Iowa Post Game

John T. Grelick - DetNews

My last sentence of the preview post on Friday included this statement, "Michigan can win this game on defense", which is exactly what the Wolverines did on Saturday afternoon.  It was nice to see Don Brown not get out coached in a big game and even ran a bunch of zone, which blows my mind.

There is also plenty of problems, which we will get to in our traditional Cheers and Jeers:

Cheers:

• Best Defensive performance in nearly a calendar year. 
• Kitty Paye was regularly beating an NFL caliber OT 
• 8 sacks! 
• Iowa 1 net rushing yard! 
• 3 total points given up 
• 3 INT's
• Cam McGrone is the next Devin Bush (did Ross get Willie Pipp'ed)
• Hill was strong in coverage (minus that long 3rd down conversion)
• I'm super proud of Mike Dana's performance 
• Dax will be Michigan's next 5 star superstar! 
• Don Brown and his formations/game plan confused Iowa all afternoon

Jeers:

• Michigan's offense is awful 
• Shea is regressing and missing reads 
• WR's had some bad drops during the game 
• I didn't love the play calling, to me it looked like there was running lanes on the outside, running into the middle was a win for Iowa. 
• fumble issues 
• Special Teams were not good 
• 2 missed field goals (Judy Moody has to hit that last one)
• Multiple bad punts 
• Paye's hamstrings 
• To many missed tackles on defense 
• Iowa's 3rd and long conversions 
• Stunts still giving the OL issues 

I'm one to jump all over Big Ten officials for sucking, I thought the crew on Saturday did a good and fair job.  I only saw one missed holding call on Dana late in the game. 

Shea Patterson is lucky that his back-up is injured because I believe he would have been pulled on Saturday.  His pick was a terrible read, with a TE wide open short for a first down.  His lack of a running threat in this offense is causing the running game to be way below average.   He looks nervous with happy feet in the pocket and not the guy that led this team last year.   The OL played decent and still Shea didn't see the field well at all.   Now some of that goes to the Iowa defense, but I believe a lot falls to Shea. 

Memo to Nordin, Iowa gave Michigan free 3 points at the half, make the kick.   Moody that was a horrific miss in the 4th quarter and difference of being up 2 scores.  

This team is going to struggle all year and is nowhere close to Ohio State or even Penn State at this point.   The defense will need to win games until the offense can find something that works.  A win is a win and we will take it, on to Illinois.  On a side note, Brandon Peters was knocked out of Saturday's game against Minnesota on what it looked to be a concussion.   Which probably will make him questionable for next weeks game against his old team. 

from The BIG HOUSE Blog http://mbighouse.blogspot.com/2019/10/iowa-post-game.html