2017 at 3:17 PM ^
god bless don brown, hope he retires at m...20 years from now!
September 16th, 2017 at 6:33 PM ^
A coach who actually gets after his players. Drevno, Hamilton and Frey just want to love on there soft ass linemann. I will gauranteee kinnel got reamed and will hear a lot more for his fuck up from both Brown and Zordich. I am so sick of having a shit offense. Weak QB. Weak O-line. Weak receivers. Weak running backs....two good and one who fumbles when barely hit. There is zero accountability for or from anyone on this side of the ball. Harbaugh your offense really really sucks and you sir are a complete fail to half of your football team and staff who gets it. Either we really are not that talented on the offensive side of the ball or the coaching of said players is completely inept and that is no exageration. One complete soft weak shit show. Just like last year. If we had a competent offense last year we win the big ten easy and maybe a national championship. It starts with the coach and the QB. The offense should apologize to the defense after every game this year. One more thing, Wisconsin's schedule is a complete joke and they will lose once again in the playoffs. I hope they lose by sixty four this time. Just thinking Quinn Nordin will lead the nation in scoring.
September 16th, 2017 at 3:17 PM ^
think the biggest problem is the coaching. playcalling is just not good. oline is also bad. wr's don't make plays.
yes, speight doesn't make a lot of plays that i'd hope a starting michigan qb would make, but, the coaching just needs to get better. period.
for being a offensive coach, this offense in year 3 of the harbaugh era is a joke. i still think harbaugh is a good coach, but we need to do something. drevno probably has to go.
September 16th, 2017 at 3:22 PM ^
Now, that is not to say the coaches don't share some of the blame.... But you can only run the plays your players know.
September 16th, 2017 at 3:43 PM ^
I'm not sure what to think about this statement. Isn't it on the coaches to teach the plays? Regardless, the play calling seemed to lack flow and originality today.
September 17th, 2017 at 12:53 AM ^
September 16th, 2017 at 3:37 PM ^
So... Can we hire the WR coach from Clemson? They always seem to have a dope passing game and gamebreaking WRs.
September 16th, 2017 at 4:01 PM ^
September 16th, 2017 at 3:42 PM ^
you seem to be the expert, put your resume on here so maybe we have a reason to think your opinion is relevent.
September 16th, 2017 at 4:50 PM ^
Speight undergoes complete mental collapse when rushed at all.
Along with a very bad right side of the offensive line, that's our primary problem.
We cannot convert a third down. You will not beat anyone worth a shit that way.
September 16th, 2017 at 7:03 PM ^
I don't think that's a fair assessment at all. Based on what I've seen through 3 games he's rushed on 90 % of pass plays and more than 10 % of his decisions are good ones. Our offensive line is very bad this year, we knew it was going to be.
- We have no success running up the middle.
- Speight is rushed way too often and forced out of the pocket.
- Our only reliable success so far this season is coming on quick routes to the outside, rushes to the left / outside of the line and maybe the occassional play action if the defense actually bites on the run and isn't blitzing the right side of our line.
It's hard for playcalling to cover up how bad the right and inside of our offensive line is playing. Still Drevno's responsibility in the end.
September 16th, 2017 at 3:17 PM ^
September 16th, 2017 at 3:17 PM ^
Is it the playcalling or is it OL not executing and Speight not following the play design? We could have wide open dudes downfield, but if Speight checks down to a baby seal 2 yard out, the play call looks bad.
September 16th, 2017 at 3:24 PM ^
Speight had a handful of derp passes, and the OL is 'developing.'
But the offensive play calling was atrocious. Kept trying to do the one thing AF had committed to stopping--run between the tackles.
And then the pass calls were mostlly also terrible.
Example: Spegiht is struggleing. So lets ask him to hit a fade on 3rd and goal, instead of some sort of rub route or TE in the back of the endzone.
Example: Lets run inside twice for 2 yards and give Spegiuht 3rd and 8.
