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You just can't get out of your own way,Michigan just munched on a Mountain West Team. But Underwood racks up stats vs one of them and everybody should sit up and take noticeM-kay, Mateer hasn't had an O-Line like the Weasels either,so Tamato/Tomato

hey genius, already talked about Underwood and what he's facing and how this is his first real test. Underwood didn't really rack up stats- he was just efficient, composed, didn't make mistakes and ran the offense and had handful of very impressive high level throws.

now I'm talking about Mateer- who if you remove his FCS game last year at Wash St he threw for 24 TD's vs 7 INT's and had 2 fumbles in 11 starts- 8 vs Mountain West opponents and 3 vs P4 opponents. Mateer is a veteran QB but he hasn't started that many games for a senior- and he's only started against three P4 level opponents in his entire career.

And Mateer won't have an O-Line like "the Weasels" this year either- OU has had serious issues on the OL the past couple years and they reared their head vs a bad FCS team. Could the OU o-line rebound in a huge way week 2- it's possible- but they will be playing 2 true freshman on the OL this Saturday- and I don't know about you but I never feel comfortable if my team is starting true freshman at QB, OL, or DT. QB because the inexperience factor- and OL and DT because well those are the grown ass man positions- and 18 year old right out of HS true freshman OL & DL are 99.9% of the time just not physically equipped to take on JR and SR guys in the trenches who have been in college S&C programs for 3-4 years.

Hard to figure out what Oklahoma is under Venables. I guess also hard to know what Michigan is under Moore. Not sure any result would surprise me much.

Oklahoma has a couple players returning from injury, freshman LT Fasusi and RT Simmons.

Ugly.  

Michigan’s OL needs work.  Piss poor converting  3rd downs. DB depth was an issue before losing Berry.  Michigan couldn’t contain Mateer or get to him fast enough.  

Glad they have two weeks before they go to Lincoln.  Hoping the coaching staff sans Moore can make something out of the hot mess.

Ugly. 

Michigan’s OL needs work.  Piss poor converting  3rd downs. DB depth was an issue before losing Berry.  Michigan couldn’t contain Mateer or get to him fast enough. 

Glad they have two weeks before they go to Lincoln.  Hoping the coaching staff sans Moore can make something out of the hot mess.

I don’t want to be an overreacting person, but maybe Moore is the problem. Underwood is a freshman, definitely looked like one yesterday, but the also made the same type of gameplan for Davis Warren and made underwood look like Warren. 

I don’t know, maybe not run it up the middle on EVERY SINGLE DAMN FIRST AND SECOND DOWN. It drove me nuts ans difficult to watch, but at least the defense was good enough to enjoy one side of the ball. The defense has issues. I thought so after New Mexico and it was confirmed yesterday as well. DB is an issue and as much as I heard about the d-line all offseason, it got owned yesterday. 

so did the offensive line. The blocking schemes were weird. They knew you were going to run every play and you treated your o-line like running backs that would cut back and forth and they were also owned.

late in the game they finally decided to throw and move underwood out of the pocket and possibly give him the chance to run… but it was far too late and too much pressure. This game should have been far uglier if it weren’t for the turnovers and awful special teams play by Oklahoma. Offensively and defensively Oklahoma overpowered Michigan.

One final thing. The borderline targeting from last week truly ended up being a bigger impactful call than I thought. I took the stance of, well that’s technically the rule so I have to deal with it expecting it to be called that way.. then Semaj Morgan took a late hit that wasn’t called and was directly to his head, which you could see when he clearly had a concussion as he fell twice trying to get off the field. The play Justice Haynes got smoked by a poor decision by underwood is another I’d like to see a replay of which they didn’t show because the live play looked questionably high with the hit as well. Point being, if you’re going to kick the best defender of a team out, you better stay consistent when it happens to his teammate the following week and Semaj definitely took a targeted late hit and not a damn thing was done.

all in all, Oklahoma dominated and Michigan offense looked no different than 2024 Michigan offense and defense looked worse. Could be a long season as an M fan.

last thing, if I was a sooner fan, I’d be excited to cheer on Mateer. That kid is a perfect fit for that program. He was fun to watch. Still can’t believe a qb squats 470. They said it 12 times and probably because it is that impressive.

Ugly. 

Michigan’s OL needs work.  Piss poor converting  3rd downs. DB depth was an issue before losing Berry.  Michigan couldn’t contain Mateer or get to him fast enough. 

Glad they have two weeks before they go to Lincoln.  Hoping the coaching staff sans Moore can make something out of the hot mess.

do me a favor and don't post anything again. you're a fucking jinx pal. 

 I am getting some Brady Hoke vibes from him. 

Yes. Exactly this.  Brady Hoke as a person, good dude, but, not an elite coach. There's a ceiling.

 the offensive game plan did them no help-

I think this is the problem. I think there was so much talent on the o-line (and d-line ) that Moore has been able to skate by in the past and last year it started to glaringly show. You lose Keegan, Zinter, Hinton, Henderson, talent at a high level.. add in great tight ends lost to the draft and injury and suddenly, your classic run up the middle, overpower and wear down defenses doesn't work, so you need to be sharp enough to adjust. They weren't. What's even crazier when I think about it today is that you didn't have a stud TE and you have weak receivers, you had a problem blocking and giving both the RB and the QB time.. YET.. you have a very mobile qb, you have Justice Haynes, Yu have Jordan Marshall and you have Max Bredeson. I don't know, maybe instead of trying to run absurd reverses, you line up both backs, add bredeson in the mix lined up as a TE and shift the pocket or run some options.

It's a tough balance to figure out. Was the Oklahoma defense that good? Was the play calling that bad? a mix of both. I really understand wanting Marshall & Haynes to have the ball, but use some brain cells and find other creative ways outside of run up the middle if your o-line is battling a lot of injuries and is thin and inexperienced.