Penn State Snowflakes: The Defense
November 3rd, 2018 at 8:58 PM ^
Michigan creates their own luck on defense. You could argue five games ago about small sample size. Now it's a definite pattern. Look at the passing stats against the B1G's best QB's. This D is shut down dominant. No question about it.
November 3rd, 2018 at 9:40 PM ^
Yes. You make that luck by smothering the run plays, locking down receivers and just generally chasing and knocking the quarterback out of his comfort zone all day. If he only has two, maybe three, chances in a game to make a big play, he's more likely to screw it up because it's completely unexpected when it happens.
November 4th, 2018 at 2:04 AM ^
Haskins specialty is throwing short passes to athletic receivers, or throwing deep against tomato cans.
November 3rd, 2018 at 8:37 PM ^
Fantastic. Simply fantastic.
Get even more healthy the next couple of weeks before The Game.
November 3rd, 2018 at 9:02 PM ^
Don Brown is a defensive God
November 3rd, 2018 at 9:34 PM ^
Can someone please make a shirt with Don Brown drinking a cup of coffee/tea with his wonky pinky out and have the shirt say "Keeping Ann Arbor Classy since 2016"
I have no artistic capability.
November 3rd, 2018 at 9:51 PM ^
The defensive performance was a thing of beauty, merriment and joy.
Hail!
November 3rd, 2018 at 10:03 PM ^
Wondering outloud: I wonder if a big part of our secondaries success is that it throws off the intended spacing of the routes? Even with the smothering man coverage, there are guys that get open, but the QBs throws are WAY off... which has had me worried for lightening McHaskins. But I wonder if the change in timing and spacing by our smothering DBs is what has caused PSU, Wisc, and MSU to be SOOOOO off with their throws?
November 3rd, 2018 at 10:25 PM ^
11.3
That’s the median QBR for starting opposing QBs against M this season. Only one has been greater than 50: ND.
That seems remarkably uncommon to me.
November 3rd, 2018 at 11:09 PM ^
Good night, Coach Brown. I hope that you sleep like a baby tonight...
November 3rd, 2018 at 11:11 PM ^
Not thread worthy, but did anyone else see the Peach Bowl representatives on the sideline? I find it interesting that they send people to watch these games. This team has bigger aspirations.
November 4th, 2018 at 1:41 AM ^
The Peach Bowl is at-large vs at-large New Years Day six, they are certainly in line to get the winner of this game if they don't make the playoff. And a two loss Michigan could very well end up in Atlanta.
A Penn State win would have put them in the hunt for a New Years six as well.
Important game for the Peach Bowl. I'm sure they had guys at other games.
November 4th, 2018 at 12:04 AM ^
Honestly, I think people are kinda glossing over how impressive it is that we held Penn St under 200 total yards
November 4th, 2018 at 1:36 AM ^
Man I hope Michigan fans are appreciating Bush, Winovich and Gary playing together. What a damn treat this defense has been this year.
November 4th, 2018 at 1:51 AM ^
I can’t believe PSU had the audacity to run down the score like that.
November 4th, 2018 at 3:34 AM ^
After all the talk about boring safeties, I really liked the play where McSorley broke the pocket and headed for the sideline on a third and long, and Kinnel flew in out of nowhere and absolutely stuck McSorely about four yards short of the marker. That awareness and closing speed was really nice to see.
November 4th, 2018 at 5:24 AM ^
The best way to score on the defense this year is to wait until Michigan gets a big lead and the second string comes in. Don Brown is unbelievable.
November 4th, 2018 at 5:37 AM ^
I just can’t see OSU scoring more than 10-14 on us. I’ve held out saying this until this game, but this is by far the best defense we’ve had since Donny’s been here. Maybe since ‘97. I have an amazing amount of confidence in Donny and our D. Especially, when we bring pressure. Nobody can handle that.
November 4th, 2018 at 7:22 AM ^
I’m still amazed every week how incredible Don Brown is with halftime adjustments. The second half is just, wow, I can’t even put it into words. I’m so thankful we have Doc Brown.
November 4th, 2018 at 8:13 AM ^
My one minor quibble, is that the Dline looked gassed in the middle of the 3rd/early forth. They weren’t getting good push and the PSU oline was protecting the QB really well. Did anyone else notice that?
November 4th, 2018 at 12:49 PM ^
Then UM brought pressure, and that was that. I really enjoyed the play in which both Glasgow and Hudson crept up to the line pre-snap, and Glasgow eventually sacked the QB. How many times will we see the 2-viper formation?
November 4th, 2018 at 1:48 PM ^
I saw it from the stands. I think Michigan went very base defense low pressure at that point, it was about covering guys downfield and containing McSorley. Don't give up the big play.