Best thing you saw: Week 4

Tight ends!!!!

Gotta feel happy for the guy. It's like he came out of nowhere, played like a champ. Also encouraged by the play of Gentry. He looks to be the real deal as far as a TE threat out there. Great to see him succeed after changing positions a while ago.

1. UM defense. A total of 10 second half yards for Purdue? That’s incredible. 2. Tight end usage. 3. Passes from the UM QB that hit receivers in stride, not high or behind them.

Honorable mention goes to Navy amassing over 500 rushing yards against Cincinnati.

That is no other than Gregory Phillips who predicted a win.

Mood pic.twitter.com/OXxMsRLkMY

— Khalid Hill (@Thatboylid80) September 24, 2017

John runyan

Kareem Walker does exist.

Seemed like there were a lot of plays where Purdue rolled one way and would throw back across the field and the receiver was all alone. Have to fix that.

Superb.

Superb.

FSU dropping to 0-2 is interesting

Bielema is getting really really fat

Penn St is more physical than I thought.  Barkley is the best player in the country

Sparty getting lit up although they can celebrate the box score which looks favorable for them

JOK was ballin' yesterday

Devin Bush continues to wreak havoc 

Gentry looking like a star in the making

I was getting texts from family and friends about how bad we looked the first half.  I said that is why they play 4 quarters.  And after 4 quarters, we had beat their ass.  That gimmicky offense is just not sustainable over 4 quarters against a great defense.  

We raised our red zone batting average from .100 to .308.  Well done boys!  The media can now put that topic to rest.   

Teams getting acquainted with one another. pic.twitter.com/1HzdyAQfGz

— Eddie Radosevich (@Eddie_Rado) September 23, 2017

Gentry is Gronk. Yep, I'm going that far and drinking all the koolaid.

O'Korn showed us why we were excited for him to transfer in two years ago.

UM defense is really something to behold. It may be on par with Clemson and Bama defenses.

Don Brown's adjustments in game. Truly spectacular if Purdue only got one touchdown and only 10 yards in the 2nd half.

Devin Bush is remarkable. I predict he will finish as one of (if not the best) Michigan linebacker in school history. He is wracking up defensive stats like he's in a video game. He often looks like he's in video game speed. He is a missile with dreads!

Outside games:
Hate to say it, but PSU really impressed with the last play win. Poise by Mcsorely and they seem to know how to move the ball. I'm actually excited to see how they stalk up against UM since they have s strong passing attack and Barkley.

Ok St was shown for what they are: gaudy numbers against weaker opponents who play no D. TCU looks like a well balanced team who might make life difficult for Oklahoma.

Georgia looked like a monster after the talk about Miss St being a real contender to take down Bama. The parody in the SEC (excluding Bama) is just further evidence that the conference is not the "meat grinder" it once was, but is rather some fairly mediocre teams who can exploit one another. Purdue demolished Missouri....

Both offense and defense had their moments of doubt, both responded: - Defense: Purdue zooms down the field after a laborious UM scoring drive. Defense tinkers with some linebacker/safety alignments and CRUSHES Purdue the rest of the way. - Offense: Leader of the offense gets hurt after a listless 1st quarter. All parts of the offense respond to the replacement, squeeze life out of Purdue for the rest of the game. I hope the bye week helps JOK get through his reads a little faster, the offensive line is going to be a work in progress all year. Iowa/PSU was special - Iowa rises up again and again and holds PSU to 15 points until the last play of the game. What a scene in Iowa City!

3rd down conversions. Particularly 3rd & 6 when we're down 7-10. Of course big props to O'Korn for keeping his feet and extending but how about Perry not giving up on the play and reversing his crossing route to give his qb an outlet? Awesome team play and probably THE pivotal point in the game. Also a play or two later was a big gainer for McKeon who was clutch all day. I hope Eubanks is ok from the targeting hit but we've got a bunch of crazy good tight ends. Good to see them get more targets.

Still not sold on PSU o-line and think we can expose them. Also each and every Purdue player and COACH needs to be steroid tested this morning

yesterday at Purdue leaving no doubt who the better team and staff was, and Chris Evans 10 yd td run through a very wide hole that allowed him to go in untouched for some red zone magic, and O'Korns clutch performance.

Michigan: JOK hitting our TEs!

Non Michigan: Barkley is a beast. Poweful runner who also has amazing lateral quickness. I hate PSU, but I enjoy watching that guy run.

BTW..Did anyone else notice that the refs missed a Barkey fair catch on a kick off in the second half after Iowa scored? Barkley waived his arm at the 1 and caught it. 

JOK coming in cold, crapping on his first drive, then settling down into a really good game!  I didn't see that performance coming, but the coaches helped him out like they hadn't helped Speight - they closed off a lot of the playbook and went with better, easier play calls.  Not sure why Speight wasn't given the same calls - the misdirection, the quick outs, the crossing patterns in the middle, a couple of screens.  Speight had to stand in the pocket waiting for complicated patterns, and deep stuff, to open up on 3rd downs.  1st and 2nd downs were inside runs against a waiting defense to set up a 3rd and long.  That was Speight's 1st qtr...  That said, I hope Speight is okay, and we'll see if he lost his job - all indications sure point to it right now!  

The defense stepping up after the TD drive was just plain impressive.  Bush will work his way into Heisman talk next year if he keeps this up!  The matchup with Barkley should be fun.  UM is a couple of steps faster than Iowa across the board - unless PSU is successful in isolating Barkley on McCray alone, you can cut out 2/3 of his yards.  He won't get the corner so easily against UM, and going up the middle is a non-starter.

Non-UM division: TCU beating the crap out of OK St.  All the talk coming out of Oklahoma, from both teams, is wearing thin.  TCU just came in and beat them.  I didn't think TCU's offense was that good, but I guess anyone can score when there's no defense against them...

The other cool thing was the other talkative teams going down: Purdue, Miss St, and Vandy.  Open your mouths like your college royalty, and the royalty will beat you down.

The Penn State Iowa game was pretty great up until the last play.....

still getting a very effective pass rush all through the 4th quarter.  As they have all season.  That's what we need to hold leads and win us the tough games.  Just ask Iowa.

I saw that Speight now has to step up, to get on field again.

The Iowa wave.

Unfortunately, Saquan Barkley was fantastic last night. I just pretended he didn't play for State Penn and enjoyed his performance. He's the next great NFL back

In what has become a theme, the defense is tremendous, physical, and devastating. 10 yards given up in the second half was the best thing I saw. JOK played great and inspired some life in the offense.

Non Michigan: Barkley is the real deal. I was pulling for Iowa, but you have to give credit to a player who accounts for more than 300 yards of offense.

Worst thing: Purdue seemed to enjoy the cheap shot/ high hit. Speight hasn't played well, but it sucks to see him exit the game on what should have been a personal foul at the very least. The head shots got called for targeting in the second half. Finally, targeting calls that were accurate.