Picture Pages: Two-Way Hopkins I
One of my early complaints about the Denard-Borges fusion cuisine was the grab-bag nature of the offense. By that I mean the sense that Michigan's plays were generally unrelated to each other and...
View ArticlePicture Pages: Two-Way Hopkins II
Last time on Picture Pages we looked at a 35-yard iso on Michigan's first drive against Minnesota. A 35 yard iso means someone did something terrible on defense or your tailback did something...
View ArticleMichigan Museday in Rock, Paper, Scissors
This is a follow up to to Doctor Rocklove a few weeks ago, where I identified the influence of offensive sets on philosophies. If you're not familiar with offensive theory you should go back and read...
View ArticleMichigan Museday Pulls Bazooka
Shouldn't Spock be in this?Hi. Me. Back. So before that much-appreciated vacation, I used this space to talk about constraint theory of offense and provide a rock-paper-scissors matrix for...
View ArticleUnverified Voracity Beats East Plano Tech State
900. The video from the boards:Can we start calling the team Hokemen, Daily?Speaking of…We have fewer lame-o wins than anyone! Except Georgia! Pat Forde scours the ten winningest programs in college...
View ArticleHokepoints Empties the Bubble Drawer
[Fuller]The best reason I've been able to come up with for how this Michigan team could put up that kind of yardage against Ohio State is that Ohio State's defensive players are—man, how do I say this...
View ArticleRethinking The Slot: Norfleet & The Jet Sweep
Not Just A Gimmick™, we hope. [Adam Glanzman/Special to MGoBlog]For a player with a meager 113 yards from scrimmage in two years, Dennis Norfleet is the topic of discussion around these parts a whole...
View ArticleUpon Further Review 2014: Offense vs Appalachian State
FORMATION NOTES: Not a whole lot that was unusual. Michigan has changed the alignment of their backs in some shotgun sets:I called this "shotgun deep" since the QB is still at 5 yards but the back is...
View ArticleHaknpoints: Offensive Concepts
"Every football team eventually arrives at a lead play: a "Number 1" play, a "bread and butter" play. It is the play that the team knows it must make go, and the one its opponents know they must stop....
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