Oklahoma offense
Seeing oklahoma offense slice through Gerogia like its nothing - question for the coaches and smart Mgoposters
1. Understand that its all spread, but how difficult is it to implement parts of it to Michigan's scheme
2. I believe that this can be potent without Baker Mayfield (other way of saying that while Mayfield is a baller, this can still give fits to teams without him). Wrong to assume that?
3. Oklahoma doesn't recruit at elite level yet they produce good receivers and RB. Wrong to assume scheme and coaching is the reason they are a threat to CFP from Big12 every year?
4. What things can Michigan do schematically to be prolific on offense starting from today and what you saw today? Do we have the personnel to get there in a few months for 2018?
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January 1st, 2018 at 6:23 PM ^
Baker Mayfield was the QB then. He had just as much time in the Oklahoma system as O'Korn, Peters and Speight has had in Harbaugh's system.
Oklahoma has been doing this for years. I won't say those guys are system QBs, but they've been putting up video game numbers since Stoops won his first and only title.
We will never have an Oklahoma-style offense and we don't need one as long as we have a crazy good defense. We just need an offense that has more imagination than what we have now. Where's the misdirection? Where's more screen passes? We make it too difficult on our offense right now.
January 1st, 2018 at 6:30 PM ^
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January 1st, 2018 at 7:01 PM ^
Are you convinced that Peters is the man for the job? There was considerable reluctance to use Peters after Speight was hurt and O'Korn's best was pretty bad. I'm still not sure that Peters has what it takes to get the job done. Lots of other young players seem to be doing well and perhaps that is Harbaugh's system to be blamed, but...
January 1st, 2018 at 7:24 PM ^
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January 1st, 2018 at 10:15 PM ^
when he takes a 37-step drop 20 yards backwards, then fires a dart at the feet of his receiver who's also 5 yards past the line of scrimmage. /s
He was billed as a decently mobile passer, did he scramble for a single 1st down today?
January 1st, 2018 at 7:33 PM ^
January 1st, 2018 at 7:03 PM ^
And he was a Heisman finalist all three years. It's okay to be a first year winner. Just ask Georgia...or Alabama last year.
January 1st, 2018 at 7:09 PM ^
We need to change things offense and OU is fun to watch...BUT.
We don't have a Hesiman calibur QB (Baker was 2 years ago just like he is now) nor do we have OU's OL.
Look at all the time he has against one of the best defenses in the country. In the run game they're mauling UGA.
Give us Baker OR that line and we're in the playoff. But it doesn't work like that.
January 1st, 2018 at 6:34 PM ^
January 1st, 2018 at 7:32 PM ^
I have yet to read or hear any coherent explanation of exactly and precisely what it is that makes our system so much more complex than other offenses.
In other words, when Brandon Peters takes the snap, what is it about what he has to do that is so much more complex than what Baker Mayfield has to do? Or Barrett or Lewerke or McSorley?
And even if I did get a convincing explanation, the follow-up question is: if our system is so much more complex than other offenses, why does our offense look so simple-minded and easy to defend? What good is all this vaunted complexity?
January 1st, 2018 at 6:21 PM ^
for Oklahoma
plain and simple
January 1st, 2018 at 6:41 PM ^
but Oklahoma is clearly having FUN. They are fun to watch. Mayfield is grinning ear to ear. That shit today was like pulling teeth, waiting for the dentist to tell you which one is going to fail next. Just a brutal brutal, seemingly endless thing to watch.
January 1st, 2018 at 7:03 PM ^
theyre also confident, confident in their scheme and their ability to produce (and rightfully so) - hard to find many guys outside of michigans D playing with that type confidence. plenty of factors but thats one
January 1st, 2018 at 6:08 PM ^
There is a reason Oklahoma is in the Playoff and it's Baker Mayfield.
January 1st, 2018 at 6:22 PM ^
110% correct
January 1st, 2018 at 6:09 PM ^
2. We have a substandard o line
3. We have mediocre play at QB
If you can fix that in eight months, please apply for a staff position
January 1st, 2018 at 6:23 PM ^
this team is lacking rather than physically
That can be corrected
CONFIDENCE!
January 1st, 2018 at 6:36 PM ^
is leaving the program
Just a rumor but seems it could be possible as the young man did not dress or play today
January 1st, 2018 at 7:28 PM ^
What was the source of your upgrade?
January 1st, 2018 at 6:09 PM ^
January 1st, 2018 at 6:11 PM ^
decent o line play allows spread or power to work.
drevno and pep and frey have to go.
January 1st, 2018 at 6:57 PM ^
Neither are a good fit for UM
Wish them good luck and send them off
January 1st, 2018 at 6:11 PM ^
January 1st, 2018 at 6:15 PM ^
Because Rich Rod's spread is the only possible option available.
Somebody forgot to tell Ohio State, Penn State, Oklahoma, Clemson . . .
January 1st, 2018 at 6:25 PM ^
with SP the UM offensive scheme will change dramatically
Still wondering what Dan Enos postition will be at UM
Former MSU (RB)
Former Arkansas (OC)
could Drevno be gone?
January 1st, 2018 at 6:28 PM ^
could be RB coach or new OC.
hope New OC but we'll see what happens.
January 1st, 2018 at 8:30 PM ^
If Dan Enos is coming for the OC job, is that really the best we can do? That seems pretty uninspiring.
January 1st, 2018 at 9:00 PM ^
changed their offense to power spread offense under Hurts. They do a lot more RPO in the last two seasons than in the entire Saban's career. Kiffin changed the offense and Saban simply continue to adapt.
January 1st, 2018 at 6:15 PM ^
January 1st, 2018 at 9:01 PM ^
IT's a variation from Hal Mumme/MIke Leach offense.
January 1st, 2018 at 6:16 PM ^
January 1st, 2018 at 6:23 PM ^
we won that game.
I'd rather win every game 67-65 than lose every game 7-6.
I love a great aggressive D (like the one Michigan has) but i don't equate it to my dick size either.
If defense wins championships, where are ours?
New slogan: "Defense (only) wins 4th in the B1G East!"
January 1st, 2018 at 6:12 PM ^
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January 1st, 2018 at 6:16 PM ^
I think particularly with what Shea Patterson could bring to this offense, we would have at least most of the personnel to do a reasonable facsimilie of Oklahoma (key word is "most" - Oklahoma's offensive line is awesome, whereas ours is....not theirs), but the problem is that I don't think you'd get anything close to it with the offensive staff currently in place. I think that's part of the problem I have had all year with this team - I see pieces in need of a scheme that uses them better. Again, that's my "living room criticism", so I'll own it if it is offbase.
January 1st, 2018 at 6:22 PM ^
might be a too many cooks in the kitchen situation trying to mesh 3 clashing styles of drevno, pep & frey with harbaugh's vision.
Plus having a camera crew inside the locker room and whatnot may have been a huge coaching distraction this year?
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