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Wolverine Devotee

October 8th, 2017 at 12:45 PM ^

People need to just relax. 

Everything that could go wrong, went wrong yesterday. These games happen when you have the youngest team. Not an excuse, it's just facts. 

I'd be lying if I said it didn't pop into my mind yesterday that this year was the 30 year anniversary of the Demetrius Brown game against the same opponent where he threw 7 interceptions. 

 

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M-Dog

October 8th, 2017 at 1:38 PM ^

I was there. We weren't happy, but we treated it like a blip.

Having just come off of 1985 and 1986 under Bo, we knew it was a Demetrius Brown-specific issue, not a systematic Michigan program issue.  The program surrounding Brown was just fine.

And sure enough, Demetrius Brown did improve and led us to the Big Ten championship and a Rose Bowl win over USC the following year.

The situation we are in now feels much different.

It's not just the growing pains of a young QB on his way to yet another Big Ten championship and the Rose Bowl.  Not even close.

  

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Blue Durham

October 8th, 2017 at 9:30 PM ^

I'd argue that in 1988 Michael Taylor led Michigan to the Rose Bow just as much as Demetrius Brown. Taylor started the season as QB and Brown started only 3 games (the last 3, including OSU and the Rose bowl, due to Taylor's injury in the Minnesota game, to Taylor's 9 that year), and the following year, 1989, Brown started 8 games to Grbac's 4 (I think Brown was off the team due to academics).

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M-Dog

October 9th, 2017 at 1:13 AM ^

Yeah, Brown was gone in '89.  It was Taylor that had the starts along with Elvis.

Brown had some great moments once he learned to distinguish uniform colors . . . the '87 season Hall of Fame Bowl game-winning 4th down pass against Alabama, the game winning pass to Kolesar against Ohio State in '88, some good keep-the-drive moving plays against USC in the '88 season Rose Bowl.

 

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GordonG

October 8th, 2017 at 12:49 PM ^

..with 4 losses this year...possibly 5 if you add a bowl game ...I expect better than that (heck Lloyd did that with a heck of a lot less fanfare than Harbaugh)

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BornInA2

October 8th, 2017 at 12:48 PM ^

There is no excuse for the offense to be this bad three years in. None. We can't block, run, get open, or pass consistently. There isn't any one area that's terrbible, but the sum of the parts is pathetic. Personally, I'm sick of it. It's been a decade or more now similar to this and I can't stomach it any more. For the first time since before Carr left I turned off the game before it was over last night. Hell, I watched Sheidan and Threet stumble-bum through a season, but the cumulative effect...I reached a breaking point last night.

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Jgruss42

October 8th, 2017 at 12:48 PM ^

Karan Higdon did a better job seeing his cutbacks than he has for much of the year. Doing that against some very good DTs and a solid linebacking group was a positive. I wish he had more than 12 carries. 

 

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KC Wolve

October 8th, 2017 at 12:50 PM ^

He came in and had a good series and then they would bring in Evans and get nothing. Not sure why they didn’t ride him. Also, what happened to Evans? I was really looking forward to watching him this year after an impressive Freshman season.

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Perkis-Size Me

October 8th, 2017 at 12:48 PM ^

John McKay, first coach of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers (and formerly the USC head coach) was once asked of his team’s execution. He uttered “Execution? I’m all for it.” I think he would’ve said the same thing about the Michigan offense last night.

Of course I’m not actually saying they should be executed, but the offense last night was just that: offensive.

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corundum

October 8th, 2017 at 12:49 PM ^

We should have continued running Higdon up the middle when it was pouring. It was working over and over again. Instead, we gave Evans a couple inside zones for absolutely nothing and threw a few picks.

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Bones032

October 8th, 2017 at 9:50 PM ^

Can someone name a single player on our offense who has an NFL future based on what we have seen so far? It's crazy the lack of talent on our current offense. I would say the TEs have the best chance, but we are talking about guys with less than 10 career catches, can't really predict nfl for them yet.

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Bones032

October 8th, 2017 at 9:52 PM ^

Before someone responds with Mason Cole. What position is he going to play in the nfl? Definitely not tackle, where he spent 3 of his 4 college years. Center? He was okay last year, not amazing. How many "okay" college centers make it in the nfl? Guard? OK he never played a down of guard in college and an nfl team is just going to hope he's good at it? I'm not saying he won't get drafted, just that he doesn't exactly have a bright future in the nfl based on what we have seen.

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