of playing vanilla defense early in the game before he figures out how a team was going to attack us. I’ve been watching a lot of Milroe and 1st, without a miracle play he couldn’t repeat if he tried, Bama is in the Duke’s mayo bowl or playing OSU. He is very inexperienced and only got heated up by the press because of a couple of typical SEC QB games. Then they upset a Georgia team that was a shell of the 2021 team that made it through a cupcake schedule undefeated by barely beating some bad teams to only lose to a good but overrated Alabama team. I think the key to beating ‘Bama is to immediately open the book on Milroe by lightning him up with Mush line blitzes with 7 guys moving and threatening to blitz and then rushing 4 from anywhere while the others drop into coverage. We should Double A gap blitz so he has to throw immediatel. We should blitz the blindside CB, and Mikey and the LBs should be schemed to have free runs at Milroe. If we don’t get to him in time, he should be hit..hard on every play. I promise you he will start shying away from contact before halftime..if we don’t knock him out of the game.
As far as coverage, forget the conservative starts. Begin using those sophisticated NFL disguised coverages, switching after Milroe gets the play from the sidelines. He may be talented, but he didn’t even start all season, I doubt he is even going through full reads. Michigan should take risks from the first snap and confuse the hell out of him. Hit him every pass play, punish him if he runs, and confuse the hell out of him from the first snap so he turns the ball over early, and he is not experienced nearly enough to maintain his confidence to win the game.
The last 2 CFP games, our usual conservative defensive starts hurt us (though I’m convinced TCU’s amazing defensive play was due to 3rd Base’s DC, a good Ol Big-12 boy, passed along the complete database of our plays that a cabal of at least 4 B1G teams, OSU, Rutgers, Illinois, and Purdue, colluded to create and share with apparently any team Michigan was playing). I think Minter should have realized through self-scouting that this was a chronic habit that better teams were exploiting. Bring the heat..exotic blitzes..complex coverage disguises..Milroe, with his very limited experience, will implode and cost Bama the game long before they pull him in a non competitive 4th Quarter.
My serious prediction: Alabama, playing 3000 miles away from home, away from a fanbase that can’t afford to attend a game they can’t drive to in few hours..in front of what will amount to an almost home field advantage for Michigan, considering all of the Alums who reside in the area, and the 50 thousand more to whom travel money and renting an elite level B&B or a 3 bedroom house is no big deal, will create a “Big House West” advantage that will really affect them..The Crimson Tide is used to always having the home field advantage in every bowl they play In. Don’t play down the distance factor, Bama rarely plays a half day drive from Tuscaloosa. The real advantage for Michigan is ‘Bama will be playing on a real grass field the Rose Bowl field crew has historically cut the grass long..like US Open golf rough long, that will neutralize the alleged Alabama speed advantage. Go after Milroe immediately and let him dig Alabama’s own grave. I see Michigan breaking all their tendencies early to get up by a couple of scores..then do what they do by grinding down the opposition into hamburger while time keeps slipping away in the second half from ‘Bama.
Michigan surprises everyone with a game they win in the 1st quarter and coast to a 31-20 win on Monday. I almost guarantee it because everyone thinks Michigan doesn’t have a chance to win. That almost always means the opposite will happen.
31-20…you heard it here first. Breaking our usual modus operandi on defense is the key.
As far as coverage, forget the conservative starts. Begin using those sophisticated NFL disguised coverages, switching after Milroe gets the play from the sidelines. He may be talented, but he didn’t even start all season, I doubt he is even going through full reads. Michigan should take risks from the first snap and confuse the hell out of him. Hit him every pass play, punish him if he runs, and confuse the hell out of him from the first snap so he turns the ball over early, and he is not experienced nearly enough to maintain his confidence to win the game.
The last 2 CFP games, our usual conservative defensive starts hurt us (though I’m convinced TCU’s amazing defensive play was due to 3rd Base’s DC, a good Ol Big-12 boy, passed along the complete database of our plays that a cabal of at least 4 B1G teams, OSU, Rutgers, Illinois, and Purdue, colluded to create and share with apparently any team Michigan was playing). I think Minter should have realized through self-scouting that this was a chronic habit that better teams were exploiting. Bring the heat..exotic blitzes..complex coverage disguises..Milroe, with his very limited experience, will implode and cost Bama the game long before they pull him in a non competitive 4th Quarter.
My serious prediction: Alabama, playing 3000 miles away from home, away from a fanbase that can’t afford to attend a game they can’t drive to in few hours..in front of what will amount to an almost home field advantage for Michigan, considering all of the Alums who reside in the area, and the 50 thousand more to whom travel money and renting an elite level B&B or a 3 bedroom house is no big deal, will create a “Big House West” advantage that will really affect them..The Crimson Tide is used to always having the home field advantage in every bowl they play In. Don’t play down the distance factor, Bama rarely plays a half day drive from Tuscaloosa. The real advantage for Michigan is ‘Bama will be playing on a real grass field the Rose Bowl field crew has historically cut the grass long..like US Open golf rough long, that will neutralize the alleged Alabama speed advantage. Go after Milroe immediately and let him dig Alabama’s own grave. I see Michigan breaking all their tendencies early to get up by a couple of scores..then do what they do by grinding down the opposition into hamburger while time keeps slipping away in the second half from ‘Bama.
Michigan surprises everyone with a game they win in the 1st quarter and coast to a 31-20 win on Monday. I almost guarantee it because everyone thinks Michigan doesn’t have a chance to win. That almost always means the opposite will happen.
31-20…you heard it here first. Breaking our usual modus operandi on defense is the key.
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