As Michigan's Superfan, Fro Dough, here, I would like to mention that not much was said of the quality of Indiana's players and COACHING. They are FAR vetoer a team than they have been in years. We will know how good of a team we beat at the end of the year. They deserve a LOT of credit. Michigan should be praised for a very tough battle won.
@TheGloveMI We did better defensively in the second half than in the first. We rushed more than 3 for the most part in the first, and typically only 3 in the second. They scored only 2 TDs in the second half.
@VCavman24 What I mean is, we don't have the experience yet at D-back to rush extra guys on many plays. They just aren't ready yet to play man coverage one-on-one. We have to drop enough guys into coverage so the other team has to try and sustain long drives that eat up a lot of clock. Drives that run the risk of making mistakes just by the law of averages. Now, as soon as we're more experienced on the back end, and have more depth on the line, you'll see more blitzing. Just not this year.
@skoolboy810 Too bad it was when we rushed more than three that we struggled, and that only rushing three was when we did our best defensively yesterday. In the first half, they were rushing 4 of 5 guys, and we struggled. In the second half, we typically only rushed 3. And we stopped all but two of their drives.
I appreciate the stops that the D did manage to get in the second half. We won't face another passing offense as potent as Indiana until we see ohio state. Martin is a beast and I'm not sure teams can run on us.
Robinson was a great Michigan QB , Just ask ND who lost twice in the final seconds. Go look at the videos. I just love watching this great Michigan Player....PLAY !!!!
If we're gonna continue to run this 3-front for the rest of the year, we really need to start sending an extra defender (or two) on the blitz. I mean, I know we're incredibly young/inexpeirenced on the back-end, but the strength of the 3-front D is disguising where your blitzes are coming from. If you're not gonna blitz, then you're just running a prevent defense all day. It's why teams are able to sit back and pick us apart all day.
@ThoseWhoStayUofM Thanks that's basically what I thought, just wanted someone to confirm it. Once ours guys get more experience they will be stronger and better next season.
@drfanfare I agree. It difficult to control the game clock when your offense scores so quickly. Everyone knows that our defense needs some work, but I thought that they did a good job considering how inexperienced we are in the secondary and I was also encouraged that our front line was finally able to get some pressure on Chappell. If we can continue to get pressure on the QB, that will help our secondary and get us a win or 2. So for now, let’s just enjoy our 5th win. Go Blue!!!
@TheZooCrew I'm not asking him to do more work, I'm just saying that it would be probably fairly easy to find someone who has an HD recording and edit using that as a source. Of course I'd be willing to help. Heck, I would have lent him the official dvd's of the '81 Rose Bowl and Fiesta Bowl if I knew he was going to redo those in 2 parts. But I'd need to know more about his capture equipment and editing software as well as how to utilize what I've got.
@McSomething15 What do you mean? We obviously need four men rushing, if we are 120th in the nation in pass defense, the three man rush is not working. The teams we face have all the time we need, and we know the four man rush is what we need. If we use the four man rush we play a lot better.
@WolverineHistorian Couldn't you just see if you can trade with someone who records in HD? I see other uploads of Michigan highlights on youtube in HD but none are as complete as yours.
@Multikill51 I also never said Kovacs wasn't a good player. But he's the type of player you want as a backup because it means someone is better than him. He's very limited physically even if he tackles well.
We all know that Michigan's Offense is incredible....The Defense, no so..... What really discouraged me was the 3rd and 16 and the 3rd and 10's that IU converted..... Greg Robinson should not have the soft coverage in those situations... He needs to start showing the young secondary that he is starting to trust them. Also, did anyone notice how much pressure Michigan had on Chappel when we rushed 4?
@justrobin1 "or is all hopes lost for this season?" Pretty much all hope is lost. The defensive secondary is the issue. Whenever a defense is forced into running schemes that compensate for an apparent weakens, it is going to hurt every aspect of that defense (pass and rush). Our secondary will greatly improve throughout the season however every team's wide recievers and quarterbacks that we play against will also improve. The difference is, our guys will be back next season.
