MSU Snowflakes Thread: Defense
October 17th, 2015 at 7:22 PM ^
Well that last play is what happens in MSU games.
No snowflakes today.
October 17th, 2015 at 7:24 PM ^
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October 17th, 2015 at 10:50 PM ^
October 18th, 2015 at 12:49 AM ^
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October 17th, 2015 at 7:49 PM ^
Fuck snow and fuck how it flakes. Winter is fucking coming, but the hangover has already started. I want to vomit.
October 17th, 2015 at 7:50 PM ^
Well, the bright spot here might have been run defense - Michigan State only managed to net 58 yards on the ground on 33 attempts, although this is in part thanks to Connor Cook being sacked a few times. All the same, the overall average is 1.76 yards per attempt, but take Cook out of the totals and you have 81 yards on 29 attempts, which is 2.79 yards per attempt and still respectable, of course.
Pass defense? Well, Cook went 18 of 39 for 368 yards. That's 20.44 yards per completion, or 9.44 yards per attempt.
October 17th, 2015 at 8:10 PM ^
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October 18th, 2015 at 12:04 AM ^
October 18th, 2015 at 1:19 AM ^
Cook was dropping dimes and I believe MSU WRs dropped the ball 9 times.
If you think it's solid not a stud, you didn't watch the game. Cook was accurate all game long.
October 18th, 2015 at 8:12 AM ^
October 17th, 2015 at 8:45 PM ^
Take out the 80 yard fullback play and those pass defense numbers look very different. I think the defense looked very good tonight. Definitely some mistakes but to hold that offense which when it plays at its full potential (which it did tonight) is very good was a good sign for the D. A combination of elite QB and Oline like that is something only the best teams have and we played them very well. Fix those penalties (some were BS) and the few mistakes and the D will be hard to beat.
October 17th, 2015 at 7:51 PM ^
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October 17th, 2015 at 8:00 PM ^
Michigan's defense is sooooooo great, so it's not like I'm saying GRR THEY'RE BUMS FIRE EVERYONE TAKE THEIR SCHOLARSHIPS MAKE THEM EAT SPAM SOAKED IN POOP or anything TWIS worthy....
...BUT HOW THE FUCK DO YOU GIVE UP 75 YARDS TO A FULLBACK WHAT THE HELL GOD
October 17th, 2015 at 9:20 PM ^
With the exception of that last MSU possession, Cook had too much time for most of the game. Kinda disappointing, expected the d-line to put alot of pressure on Cook consistently.
October 17th, 2015 at 10:27 PM ^
Agree. Until Henry went off on the last drive the pash rush was below par. Very disappointing considering the hype and the fact Kieler was hurt coming into the game and got hurt again 1st series and Conklin was coming off injury and Jack Allen was out. Those are their 3 best linemen and we struggled to get pressure with the front 4. If they were all healthy it seems like we would have gotten nothing in the pash rush if that is all we could get vs a "banged up" line.
I disagreed with the philosophy of letting Cook stand back there without pressure and not bringing a 5th guy to blitz more often. Almost every blitz led to a failed pass play. rutgers blitzed 3 of the 4 quarters last week with success.....and the 1 quarter they did not bitz MSU scored 14 pts. We chose to rarely blitz which I dont like when you face a good QB - even Manning and Brady suffer under pressure. Yes you give up some plays by doing that but we did that anyhow.
That said MSU's McDowell Calhoun andd Thomas got pressure just rushing 4 guys a lot against our OL and we did not return the favor.
I thought the secondary was fine - Cook dropped dimes on Lewis to Burbridge and then we got lucky Kings had bad hands on 2 plays. But if you dont pressure the QB you cant expect secondary to hold up.
rush D was excellent.
October 18th, 2015 at 9:11 AM ^
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October 17th, 2015 at 10:17 PM ^
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October 17th, 2015 at 10:26 PM ^
Thought it was a 50/50 battle all night btw Burbridge and Lewis. Both had good plays.
October 18th, 2015 at 12:46 AM ^
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October 18th, 2015 at 12:04 AM ^
October 18th, 2015 at 12:42 AM ^
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October 18th, 2015 at 7:29 AM ^
I'm really curious to hear how Jourdan Lewis grades out on this. From my seats, it looked like Connor Cook dropped some beautiful passes in there. A few plays where Lewis probably should have gotten his head around. But let me just drop this on you...
He had SIX pass breakups in that game, which ties the Michigan record (w/Marlin Jackson in that 2002 Washington Game). He's now at 14 for the season, good for 4th all-time...with lots of the season left to go. Kid is a beast, but Burbridge is just sick and Cook had some awesome ball placement. Just my two cents.
October 18th, 2015 at 8:15 AM ^
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October 18th, 2015 at 9:27 AM ^