Questions worth asking that are troubling me...

[detroitjohn]

Because I buy into Harbaugh's belief that there is always room for improvement there are a few things that really are head scratchers this season:

1. What happened to tackling after the MSU game? Rewatch the highlights from the Northwestern game and contrast that to any game after the MSU game, the tackling badly deteriorated.
2. Why did the kicking game, such a strength the first half of the season, implode and cost us the MSU game, a lot of momentum vs OSU, and almost cost us the Indiana and Minnesota games?
3. What happened to the running game the last four games of the year to the point we stopped using it and why did the line blocking go backwards?
4. Where did Drake Johnson go, along with Derrick Green and Ty Isaac? They contributed fairly significantly early on, but faded to non-use by season's end.

 

[detroitjohn]

Because I buy into Harbaugh's belief that there is always room for improvement there are a few things that really are head scratchers this season:

1. What happened to tackling after the MSU game? Rewatch the highlights from the Northwestern game and contrast that to any game after the MSU game, the tackling badly deteriorated.
2. Why did the kicking game, such a strength the first half of the season, implode and cost us the MSU game, a lot of momentum vs OSU, and almost cost us the Indiana and Minnesota games?
3. What happened to the running game the last four games of the year to the point we stopped using it and why did the line blocking go backwards?
4. Where did Drake Johnson go, along with Derrick Green and Ty Isaac? They contributed fairly significantly early on, but faded to non-use by season's end.

Note on #4, I wonder what Tyrone Wheatley is thinking about his first season as a UM RB coach. They certainly used the dog house early and often when it came to RBs, that's old school, the way Bo and Mo used to rotate backs that were playing well, holding on to the ball, etc. I remember the OSU vs UM game back in 1985 when one of UM's backs fumbled the ball early in the game and was not seen, though he was a leading rusher, for the rest of it.