Western Michigan Snowflakes: The Offense
September 9th, 2018 at 1:33 AM ^
Peter's is soft needs to transfer!!, Paterson is fine play calling is high school...bootleg,run,run,bootleg ....over and over.offensive line still couldn't pass protect today!! Harbaugh covered it up!! But it showed it's ugly head a few times he stayed in pocket.
Very sad Jim recruits like he does and our offensive line is a joke!!
I do believe higdon can and should be in heisman mix!! He's that good!!
Still gonna die with my Wolverine s go blue!!!
September 9th, 2018 at 5:25 PM ^
Wow. You created an account just to create this post. Luckily it is just your first post so you can address and improve the grammar, punctuation, and spelling with additional reps as the season goes on.
Also the recruiting and (particularly) the Higdon takes are just bad. Higdon is a good kid and probably has a future in the pros but is NOT Heisman caliber. (Maybe he would get the hype behind the UW O-line, but I have my skepticism on Taylor without that line also.)
September 9th, 2018 at 2:25 AM ^
You play to win the game :)
September 9th, 2018 at 9:02 AM ^
The offense is better at 10 of the 11 positions. Much better at QB, WR, and LG, with the potential of being much better at C, RG, TE, and FB.
This team was recruited to man ball, run power, and play action with guys like Bredeson, Onwenu, Mason, Ruiz, McKeon, Gentry and JBB so do it.
As this offense finds its identity and chemistry with great QB play, coaching and younger players elevating their games rapidly ( Ruiz, DPJ, Collins, McKeon , Martin, Hudson??) they will be a good to very good offense by mid season.
September 9th, 2018 at 11:41 AM ^
Edit - supposed to be a reply
September 9th, 2018 at 2:48 PM ^
did what they were supposed to do against an inferior team.
not sure why its not fair to bring up Syracuse; yes they play a different style of offense, but the point was that WMU wasn't a very good defense. If people want to put a caveat "they have a poor defense against up tempo teams", i don't see how that changes the fact WMU doesn't have a good defense?
Syracuse also did that on the road, so that's another difference no one mentions.
Its positive to see the offense get confidence, get some young players some reps (starters and the two deep)... but outside of that and a couple of nice reads/throws by Shea, not much else to take away...
September 9th, 2018 at 5:59 PM ^
Try replacing “it’s not fair” with “it’s a flawed argument” re: Syracuse in regard to the offense.
Syracuse went up 34-7 at half vs. Western and “called off the dogs” in the second half. Or at least they tried - after 4 drives with the backups (zero points and less than 50 yards) the score was now 34-28 and the starters came back for the remainder of the game, racking up another 177 yards of offense. Michigan didn’t go full backups as early as Syracuse but did slow the game down (5 drives per team in the 2nd half vs. 7 each in the first.) I have no doubt M could have hit a few more deep shots - despite the protection issues - if they felt they needed to for rep purposes.
Another measure... taking pace into account - Syracuse averaged 35 yards per drive over 16 drives vs. WMU (gave up 38 yards per WMU drive) while Michigan averaged 37.5 yards per drive over 12 drives vs. WMU (gave up 17.3 yards to WMU per drive).
September 10th, 2018 at 10:41 AM ^
My hot take is that unfortunately, I still have yet to see anything to convince me that:
1. Don Brown's at time over aggressive defense can't be exploited by better offenses, and especially ones who spend all year preparing for him like MSU
2. JH's offense doesn't crumble like a card castle against better defenses due to it's predictable nature and over-reliance on pro elements.
These games against WMU and SMU really don't mean anything other than vacuous Ws.
Need results against the big boys. Many, many chances this year to get those results.
PSU looks very dangerous, especially with how effectively their offense checks into better plays against the presented D formation, as does UW because obvious so I honestly think our best chance is at Sparty.