What Did We Learn? - Michigan

Stumpy1 said:
His penalty yesterday was BS. Michigan should have been called for the penalty.

I would move Gottula to RT and keep EP as LT.
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Thought the same thing. Just because the DL who crossed wasn't in front of him doesn't matter. He moved because the UM DL came across. At this point I'd rather lose 5 yards on the penalty than a down and 8 yards on a sack........
 
Hilltop said:
Sims and Satterfield were the best we could get during the transition. It has been clearly discussed those weren't our first options. Elijah is very talented. We competed with many teams for his services. He has committed a few false starts... it is a problem. However it isn't like that was a known glaring issue that we just overlooked.

We were 2 missed tackles away from winning this game by 1 or maybe 2 scores. Michigan is definitely the over all more talented team so I would say our coaching staff is pretty damn good. I think we are headed in the right direction by pursuing 4 and 5 start talent. We got 20 of them on campus yesterday. Maybe those podcasts and different media releases are helping? Time will tell.
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They need to be on either side of the line and contribute early and often. That's our biggest issue. Both lines.
 
lo country said:
Thought the same thing. Just because the DL who crossed wasn't in front of him doesn't matter. He moved because the UM DL came across. At this point I'd rather lose 5 yards on the penalty than a down and 8 yards on a sack........
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Terrible call. Tackles are almost always tracking movement out the side of their eye. I've never seen a call of "not threatening" after a defender has entered the neutral zone.

That and EJ getting hit with no PI we're killers.
 
ZRod said:
Terrible call. Tackles are almost always tracking movement out the side of their eye. I've never seen a call of "not threatening" after a defender has entered the neutral zone.

That and EJ getting hit with no PI we're killers.
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That was the first time I ever saw a ref wave off offside due to "not threatening." When he said it, I thought it was a joke. I didn't even know you could call that.
 
krc1995 said:
But also in six snaps he allowed a sack.
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When was the sack Pritchett gave up? Of the six plays he was in, he swallowed up the edge on at least two specific plays I remember. Of the eight sacks yesterday, Gunnar & Teddy accounted for at least six of them.

We can nit pick on Pritchett with the false starts, but he is the best tackle on our team at this point. We have pulled him and sit him immediately after every false start, but we allow Gunnar & Teddy a free pass when they give up multiple sacks or leave Dylan vulnerable.

Game Highlights

:35 seconds – 4th & 2 at the six, Gottula gets no push versus a standing edge. The pulling Spindler runs into his back due to the lack of push and play is blown up
2:35 – Gunnar slow to recognize rush coming from inside, gets driven back. His guy gets the sack.
4:33 – Bull rushed from interior linebacker puts Gunnar on skates, his guy eventually gets the sack
4:44 – (Hail Mary play) Nearly identical stunt the very next play, Gunnar again gets blown up. Dylan bailed immediately

I know this is targeted at Gunnar, but I think he's just not ready for the big stage yet. Against overmatched teams, he could certainly be solid, but gets exposed against good pass rushes. I'd prefer to have Pritchett as it's hard for a player to have a short leash for a false start but the guys in front of him give up sack after sack with almost no consequence.
 
gossamorharpy said:
We’re a below average front 7 unit in the big ten (we knew this going into season that front of the defense was a big question mark)

We’re a below average blocking unit in the big ten. This is the surprising part- all offseason we heard the hype around experienced, depth and potential. It’s too bad we’re stuck with the OL coach we have for obvious reasons- it’s blatantly clear that in year 5 or whatever he’s on now we’re never fielding an above average o line and it will continue to sink this team

Horrendous combo to have in the big ten
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In their defense, our Oline probably does look great in practice against our DLine.
 
lo country said:
:sick: Looked even worse from that aerial view......Only positive is this is on film and a "teachable and correctable moment".

Our tackles getting mauled at the LOS is pretty much what it is. Unsure how you can look at film and point to a technique or blown assignment. Saw one where their DE hit Gottula and and Husker (unsure who), but dude just put a hand on each dudes chest blew both of them off the LOS. Maybe need to look at different S&C programming. Not coach per say, but look at what other schools are doing.

Just sucks man. 0-29 against ranked teams....5-22 under Frost and now 3-10 in 1 score games under Rhule. 8-32 smh.....Maybe hire Saban as a consultant to review every facet of our operation....Examine everything.
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Yeah. Blew up Gottula and EJ. Made the play. Actually had to rewind that one I was so stunned.
 
Wistrom Disciple said:
When was the sack Pritchett gave up? Of the six plays he was in, he swallowed up the edge on at least two specific plays I remember. Of the eight sacks yesterday, Gunnar & Teddy accounted for at least six of them.

We can nit pick on Pritchett with the false starts, but he is the best tackle on our team at this point. We have pulled him and sit him immediately after every false start, but we allow Gunnar & Teddy a free pass when they give up multiple sacks or leave Dylan vulnerable.

Game Highlights
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PFF dinged Pritchett with one sack and one hurry. But also gave him the 2nd best score on running plays. Maybe it’s screwed because 6 snaps is not a lot of data
 
I learned that Michigan has more athletic talent than Nebraska which makes sense because they recruit better. Controlling the line of scrimmage means a lot in this league but other than Penn State and USC, I still see Nebraska matching up very well with the remaining teams on the schedule. Plus USC is at home so who knows? MGoBlog was correct though about the OL and DL. It's very average or "mid" as the youth say. The people who glossed over losing Robinson and Hutmacher were fools.
 
Pretty clear the majority on this board are incapable of taking off the scarlet shaded glasses. Moral victories abound here and many casuals here wanna just selectively overlook the fact we got punched in the mouth at home to a 2nd tier, at best, big ten team this year.

  • Michigan can’t throw the ball and they ran all over us, often never touched until they reached the 2nd level of our defense.
  • Turns out “having 3 LTs” is much like having a quarterback competition- usually you have zero starters capable of big boy football. I find it comical that Matt Rhule is held hostage for his OL coach to simply placate the raiola family and Dylan’s services. His uncles inept coaching is gonna end up getting Dylan injured- o the dark irony of this situation
  • Much like the 2nd half of Illinois giving all teams a script to beat us, Michigan just laid it out for the whole big ten to take advantage of. Run the ball, rush 4 and drop back 7 and you’ll find yourself owning time of possession and making Nebraska dink and dunk its way to the redzone only for the offense to completely stall out.
 
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