Normally I would have called out Indiana's defense on their sluggishness when they got burned by Roundtree on the second TD, but Mitchell Evans #5 isn't a slow guy. I don't think Roundtree gets enough credit for his ability to do things after the catch.
@justrobin1 With 9 freshman, and a lack of depth, don't expect the defense to magically get any better this season. It's gonna be a long haul the rest of the way, but we knew that going in.
@jazzbryce07 Kovacs is actually one of the best tacklers on the team, despite being undersized. He got WOOPED by a dude bigger and more athletic than him on that last TD because he took the wrong angle. The 4th and 5 play wasn't Mouton's fault...read mgoblog. Mouton took care of his assignment. Talbott essentially played man coverage when he was responsible for the short zone on that side, leaving Willis wide open.
3-3-5 defense isn't suppose to look that bad. When you drop 7 or 8 guys into coverage and the receivers are wide open, that falls on Greg Robinson and his coaching. When Michigan had 4 down linemen and sent a rush towards the end of the game they started to get good pressure and force punts.
@thegenius5 The guy isn't horrible. He's had success (as a d-coordinator) everywhere he's been. He's in year 2 of a (minimum) 3 year rebuilding. We have no experience or depth on defense. Give him time.
@Multikill51 Brandon Graham is a better counterexample. He became what he was last year from working with Barwis and coach Bruce Tall. Mouton looks night and day different from last year now that Hopson's gone and GERG handles the linebackers. Stevie Brown last year was useful for the first time in his career...and GERG was his position coach as well.
@TheZooCrew I AGREE,Michigan moved the ball all day.It was redzone mistakes by the qb,but they were in the Redzone....lol ur rite,real fans dont jump ship after a single game r u kidding me??I know fans r anxious for a quality win,but lets not forget denard was only in his 6th start on sat. he's gonna make mistakes.he has alot of pressure on him.pretty much has to score on every posession bein that our defense is still pretty bad.....GOOD point!!
Our situation reminds me a bit of when the Oakland Raiders played the Tampa Bay Buccaneers at the Super Bowl. Raiders had the best offense in the country, the Bucs had the best defense in the country. Someone during that year told me that it doesn't matter how much you can score on someone, if you can't stop anybody, you will not win. So we must tread lightly and how Greg Robinson pulls it together.
@Multikill51 You're so wrong it's not even funny. Scott Shafer was the D coordinator in 2008. Jay Hopson was LB coach in 2008 and 2009. We do not have enough great athletes on both sides of the ball, otherwise we wouldn't have a shitload of walk-ons in the two-deep and Kovacs wouldn't see the field ever.
Indiana has one classless asshole of fan base with some of the chants I heard over the speakers. I'm glad we shattered their hopes of an upset! Denard is unreal. I mena this kid is just flat out amazing he deserves the Heisman! Big game against Sparty next weekend! GO BLUE!
@boxellmark27 Rogers is actually decent at every aspect of being a cornerback except changing direction, which is unfortunately the most important aspect. Even so, he doesn't cause as much DOOM as anticipated. If you want to see a bad corner, look at Indiana's Ernest, who gets burned by Roundtree on his TD and then put in the ground by Hemingway on his 70-yard score.
@buzzdaddy2001 It's not our fault if defenses are so bad that they cave from basic running plays. I mean, when Vincent Smith takes a handoff and only has to break one tackle to outrun an entire defense, you are NOT good.
@clio06lotr It doesn't fall on coaching. There's no scheme or coach that could get any more out of our defense than we're already getting. We have zero depth, and minimal experience. It's gonna take time.
@ThoseWhoStayUofM Don't think he is rooting for us to lose at all, he is just frustrated that when we win another game it makes us bowl bound and more likely for the horrible def coordinator to stay on. Sorry, all you people saying he is like RR are wrong. Our defense may be young, but when you lose a bunch of recruits for various reasons and cant get more than what we have so far out of these kids, that is coaching. That 3rd and 16 conversion was complete coaching failure.
