Michigan Football 2025: Rebuilding an offense, hoping our defense remains solid

[GalagaGuy]

The only show I really listen to is Doug and Gator.  They don't try to stir up manufactured outrage and cover a variety of topics, including many not even sports related.  

[RandyMarsh]

Valenti and Rico are the worst, they can never give credit to any local team without some backhanded comment. Just a couple of countless examples, the year Michigan won Valenti did predicted it in the middle of year but at least from what I heard it was never cause they have an elite team, coaching etc. but instead because the Big 10 sucks, Ryan Day can't coach against Michigan and the SEC will beat each other up before having to play Michigan.

Even if that is/was true you can at least say that Michigan has an elite squad that is as good as anybody, instead of downplaying that and just putting down the competition to prop them up.

Said the same thing with the Lions, put down everybody else instead of just saying that they have a great team.

I haven't listened to them in a few months but even with the Tigers last year he couldn't give them any credit on their run, it was all about Minnesota collapsing and the baseball Gods being on the Tigers side. 

[Mr.TaterSalad]

Not that beating New Mexico is some great feat, but seeing this team in firm control early in the first quarter is reassuring. 

[GalagaGuy]

This is not targeting.  No idea what the review officials are thinking here. 

 

[RandyMarsh]

How has Underwood looked? ESPN doesn't have box score stats so I can't even get a read on his performance that way.

[gehringer_2]

32 minutes ago, GalagaGuy said:

This is not targeting.  No idea what the review officials are thinking here. 

 

there is helmet to helmet contact. At minimum he gets a PF for the body slam.

[gehringer_2]

9 minutes ago, RandyMarsh said:

How has Underwood looked? ESPN doesn't have box score stats so I can't even get a read on his performance that way.

CBS has game stats. Underwood is 20/29 243 1 TD , 0 INT

[GalagaGuy]

2 hours ago, Mr.TaterSalad said:

Not that beating New Mexico is some great feat, but seeing this team in firm control early in the first quarter is reassuring. 

 

5 minutes ago, gehringer_2 said:

there is helmet to helmet contact. At minimum he gets a PF for the body slam.

He went chest to chest when making the tackle.  Call it roughing if you want but in no world was he leading with his helmet.  

[Deleterious]

 

[romad1]

What time does the 7:30 start happen?  7:45? 

 

[romad1]

Oh so 7:30 really means 7:50-ish?

[Mr.TaterSalad]

Michigan's secondary looks porous early on. Oklahoma's WR just dropped that pass wide open, all on his own. There wasn't a Michigan defender anywhere near him. 

[romad1]

we gonna just allow OK to hit Semaj in the head after the ball was on the ground.  

[GalagaGuy]

Well this is awful.  🥵

[Sports_Freak]

Underwood melting down on the sidelines.

[Adullin]

I am not impressed with the Quarterback. 

[gehringer_2]

33 minutes ago, Sports_Freak said:

Underwood melting down on the sidelines.

Did Haynes miss a blitz pickup or drop a pass or something?

[romad1]

Justice Haynes is a very good RB.  

[Adullin]

Move the ball 

[Adullin]

Kid looks like a deer in headlights completely frozen in fear. 

[GalagaGuy]

Can't blame Bryce, blame his bum of a coach.  There is nothing about Moore's demeanor on the sideline that makes me believe he knows what he's doing.  

[TP_Fan]

Moore cannot continue to be a coach of this program.  He makes rich rod look competent. 7-6 in the regular season since Harbaugh left.  How can he justify keeping his job?  Setting up every player to fail.  

[TP_Fan]

1 hour ago, Adullin said:

Kid looks like a deer in headlights completely frozen in fear. 

No.  He has a coach that calls the worst plays in human history.  

[gehringer_2]

two games in, 21 posts?

Sic transit gloria mundi

 

 

[buddha]

jim harbaugh giveth and jim harbaugh taketh away.  we get a natty and a great end run against ohio state, but we end up with a program on probation and one unable to conduct a proper head coach search that have left it in a precarious position.

moore is looking "more and more" (no pun intended) like a guy thrust into a position he was not ready to fill.  an offensive line guru whose lines have been terrible for two straight seasons.  a guy whose offensive play calling regime has been bad and whose decision making on 4th downs has been even worse.  and now a defense that is reverting back to early last year's performance instead of late last years.

the one thing he has been able to do is spend the university's (and larry ellison's apparently) money.  they have locked down two straight recruiting classes in the borderline elite category, but followed it up with two middling portal classes, with no real helpful additions in the areas of greatest need: offensive line and wide receiver.

so what to do?  this season is going to look a lot like last season.  with all signs pointing toward 2027 as the date for a championship run.  if this year goes off the rails, moore might not have that long.

harbaugh left a mixed legacy indeed.  ultimately scaling the ultimate heights, but leaving the cupboard bare, jetting out of town in a manner that left the school little choice but to promote an inexperienced coordinator as his successor, and a program disgraced in the national media largely because of his inflexible personality's inability to compromise.

2023 will always be an awesome memory, 2024-2026 are likely to be an extended hangover.