Michigan 34, Maryland 27, Post Game Discussion.

[THE_WIZARD_]

Buh bye turtles.

[WM Wolverine]

Corum wins the game, deserves two game balls for carrying the team today.

[Hannibal]

Winner winner, chicken dinner. Blake Corum with a lovely run to ice it. 34-19 good guys. Blake Corum with 243 yards.

[Hannibal]

Maryland has converted two fourth downs this half where we should have called a timeout on D. We still have three. JFC what shit 3rd and 4th down defense on that drive.

[THE_WIZARD_]

Didn't I say 38-31. M wins but turtles cover. Not too shabby. Glad I never jumped on the overs though.

[Hannibal]

34-27 is your final. Thank God for Blake Corum and our DBs today. OL was good too but everyone else including coaches was the poopoo.

[JRB]

34-27 is your final. That wasn't how I saw that game going. Maryland was better than I thought they were, at least today, and Michigan struggled to win matchups on both sides of the ball. Michigan's got a lot of work to do this week. Basically the difference in this game was that Michigan had Blake Corum.

[lineygoblue]

Random musings as 00:00 appears on the clock:

Corum is the game's MVP. Schoonmaker is 1a. I was going to make it Corum and Schoonmaker as co-MVP's, but Corum gets the nod with that last run.

Props to the Turtle. They had a well thought out game plan for a win, and if they had a couple more athletes, they might have pulled it off.

McCarthy finally faces some adversity. I'll give him a B- for how he reacted.

Michigan's defense still trying to make big hits instead of hit and wrap. But props for makings some big stops when they were needed.

Corum runs the edge plays as good as any Michigan RB I've seen. If he turns that corner, it takes a world class speed defender to run him down.

Tua 2.0 played well, but his mistakes came at the wrong times.

And please. Maryland's last TD was a garbage time score. Michigan was in prevent. But, they still let the backup QB get away more than he should have.

Finally, I called this one. I said that the game would not be decided until deep in the 4th, and I was right. Any time you have a legitimate Big Ten team, you're going to have some good talent. And when that talent is properly coached and motivated, they can create upsets. It could have happened today.

[klondike]

Michigan game was meh. The real entertainment is watching Sparty..

[THE_WIZARD_]

Sparty getting boat raced at home. Literally.

[Jeff Buchanan]

Maryland better than I thought they would be, M is good but not that good. M had a chance to assert itself a couple times and blew them. I think UFRs will demonstrate the game was closer than it looked with some bad reasons why it looked that way,

The DL showed it's inexperience against an better than average BT offense that has a good OL and run game. If M had played a quality OOC schedule, that may have been noted by the coaching staff and players and worked on. The OL played OK but not great. Pass-pro was improved, IMO, after they got the feel for what Locksley was doing up front with pressures. M rushed for a bunch of non-sack adjusted yardage. Probably well over 300. Their statistical rushing stat (243) was sack adjusted. Maryland got 7 TFLs and 2 sacks - one for 25 yards.

JJ had his moments....he flashed some skills but did a couple of bad things, doing stuff he should not do, that killed drives. I'm not sure it was bad calls from the OC. JJ's been getting a lot of slack to get the offense into the right play on his pre-snap reads. I saw two, probably green lighted, read options. On one of them, he missed a crashing DE giving up a massive gain if he had kept. Instead he gave and set Corum up to get eaten up for a TFL after the mesh (Fox had a good replay of it). The Terp's pass coverage scheme was good and I think it fooled JJ on multiple occasions. It was clear he was checking down after LBs dropped into coverage bracketing JJ's primary read. That's one to look at in the UFR this week. You can bet DC's watching this game will exploit that.

...... and yeah, the Late TD was garbage. OTH it's why we should all hate prevent defenses against teams with good receivers who can get open. The game was a RCH away from going to OT. Onside kicks offer a 25/75 probability of success/failure. Sounds like they are not worth it. They are. I found this analysis interesting. Seems to be a bad idea to give an opponent the possibility he'll have an opportunity to get possion of an OSK by playing prevent D: https://www.the33rdteam.com/breakdow...ssive-tactics/

[WingsFan]

Closer than I thought. JJ was off on the long passes, but the horrible play calling was unreal. Maryland was playing extremely soft 10- 15 yard off the receivers almost every play on one side, as if here - take the 8+ yard pass its yours.... but you're not throwing deep. Coaching 101 - Take what the defense gives you! Damn! Blake bailing them out on 2 big outstanding cutback runs, but that's what great back do.

[edindetroit]

HARBAUGH!!!!!! 52 Turtles 28

WRONG!!!!!!!!!! 34 to 27

[THE_WIZARD_]

STFU

[Hannibal]

Very discouraging game yesterday. Let's hope that it is just a repeat of last year's Rutgers game. DL and LBs looked both slow and untalented. JJ looked like he had a low football IQ, in contrast to previous games. OL quietly had their best game of the year though despite Keegan not being back yet.

The passing game sucked yesterday, given the level of competition. One of two things is true -- either our receivers suck at getting open or our OCs suck at scheming guys open. SMU had guys running open against Maryland all day long. If you watched OSU vs. Wiscy last night, you also saw guys repeatedly running around like the first man out for practice. Our receivers should be good enough to do this against at least some teams. I thought that Roman Wilson and Andrel Anthony were supposed to be super burners? Whenever they showed replays yesterday it looked like guys were never getting open. There were maybe one or two plays where JJ didn't see an open guy -- that's the low football IQ that I was talking about earlier. Just in time for Iowa! Harbaugh got super tight and conservative in the 2nd half yesterday once he lost confidence in JJ.