@EricGoBlue That's no different than all of those people that said RichRod simply should've tried to make his system fit the players he had available to him. It's not always as easy as it sounds. If you have no depth or experience, you have no depth or experience. System be damned at that point.
@adams235366 We've had a winning record since GERG was hired. And McSomething's right...he's proven he can build a successful defense given the right personnel.
@Theaterman527 Hopefully our defense won't be on the field for over 40 minutes like they were here. Our D might not be good, but Indiana looked like a high school team on that side of the ball. 42 points in under 20 minutes of possession is just sad.
People that are saying Greg Robinson needs to be fired are just as dumb (yes dumb) as those saying Rich Rod should've been fired each of the last two years. The defense is currently in year 2 of a (minimum) 3 year project of rebuilding under Robinson. And it doesn't help that all of our d-backs are freshman. Hell, one of them was a receiver last year. He was redshirted, but still.
Ugly win? Yes. Win? Yes. For me, that's all that matters. Now we can get ready for the Battle for the Paul Bunyen Trophy at the Big House, 5-0 Michigan against 5-0 Michigan State.
@EricGoBlue "he clearly doesn't know how to work from the ground up. That's the point." He coaches the same walk-ons who are surpassing scholarship players for playing time. That alone should tell you enough about our personnel deficiencies.
@EricGoBlue There isn't a defensive coach, nor scheme, that could get any more out of our defense than Robinson is getting. Not one. With our lack of depth and experience we either play up tight the way a lot of people think we should using a 4 man front; thus being more susceptible to the big(ger) plays. Or we stick with the 3 man front and play off and let the teams try to dink and dunk all day. Hoping we can make a play or two before they can score. Pick your poison. I'll take the latter.
Indiana ran 98 plays in this game. Michigan ran only 45. I don't think that I have ever seen that level of discrepancy before. I wish that I could have seen what this offense would do with just a mediocre defense playing opposite them who could force a punt now and then.
@Multikill51 MSU did not find a way to stop Denard Robinson. Denard Robinson found a way to stop Denard Robinson. If you're going to jump off the bandwagon now, good riddance.
@adams235366 Why? As a d-coordinator, he's had success everywhere he's been. We have no depth, or experience on the defensive side of the ball. The man needs time. He's only in year two, that's clearly not long enough.
@skoolboy810 I think everyone's giving Greg Robinson too much slack. WHY is the secondary so young? When he arrived, there must have been good recruits wanting to be Charles Woodson. He's been coaching them for 2 years now, and none of the people he's been coaching are better than the incoming freshmen? We need someone who can take a Michigan recruiting class and turn them into a Michigan defense.
@Knightmessenger Dude, chill out. WH is already doing awesome things and asking nothing in return. Why are you asking him to do more work? If anything, you should be offering to help.
@offintotheblue "When he arrived, there must have been good recruits wanting to be Charles Woodson. " You couldn't be more wrong. MGoBlog has beaten this subject to death. This defense was never going to be good regardless of coaches. 2007 was a mask, they had just enough good players in key spots to cover up their weaknesses. They were all seniors. Go to the website for Wolverine Liberation Army and check out the "Ghosts to Most" article. It's one of the first.
@Multikill51 Punctuation, bro...you know how to use it? Try it sometime. The MSU game was basically the offense's version of the UMass game for defense...poor execution made them look worse than they were. The defense probably would have performed better without the turnovers. This defense was never going to be good; the offense will have to execute if we're going to win games. Just relax.
if greg robinson is our defensive coordinator at the end of the year ill be stunned. i want him out now. 3rd and 16 in the shaddow of their own goal post and he has our secondary leave cushion so all the reciever had to do was run to the sticks and stop. that happend 40 times today. pathetic
@Multikill51 Do you know how to read? I never said we had a ton of starting walk-ons. I said they were in the two-deep. Simmons, Moundros, Leach, to name three who get playing time at least. And no, you were talking about the entire defense, not just the LBs, and even if you were you're STILL wrong. I'm not sure how you can type over 1000 characters and not be right about anything.
