Michigan updated playbook

[Bama1985]

Michigan updated playbook for Alabama. Harbaugh to install the Colin Kaepernick running plays for Michigan QB.

 

[Joefus]

If this is their big wrinkle….im not impressed. Every team in the sec runs this. We run this in practice. Please run Jj 11-15 times 🙏🏻

 

[teamplayer]

AU certainly ran it well against us using the QB. I think this will be something that can really help Michigan. I hope our defense can slow them down or at least make them kick field goals in the red zone. We'll have our hands full.

 

[Power Eye]

I'm a southerner, and I know I have an accent, but I tried listening to this guy and after about 2 minutes I had to turn it off because I had no idea what he was saying. I genuinely was interested in listening to this, but I literally could not understand him.

 

[BJ4TIDE]

At the very least this would change the way we rush the QB. If they have even a little success running the QB we would likely back off the pressure and have to “mush rush” more.

 

[BamaFossil]

I wish the guy would speak English...

 

[B1GTide]

They are probably doing this as much to try to prepare for Milroe as to try and introduce something on offense that Alabama struggles with. Neither will matter. You can't make a guy like their QB into a dual threat guy in 3 weeks, and you can't prepare for someone like Milroe without someone like him on your team.

 

[Joefus]

They are probably doing this as much to try to prepare for Milroe as to try and introduce something on offense that Alabama struggles with. Neither will matter. You can't make a guy like their QB into a dual threat guy in 3 weeks, and you can't prepare for someone like Milroe without someone like him on your team.

Exactly. It’s diff blocking schemes and everything. Also they have no one on staff who’s called or coordinated a game of that style. So they’re gonna change everything to run plays we’ve already seen using slower players? I imagine we’ll see 5-7 plays max on third downs or 2 min drill etc. to try to catch us flat footed here and there. For that to scare me their reg offense has to be working too. In that case we’re already kinda cooked

 

[landonew]

They are probably doing this as much to try to prepare for Milroe as to try and introduce something on offense that Alabama struggles with. Neither will matter. You can't make a guy like their QB into a dual threat guy in 3 weeks, and you can't prepare for someone like Milroe without someone like him on your team.

Agreed. For a dual threat strategy to be successful, you typically need to block effectively at the edge. Turner/Braswell are UM’s biggest mismatch on either side of the ball.

There really isn’t anyway to “prepare” for Milroe’s athleticism. Michigan’s best bet would probably be to maintain gap control at the D-Line, and bring LB/DB pressure through the middle or from the right to force JM to roll left. I don’t whether they have enough speed at LB to pull this off consistently.

 

[PacadermaTideUs]

The facts that firstly, this guy seems to regard the read option as some sort of innovative secret weapon, and secondly, that being unpredictable is a little known important key to winning games, are telling about at least his level of expertise, if not about the whole of Big Ten football.

Michigan’s a good football team, no doubt. But if these are their secret strategies, I think we’re gonna smoke em a heck of a lot more than if they just lined up and played their game. I honestly don’t think they’ll have a ton of success running or passing on us anyway, even if they don’t try to switch things up. But if they get away from their strengths and try to install something new in the last month, and expect to have the same level of success that auburn had in a rivalry at Jordan Hare, I think they’re going to be sadly disappointed. And I don’t think they’re gonna have a defensive answer at all to what we’re bringing to the table just because they tried to simulate it in a few practices without having the personnel and reps to even come close. Their defense has enjoyed greatly inflated results against a schedule of bad offenses. The one that they’ll see January 1st isn’t going to be anything like anything they’ve seen all year or simulated in practice over the last month.

I was picking us to win somewhat convincingly anyway, but if they try to be somebody they’re not or become something new in the last month, well, they might get seriously embarrassed. Again.

 

[landonew]

I think they should be more concerned about how they keep JJ healthy. Turner could really hurt that kid.

 

[Tidelines]

The key to their success on offense is their inside running game. If they can be efficient with that it will set up read - option and play action. I think they'll block our DTs effectively.
So our LBs have to stay within their play responsibility to shut down the inside runs. If we start cheating safeties up to help, they have the ability to make us pay for it. Steele knows what he is doing.
I would rather we play somewhere other than the Rose Bowl. They'll use that history for maximum motivation. They have film after film of Michigan Rose Bowls to show their players. We have some history ourself, but it's mystical to them.
Still think it comes down to our outside speed advantage. I like our chances, but Michigan will be a challenge.

 

[rolltide_21]

So, we’re supposed to believe their new “wrinkle” is posted on the internet for all to see? Come on man. At this point in the season, you are who you are. Do what you do and do it better than the other team.

 

[CajunCrimson]

Grasping at Straws

 

[bama2112]

He lost me when started with Colin Kaepernick as a comparison QB. I had a hard time understanding him, I listened to 5 min of which I will never get that time back. Funny Maines predictions are at least entertaining. Save the 17:16 minutes of time by ignoring this guy and read the bible instead.

 

[kwftide]

I’ll just say this: if these are actually the top ten plays of the year, UM is in deep trouble. The level of competition displayed in this video is less than stellar.

 

[Amaizing Blue]

Just FYI-Yoder is NOT a Michigan insider, and in fact does not have press credentials for Michigan games. He is the worst of the worst when it comes to football reporting, as he literally makes things up out of thin air and attributes them to "Sources." On our board, any of his "Content" is banned, and posting about it can get the poster himself banned. I won't click on this, you shouldn't either. He has zero credibility.

 

[RammerJammer14]

So, we’re supposed to believe their new “wrinkle” is posted on the internet for all to see? Come on man. At this point in the season, you are who you are. Do what you do and do it better than the other team.

 

[TIDE-HSV]

Just FYI-Yoder is NOT a Michigan insider, and in fact does not have press credentials for Michigan games. He is the worst of the worst when it comes to football reporting, as he literally makes things up out of thin air and attributes them to "Sources." On our board, any of his "Content" is banned, and posting about it can get the poster himself banned. I won't click on this, you shouldn't either. He has zero credibility.

I think that was obvious even without your input...

 

[landonew]

I’ll just say this: if these are actually the top ten plays of the year, UM is in deep trouble. The level of competition displayed in this video is less than stellar.

Michigan is not super explosive, but I wouldn’t form judgments from that video. Watch their offense against OSU. I’m not saying they’re amazing, but it’s a better representation of them IMO.