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The Official Michigan, MSU, and 1 Random Guy from Arky Thread

  • Joester16 said...

    I really don't think the O or D played horrible in the first half.

    The way I look at it is that the O drove down the field pretty much every possession. But 3 of them were negated by turnovers, which lead to the Defense not having much rest/good field possession for NW.

    Just clean-up the turnovers.

    It would have been a 48-17 type game yesterday if they did.

    I think the D was poor in the first half.

    Offense was fine until Denard killed drives with the INT. He certainly cannot throw like that against MSU.

    Big M

  • Big M said...

    I think the D was poor in the first half.

    Offense was fine until Denard killed drives with the INT. He certainly cannot throw like that against MSU.

    The defense surely looked lost at points during the first half. But towards the end the D settled down a little bit, even though that last second field goal.

    Then at half the coaches made spectacular adjustments yet again. They came out and just flat out dominated Northwestern.

    But an MSU fan would say that NW just flat out sucks and choked. Nothing to do with the way UM played.

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  • Peterklima said...

    I think the yardage was Michigan 540ish to 360ish for NW by the time NW got the ball back, down 18 with 3 mins left.

    NW put up 80 yards in gabage time. That was a bout a fifth of their yardage.

    So, holding NW to 360 yards during the meaningful part of the game is pretty impressive for this defense against a Persa-led offense on the road.

    This game would have been really ugly for NW without UM shooting itself in the foot the first half (penalties and unforced INTs). Even with those big mistakes, Michigan still won by almost 3 TDs.

    Northwestern had 438 yards total on 70 plays.
    -79 for the last desperation drive = 359 meaningful yards. 321 of the 359 were in the first half.
    NW's second half drives went as follows:
    3 plays / -6 yards / punt
    4 plays / 23 yards /INT
    5 plays / 44 yards / fumble
    8 plays / -13 yards
    10 plays / 79 yards / end of game

    That's a hell of a performance ON THE ROAD, in a conference game, while trailing by 10 at the half.

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  • I say that we end the season now. There really is no way anyone can compete with teh new and improved UM. I'm just more concerned of whether it will be Bama or LSU to lose in teh championship game at this point.

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  • InTenSity said...

    I say that we end the season now. There really is no way anyone can compete with teh new and improved UM. I'm just more concerned of whether it will be Bama or LSU to lose in teh championship game at this point.

    roflmao

    You're putting words in a bunch of our mouths.

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  • The only way to shut up/get respect from the MSU posters is to win Saturday. Nothing wrong with that. Let's just wait until then.

    c_woodson

  • InTenSity said...

    Northwestern should say fuck it and take out denard

    http://michiganstate.247sports.com/Board/93/tOfficial-SCum-Northwestern-Game-Thread-4763295/16#a4768841

    Stay classy, sparty.

    buttesnake

  • c_woodson said...

    The only way to shut up/get respect from the MSU posters is to win Saturday. Nothing wrong with that. Let's just wait until then.

    thumbsup

    buttesnake

  • buttesnake said...

    Stay classy, sparty.

    Yup, I posted that in the UM thread yesterday. Bunch of classless people.

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  • buttesnake said...

    thumbsup

    I fully expect to hear a lot of, "well we won 3 of the last 4" come Saturday around 3:15 pm.

    c_woodson

  • InTenSity said...

    I say that we end the season now. There really is no way anyone can compete with teh new and improved UM. I'm just more concerned of whether it will be Bama or LSU to lose in teh championship game at this point.

    Oh wah wah wah cry. Michigan fans are excited because our team is 6-0 and we like our new coach. Nobody has said anything about Michigan being Big Ten champs let alone National Champs.

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  • Joester16 said...

    Yup, I posted that in the UM thread yesterday. Bunch of classless people.

    Yeah after I saw that, I had to check it out for myself. On a positive note, one of their mods called them out on it and banned a guy for agreeing with intentionally injuring a player.

    buttesnake

  • buttesnake said...

    Yeah after I saw that, I had to check it out for myself. On a positive note, one of their mods called them out on it and banned a guy for agreeing with intentionally injuring a player.

    Well there was a few guys who agreed with that classless comment until a mod jumped in.

    Then they all backpeddled and took the mods side.