@EricGoBlue With our lack of depth and experience on defense, there's absolutely no coach that could come in with any scheme and do better than we already are defensively. You really are showing your ignorance of the situation with comments like these. Do you not realize that the defense actually got the stop on 8 possessions today? Probably not. If not for a bad turnover at the 1, or for a few stalled drives in the second half, we roll.
Defense is for losers, we will put up 40+ on everyone haha. In all seriousness, as long as Robinson stays healthy we can win 8+ games, if he gets hurt our whole offense loses a big dynamic making us nothing more then a 7-5 bowl squad.
@EricGoBlue "Anyone who knows defensive schemes and coaching (and I do) can see the obvious." When you've coached in the NFL and overseen a lockdown defense at Texas, you can talk. You clearly have no concept of the personnel deficiencies we're currently suffering.
@EricGoBlue "Sad thing is, we win one more game, we're bowl-bound" The sad thing is, "fans" like you, and I use that term loosely, are actually routing for Michigan to lose out of hate for our coaching staff. That's a perfect demostration of disloyalty to the program and to the players that work REALLY hard to improve and win. We don't need fans like you. Should Robinson be fired? Yeah... probably. Will he be fired if the defense keeps playing like this? Yeah... regardless of wins.
@TheGloveMI Fine, go ahead and pretend you know more about football than veteran college coaches. Rush 5 every down and play press coverage and watch us give up 4 or 5 80 yard touchdowns every game.
I'm seeing the lack of experience and youth in the D...which is something you can't fix with coaching. But when I see a 12 yard cushion on 3rd and 4, and they easily convert a first down with a pitch and catch out route...that is a break down in scheme and poor coaching. I keep hearing about this guy's track record at Texas and in the NFL but he is failing our young defense. On a brighter, those are errors that can be fixed so let's hope Greg Robinson gets his head out of his ass. Go blue
@EricGoBlue "quit crying already and just come up with better arguments." HAHAHA! That's funny because you haven't even refuted anything. You corrected a spelling mistake and said Michigan is embarassing. What does that refute? Nothing. My argument is that people hate our coaches so much that they don't want us to win games. Is that incorrect? "he is just frustrated that when we win another game it makes us bowl bound " How is that NOT rooting for us to lose!? Seriously!?
Thank you WolverineHistorian!
As Michigan's Superfan, Fro Dough, here, I would like to mention that not much was said of the quality of Indiana's players and COACHING. They are FAR vetoer a team than they have been in years. We will know how good of a team we beat at the end of the year. They deserve a LOT of credit. Michigan should be praised for a very tough battle won.
"vetoer"?
Did the Michigan vs. Indiana football game air on ESPN and ABC on October 2, 2010, yes?
@TheGloveMI We did better defensively in the second half than in the first. We rushed more than 3 for the most part in the first, and typically only 3 in the second. They scored only 2 TDs in the second half.
i think this year's UM vs OSU game is going to be like the one in '06, a straight shoot out.
@CraigL715
I agree she ruins the video, but if you mute it you can still hear the sonic boom on Denards first run of the game.
@VCavman24 What I mean is, we don't have the experience yet at D-back to rush extra guys on many plays. They just aren't ready yet to play man coverage one-on-one. We have to drop enough guys into coverage so the other team has to try and sustain long drives that eat up a lot of clock. Drives that run the risk of making mistakes just by the law of averages. Now, as soon as we're more experienced on the back end, and have more depth on the line, you'll see more blitzing. Just not this year.
@skoolboy810 Too bad it was when we rushed more than three that we struggled, and that only rushing three was when we did our best defensively yesterday. In the first half, they were rushing 4 of 5 guys, and we struggled. In the second half, we typically only rushed 3. And we stopped all but two of their drives.
I appreciate the stops that the D did manage to get in the second half. We won't face another passing offense as potent as Indiana until we see ohio state. Martin is a beast and I'm not sure teams can run on us.
Robinson was a great Michigan QB , Just ask ND who lost twice in the final seconds. Go look at the videos. I just love watching this great Michigan Player....PLAY !!!!
