Michigan State Snowflakes: The Offense

Less FGs and more TDs next time. Regardless of who the OC and / or QB we have the same style offense, they'll never run a spread or throw it outside. 

Won by 20+, and none of it came late. So I truly do not care about any nits some might feel the need to pick.

Pretty straightforward.

Fix one concept of the offense.

Need to step up our passing game, especially in the redzone.

Can't bank on Blake scoring TD's on 50 yard runs every week.

The offense punted and we didn't cover the spread by a point; MSU won with dignity.

Rutger and Nebraska are bad, please practice passing during those games. Also, fix the RZ issues.

But hoooo boy does it feel good to beat those asses back to EL. GL on bowl eligibility asshats

I hope they figure out the red zone issues by Ohio State. This team can move the ball against anyone, but the red zone issues are a glaring problem. Barring a “game of the year” performance by the defense, kicking four or five field goals isn’t going to cut it. Especially in Columbus.

Luckily, they’ve got time to figure it out.

Blake Corum is a god amongst mere mortals. If he keeps doing what he’s doing, he will find himself in New York. Will he win it? That depends on what he does against Ohio State. But he can make it there by just doing what he’s been doing. He is the best player on the field almost any given week.

Roman Wilson started out the season going over the top. We don’t even do that anymore. I’m thinking the game plan is to run the ball and hit intermediate throws and our wide receivers are just uninspired and concentrate on blocking. Bell seems to be the only one who consistently gets open. 

Pay off drives with TDs and the narrative is much different.  Still, scoring 70 points combined over the previous 2 games vs PSU and vs (a healthy) MSU seems fine.

Tuck losing. Beat his boys ugly.

Run the ball, relentlessly. Old school B1G football best characterized by the famous Lombardi quote: "three yards and a cloud of dust".

NB: we have a Red Zone problem. We will need to find a way to solve this problem.

Michigan sure does like to hammer nails.

Paul Bunyan looks like they bought it at a gift shop in Frankenmuth.  And he does not even look like a trophy.  Oh well.  He's back where he belongs.

JJ as a passer looks.an awful lot like Cade. Different QB and different OC, but here we are. 

Please score TDs in the red zone.

That is all.

The coaches need to get Anthony and Schoonmaker involved in the red zone with some jump balls (maybe Loveland or Clemons, too - I think both have burned their red shirts) and use reverses with Bell, Wilson or Henning. They have been too predictable but seem okay settling for field goals with the conservative play calling. It also seems like Edwards could be a much bigger weapon along with JJ’s legs. Corum and the o-line are great, but running up the middle into stacked boxes is not yielding TDs. 

J.J.'s worst game. He was inaccurate, and, worse, he was scared to throw the ball beyond the first level all game

The WR don’t do much.  I can’t tell if it’s a JJ issue or something with them, but it’s a real problem and not just a matter of match ups or whatever sunshine people have been blowing.  The passing game does not threaten downfield.

You guys dreading the offense were all here last season when Michigan struggled to score throughout conference play until Maryland, right?

52 runs and 26 passes.  Not what I was expecting before the game, but very happy to get the win.

Yay lots of field goals...Do we need Orgi in red zones?

Six catches by Michigan wide receivers tonight

This red zone shit needs to get cleared up.  A functional fucking passing game would be nice as well.

Glad for the win.

Not sure why Corum was still on the field that late in the game. Very reckless IMO.

O-Line: A+ Road paving beasts!

Running Backs: A+ Corum for heisman!

Tight Ends: A+ Schoonmaker is the only one on this team that seems capable of getting open for a pass and consistently bails this passing game out of jams.

QB: B+ JJ is a gamer and making plays, though he didn’t have a great passing game tonight.

WRs: D- Where the fuck are they?? Did someone bother telling them we had a game tonight? JJ can’t throw the ball if he doesn’t have anyone to throw to!

Passing Game Coordinator / WRs Coach (if we even have one): F- Sparty has one of the worst secondary’s in the country…what the fuck are we doing out there? The only target that ever bothers to try and get open is Schoonmaker. It’s beyond pathetic.

Offensive Coaching Staff Inside The Red Zone: F- - -

The play calling is abysmal. Holy shit it’s beyond bad. If we can’t run it straight up the middle in for a TD, we almost always have to kick the FG. What the actual fuck?

Hey, we won Paul B. back from Ol’ Tuck and we dominated the last three quarters of the game. Hell yeah baby!

But shit man, you can’t keep winning with a one-dimensional offense. If the coaches can’t field a competent passing game, at some point in the future we’ll be fielding walk-ons because no scholarship skill players will want to come here. No we don’t need to air-raid every game but damn it all, we look utterly inept if we have to throw and if the TE isn’t open, then there’s not a snowballs chance in hell. Why on earth is Jim Harbaugh so allergic to a competent passing offense??

If we piss away JJ’s talent it’s going to be one of the biggest feats of coaching malfeasance in 21st century college football.

Tuck Comin’ or Dumb Luckin’? Just like Frames Janklin, Tuck lucked into tens of millions by winning the lottery with a generational running back (Walker and Barkley). 

Now we can focus on our rival...  Rutgers.