10-7 lead for the softies with howard the schmuck throwing an int.

First time is a player mistake.

Second time is on the coaches, especially since the headset is now a thing.

If you are a ground and pound team, you can't make that mistake.

minnesota doesn't score or have enough time otherwise.

Hopefully the million analysts we hired can get that info to the coaches.

… commentators opining that Alex Orji was a Jalen Milroe to-be. Their physical size, running speed and arm strength were so similar. It was just that Orji needed more coaching and experience.

Today I’ve watched Alex play a full game and Milroe play a half game so far. Without making a detailed comparison, I’m afraid I can’t agree with the comparison. It’s not even close. Anyone else have an opinion?

Anyone else getting a ‘Connection Is Not Private’ error when signing on the board on mobile (safari)?

at Bama? UGA is getting shellacked

Chance of getting Nick Sheridan back to Michigan from Alabama?

Only for one job, I’d guess, and that one is filled.

Not looking too pretty against Wisconsin…. Was kinda hoping they’d win to make last week look better

Minnesota head coach P.J. Fleck sung high praises of Michigan defensive coordinator Wink Martindale, discussed the Gophers' offsides call on an onside kick recovery late, and more after his team's narrow defeat at the Big House on Saturday:

Kalel Mullings, the former linebacker turned bulldozing running back, brings memories of Hassan Haskins. Michigan rode its RB1 to victory in the last two weeks and will likely continue to do so.
🔗🔽

Admittedly the OC who designed and called this play is one of the most experienced and successful offensive coaches in college football.

QB, RB and RT fake a RPO to the right side, following the RT… C and LG pull to the left, followed by the Slot Reciever… QB turns back to left and throws a shallow flat pass back to the Slot…. Slot Reciever follows the pulling C and LG down the wide open left side, 40 yards for a TD.

Questions

• Do we have RPO’s in our offensive playbook?
• How often do we throw into the flats to our RB or Slot receivers?
• How often do we use misdirection plays of any kind?
• Our QB has excellent running skills. How often do we call plays featuring his running, except when he’s trying to escape broken plays?

Initial reaction, Michigan had no business winning that game. The offside call on the onside kick was highly suspect. I have my doubts as to whether or not the defense had enough gas in the tank without Stewart or Johnson to close that game out. Mason and KG were exhausted and Minn receivers were playing lights out.

This all came back to two plays, one from the offense and one from the defense. Up 24-3, Alex Orji, with time, throws a pick when even a decent pass, not a good pass, great pass, excellent or elite level pass, would've been enough to get a TD. Loveland was wide open down the seam. Edwards was even more open when the corner turned him loose down the sideline. Orji opted for Loveland but threw an unfathomably poor pass for a D1 P5 quarterback into the middle of the field that not only could a safety reacting late get back into the play but make a play on the ball. Minnesota starts going tempo and gets more than a few great catches from their receivers but still end up in a 4th down. Mason knocks the ball down but gets called for a hands to the face, 1st down. A TD a few plays later and Minn is in business.

Mich coaching after this was nothing short of abysmal. On the ensuing 3 and out, Campbell can't be afraid to have Orji pull the trigger on that third down. Minn is in 0 coverage on Michigan's 30-yard line. A 5-yard completion is going to go for a TD. Instead, he runs the ball when the entire stadium is believing 20 is getting the ball and he gets stoned. Later, Sherrone has to tell Orji, either on the sideline or over the headset, that he can't snap the ball with 10 seconds left on the play clock. That's inexperience on Orji's part but is about a 5 second fix from the head coach. That never gets passed. Wink is down two of his best players and his other two best players are so exhausted they need to be subbed out at critical moments in the 4th. He pressures to try to not allow time for a passing attack firing on 8 cylinders to execute but it doesn't matter. Minn QB was on target if he had time. If he didn't, receivers were playing out of their mind. Diving catches. Jumping catches. The TD catch in the end zone getting interfered with was insane.

Finally, in an ironic case of "ball don't lie," Orji fumbles a snap with a minute left and has to footrace a Minn player right after that onside kick.

This all goes back to the Orji pick and flag on Mason which would've probably had the second half go similar to the first. Not to be.

Fan base may have to get used to Michigan winning ugly this year. Tuttle being hurt doesn't help. Looking to next year, barring some big-time development, QB might be a wide open competition with a RS freshman right in the mix even if Tuttle stays beyond his 100th birthday.

Sherrone said it, a lot to clean up. Here's the real thing, it doesn't matter how you win or how it looks, a W is a W. On to next week. Go Blue.

D experts - help me understand the differences vs last year. What I’ve seen is the highly publicized LBs are not making nearly the amount of plays as last year. They don’t tackle as well in space and are not in position like last year. Teams are strategizing against the Graham/Grant rotations. It started with TX and other teams took notice. The students (former coaches) have surpassed the master/professor in terms of Defensive strategy and play calling.
Offense not sustaining drives is also a big contributor.

something else. Seems as if the B1G is much better this year across the board.

