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| Jacob Hamilton | MLive.com |
I drink Arnold Palmer's, if your not familiar it's half ice tea and half lemonade. Other's call it half and half. At a restaurant one time, I ordered a half and half and they brought me half sweet tea and half regular ice tea, which doesn't make sense to me.
Today's game was 2 distinct different halves. The first half had 2 turnovers and 2 lapes by the defense that led to two separate occasions where UTEP was leading the Wolverines 7-0 and 14-7. Michigan's offense looked like a bad high school offense. You can't run right at a box full of defenders, doesn't matter the quality of the defense, they can tackle the RB when they have a numbers advantage.
Michigan limped to 3 point lead at half-time and felt lucky to be leading by that much. Then the 2nd half became the dominating defense, Marsh, and Underwood show. The defense decided to lead with aggression and limited the UTEP offense to negative yards for the 3rd quarter and Beck decided running into a loaded box was a fool's errand.
Michigan dominated from that point on and it was game over. I was worried about this staffs ability to adjust strategy at the half, but they did that and Coach Whitt got the team back to playing with energy and aggression.
Cheers:
- Bryce was 19/25 for 223 Yards
- Hiter had 2 TD's
- Marsh 105 yards 10 catches and 1 TD
- JJ 7 for 92 and 1 TD
- Chase Taylor led the D with 5 tackles, 1/2 sack, and 1 TFL
- Bowles continued his good play
- Lea'ea with the Big Man Pick 6 (Thick 6!)
- Trey Butkowski with a nice long FG
- The 2nd Half
Jeers:
- The 1st Half
- 2 bad turnovers fumbles by Bryce and Savion
- Marshall being banged up
- The offensive line is still not great
- Some early penalties were very costly
Hello, Nice to Meet You!
- Boney Toney! (Tariq Boney) 4 Tackles, 1 Sack, and 1.5 TFL
- Cater Meadows
- Travis Johnson
- S. Moa with a TD catch
- Tommy Carr with his first Michigan TD pass
First half was full of WMU flashbacks for the fans, the players, and the coaches. Good on the staff for re-focusing the team at the half. Michigan can't have a half like that with conference play starting and a ranked Iowa team coming to the Big House next week.
3-0 and we will take it.
2 comments:
I can’t watch these games bc in Spain right now. But some of the video highlights show some real arm talent for Bryce. JJ looks unstoppable.
But that TD by Carr seems like a pass Bryce can’t make. That was perfection.
In my opinion and it’s only an opinion. Bryce is not performing to a standard worthy of the praise he receives. Seems like he’s kind of holding back the offense rather than contributing to it. Example is yes Bryce can run well so the coaches create rpo’s and option plays etc. that create running opportunities for him, then he fumbles once or twice a game. He has arm talent in terms of arm strength, great but he often doesn’t understand what defense he’s looking at so he doesn’t know where the ball needs to go. I hope he improves a lot because I definitely don’t see how he’s worth the money he’s getting.
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