Imperfectly Dominating

Daniel Mears - Detroit News

The game started a bit nervously for Michigan fans as on the first play sophomore LB Devin Bush gets flagged for a hit out of bounds and a possible targeting penalty, which if the review had agreed to  would have cost Bush the rest of the game.   That didn't happen and Wolverine fans took a deep breath. 


During the rest of the game, that same feeling seemed to exist at least for me.   Michigan dominating on defense but the offense and Wilton kept throwing TD's to the Gators.   I agree that the first pick was not on Wilton, but if he hits Crawford in the chest that ball is not intercepted. 


Michigan was able to run the ball on a tough Florida Defense and I thought the Michigan Offensive line played well enough to secure the victory.   The story of the game was clearly that Don Brown or Donnie as the ABC crew liked to call him is a Wizard.   Florida is not a good offensive team and Don Brown proved it again with his re-loaded defense.   The Florida offense scored 3 points and had 9 first downs on the day.   The Michigan defense dominated the overwhelmed Gators offense and it didn't matter who they put under center or gave the ball to.  


With a dominating performance on defense the Wolverines have plenty to work on, so lets take a look at Cheer and Jeers for Week 1:




Cheers

• Another dominating performance from the Michigan defense
• 6 Sacks = Wow!
• The offensive line played well
• Isaac with over a 100 yards!
• Black is the real deal at WR!
• Grant Perry might have the best hands on the team
• Hello Nick Eubanks!
• Bush had 7 tackles and 2 sacks
• Michigan ran for over 200 yards
• Nordin was sharp early with some long field goals
• 433 yards total for the Wolverine offense

Jeers

• Free 14 points on 2 picks 6's can't happen
• To many penalties, one cost Michigan a TD
• Love DPJ but worried about ball security on his punt returns
• Too many field goals and not enough TD's
• It didn't seem like Crawford had 1 catch for 3 yards
• Nordin's last miss was a bad one
• CB depth might be an issue
• Michigan had a punt blocked/tipped

It feels good to win a big game and happy to dominate the Gators again but there are plenty of things to work on before Penn State and Ohio State.   Good thing the strong Michigan staff has time to fix the issues and get this team ready for a great finish. 





from The BIG HOUSE Blog http://mbighouse.blogspot.com/2017/09/imperfectly-dominating.html