If we're gonna continue to run this 3-front for the rest of the year, we really need to start sending an extra defender (or two) on the blitz. I mean, I know we're incredibly young/inexpeirenced on the back-end, but the strength of the 3-front D is disguising where your blitzes are coming from. If you're not gonna blitz, then you're just running a prevent defense all day. It's why teams are able to sit back and pick us apart all day.
@WolverineHistorian Do you think the limit might be 16 minutes? When it was previously 10, it was really 11 (kinda like a certain conference.)
@ThoseWhoStayUofM Thanks that's basically what I thought, just wanted someone to confirm it. Once ours guys get more experience they will be stronger and better next season.
@drfanfare
I agree. It difficult to control the game clock when your offense scores so quickly. Everyone knows that our defense needs some work, but I thought that they did a good job considering how inexperienced we are in the secondary and I was also encouraged that our front line was finally able to get some pressure on Chappell. If we can continue to get pressure on the QB, that will help our secondary and get us a win or 2.
So for now, let’s just enjoy our 5th win.
Go Blue!!!
@TheZooCrew I'm not asking him to do more work, I'm just saying that it would be probably fairly easy to find someone who has an HD recording and edit using that as a source.
Of course I'd be willing to help. Heck, I would have lent him the official dvd's of the '81 Rose Bowl and Fiesta Bowl if I knew he was going to redo those in 2 parts. But I'd need to know more about his capture equipment and editing software as well as how to utilize what I've got.
@WolverineHistorian I don't know, Purdue is looking pretty inept on both sides of the ball right now.
Thanks for posting this. This is much appreciated for people oversea's. Thanks again!
Why didn't you put the "scuffle" after D-Rob's last touchdown in? I kinda wanted to see it...
@McSomething15 What do you mean? We obviously need four men rushing, if we are 120th in the nation in pass defense, the three man rush is not working. The teams we face have all the time we need, and we know the four man rush is what we need. If we use the four man rush we play a lot better.
@WolverineHistorian Couldn't you just see if you can trade with someone who records in HD?
I see other uploads of Michigan highlights on youtube in HD but none are as complete as yours.
@dustomatic1974 Very true. I will say that Jibreel Black is looking like he will be a force on the end.
@Multikill51
I also never said Kovacs wasn't a good player. But he's the type of player you want as a backup because it means someone is better than him. He's very limited physically even if he tackles well.
We all know that Michigan's Offense is incredible....The Defense, no so..... What really discouraged me was the 3rd and 16 and the 3rd and 10's that IU converted..... Greg Robinson should not have the soft coverage in those situations... He needs to start showing the young secondary that he is starting to trust them. Also, did anyone notice how much pressure Michigan had on Chappel when we rushed 4?
@offintotheblue We've taken serious hits to the defense from attrition and injuries.
@ThoseWhoStayUofM Lewan is a RS Frosh
@justrobin1 "or is all hopes lost for this season?"
Pretty much all hope is lost. The defensive secondary is the issue. Whenever a defense is forced into running schemes that compensate for an apparent weakens, it is going to hurt every aspect of that defense (pass and rush). Our secondary will greatly improve throughout the season however every team's wide recievers and quarterbacks that we play against will also improve. The difference is, our guys will be back next season.
Michigan WOLVERINES vs Indiana Hoosiers football
We need to find a fourth pass rusher. This 3 man deal is not going to cut it. Mike Martin is not going to always murder double teams.
Normally I would have called out Indiana's defense on their sluggishness when they got burned by Roundtree on the second TD, but Mitchell Evans #5 isn't a slow guy. I don't think Roundtree gets enough credit for his ability to do things after the catch.
@justrobin1 With 9 freshman, and a lack of depth, don't expect the defense to magically get any better this season. It's gonna be a long haul the rest of the way, but we knew that going in.
@jazzbryce07
Kovacs is actually one of the best tacklers on the team, despite being undersized. He got WOOPED by a dude bigger and more athletic than him on that last TD because he took the wrong angle.
The 4th and 5 play wasn't Mouton's fault...read mgoblog. Mouton took care of his assignment. Talbott essentially played man coverage when he was responsible for the short zone on that side, leaving Willis wide open.
