McCray was a liability against the better offenses. Loaded teams like PSU would scheme him into defending a wheel route against a RB and he just could not keep up. Brown used him properly to his strengths. But he was a Brady Hoke holdover. I appreciate that he played the best he could and in other defenses he would not have been a liability in pass defense. He was the best outside linebacker last year.
Is that not what young inexperienced defenses do? That is what experience does for you. Though some is by design and it is accepted that there will be some big plays given up.
You are falling into the FriedmanIP trap. For starters someone in this thread got it right, in college football dominant offense will always beat dominant defense. That is why Saban changed his offensive scheme after the OSU destruction. Saban came to the conclusion even if he had the best 11 defenders in college, a college spread would kill him. So he needed to go spread. What happened? ND won a NC 42-35. No big deal his defense gave up 35 again.
I think it is fair to take Georgia's defense overall. However, the corners for Michigan are the strongest unit, better than even the DE's. The two starting corners gave up 22 catches between them the entire year. Regardless of who is winning the popularity contest for awards or who is really a better NFL prospect, no pair of corners had better opposing passing ratings when the ball was thrown in their direction. UM is so deep the talk is to combat the slot fade why not just play 3 corners.
quality corner play is a collaboration of factors. first and foremost an efficient pass rush. without that no corner can shut down anyone consistently given the rules of todays game.
Every single example that you give the dominant offense was paired with a dominant defense. I agree that a team that excels at both if the other team is not ready be bushwacked. Also all of those defenses deep. Did you read the SI article about how Nick Bosa being the best football player in college. The rhetorical question was asked how come he did not have the same stats compared to his brother. The answer was OSU went 10 team on the Dline and Bosa was only playing 40 snaps.
Uh, Michigan led the nation last year with 114 TFL, ND had about 66.
Stats are quite misleading. they weren't successful in the games that mattered most. easy to fatten up on the also rans.
That’s what all good defense do. Bama got carved up 2x by Clemson.
Only 2 though. We were damn successful against USC’s soft ass! Successful against a team that was a hop jump and a leap away from being national champs too.
Sorry, but I’m gonna respect a team that
If you want to say that with a straight face you need to talk about the fact that that was pretty much in one half of football. The second half was a no gain half for both teams due to weather and MSU packing it in. UM turned it over because they were desperate but they were not gaining yardage so they had no choice to go airborn. Good weather in half number two would have likely resulted in over 400 yards of output for MSU and a larger margin of victory.
I never said Michigan didn't have a solid defense. I said that anyone who would take Michigan's defense over Georgia doesn't know a lick of football. I stand by that.
The bad weather was overrated. A thunderstorm line blew through and that was it. After that it was just a drizzle and the field was wet. I have seen far worse conditions. The game was a one score game for most of the 2nd half. Not even Dantonio is so conservative to pack it in when one crazy play turns the game.
You live in a completely delusional world. Other people quoting stats and refuse to look at the reality of college football. Alabama which has had the #1 recruiting class every year except last year since 2011 year in and year out has the best defensive recruits. Every year they are two and three deep. In 2014-2015 Alabama gave up 40 or more points 4 times and 20 or more points 10 times.
well at least you think I'm an intellectual. Only difference was ND had a offense to compliment their defense against top 25 teams. Michigan didn't. They had a chance of winning every game last year besides Penn st and that was with a 100th ranked offense, thats thanks to a very good but inexperienced defense
