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I poo poo on Speight all year and he's good, then last week I start talking about how actually he's good, and he instantly becomes trash. I'm not saying Michigan played well at all, too many penalties, and Iowa's good RB (I wish Ferentz had insisted on giving the bigger guy the ball most of the time like he had the rest of the season) had probably 7 runs where he juked someone out of their shoes, but man, this is an easy win if our QB doesn't miss a ton of open touchdowns. Amara Darboh predictably owned Iowa's freshman CB who was forced into the lineup due to injury all game, and he missed him behind the defense for touchdowns 4 times. 11-26 103 yards. And he got hurt at the end of the game. In the long run the loss wouldn't matter as they control their destiny, but a QB performance like that probably isn't going to beat Indiana, much less Ohio State. The offensive line is not good enough to run the ball when the other team knows it is coming (unless it's Rutgers or something) so if he can't hit some deep balls this team is not going to score many points against teams with a pulse. I don't know if it's the "first road game that wasn't against a completely trash team" or if he's just "bad" but not good. edit: w/r/t Ferentz I mostly enjoyed making fun of him because the team last year was statistically not too far off the team this year. I guess I should have focused on 'that means that with preparation and a poor performance from Michigan they could pull an upset' more than 'lol they were actually bad last year and he got a huge extension haha' woops! Marquis de Pyro fucked around with this message at 16:55 on Nov 13, 2016 |
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MourningView posted:They should definitely give Wadley the ball more (especially in the passing game but they're kinda slowly figuring that out out of necessity), but Daniels is good too. He's had to run into stacked fronts all year and trucked multiple Michigan linebackers yesterday. Well, I'm not saying that Daniels is 'bad', but he averaged 1.1 YPC less than Wadley, and it's been that much or worse against every decent team Iowa has played. I also imagine he would have been even less effective if Wadley hadn't spread Michigan's defense out to begin with. It was a good gameplan from Davis. I think most Michigan fans were highly confident because they assumed Iowa would just line up and run up the middle every play as they are prone to doing. Unfortunately, covering a shifty RB in space is by far Michigan's biggest weakness, and I'm sure Curtis Samuel won't take advantage of that...oh noooo
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MourningView posted:nah that was still wadley. He did not get touched at all the first time lol but he did basically win the game with his awesome punts. If that safety is a touchback instead Michigan probably wins and he had two other awesome ones later
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Nov 13, 2016 18:45
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vyst posted:Probably Marquis de Pyro lol, yeah, you see me criticizing Harbaugh a lot There are a bunch of Michigan fans who are acting as if Michigan is a garbage team and Harbaugh can't coach now because they lost one game, they're dumb. It would be like a Florida fan criticizing their coach..well bad example. Pretend I said Clemson or some other school that is actually relevant.
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LeeMajors posted:Can't wait for marquis de pyro to lash out irrationally at someones program for talking about it. Yes, when the posters specifically mention me by name, it's very irrational. Florida still sucks and likely will for the foreseeable future by the way. If only Florida and Michigan could play in a bowl game and settle this. Oh. Well, what if Florida had Tim Tebow? Oh. really it's pretty funny given that I am generally pessimistic about Michigan and you people act like I'm the biggest homer just because I respond to the dumb posts about Harbaugh. Can't wait until my 'we're going to lose to Ohio State' prediction gets spun into some classic Michigan arrogance Marquis de Pyro fucked around with this message at 00:35 on Nov 15, 2016 |
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Nov 15, 2016 00:32
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There's no reason to worry about Michigan's ranking, they have a very high chance of losing to Ohio State in which case they will obviously drop out, and if they somehow win that one they'd deserve to be in anyway. They should have just put spots 2-7 or so as TBD IN 2 WEEKS
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