Harbaugh's convincing win that his team put together @ Minnesota not only reversed a few bad trends for M but it also injected some enthusiasm for M football - at least for me it did.
Sparty is mess and Mel Tucker is going to be in trouble. That is especially true if his team doesn't show up for the game in Ann Arbor on Saturday and M delivers a beat down. Importantly, what's happened is that M is now hard to scheme for on both sides of the ball. An all-man defense has shown zone and a ball-control, long drive offense has morphed into an explosive, dangerous and efficient offense. It's been made so not so much by big plays coming from Milton but by a diverse, coherent offense near perfectly executed by him and his supporting cast.
M has always had the player talent, the tools and the pedigrees on the coaching staff to be good if not great but, under Harbaugh, these have never been realized in the form of on-field success. M's O was predictable and easy to defend. The defense easy to exploit. One game is not enough to be dispositive on the issue of a correction of the problems Harbaugh is responsible for. So, let's see a couple of games where there's a distinct pattern before we jump back on the Harbaugh band wagon that existed for his first two seasons and one many got off of by his third with the rest following on the 5th.
Sparty is mess and Mel Tucker is going to be in trouble. That is especially true if his team doesn't show up for the game in Ann Arbor on Saturday and M delivers a beat down. Importantly, what's happened is that M is now hard to scheme for on both sides of the ball. An all-man defense has shown zone and a ball-control, long drive offense has morphed into an explosive, dangerous and efficient offense. It's been made so not so much by big plays coming from Milton but by a diverse, coherent offense near perfectly executed by him and his supporting cast.
M has always had the player talent, the tools and the pedigrees on the coaching staff to be good if not great but, under Harbaugh, these have never been realized in the form of on-field success. M's O was predictable and easy to defend. The defense easy to exploit. One game is not enough to be dispositive on the issue of a correction of the problems Harbaugh is responsible for. So, let's see a couple of games where there's a distinct pattern before we jump back on the Harbaugh band wagon that existed for his first two seasons and one many got off of by his third with the rest following on the 5th.
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