Bowling Green Snowflakes: The Offense

The interceptions are one thing, also don’t care for the wide open miss that should’ve been a loftier throw rather than a drive. Have we seen a successful downfield pass with some air under it yet this year?

The offense has been terrible all year. There's so much blame to go around. Honestly, I put this on Harbaugh for getting himself suspended and then trying to be an arrogant clever fuck and naming four interim head coaches. This team needs continuity. JJ showed his immaturity by laughing on the sidelines after throwing three interceptions. Sherrone Moore should never be a full time head coach. The offense line has regressed substantially. This doesn't look like a top 2 team. This doesn't even look like a top 10 team.

7.3 yards per play and three ghastly turnovers.

I am old enough to remember when Michigan failed to run enough PA against TCU. Tonight, though JJ was quite bad, the play calling didn't make use of PA enough. It seemed like BG knew pass formations. 

On the good side, Blake looked like Blake. 

JJ had one great throw. The majority of the rest were under thrown or just off. Plus he had some bad decision making.

I'm not worried, hopefully he got this out of his system. 

The OLine was quite shakey on both run blocking and pass protection. 

Offensive play calling was questionable. 

But a win regardless. 

I’ve never hated a 25 point win more.

Shit happens. Move on and get better. We have done this before. Rutgers game comes to mind. We still had a great year. We still won by a bunch. JJ had a bad day. I want to see how responds next week. Taming my expectations but hoping for a great next week. 

Boring, and irritating that they played without intensity or sharpness. The line needs work, and will Henderson away LT and Barny at RT be what we see against Rutgers? 

I attribute the lack of crispness to the JH suspension and having different guys each week. Minter should’ve been the HC all three games—consistency over the shtick, with the offensive coaches needing to just focus on their side of the ball. Moore’s chance was hindered by his game 1 suspension, which is why I say Minter for all 3 would’ve allowed some continuity. 
 

Loved CJ’s catch and his overall growth. Same with Wilson’s route running and speed.

Loves seeing Corum and Edwards start to rev up.

I have a brace on my right elbow. I’m 41 soon to be 42. Lost 10 lbs in the last 4 months. JJ will be fine. Blake looked good. 

Good time for a wake up call. 

I’m glad the non-conference schedule is over. It was all especially pointless this year. It looked like McCarthy’s head was elsewhere today, but I’m sure he and everyone else will benefit from Harbaugh’s return. They better be ready to play next week. I know it’s Rutgers, but they’re 3-0, probably feeling good about themselves, and they’ll at least put up an effort.

Going to go against the grain a bit. Not going to say, it's a good thing, that would be too far. However, my interpretation is JJ was feeling himself after week one and two, and this was him pushing too hard and thinking he could get whatever he wanted. It's a good lesson to learn at a good time to learn it. Tonight's game does not erase week one and two. We all know what he's capable of now, and I'm going to choose to take tonight as an aberration rather than a preview of what he really is.

It's one thing to have a bad game, but not against a 1-1 BG team. OLine looked terrible against a MAC team, that says alot

OK, bad game for JJ. Blake seems to be rounding back into form though.

Unfortunately, I could see the coaching staff backing off on the "balanced attack" after this. And our run game, outside of Blake being Blake, doesn't appear to be at 2022 levels. Best move is to try to stay balanced against Rutgers, but I don't know if it'll happen. I'm hopeful this is an aberration for 2023 JJ, and I hope the coaches feel that way too. 

Thankfully, BG was a cupcake, and even the worst game of JJ's career didn't put it much in doubt.

At least we're not MSU

Most worrisome thing about tonight's game: ALL 3 OF MCCARTHY'S INTs were his fault. That does not get quickly fixed. McCarthy does same thing vs Rutgers, UM loses by a TD. #GoBlue

At least Turnoverciek matched him to keep the final score outside of anything that could cause problems with ranking if business is taken care of down the road.

An uneventful 96-16 through cupcake-hambuger-time. Seems fine to me.

If you hadn’t watched live and just seen the final score of 31-6, and seen scores of other games today you’d think, “not so bad.”  So I’ll take it. 

Blake Corum is back.  CJ made a heckuva catch.  Harbaugh is now free.  JJ will be ready when it counts.  3 & 0.

I was told by Edwards that Edwards was going to "revolutionize the RB position like Barry Sanders"...I'm still looking for Edwards to be, at least, functional...