Poor Damn Maryland (QB Injury?)
November 5th, 2017 at 10:02 AM ^
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November 5th, 2017 at 3:47 PM ^
Game plan should focus more on Peters and the passing game. Maryland ranks 99th in total defense, 102 in passing defense, and their rush defense is 76.
Edit:
And for people complaining about the passing strategy last night, Minnesota has the 11th ranked passing defense in the country.
Combine that with the poor weather, and you get Higdon and Evans eating.
November 5th, 2017 at 9:21 PM ^
November 5th, 2017 at 10:06 AM ^
For as long as they wear those atrocious unis, I shall reserve my pity.
Grind them up.
Go Blue!
November 6th, 2017 at 8:52 AM ^
I actually thought the recent unis with yellow helmets and yellow jerseys looked very clean and classic - much more befitting to the B1G. They should stick with those.
Unis aside, a closer look at the depth chart reveals that Michigan itself will be starting their...gasp... third string QB.
November 5th, 2017 at 10:09 AM ^
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November 5th, 2017 at 9:20 PM ^
This is a beer brat:
November 5th, 2017 at 10:24 PM ^
the best part of this gif is the men who are onlooking act as though what she just did is completely routine
November 5th, 2017 at 12:15 PM ^
"Borten" is lace or braids. "Schlager" is a common word having several translations into English depending on context. It could be "hitter" or "beater," but here it's probably more like "setter" or "pounder." "Braid" or "Lace" setter apparently describes some occupation, probably dating from the seventeenth or even sixteenth century. At that time as in England many German family names followed the occupation of the family patriarch. So names such as "Schmidt" (Smith) and "Zimmermann" (carpenter) are common German names.
So "Bortenschlager" would be something like "lacesetter," maybe in some form of textile manufacture, but that's just a guess.
November 5th, 2017 at 12:59 PM ^
I prefer braid pounder. As in fetish for braided hair >.>
November 5th, 2017 at 3:24 PM ^
User name checks out.
November 5th, 2017 at 5:28 PM ^
A spicey sausage, or wiener, as some say.
November 5th, 2017 at 10:10 AM ^
I feel for Durkin...he is doing a great job at that program, but these injuries are so debilitating to his program
November 5th, 2017 at 10:16 AM ^
November 5th, 2017 at 3:25 PM ^
It always pays to remember that many, many football partisans are completely stupid motherfuckers.
November 5th, 2017 at 5:24 PM ^
Thank goodness Michigan fans would never question a successful head coach whose team underperformed with a backup QB.
November 5th, 2017 at 10:15 AM ^
DJ deserves whatever comes his way after 2015 OSU.
November 5th, 2017 at 10:55 AM ^
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November 5th, 2017 at 12:44 PM ^
The same explanation doesn't necessarily apply to superficially similar cases.
The OP was simply suggesting that the loss to OSU in 2015 is not necessarily an indictment of Durkin's coaching abilities. Should we blame Don Brown for our recent game against PSU? I know there might be reasons to think Durkin had his attention divided at the end of 2015, but we don't know that this was the primary reason we were beaten so badly by OSU, which is all the OP's remarks need suggest. Personally, I don't feel strongly about Durkin one way or another.
November 5th, 2017 at 1:30 PM ^
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November 5th, 2017 at 11:28 AM ^
ND was pretty bad defensively under Van Gorder though, so that's not that surprising.
IIRC, OSU rushed for either their most or second-most yards of the season against us. My recollection of that game is that we pretty much played the whole way in our base D, not changing much up even as Elliott was gashing us, and died by a thousand cuts.
November 5th, 2017 at 5:00 PM ^
November 5th, 2017 at 10:16 AM ^
We need Rutgers to become our savior and beat PSU/MSU. Oh boy.
November 5th, 2017 at 11:09 AM ^
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November 5th, 2017 at 10:36 AM ^
...UofD Jesuit, Brand, can't play yet.
The good news is the DC's won't have any video to use to prepare for him.
November 5th, 2017 at 10:40 AM ^
November 5th, 2017 at 10:46 AM ^
Brand is the one who went in when Maryland's starter got hurt.
November 5th, 2017 at 11:24 AM ^
...thought he was still waiting out his tranfer.
Now there's a chance! A Cubman will come through especially if Gus is calling the game.
November 5th, 2017 at 2:38 PM ^
You realize that we're MD's next opponent, right?
November 5th, 2017 at 8:45 PM ^
UofM's D will "steel his spine" in a loss just enough to ready him for two big upsets.
November 5th, 2017 at 10:47 AM ^
November 5th, 2017 at 10:49 AM ^
This is what happens when you mail it in the week of the Game to interview for another job. That was an offense to the laws of football and this is Durkin's justice.
November 5th, 2017 at 10:54 AM ^
November 5th, 2017 at 11:04 AM ^
He interviewed for the Maryland job the week of the Game and was announced as their coach shortly afterward.
In the meantime, while he was still employed by us as defensive coordinator, he seems to have totally disregarded the effective MSU defense gameplan from a week earlier (in which they made ample use of their safeties against the run) and made sure to keep a high safety all game long to protect against JT Barrett's awesome passing . . . while OSU ran for a season-high against us.
November 5th, 2017 at 12:07 PM ^
November 5th, 2017 at 1:45 PM ^
Which was all the more reason to not play vanilla. We needed safety help against the run but prioritized pass defense more, for some reason. We needed to force them to throw and take our chances in single coverage. Maybe they would have beaten us over the top, but the alternative (letting them run it 50 times) sure didn't work.
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