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| Gary Flying by Todd McInturf from DetNews |
Michigan for the second week in a row played a football game that was tough to describe. ESPN called it sluggish, I lean more to non-disciplined. Seven penalties for 79 yards and another turnover. Dumb mistakes at dumb times. Every time Ty Isaac breaks a long run, I'm now waiting for a penalty to call it back. That poor kid is playing great and keeps having touchdowns called back. Now there is a injury concern for Michigan's leading rusher, which I'm sure we won't hear about from the Michigan staff this week.
The offense needs to be taking Don Brown and the defense out to a nice dinner. That unit is winning games for the Wolverines right now. They better add one more unit to that dinner and its the Michigan Special Teams- DPJ with a TD on a punt return and 5 fields from Nordin. The offense has it's head in the sand again and honestly looks a bit lost out there. The list of offensive problems, in a word is offensive.
-Can't score TD's in the Red Zone
-Continues to turn the ball over
-Dropped balls
-Poor play calling
-Poor 3rd down conversions (5-14)
-Ian Bunting has zero catches on the year
-Wheatly has 1 catch
-Wilton is inconsistent and was 14-23 for 169 yards
-Penalties that kill drives or call back TD's
Is this the Jedd effect? Does Michigan miss his play calling? Which I thought was way too conservative and vanilla yesterday. Is this Wilton not playing like a senior should be? Is this young WR's not getting open? The line not protecting? I think it could be all of the above. Everyone in the stadium knew the Air Force defense was going to blitz on 3rd down and Michigan didn't seem to have a hot route or Wilton just didn't throw it. I felt like Michigan ran the same 6 or 7 plays all day. Do we have a screen in the play book? Where is the west coast offense we were hearing about during camp?
I know young teams makes young mistakes, but if this team believes in talent over experience then they better start playing more disciplined football. If they want an example of that, look at the other sideline on Saturday.
Let's go to the Cheers and Jeers before I get too depressed.
Cheers:
- Nordin going 5-5 on field goals
- DPJ Punt returned for a TD
- Ty Isaac for another good day
- Higdon for his run late and playing well
- Michigan's Defense!
- Michigan's Special Teams (minus one unit)
- Bush had 11 tackles and 1 sack
- McCray had 11 and 2 TFL
- Winovich 9 with 1.5 sacks and 2 TFL
- Chris Evans had 30 yards and one fumble that looked like he just dropped the ball.
- Can we try a different punter please?
- Crawford had a bad drop
- Does Crawford look like he is running on kick off returns?
- Penalties are killing this team!
- This game was close and scary for 3.5 quarters
- Wilton is struggling with accuracy and had a very bad fumble
- Tarik Black and Ty Isaac both could have injuries
- No Red Zone touchdowns
- One offensive TD by the Wolverines
I didn't see the game but Purdue is going to be the talk of the Big Ten this weekend. Michigan all of sudden has to travel to a team that is playing well that many thought would be a pretty easy win for the Wolverines. Purdue beat an SEC team in their home stadium yesterday 35-3. The Wolverines are going to have their handful next weekend against a hot team on the road. If Michigan's plays like they did the last two weeks, they will struggle to win this game.
from The BIG HOUSE Blog http://mbighouse.blogspot.com/2017/09/these-mistakes-will-cost-michigan-game.html
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