Just can't put it all together

Watching Michigan this year is a little like being a Lions fan. You hope they win, but your pretty sure they won't. In fact this year, I have found that loses really don't even bother me. In prior years, it would take me days to shake a loss, now I sort of expect it. In a way it's sort of refreshing, in other ways it's very disturbing.

Michigan played MSU close for 3 1/2 quarters but folded like a cheap lawn chair down the stretch. Memo to Sparty: enjoy your time in the spot light, you beat your in-state rival, and you were the better team. The problem is you weren't much better then the 2 win Wolverines and that should worry you for the rest of the season. But this time is yours, enjoy the Alamo Bowl and we will see you next year.

Now on to the game..............

In the WTF section of today's post, here are a couple of things I just don't understand:

1. Why does our defense have a tendency to let slow "white" receivers beat our Safeties? I know it has nothing to do with race or speed, but for goodness sakes, cover the damn wide receivers. The D line stopped Ringer most of the day and got pressure on Hoyer and our Safeties let the slow State receivers get wide open and go for big plays all day. I am just amazed how bad our safeties are. Stevie Brown must be failing Geometry because he can't find an angle to save his life. This is just plan terrible and the reason Michigan lost the game.
2. Why can't the Michigan Offense get the ball to the WR's? Throw the damn ball down the field! The drive at the end of the half shows that if you throw the ball down field you will open up running lanes for the running backs. BTW: When it's 3rd and 4 we don't need to run a 20 yards out if the WR is not wide open, throw the ball 7 yards and move the chains. WTF is with throwing the ball to the full back when he was covered by a corner back? Come on Threet you have to make better decisions then that. We have 4 or 5 guys in the pattern, someone is open!
3. The first Minor touchdown was a pure gift. But we will take it.
4. Did anyone see the block in the back on first MSU touchdown? I'm pretty sure it was Morgan Trent that got hit in the back.
5. The pass interference on Harrison in the 4th quarter was a terrible call.
6. Why can't our defense stop a 3rd and long? I blame Scott Shafer for that BS Zone that he runs. Michigan's defense has a better chance of stopping it's opponent on 3rd and 2 then it does 3rd and 16. That is just sad.
7. Steve, I know it's a freshman thing to stare down the man your throwing to, but at least look off a safety or something.
8. We are not fooling anyone by running the same damn plays over and over. I know these are Freshman but we need some better play calling to keep the defense on their heels. If a Linebacker is going to cover one of our WR's we need to throw to that guy.

Thing that went well:

1. Minor played well again. Nice to see him step up and play with heart.
2. Brandon Graham was un-blockable most of the day. He will make a nice living in the NFL.
3. Koger is going to be something special, we need to find a way to get him the ball more often.
4. Zoltan put on a show in the punt game and is Michigan's only All American this year.
5. The Defensive Line played very well and didn't let Ringer down the middle at all.
6. Nobody fumbled a kick off return

All in all, Michigan played ok, they just couldn't move the ball on offense enough to keep MSU's offense off the field. The Michigan Defense played well (outside the Safeties) enough for a win.

Purdue is next and they are terrible as well. It should be a "Snake Oil" Classic!