Spath report on offense: There is a disconnect on gameday

Will be interesting to see how Peters does at Illinois this year. So far - he is looking like Brett Favre ...

I follow Spath on Twitter but have never really read his stuff. So far I'm waiting for anything noteworthy coming from him or his account...

EDIT: dumb post.

On the plus side, it feels like July here....nice to get a warm day in September!

I feel like I've seen this all before. On multiple levels.

I wish I could meaningfully downvote this garbage.

Spath who?  

His writing reads like BS.  Never believe anything when the writer, or speaker, feels the need to over use superlatives.  I mean who would ever say “impeccable” anonymous “insiders” except a BSer. 

I am surprised he did say something like: 

“Believe me, I have the most incredible insiders and they are all telling me how great my story is and that it is going to be tremendous”

I've been very critical of the offense in the Army game.   Having said that, we also played MTSU and threw 25 passes in the first half.   That was about what we averaged per game last year.  

I think it's premature to assume that this is last year's O without the huddle and with the only difference being formation.

I'm highly skeptical of how good this O will be but I'm not going to just write it off after 2 games.  That is too small of a sample size for me.  

This is a really simplistic "analysis" that is generalizing from results when there are other data points to suggest some other more granular causes other than Jim Harbaugh Hate Offense hot take.  Culprit 1 is Patterson's inability or unwillingness to execute the offense which is a read based offense.  Culprit 2 is play calling that puts doom in motion (and some of this even if not directly on Jim Harbaugh could be inspired by Harbaugh's dictating strategy and Gattis still dictating tactics). 

That said, if Patterson is operating at his Wisconsin level from last year, Spath is busy talking about Harbaugh to the Raiders rather than Harbaugh Hates Winning.  Gattis did not call a good game given Shae's performance, and even cleaning up some of the miscues would have just masked that something is still a little off in the "speed in space" department, but Patterson is the biggest culprit in this narrative, not Harbaugh.  All of that can be true.

People don’t agree with the statement so automatically=no sources

Not saying it’s true or not but I think to automatically assume it’s not is doing yourself a disservice. 

Honestly it’s hard to say exactly what the offense can and will be as much as we’ve fumbled thus far.  

We only had six drives in regulation vs Army that didn’t end in a lost fumble.   Two of those were really nice long TD drives.  Only one was was a three-and-out.  

Sure I’m concerned, but this isn’t the whole MSU “3 TDs on 73 drives” type of thing that they had prior to last weekend. That was based on a big sample size.  

It’ll be curious what our offense looks like if we can string together a few games with 0-1 turnovers per game.  

Harbaugh took Iowa castoff Rudock and he ascended through the year.  I thought Patterson had moxy.  Loved the shushing the MSU crowd last year.  What I saw with Patterson on Saturday was a guy who's injury affected his accuracy and affected him running regardless of what anyone is saying publicly.  Does anyone really think the coaching staff is going to publicly say that they didn't want him running? That tells other teams not to worry about RPO.... I am going on the record and say that when Patterson is healthy Michigan will roll....

I'm come to the realization that a lot of "insiders" are basically internet commenters who just happen to know someone on the team.  It's crazy how much of their "inside" knowledge is internally inconsistent and feels mostly like people complaining about the outcome and ignoring all context.

But whatever, welcome to bye week!  Where everyone complains and nothing good happens.

Same shit post from a few days ago

Look. Talk is talk. The reality is, Yes, Michigan was conservative...but it didn’t occur in a vacuum. Coach saw 5 fumbles lost in two game. Five! He also saw drops and mental mistakes up the wazoo. Going conservative is a way to mitigate those effects. If we stroll into big games with the same conservative approach, then fine, let’s yell at the coaches. But Michigan didn’t start conservative in these games...they only went there once the mistakes and fumbles started piling up. Now we can still take  umbrage with that approach, but it’s a defensible reaction to *what was actually happening on the field*.

Spath is a closet Sparty; or at least seems to reflect what Sparty wants to hear..any negative always an issue with the ‘program’ or coaching, or some grave systemic problem. And while I am no expert, his football analysis seems very simplistic, i.e., running the football more on first down against Army is overly ‘conservative ‘.

Not the offense they hoped to be. Great insight there from Spath anyone can see that. His so called information is seldom anything that is truly informative