Comments on: Weekend! Football! Roundup! http://rumorsandrants.com/2009/09/weekend-football-roundup.html Goes Down Easy With Little Or No Aftertaste Thu, 09 Feb 2012 22:43:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: MJenks http://rumorsandrants.com/2009/09/weekend-football-roundup.html/comment-page-1#comment-12034 MJenks Mon, 14 Sep 2009 16:40:45 +0000 http://rumorsandrants.com/?p=10080#comment-12034 Actually, on Allen's last carry, he turned an ankle, which is why he wasn't in on the next run (Robert Hughes gained that whole half a yard). I'd understand the passes on the final possession a lot more if Floyd wasn't being sewn up in the locker room and Tate hadn't had a case of the dropsies all game long. A pass-happy attack SHOULD have worked against that weak Michigan secondary (Cissoko's only way of defending Floyd and Tate was to hold onto one of their arms while they were trying to catch it), but the passing SHOULD also have featured the tight end over the middle a whole helluva lot more, too. There's plenty of talent on the offensive line. I saw lots of Michigan fans commenting on various boards this weekend that we had a lot more talent than they did. It was boneheaded playcalling coupled with continued special team whiffs (seriously, you can't recruit someone from the soccer team who doesn't have a foot made out of jell-o to punt?) that doomed Notre Dame, not the offense itself (600 yards before a couple of questionable calls). Actually, on Allen’s last carry, he turned an ankle, which is why he wasn’t in on the next run (Robert Hughes gained that whole half a yard).

I’d understand the passes on the final possession a lot more if Floyd wasn’t being sewn up in the locker room and Tate hadn’t had a case of the dropsies all game long.

A pass-happy attack SHOULD have worked against that weak Michigan secondary (Cissoko’s only way of defending Floyd and Tate was to hold onto one of their arms while they were trying to catch it), but the passing SHOULD also have featured the tight end over the middle a whole helluva lot more, too.

There’s plenty of talent on the offensive line. I saw lots of Michigan fans commenting on various boards this weekend that we had a lot more talent than they did. It was boneheaded playcalling coupled with continued special team whiffs (seriously, you can’t recruit someone from the soccer team who doesn’t have a foot made out of jell-o to punt?) that doomed Notre Dame, not the offense itself (600 yards before a couple of questionable calls).

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