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M needs to win and so does W. I want a big game in Madison in two weeks.

I don’t think Michigan is in serious danger of losing. Anything can happen any given Saturday, but that seems like a stretch to me. I think Michigan is in serious danger of losing defensive front 7 players to injury however. WHY they decided to schedule this game against that kind of gimmicky cut-blocking dirty offense is beyond me. Schedule Miami of Ohio or Central Michigan for this game and call it a day imo. 

I don't think Army is dirty, per se. At least I give them the benefit of doubt in terms of integrity. But there is an undercurrent in NCAA circles to end their style of play because of its heightened correlation to leg injuries.** That's probably what MDot means.

**(as a partial remedy to triple option cut block injuries, in 2018, the NCAA outlawed blocks below the waist more than 5 yards from the LOS)

I didn't take Michigan to cover. But it shouldn't be in overtime. The accidental Metellus TD reversal switched regulation from 21-7 (or maybe 21-14, if we argue the field reversal wasn't a big deal) to 14-14. And it wasn't reviewable. The ref will be disappointed in the mistake when the game ends. Fingers crossed, it doesn't impact the outcome.

Army is a solid and dangerous team, but..............


not a good showing from Harbaugh & company

It was a bad game by the offense, for sure. Patterson's fumbles were inexcusable to be sure, much like last week. The defense wasn't great, either, of course, but it should've never come to that. The refs stupidly blew the whistle on what would've been a fumble return for a touchdown, but that shouldn't have mattered, of course. There were some questionable PI calls both ways, too. The punt return team was also just terrible since they didn't even try to fair catch and just let it bounce further into their own side.

Fortunately the bye week is next so I think they'll figure out their mistakes, but we'll see.....

I thought the defense played pretty well all things considered. Army held the ball for 32 mins and they ran the ball like 64 times. Michigan's defense was on the field a lot because the Michigan offense kept stinking the joint up and because Army was holding the ball and chewing clock- and the longest gain the Michigan D gave up was I think 25 yards- and I believe that was also the only 20+ yard play they gave up. Army only had 243 total yards of offense, and both of their TD's in regulation came off of Michigan lost fumbles. The defense won the damn game by taking over on the final drive in double OT.

Offense and Special teams were the real shitshow of that game. Just a complete disappointment all around. Hard to find any bright spots whatsoever. QB play sucked. OL sucked. WR's/TE's medicore. Special teams terrible. The LONE bright spot of that entire offense was Zach Charbonnet. He had little room to run, but he kept grinding and picking up 1st downs and touchdowns and he was a MAN in blitz pick-up. Seriously. I haven't seen a freshman that good at pass blocking- oh like- ever. THAT is a future NFL RB. That is what an NFL RB looks like. Michigan hasn't had one of them in a loooooooooong time. Just a shame he was the only one to show up for the Wolverines on offense today.

Yeah. A "remarkable turnaround" is what they need. By definition of the term, it's rare and we shouldn't expect it. But is it possible? Yeah, and getting back LT Runyan, DT Dwumfour, DT Jeter, and WR Peoples-Jones could be major. But none of us have a great feeling about this season right now. Two weeks in, they have almost everything to prove and a couple unexpected things to undo.
Not worried about the defense. They'll be pretty good. Especially when they get some guys back.

The defense will be fine. Not worried about them in the least beat. Maybe the safeties in man to man coverage- but that's it.

The offense is a shitshow and that's not likely to change. Shea Patterson is GETTING WORSE and this OL played like crap two weeks in a row. Not sure how much getting DPJ back will help Patterson. The guy badly overthrew a wide open Nico Collins for a TD- Collins was wide open and Patterson launched it out of the back of the endzone- badly overthrown gave Nico zero shot and Nico was WIDE OPEN for the TD. Patterson also slightly overthrew a wide-open Ronnie Bell for a long gain. I still feel like Bell should've had that- but it wasn't a great throw. A better throw- Bell catches that in stride for a TD.

Patterson is missing open WR's with poor throws and he's making dumb decisions in the pass game and in the run game. That's two games in a row of this crap now. He never once kept the ball and pulled it and took off running on the read option, kept giving it to Charbonnet when a couple of times he should've kept for long gains.

Patterson is playing himself into the bench. If he keeps this shit up against Wisconsin- time to bench him in favor of McCaffrey.