This is how I watched the final play:
I watched Bryce throw it out of the endzone.
I shut off the TV
Immediately wrote the Disaster post
I hopped in a sad shower
My phone rings as I'm in the shower
My son said, that he can't believe Michigan won
I said, I saw the final play and the game was over, the WMU head coach was walking to shake hands.
He said, they put 1 second on the clock and Bryce hit JJ for a Hail Mary.
I turned my TV on and YouTube TV had saved exactly where I left off and saw the final play.
I know social media lost its mind that 1 second was put back on the clock. I 100% agree, WMU got robbed. The same way Michigan has gotten robbed many times over. There was an extra play against MSU where the clock operator stopped the clock with one second to give Sparty a free play, which they won on. They even nicknamed the fella, like one second Bob or something. Dumb shit happens in football and this time Michigan benefited from it.
Let's also be real about something. Those officials and the video review booth were terrible all game. There were at least 2 bad spots that were reviewed and up held. One I'm pretty sure was a tackle for a loss that they gave a first down to the Broncos.
The other point I've been seeing online is that, the fix was in by the Big Ten to protect next week's game between Michigan and OK. Michigan had trouble all game completing a pass more than 5 yards, they had less than 1% chance of hitting that Hail Mary from 60 yards out. It's not like they were in the red zone or goal line. That gift was buying your broke friend a lottery ticket and saying I hope this hits and you can pay off all your loans.
Update: The Big Ten released the audio and video from the review and it seems like a legit call with the clock synced with #18 from WMU touching the ball. The MAC appreciated the transparency and agrees with the finding.
I don't love rushing the field, but those fans were there all night, with nothing to cheer about. They had 4 hours of cheering to get out of their system. Those plays always happen against Michigan, not for Michigan. So I get it.
This sucks for the Broncos, I know the feeling all too well, but Michigan is nowhere near a good team right now. They can't run, they can't block, they can't stop the run, they have a ton of problems with a top 10 team coming in next Saturday.
Cheers:
- JJ told Sam Webb that 50/50 balls are 90/10 when thrown to him. He is right.
- Our punter was really good
- First drive and last play was good
Jerers:
- New Michigan staff got a hard lesson that this place is different.
- Team was not prepared at all
- The play calling (outside of the first drive) was head scratching
- I love that they want to run Bryce but he has a fumbling problem
- Marsh has shown not to be the best Special Teams player in the past
- Coach Whitt be aggressive in the 2nd half when the team is moving the ball, go for a 4th down
- Turnovers and penalties are not Michigan Football and needs to be cleaned up right away
- Offensive line play was maybe the worst I've seen in 5 years
- Beck, let's at least try to throw to a TE
Outside the final play and the first drive, Michigan had very little to like about the game last night. It was nice to see Michigan has a good punter.
The late Lou Holtz used to say, "the biggest improvement jump teams get all year is between Week 1 and Week 2 of the season". Let's hope that happens here. Lots of long nights for the Michigan staff this week. No Labor day BBQ for them.
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Just a thought > could Michigan football play be one of the adverse effects of paying the players .... they are just fat cats (wolverines) resting on their laurels .... just going thru the motions. Why "bust your ass" if your pockets are full of "change". If some of them are millionaires, the motivation is gone .....they are just a few years from getting 25 dollars a week from Mom and Dad. I hate "Nil" but still love the wolves" .... back to the payments ... know someone that prepaid a lawn-guy $100 dollars a week .... guess what? > he never showed up .... too busy pretending to be a football player that really got beat by Western Michigan.
I agree NIL has made college a mercenary sport.
As I mentioned in yesterday's post after the game. BU stinks. he's not any good. Its what I had heard throughout camp. He can't process the game. He can't read defenses. he locks on the primary and predetermines his targets before the snap.
The OL doesn't look very good either. they got pushed around by a MAC team.
Coaching, I wasn't impressed. Outside the opening drive and lets face it, BU got lucky on the one play with the bad snap. WMU fell asleep on that play, the play calling was vanilla. you want to tell me that they wanted to established the run? Cool, but the didn't. the OL couldn't give them any push. Doesn't help when your QB is no threat! Besides that, too many effing penalties. C'mon man! Thought Whitt was a discipline guy? Wasn't in love with the hire when it happened so yesterday didn't do anything to make me like it any more.
I heard that they are going to make a sequel to the movie "Million-Dollar Baby" .... but name it "Million-Dollar loser" ... starring our 12-million-dollar player .... I heard rumors that a tattoo pallor offers free tattoos to Michigan players ... their specialty is tattooing large L's on foreheads.
The game sucked and we were all disappointed in how it was played. Michigan constantly shot themselves in the foot. WMU wasn't a great team but they played to the best of their abilities looked good enough against a "Top 20 team.".
However, regarding the clock and the last second issue we must keep in mind that although the official game clock and the clock that we see on our tv screen are supposed to be the same, but they are not. They are suppose to be synced together and sometimes things go wrong...obviously. Here is a link that tries to explain how they are suppose to work together.
https://www.quora.com/How-is-the-clock-on-a-TV-broadcast-of-a-sporting-event-synchronized-to-the-actual-clock-at-the-stadium-Is-the-production-crew-literally-plugged-into-the-stadium-clock-Or-is-there-a-camera-pointed-at-the-clock-with
Guys, this is what I come back from …. This was absolutely embarrassment. I don’t think our team will be good. This year guys get used to lots of losses and as we are going to get from OSU, I will say Whittingham will be fired by end of the season.
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