We need Portney to get us a QB every year! DAMMMMNNNN.

I think Moore made a big-time mistake going with Alex, and now he has painted himself into a corner.

Davis deserved benching in the Arkansas St. game. It was the right thing to do, but it was an overreaction to name Orji the starter the following Monday.

Davis is the only healthy guy in the quarterback room who can run the offense. As much as I love Alex, he can't and isn't running the offense.

The correct move would have been to express faith in Davis, acknowledging that he's a young player with limited experience but emphasizing his potential to learn from his mistakes and grow.

Then, you follow that up with a more conservative game plan, protecting him and letting him learn along the way.

Remember, the O-line did not pass block well at all when Davis was the starter, and he also had Don and his #1 back, not KM.

Moore has to find a way to return to having Davis under center. We must have some passing game, and Davis Warren is the only guy that gives us any hope of that.

A lot of our best guys were on the sidelines today, but the nonsense we witnessed today will lead to preventable losses down the road. Their QB got hot, and we had no answers.

The officiating was horrible today on both sides of the ball, but lucky for us, the last bad call went our way. We got lucky.

We HAVE to start Jack Tuttle against Washington.

I just don’t get some on this website. Always so damn negative. Guy does good oh he is the greatest and then messes up we should bench him he sucks. This team is inexperiences plus so many new pieces. Several key players out. That was horrible don’t get me wrong. I feel Orji made some good throws and extended drives in his second game. Yea missing wide open Loveland change the game. But if I recall Warren did same thing. We lost real player leader last year. Probably never see those many caring players like that for another several years. I just believe no matter what this teams does some just look for reasons to say we are ****! 👎🏻. Luck is part of winning too. My two cents.

Michigan hangs on for a three point win over Minnesota.
Heres the postgame with Dennis Fithian & Jerry Diorio.
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We improved, we had mistakes, we won.

This was a potential letdown game.

If you expected more, you were smoking good stuff, we lost a lot of leaders and players last year. Almost all new coaches.

1. Funny how many on here feel they can coach better than the coaches on the team. Those people need to go out and coach now, even better apply for the HC position of Michigan.🤔 (Many on hear never even lead, mentor, or tried to motivate young men or women to be great.)
2. Was this pretty, no, but this is a young team coming off a big win, they avoided the letdown and won. It was about 8 minutes of bad play, but the last FG drive was Michigan.
3. THEY ARE NOT BENCHING ORJI. He looked better. There were bad routes and dropped passes. Reminds me of Milroe last year. Many of you were spoiled with JJ and don’t realize due to winning a NATTY and slow choice by JJ affect the portal. ORGI played better. He will improve. They are not starting Davis. Tuttle is not starting. LIVE WITH IT.
4. When they played around in the 3rd quarter, we got away from what makes us good. Last FG was back to it.
5. Fleck is a good coach and gets his players motivated. A few bad 4th down penalties and he had his team being competitive.
6. No more calls for Moore’s job. If he wasn’t the coach, this season would have been worse with all the players we would have lost in the portal.
7. Defensive side played okay, without two of it’s top players. OL changed when Hinton got hurt.

Take a few deep breaths. This year will be a gritty year.

This was a learning game in messy conditions. The team and coaches in their interviews afterwards as I listened as I walked to my car showed they will learn.

If you rode with US during the good times and a Natty, you have to ride during the tough times. (I remember 0:00, still sitting in Section 17 for 2019 OSU. 4 years later, a NATTY and OSU 2021 and 2022. )

Have faith. GO BLUE.

Note: for all the bandwagon fans. Time to get off the wagon!

I gotta drive home now.

Makes a Gen X guy like me, who first heard these dudes on Mixtapes and then saw them treated like dangerous thug gangsters 25 years ago by parents and politicians alike, it’s just so ironic to me to see them and Ice Cube..the guy who put out the outlaw classic “AmeriKKKa’s. Most Wanted”…are now beloved superstar celebrities..universally by mainstream America. Just amazing for a guy my age who remembers the media onslaught that labeled these dudes as totally opposite figures than the loved men they are feted for being by society today.

Ice Cube for President 2028….dont laugh, that OG MFer would win

Michigan football survived a fourth quarter flurry from Minnesota to come away with a 27-24 win over the Gophers at the Big House on Saturday afternoon.

Here are three takeaways from the game:

I’m sorry Campbell is brutal. What in the hell is he doing bunching formation allowing Minn to overload the box.

Spreading the formation opens up running lanes and helps his OLine out.

He does not call a smart game.

Not good.....and probably worse on the road.