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  • InTenSity said...

    I say that we end the season now. There really is no way anyone can compete with teh new and improved UM. I'm just more concerned of whether it will be Bama or LSU to lose in teh championship game at this point.

    After reading the RCMB this weekend, I don't even know if UM will be able to keep it within 4 TD's.

    Big M

  • Big M said...

    After reading the RCMB this weekend, I don't even know if UM will be able to keep it within 4 TD's.

    Yeah, the pumping and hyping is getting out of hand.

    buttesnake

  • InTenSity said...

    I say that we end the season now. There really is no way anyone can compete with teh new and improved UM. I'm just more concerned of whether it will be Bama or LSU to lose in teh championship game at this point.

    Keep on putting words in our fanbase mouths. Shows how arrogant you are when Michigan fans think they can beat State in EL automatically means that they think they are going to win the MNC.

    As your fellow Spartan fan steveschnieder would say "keep spinning".

    Get over yourselves.

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  • buttesnake said...

    Stay classy, sparty.

    You realize the TWO people that were for injuring Denard were banned for the night? If you guys dont want us to lump you guys in stereotypical/fictional groups don't do it to us.

    Sp4rt4ns

  • Sp4rt4ns said...

    You realize the TWO people that were for injuring Denard were banned for the night? If you guys dont want us to lump you guys in stereotypical/fictional groups don't do it to us.

    Read my followup post where I talk about the mod banning a guy. So where did you disappear to last night after trolling in the Michigan thread? For some reason we didn't see you in the second half.

    buttesnake

  • Sp4rt4ns said...

    You realize the TWO people that were for injuring Denard were banned for the night? If you guys dont want us to lump you guys in stereotypical/fictional groups don't do it to us.

    Oh by the way, stay classy, sparty.

    buttesnake

  • I really don't think MSU is very good. Their offense doesn't scare me and we know Denard will be able to move the ball on their "vaunted" defense. I just think with the game being @MSU, they will stay in the game and could very well pull out the W.

    UMGoBlue

  • UMGoBlue said...

    I really don't think MSU is very good. Their offense doesn't scare me and we know Denard will be able to move the ball on their "vaunted" defense. I just think with the game being @MSU, they will stay in the game and could very well pull out the W.

    Denard did not exactly light it up last year, and MSU's D is better this year. Toughest game remaining on the schedule IMO.

    Big M

  • InTenSity said...

    I say that we end the season now. There really is no way anyone can compete with teh new and improved UM. I'm just more concerned of whether it will be Bama or LSU to lose in teh championship game at this point.

    It'll be LSU IMO. Bama won't want to face us again after our game next year at JerryWorld.

    P.S.

    You're an idiot.

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  • buttesnake said...

    Yeah, the pumping and hyping is getting out of hand.

    roflmao

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    steveschneider

  • I took a bunch of shit for praising Denard on the RCMB this weekend. At times it looks like sloppy sand lot football but when it matters the guy delivers. The stats that jumped out at me is UM is 95% in the redzone, and 49% on 3rd down conversions (pulled these this morning and they didn't include the NW game yet).

    The broken play where there was a bad snap and he just scooped it up and ran out found open space was really impressive.

    I also noticed we are around 25% on third down conversions on 3rd down conversions against ND and OSU. We have to do better than that if we want to beat UM. It's going to be the #1 D against the #2 O and our #7 O vs. your #6 D.

    It is flat out going to be a great game and I have it at a coin flip as of now.

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  • steveschneider said...

    I took a bunch of shit for praising Denard on the RCMB this weekend. At times it looks like sloppy sand lot football but when it matters the guy delivers. The stats that jumped out at me is UM is 95% in the redzone, and 49% on 3rd down conversions (pulled these this morning and they didn't include the NW game yet).

    The broken play where there was a bad snap and he just scooped it up and ran out found open space was really impressive.

    I also noticed we are around 25% on third down conversions on 3rd down conversions against ND and OSU. We have to do better than that if we want to beat UM. It's going to be the #1 D against the #2 O and our #7 O vs. your #6 D.

    It is flat out going to be a great game and I have it at a coin flip as of now.

    No flame intended but it's nice to have you not be a douche and actually talk football. Should be a great game.

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