Indiana Snowflakes: The Offense

Agree on the Harbaugh finger prints. The game plans for MSU & this game were so utterly different from Minnesota, it baffles me. 

I have zero proof, but it just reeks of Gattis calling Minnesota, and then at some point Harbaugh interjecting starting with MSU. Zero designed QB runs, very little edge running plays, and the OL who was nearly flawless against MN in terms of assignments & blitz pickups are suddenly screwing up assignments left & right. 

So I guess we all just choose to believe whatever we hope is true, even when all the evidence says otherwise?

Harbaugh doesn't carry a call sheet.  He's not standing next to Gattis and talking to him on every play.  I suppose we just decide to believe he's sending in the plays via telepathy, because we want to?

And why would anyone have any confidence that Gattis would call the game any differently than they're being called?  In his infinite wisdom, Harbaugh hired an offensive coordinator who had never been the playcaller at any of the schools he had coached at, and who had been passed over for offensive coordinator positions when they came open at schools he was coaching at, not once, but twice.  Just because he says, "Speed in Space" a lot, and designs some good plays, doesn't mean that he'll call the game well.  Gattis has a grand total of 15 games calling plays; but we're supposed to just accept as fact that he's called the games that went well, while JH has called the game where the playcalling sucked, because it gives us hope?

It would be nice if he had a QB coach who could teach him to put some air under the ball.

I'm thinking now that DCaff isn't transferring because of losing the QB battle to Milton but because he saw the tire fir the team had become.

Over throwing wide open receivers with nothing but an open field and the end zone in sight is a concern!

MGoOptimists thought that losing 4 offensive linemen to the NFL wouldn’t be a big deal because of Warinner. Experience matters. Worst pre-season prediction was Ace saying Charbonnet would lead the Big10 in rushing yards. Outside of 1 run against Minnesota, he’s been invisible because this line is just a collection of spare parts.

It’s not the 70’s or 80’s anymore. A school like Michigan should be re-loading in year 6 of a coach’s tenure. Even Iowa can go 8-4 every year now. 

They are both equally bad.

Flip the ball into the flat more. Use Milton as a run threat on every play. No clue why they used it in game 1 and have abandoned it in the last two games. Gattis had a series of great game plans, but the plan and adjustments have been really poor in the last two games. 

As for this year, threaten Milton as a run threat on every play. Don't just fake but use Henning and Corum as routine outlets in the run game. There isn't a perfect solution, but they have some options to be a little more diverse. Shockingly, they appear to have emptied the bag for a bleh Minnesota team and look out of sorts now. 

This all day long.  I feel like we have a ton of speed and guys that can make you miss at the skill positions.  But we are choosing the most conservative play calls.  Why the fuck do we recruit Corum, Henning and Wilson if we are not going to involve them in plays that get them in space?  We did it like three or four times in this game and that's it.  Maybe it's because the defense can't hump the ruck?  IDK, it's all very confusing and frustrating.  Michigan should've been all up into Indiana's shit all day long on offense and there we were punting it more often than not.  Fuck it all.