3-3-5 defense isn't suppose to look that bad. When you drop 7 or 8 guys into coverage and the receivers are wide open, that falls on Greg Robinson and his coaching. When Michigan had 4 down linemen and sent a rush towards the end of the game they started to get good pressure and force punts.
@BrenMcCloud I didn't have enough room to put it in. Videos can't be longer than 15 minutes. I barely had just enough to stick the highlights in.
@teamgtr23 Just watch the 5 or 6 second half drives where we actually stopped them. That's how.
@thegenius5 The guy isn't horrible. He's had success (as a d-coordinator) everywhere he's been. He's in year 2 of a (minimum) 3 year rebuilding. We have no experience or depth on defense. Give him time.
Mike Martin is the Man 10:54-11:03
@Multikill51
Brandon Graham is a better counterexample. He became what he was last year from working with Barwis and coach Bruce Tall.
Mouton looks night and day different from last year now that Hopson's gone and GERG handles the linebackers.
Stevie Brown last year was useful for the first time in his career...and GERG was his position coach as well.
@TheZooCrew I AGREE,Michigan moved the ball all day.It was redzone mistakes by the qb,but they were in the Redzone....lol ur rite,real fans dont jump ship after a single game r u kidding me??I know fans r anxious for a quality win,but lets not forget denard was only in his 6th start on sat. he's gonna make mistakes.he has alot of pressure on him.pretty much has to score on every posession bein that our defense is still pretty bad.....GOOD point!!
Our situation reminds me a bit of when the Oakland Raiders played the Tampa Bay Buccaneers at the Super Bowl. Raiders had the best offense in the country, the Bucs had the best defense in the country. Someone during that year told me that it doesn't matter how much you can score on someone, if you can't stop anybody, you will not win.
So we must tread lightly and how Greg Robinson pulls it together.
@Multikill51
You're so wrong it's not even funny.
Scott Shafer was the D coordinator in 2008.
Jay Hopson was LB coach in 2008 and 2009.
We do not have enough great athletes on both sides of the ball, otherwise we wouldn't have a shitload of walk-ons in the two-deep and Kovacs wouldn't see the field ever.
Indiana has one classless asshole of fan base with some of the chants I heard over the speakers. I'm glad we shattered their hopes of an upset! Denard is unreal. I mena this kid is just flat out amazing he deserves the Heisman! Big game against Sparty next weekend! GO BLUE!
Denard is phenomenal as usual. I think its time for Rod to let his buddy Tony Gibson go.
watching a game like this makes me wish we still had ron english at D-coordinator
just beautiful keep the videos coming!!!!!!!!!!!
@boxellmark27
Rogers is actually decent at every aspect of being a cornerback except changing direction, which is unfortunately the most important aspect. Even so, he doesn't cause as much DOOM as anticipated. If you want to see a bad corner, look at Indiana's Ernest, who gets burned by Roundtree on his TD and then put in the ground by Hemingway on his 70-yard score.
13:36 - watch Taylor Lewan #77 LT just absolutely manhandle the Indiana DE. Oh my goodness Jake Long 2.0 (true freshman)
@buzzdaddy2001
It's not our fault if defenses are so bad that they cave from basic running plays. I mean, when Vincent Smith takes a handoff and only has to break one tackle to outrun an entire defense, you are NOT good.
Thumbs up if you are from the Ann Arbor/Detroit area and went to this game with me!
@CraigL715 frikin amen
@clio06lotr It doesn't fall on coaching. There's no scheme or coach that could get any more out of our defense than we're already getting. We have zero depth, and minimal experience. It's gonna take time.
@ThoseWhoStayUofM Don't think he is rooting for us to lose at all, he is just frustrated that when we win another game it makes us bowl bound and more likely for the horrible def coordinator to stay on. Sorry, all you people saying he is like RR are wrong. Our defense may be young, but when you lose a bunch of recruits for various reasons and cant get more than what we have so far out of these kids, that is coaching. That 3rd and 16 conversion was complete coaching failure.
