Michigan has a bowl jinx (or games out West) and it goes back as far as I can remember. Back to Bo and the Rose Bowl, maybe even further back. Everything went wrong tonight, everything. The first half was a comedy of errors and even though Michigan decided to play a football game in the 2nd half, it was also a comedic showcase of mistakes. The game ended with our award-winning center snapping it too early.
- Edwards gets caught on the first play?
- Michigan designs a stupid ass TE Philly special on the goal line? I'm sorry you're not fucking playing Purdue.
- JJ throwing 2 TD's to TCU
- The field was terrible and a concern going in. If you have a playoff game, please have better turf!
- The officials were awful, missing marks, throwing flags by mistake, The Roman Wilson non-TD was just terrible and the difference in the game
- Michigan not able to score TD's at the goal line.
- Minter stop blitzing, an experienced talented QB, will burn you almost every time.
- The defense was awful in the 2nd half.
- Where was the Duggan spy? I never saw one.
- Michigan had zero pass rush with the front 4
- Michigan's running game plan against an aggressive 3-3-5 was either absent or very poor.
- I know it worked out great having Haskins a former LB be the power back the last 2 years, but don't do that to a kid against OSU, Big Ten Championship, and CFP.
- That play where Mullings fumbled on the goal line was just a terrible play call. He is not an experienced running back.
- So Michigan had no plan to block a blitzing LB all game?
- I really think the Schoonover injury hurt Michigan badly.
- Every time the Michigan Oline wins the Joe Moore they get embarrassed in the next game.
- The tackling was very poor by Michigan's defense
If I'm thinking about this correctly, Michigan gave TCU 13 points in pick 6's and turned the ball over twice on the goal line? That is a 4 TD swing. Michigan beat themselves in this game. TCU got Michigan into a shootout, exactly where they wanted them.
I think the first play of the game got the Michigan coaches thinking they could run against TCU. It was pretty obvious early in the 1st half Michigan needed to be more aggressive with the pass. The Michigan coaches wasted a lot of game time, trying to run the ball in the middle of the field.
The upside is Michigan is in no position to play Georgia or even have a rematch with OSU next week. The team looked rusty, sloppy, slow, and quite frankly not healthy. Games like this remind me every year that the most important thing is beating Ohio State and winning a Big Ten Championship as Michigan seems to lose all momentum in the month between games.
Any other upside? That second half should be good for WR recruiting and should prove that Michigan has to be more aggressive on offense, because they can.
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A comedy of errors by us. Idk what our offensive coordinators were thinking with the play calling. Inexcusable on the 4th and goal. If you want to flex your muscles go with yhe ball in your best players hands. Not a stupid trick play. After the horrible non td call by Wilson, we decide to run a fb dive to our converted lb with a te in the as a hb? Come on...we were overthinking the game way too much instead of just playing. The SEC refs didn't want michigan to play Georgia. Obvious TD by Wilson, Obvious targeting on the final play, not to mention they missed an obvious pick play on Johnston 76 yard td. The other wr picked off will Johnson which lead to the wide open wr. Smh. Despite all that we shot ourselves in the foot way too many times. Congrats to TCU for advancing but I know are the better team. Hopefully tbis leads us into another playoff appearance next year and become a more explosive offense. Defensively we need to find a pass rush with our front 4. We still got a big ten title and beat OSU, but this was a missed opportunity.
Bottom line: Michigan got out played. JJ was JJ. good at times, horrible at others. Pass rush was nonexistent and when they did get pressure they lost contain. Think Jesse Minter panicked! Donovan Edwards is a good back, but no Blake Corum. Don't see him get many after contact yards. Jim's decision to go for it on 4th and goal at the 2, maybe not bad, but the play call was ass! Play call was an issue all season. This is going to be a double kick to the balls if OSU ends up beating GA.
The upside is Michigan is in no position to play Georgia or even have a rematch with OSU next week. The team looked rusty, sloppy, slow, and quite frankly not healthy. Games like this remind me every year that the most important thing is beating Ohio State and winning a Big Ten Championship as Michigan seems to lose all momentum in the month between games.
And that's what your coaching staff is for. Sorry but this take is total weak ass shit. If that's the case then fire your coaching staff. If your coaching staff can't get your team ready for any bowl game then they need to find another job. this totally pisses me off! giving the coaches a pass, that beating MSU or beating PSU or beating OSU or winning the B1G is good enough. That's a total loser's mentality and unacceptable!
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Lol was it the OSU grad referee who mis spotted the ball on the interception?
Tough and depressing game. It’s challenging to play your game when you’re down a couple TD’s. Would be interesting to have seen if Mich could have ground it out, pounding the rock. But once we got down 2 td’s that strategy is too risky - esp with a team that can score.
Def seemed unable to deliver any pressure. Oline didn’t play like a dominant Oline - think we are better as run block than pass block.
All said - the boys fought and stayed close. Nice to see a gun slinger offense is possible.
But, that 4 & 2 call really killed us. And then the pick-6 after the D got a 3-out was really the spark that Tcu needed. Those first few minutes are so important, and we out coached ourselves with a stupid play and then a horrible pick-6
Jimmy went for the kill on that 4 and 2, take the three points. TCU defended the run with precision, knowing that Michigan only runs up the middle. No one predicted we would beat Ohio State.... almost no one predicted a loss vs. TCU. We were on a mission, but so was TCU. So close was a match-up with Ohio State, but was not to be. The missed tackles were costly. Coaching staff slow to adjust that we could not run the ball effectively (almost like the first play was bait). All in all a stupendous season, like going to your favorite restaurant, and finding out no deserts left. Go Blue!
Fire the coaching staff?!? Are you daft? Two Big Ten Chamionships and Playoff appearances in a row. Yes let can them. My God get real...
Bottom line is we had the ball at the goal line three times in the 1st half and came away with 3 points. Also, rushing defense was atrocious! Passing defense was actually okay. I'm disappointed like we all are, but I am proud of this team, coaches and players, for the tremendous season and winning back to back conference championships.
Beating Ohio State and winning a Big Ten Championship was also Bo's main goal every year, going to the Rose Bowl was treated more of a secondary award for the team, and thus his bowl record.
2 years in a row Michigan has faced a team in the CFP that had lost a prior painful conference championship game, but was giving a second chance to make it right a month later playing the CFP. Does that team now playing in the CFP have more focus, motivation, and desire to win after a heartbreaking loss in the conference championship game? I believe it does somewhat, but I do give TCU credit, we were out-coached in this game, the game plan on both sides of the ball was weak, and miss-opportunities cost us the game.
Live n Learn ... Looking forward to the 2023 team where we could be even more prolific in opening in up on offense, and closing it down on defense. Go Blue!
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