I could go on.
September 16th, 2017 at 5:04 PM ^
This I agree with.
BUT.
With Speights terrible problem throwing off his back foot, I feel like the coaches are trying to avoid interceptions by throwing fade after fade.
A fade call is essentially your offensive coordinator saying "you're so awesome I believe you can throw this with regularity", or "you're so terrible, I want to minimize our turnover risk".
September 16th, 2017 at 11:24 PM ^
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September 16th, 2017 at 3:29 PM ^
Chief Dude. Greg Mattison, Asst. Chief Dude and best defensive line coach in college football.
September 16th, 2017 at 3:20 PM ^
as the play caller does not work well.
September 16th, 2017 at 3:20 PM ^
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September 16th, 2017 at 3:21 PM ^
/s
September 16th, 2017 at 3:22 PM ^
September 16th, 2017 at 7:41 PM ^
Wait.. what?
Didn't Michigan play Florida already?
September 16th, 2017 at 3:21 PM ^
Maybe things are too stale because theyre saving it for the B1G. Just seems too predictable and vanilla.
September 16th, 2017 at 3:22 PM ^
But I was thinking it before he got injured.
Issac is "Captain Almost". I mean, every play the guy runs for two years now includes some sort of "almost".
September 16th, 2017 at 3:41 PM ^
September 16th, 2017 at 3:42 PM ^
people jumped on me a week ago for not jumping on the isaac bandwagon.
he's a solid running back but i want a true feature back.
one that will be a starting back in the NFL eventually.
i know that is a tall order but we can dream can't we....
September 16th, 2017 at 3:22 PM ^
September 16th, 2017 at 3:22 PM ^
Think we all fell for the narrative that Pep was going to be an upgrade, but for whatever reason the playcalling has regressed. Maybe he's taking longer to assert himself with the playcalling.
September 16th, 2017 at 3:22 PM ^
pep hamilton really earning his paycheck along with the rest of the offensive staff /s
September 16th, 2017 at 3:23 PM ^
Staff really needs to revisit every position on offense (except the left side of the OL). They always say it's an open competition every week, but it truly needs to be at all positions this week, apart from the left side of the OL.
September 16th, 2017 at 4:25 PM ^
September 16th, 2017 at 3:24 PM ^
September 16th, 2017 at 3:25 PM ^
Play calling, play calling, play calling.
September 16th, 2017 at 3:43 PM ^
maybe the line play isn't good enough to give speight time for TEs to get into their routes....i'm grasping at straws here.
September 16th, 2017 at 5:06 PM ^
September 16th, 2017 at 7:48 PM ^
That's the whole thing about tight ends - they don't need a lot of time to get into their routes.
I can understand keeping a tight end in to help block on the right side of the line, but the left side doesn't need the help and we have great receiving tight ends. Make those LBs face a dilemma without a good answer!
September 16th, 2017 at 3:25 PM ^
September 16th, 2017 at 3:59 PM ^
seeing anything that you don;t see.
They are just being stubborn and obtuse.
JH needs to sit down with Drevno and tell him to stop channeling the Lloyd Carr era (except without the excellent QBs) with his terrible/predictable/stubborn play calling.
September 16th, 2017 at 7:50 PM ^
I think that they are expecting better play from the HB than they are getting. Overwhelming the defense in tight spaces is the essence of Harbaugh's running game.
September 16th, 2017 at 3:25 PM ^
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September 16th, 2017 at 4:01 PM ^
play calling more than Speight, though obviously Speight has been well below his performances against mediocre teams last year.
September 16th, 2017 at 5:13 PM ^
Troubling thing is, the red zone numbers. You can as a play caller adjust your game plan based on what the defense is doing against you. Stacking the box, spread it out go shot gun throw quick timing passes then go back to your manball playbook. Play call them out of their game plan.
September 16th, 2017 at 7:52 PM ^
This times 1000. Use Speight for what he is good at. Don't put him in situations he is bad at.