@EricGoBlue That's no different than all of those people that said RichRod simply should've tried to make his system fit the players he had available to him. It's not always as easy as it sounds. If you have no depth or experience, you have no depth or experience. System be damned at that point.
@adams235366
We've had a winning record since GERG was hired. And McSomething's right...he's proven he can build a successful defense given the right personnel.
@Theaterman527
Hopefully our defense won't be on the field for over 40 minutes like they were here. Our D might not be good, but Indiana looked like a high school team on that side of the ball. 42 points in under 20 minutes of possession is just sad.
I hope some of this winning spirit can rub off on the Lions today... I know thats asking for a lot but
Too bad Michigan does not have a defense. The offense is great. They are going to have a problem beating Michigan St.
People that are saying Greg Robinson needs to be fired are just as dumb (yes dumb) as those saying Rich Rod should've been fired each of the last two years. The defense is currently in year 2 of a (minimum) 3 year project of rebuilding under Robinson. And it doesn't help that all of our d-backs are freshman. Hell, one of them was a receiver last year. He was redshirted, but still.
Ugly win? Yes. Win? Yes. For me, that's all that matters. Now we can get ready for the Battle for the Paul Bunyen Trophy at the Big House, 5-0 Michigan against 5-0 Michigan State.
Hey guys! Great win, but is there any way we can improve our defense this season or is all hopes lost for this season?
@EricGoBlue
"he clearly doesn't know how to work from the ground up. That's the point."
He coaches the same walk-ons who are surpassing scholarship players for playing time. That alone should tell you enough about our personnel deficiencies.
exactly. Our defense was putrid under them. Hoke comes in and turns things around. Watching this just reminds me how far our defense has come...
@EricGoBlue There isn't a defensive coach, nor scheme, that could get any more out of our defense than Robinson is getting. Not one. With our lack of depth and experience we either play up tight the way a lot of people think we should using a 4 man front; thus being more susceptible to the big(ger) plays. Or we stick with the 3 man front and play off and let the teams try to dink and dunk all day. Hoping we can make a play or two before they can score. Pick your poison. I'll take the latter.
Great Job with the editing. You have to put this in HD though. Common this is 2010. But again good job!
@taylormade6700 I don't have an HD TV. If anyone wants to buy me one, go right ahead. But until then, my videos will be your standard, boring, non-HD.
Indiana ran 98 plays in this game. Michigan ran only 45. I don't think that I have ever seen that level of discrepancy before. I wish that I could have seen what this offense would do with just a mediocre defense playing opposite them who could force a punt now and then.
@Multikill51
MSU did not find a way to stop Denard Robinson.
Denard Robinson found a way to stop Denard Robinson.
If you're going to jump off the bandwagon now, good riddance.
That was a great birthday Go Blue
Great Video as always BUT OUR DEFENSE SUCKS BIG TIME
@adams235366 Why? As a d-coordinator, he's had success everywhere he's been. We have no depth, or experience on the defensive side of the ball. The man needs time. He's only in year two, that's clearly not long enough.
you shouldn't be scared. who else can pass like that? just enjoy denard
@skoolboy810
I think everyone's giving Greg Robinson too much slack. WHY is the secondary so young? When he arrived, there must have been good recruits wanting to be Charles Woodson. He's been coaching them for 2 years now, and none of the people he's been coaching are better than the incoming freshmen? We need someone who can take a Michigan recruiting class and turn them into a Michigan defense.
THUMBS UP IF YOU HEARD KE$HA @ 8:25-8:28
The defense progressive
@Knightmessenger
Dude, chill out. WH is already doing awesome things and asking nothing in return. Why are you asking him to do more work? If anything, you should be offering to help.
@offintotheblue
"When he arrived, there must have been good recruits wanting to be Charles Woodson. "
You couldn't be more wrong. MGoBlog has beaten this subject to death. This defense was never going to be good regardless of coaches. 2007 was a mask, they had just enough good players in key spots to cover up their weaknesses. They were all seniors.
Go to the website for Wolverine Liberation Army and check out the "Ghosts to Most" article. It's one of the first.
