Michigan Panthers with an ugly loss tonight
I was flipping through the channels tonight at about 11PM Mountain and assumed I stumbled upon a USFL replay, but it turned out to be a live game.
Michigan trailed by 1 and kicked a field goal that was snapped from the 3 yard line (about a 20 yarder) with 3 seconds left in the game. The kicker doinked it and Michigan lost. In his defense, he was apparently a punter that hadn’t kicked a game winning field goal since 8th grade.
Patterson had 3 INTs in the loss.
Shea had 3 Aces. He prefers golf terms. Or Mineral terms.
I kind of miss MK posting here. We knew it was Shae all the time. He brought us info from inside fort Harbaugh.
Same. I peruse MGoUSFLPanthers from time to time. He's posting stuff there, but it isn't the same.
I think MK was a troll or shaes younger brother. No way Shae was posting on a blog. He started posting about the NCAA appeal for immediate eligibility regarding shae and was spot on. Other than that, there was no real information from the guy.
0% chance it was actually him.
Yeah, right, next thing you know your telling us the knowledge isn’t from the future.
I sure hope you’re kidding. There was not a single chance it was Shea. It was an obvious troll, although an entertaining one.
I didn’t know Tyrion’s camp follower was poster here.
These are not the Panthers of old. This makes them 1-4! How can you be worse than the Lions!
Novo would have drilled that kick.
And why would you kick it? Grow a pair and go for it
Those goalposts will get you every time. That's why the Wolverines are selling theirs.
To be fair, they were 1-4 in their first season, got on a roll and won the title.
But agree, they don't look like a good football team right now.
2 things:
1) This loss is on Fisher because he knew he didn't have a kicker after week 1 and hasn't done anything about it and he also made the mistake of letting the clock run to kick the FG when he had 2 TO's left and didn't try for a TD when he knew his kicker sucked.
2) So glad Patterson isn't the QB here any longer, he's so annoying to watch play. If Paxton Lynch was available, Panthers win that game.
Paxton Lynch has been awful. Both QBs are struggling because the Panthers pass blocking is high school level bad. The ball is snapped and then its run for your life back there.
Sums up the majority of the RR and Hoke era(s).
Jeff Fisher is the king of losing football games.
When the coach is the Loss King and the qb is the Pick King, success is not sure to follow.
Hey Pete, I wonder what the Mineral King thinks?
Oh, no! Not again!
After all the time and emotion I've devoted to this team, all the highs and the lows, it will take my heart a long time to heal.
I hate how they are called Michigan! There's only 1 Michigan dammit!
Fisher had time to run AT LEAST 2 plays from inside the 5. instead he ran off about 25 sec of clock and took 1 of 2 available TOs then kicked it with the punter from the WRONG hash in tight for a right footed kicker. there are at least 4 coaching errors in the last :30 sec of that game!
OP is actually underselling it. Fisher let the clock run down to set up for the field goal with two timeouts left.
Shea had three picks, but Stribling had two of them, so there's that. He's still a much better option than Lynch. To be honest, the whole league kinda stinks.
I guess I’ll start rooting for them to get the first draft pick next year, just like this year. Win the draft!
Something about this kind of pro football feels very familiar to me…
So what you're saying is.... Michigan gets a pro football team that isn't the lions.... and they're really still pretty much the lions. amirite?
I flipped on a game a few weeks ago and there couldn't have been more than 500 people in the stands. I understand why they went with the one city thing to keep costs down but it seems pretty clear the great people of Birmingham are already tired of watching of bad football.
The games featuring the Birmingham team seem to draw a decent crowd. FWIW.
Yeah, that makes sense. The other games, like the one I tuned to the other week, seem to be very sparsely attended.
What are you talking about? Does this not look like the Silverdome crowds of ‘83?! https://twitter.com/usfl/status/1522744707016704007?s=21&t=MxzIQr_Op6pvV3oGudpSDw
yeah, it's so bad, they have often been going for two.
Does Garrett Rivas have any leg left? He would be better than this guy.
I feel awful for the guy. He is a pretty good punter.
The Mlive story said that Patterson was not very effective passing but ran for 79 yards, including a nifty 9 yard TD run. "He completely flipped the field and kept us in the game with his legs."
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I have made a point of watching as much of the Panthers as I can manage (moving game times around does not help) and I can tell you Shea is the least of their issues. Their o line is atrocious (which is apparently typical for these non NFL leagues). Shea is single handedly keeping them in games. They run the ball well enough but that only gets you so far. Sure he misses some passes/reads but even when he is on target his receivers are dropping easy passes. It is very clear why these guys are not already in the NFL.
I wasn't complaining about his passing. I just don't remember him being such a weapon running.
Do people actually follow this league?
Bring back Bobby Hebert!
Better than Shea, even at 61!
If all the games are in Alabama, in what sense are they the Michigan Panthers? Are the different teams just assigned geographies sort of randomly?
Yeah, but their unis and helmets look waaaay better than those garbage Philadelphia Stars kits.
You got that right!
No criticism intended to those into this stuff, but...
I've tried to watch a couple of USFL games, and the product is just awful. Fake crowd noise piped in, a couple dozen people in the stands. Super mediocre football.
Looks like every other spring league to me.
I like watching the Panthers games with my dad. I want to go down to Alabama and watch a game in person.
I like seeing Shea play. Always rooting for him.
He's been doing a pretty good job given a rough environment. There are a lot of dropped passes, and usually not a lot of time to throw it. Still, he's made a lot of very good plays and throws.
In the Philly game, he did have some interceptions, but -- One was to Channing Stribling (he's a very good CB, and go Blue!) that was his fault. The second interception wasn't Shea -- it got tipped by a lineman and unluckily deflected to a line backer. Third was to Stribling that was only partly his fault. It was right on target to a receiver, but Stribling made an awesome play on the ball to slam the receiver out of the way and catch it in his stead and then amazing control to stay in bounds on the catch. (Way to go, Stribling!) Shea also had some nice scrambling, some nice passes, and some great runs (such as one especially fun to watch, and a TD). One score by Philly was due to a bad call (called a catch on field to extend a drive that ended up scoring, but on replay very clearly hit the ground and would have gone to Panthers). One score by Philly was a total lapse by Panther defense (under 30 seconds left in half, defense lets 2 receivers behind it in the clear, Philly throws bomb for TD). Some points were muffed Panther catches on punt, turning it over.
In the end, Panthers lost it through horrendous clock management. They were running the ball excellently, getting lots of running yards, but slow played it from about 1:30 on, as if a FG was a sure thing when they, the announcers, and everyone else knows it wasn't. Even with slow playing it, they got to the 3 yard line, 1st down, 29 seconds left, and 2 timeouts left. They then let the clock run down to 3 seconds, went for the FG, missed, and lost. They could have run 2 more times (or at least 1 more time) from the 3 yard line. It was stupefying.
I've seen a few games now. Overall: Shea, pretty good. Defense pretty good. Running backs pretty good. Receivers, pass protection, need to keep working at it. Kicking, they have their punter as kicker and need a kicker. Clock management/decisions, mystifyingly horrendous.