In defense of the offensive line
But how are you supposed to block 8 guys?
On the first series of the game, Michigan looked Dylan Morris square in the face and said, "we don't believe you can throw the ball more than 10 yards down the field you untalented little fucker" and dared him. And boy did he and Jon Don make them look like fucking geniuses despite employing the most obvious strategy against a team w. a noodle-armed QB of all time.
They played their safeties at the linebacker level all night and spent the entire game run blitzing.
Now I want you to imagine you're an offensive lineman. Imagine you've got safeties and linebackers crashing into your legs all night while you're trying to simply handle the man in front of you. You have 4 and 5 star athletes attacking you high and low because your offense is handicapped.
Would you be good at your job?
I hope the answer is no.
I hope you realize an offense with a QB who can't take the top off a defense with regularity is not an offense that work's in today's college football landscape. Just like the O-line has to protect Morris, Morris has to protect them. And his play is leaving them on an island to die.
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This is true. But also consider Michigan didn’t even have to throw the ball once and they would win comfortably so the problem is we just aren’t playing our defense.
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Well yeah. For some reason we still employ the strategy of playing a safety 40 yards off the LOS when we know they're running.AtomicDawg said:This is true. But also consider Michigan didn’t even have to throw the ball once and they would win comfortably so the problem is we just aren’t playing our defense.
Harbaugh has never been afraid to totally sell out on a strategy. It's hurt him at times, but when you've got a team as inept as the Dawgs are right now, it's easy pickings. -
It’s almost like jimmy has never figured out that this run the ball strategy with multiple tight ends snd a full back is hard for him to defend because he plays nickel with deep safeties regardless of the formation.BroadcastingDawg said:
Well yeah. For some reason we still employ the strategy of playing a safety 40 yards off the LOS when we know they're running.AtomicDawg said:This is true. But also consider Michigan didn’t even have to throw the ball once and they would win comfortably so the problem is we just aren’t playing our defense.
Harbaugh has never been afraid to totally sell out on a strategy. It's hurt him at times, but when you've got a team as inept as the Dawgs are right now, it's easy pickings.
He is coaching himself out of a coordinator position for his next job with this performance. -
Michigan's offense had 40 yards passing. Their QB might be worse than Morris. He couldn't take the top off our defense. It didn't matter because their Oline did enough to get their run game going.
Our Oline and run game is dog shit. Pass pro and run blocking are both horrible. Morris and our RBs aren't talented enough to make up for it. Our Oline and running game is the biggest problem with our offense. -
Well we still played our base defense knowing that. We only adapted at times running our nickel on run blitzes.RedRocket said:Michigan's offense had 40 yards passing. Their QB might be worse than Morris. He couldn't take the top off our defense. It didn't matter because their Oline did enough to get their run game going.
Our Oline and run game is dog shit. Pass pro and run blocking are both horrible. Morris and our RBs aren't talented enough to make up for it. Our Oline and running game is the biggest problem with our offense.
If I were a UW coach I would have done what Harbaugh did. But we didn't.
Michigan is going to lose some games in the B10. They're not very good. We're just worse and 10x dumber. -
Kirkland got his ass kicked all fucking night
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Yep. This was truly his 9/11.JoeEDangerously said:Kirkland got his ass kicked all fucking night
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This is so hilariously trueAtomicDawg said:
It’s almost like jimmy has never figured out that this run the ball strategy with multiple tight ends snd a full back is hard for him to defend because he plays nickel with deep safeties regardless of the formation.BroadcastingDawg said:
Well yeah. For some reason we still employ the strategy of playing a safety 40 yards off the LOS when we know they're running.AtomicDawg said:This is true. But also consider Michigan didn’t even have to throw the ball once and they would win comfortably so the problem is we just aren’t playing our defense.
Harbaugh has never been afraid to totally sell out on a strategy. It's hurt him at times, but when you've got a team as inept as the Dawgs are right now, it's easy pickings.
He is coaching himself out of a coordinator position for his next job with this performance. -
They used the same defensive schemes the Ravens use with less talent. Our offensive coaching didn’t adjust. Even Army can scheme against it. This coaching staff is in over its head -
If UW had played the defense MIchigan played they wouldn't have run the ball nearly as well.RedRocket said:Michigan's offense had 40 yards passing. Their QB might be worse than Morris. He couldn't take the top off our defense. It didn't matter because their Oline did enough to get their run game going.
Our Oline and run game is dog shit. Pass pro and run blocking are both horrible. Morris and our RBs aren't talented enough to make up for it. Our Oline and running game is the biggest problem with our offense.
We gave up over 300 yards on the ground and STILL had a safety so deep that you couldn't see him on screen at the snap.
Harbaugh used the David Shaw script against us except he didn't even need to be able to be able to throw the ball to 6'7" TEs on third down to do it.
We had no answer on either side of the ball.
The players may not be as good as we thought they were but they're not the problem. This staff puts them in the absolute worst possible positions to succeed.
I'm surprised you're surprised that they don't.