@Multikill51
Punctuation, bro...you know how to use it? Try it sometime.
The MSU game was basically the offense's version of the UMass game for defense...poor execution made them look worse than they were. The defense probably would have performed better without the turnovers. This defense was never going to be good; the offense will have to execute if we're going to win games. Just relax.
@zoltanroolz woops... i knew that.
Michigan has trouble beating everyone. But, they're 5-0. That's the bottom line.
Watching this just increases my respect for Hoke and Mattison
if greg robinson is our defensive coordinator at the end of the year ill be stunned. i want him out now. 3rd and 16 in the shaddow of their own goal post and he has our secondary leave cushion so all the reciever had to do was run to the sticks and stop. that happend 40 times today. pathetic
@EricGoBlue Thanks for the spelling correction. When you decide to get off your pedestal of false superiority, come talk to me.
@Multikill51
Do you know how to read?
I never said we had a ton of starting walk-ons. I said they were in the two-deep.
Simmons, Moundros, Leach, to name three who get playing time at least.
And no, you were talking about the entire defense, not just the LBs, and even if you were you're STILL wrong. I'm not sure how you can type over 1000 characters and not be right about anything.
@EricGoBlue With our lack of depth and experience on defense, there's absolutely no coach that could come in with any scheme and do better than we already are defensively. You really are showing your ignorance of the situation with comments like these. Do you not realize that the defense actually got the stop on 8 possessions today? Probably not. If not for a bad turnover at the 1, or for a few stalled drives in the second half, we roll.
dude this is when rich rod was @ michigan
@belwaters He only does the wins.
Defense is for losers, we will put up 40+ on everyone haha. In all seriousness, as long as Robinson stays healthy we can win 8+ games, if he gets hurt our whole offense loses a big dynamic making us nothing more then a 7-5 bowl squad.
@EricGoBlue
"Anyone who knows defensive schemes and coaching (and I do) can see the obvious."
When you've coached in the NFL and overseen a lockdown defense at Texas, you can talk. You clearly have no concept of the personnel deficiencies we're currently suffering.
1st view. 1st Comment! Where would we be without Denard? #GOBLUE
I was at the game as well. Thank god. Pam Ward is just crap. Pure unadulterated crap.
@offintotheblue THANK U!!!!
@EricGoBlue "Sad thing is, we win one more game, we're bowl-bound"
The sad thing is, "fans" like you, and I use that term loosely, are actually routing for Michigan to lose out of hate for our coaching staff. That's a perfect demostration of disloyalty to the program and to the players that work REALLY hard to improve and win. We don't need fans like you.
Should Robinson be fired? Yeah... probably. Will he be fired if the defense keeps playing like this? Yeah... regardless of wins.
i would like this video but i didn't like the michigan defense
ya missed one
@TheGloveMI
Fine, go ahead and pretend you know more about football than veteran college coaches. Rush 5 every down and play press coverage and watch us give up 4 or 5 80 yard touchdowns every game.
I'm seeing the lack of experience and youth in the D...which is something you can't fix with coaching. But when I see a 12 yard cushion on 3rd and 4, and they easily convert a first down with a pitch and catch out route...that is a break down in scheme and poor coaching. I keep hearing about this guy's track record at Texas and in the NFL but he is failing our young defense. On a brighter, those are errors that can be fixed so let's hope Greg Robinson gets his head out of his ass. Go blue
@EricGoBlue We're also incredibly young, and have virtually zero depth.
Denard's a sophomore. SOPHOMORE!!!!
that is all...
that guy is the most annoying announcer i've ever heard.
pam ward ruins this video
@EricGoBlue "quit crying already and just come up with better arguments."
HAHAHA! That's funny because you haven't even refuted anything. You corrected a spelling mistake and said Michigan is embarassing. What does that refute? Nothing.
My argument is that people hate our coaches so much that they don't want us to win games. Is that incorrect?
"he is just frustrated that when we win another game it makes us bowl bound "
How is that NOT rooting for us to lose!? Seriously!?