Michigan Offensive Breakdown with Al Borges This Week

Submitted by MaizenBlue93 on September 27th, 2022 at 4:35 PM

https://youtu.be/9azUoK7rSFU

 

These are amazing. I like them more than MMQB with Devin Gardner. It's wild to me just how much you can learn from these videos.

 

The main takeaways were that JJ's inexperience was the main reason for any implement in the offense, play calling was great, RB/OL/WR play were outstanding, TE and QB play need work, and that there's a lot of cause for optimism given that JJ is only going to get more experienced. 

CompleteLunacy

September 28th, 2022 at 11:58 AM ^

It is a bit grating how they minimized those mistakes "because it didn't cost them". Like, yeah, ok, but that shit is bad and won't fly against better opponents and you absolutely need to coach JJ to be more careful with the ball. This, especially, is because we go on the road against a team that literally lives or dies off of opponent turnovers. I'm all excited for JJ's potential, but I gotta say there are a bit of nerves about this weekend because if JJ plays stretches of the game like he did last week? Iowa is getting multiple turnovers and possibly stealing a win. 

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Vote_Crisler_1937

September 27th, 2022 at 7:17 PM ^

Having watched/listened to both Borges and Gardner so far this year I have nearly always preferred Gardner’s analysis but appreciated Borges. This week I don’t think Gardner did the job. Far too light on actual analysis and way too much time defending himself against Borges, Sam, and random commenters. Also his claim that JJ never put the ball in harm’s way makes me think he didn’t even watch the game before the segment. although he has a chance to redeem himself with the telestrater film portion. 
 

Thanks for posting this as I’m curious what Borges has to say. 

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FrankMurphy

September 27th, 2022 at 8:02 PM ^

I always thought Borges was a good OC and that he was never the reason why the Hoke era went south. Does anyone know if Borges ever publicly commented on how Hoke threw him under the bus after 2013 in favor of that idiot Doug Nussmeier (under whom the offense completely fell off a cliff, in part because idiot Nussmeier thought Shane Morris was better than Devin Gardner)?

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Papabearblue2

September 28th, 2022 at 12:53 AM ^

A college offense is generally built around base plays that you're good at and that you expand off of adding wrinkles and little changes to take advantage of tendencies.

What I remember reading was that borges just kinda threw shit at the wall. If he thought a play was going to work this week then by god you were going to learn it, and if the thought a new play was going to work next week then you were going to learn that. Nevermind whether or not the philosophies of the plays worked will with any sort of base offense you were running, or even worse were so complicated and divergent that the players couldn't even learn them in time to execute them properly.

Its a philosophy that occasionally works great when your play selection jackpot matches with your teams intelligence and your players talents. A lot of the rest of the time it's just kind of erratic and a fair amount makes you scratch your head. Which is exactly what hokes offenses with Borges looked like.

 

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