Michigan-Penn State Postgame: An Embarrassing Performance

When it rains on the Rich Rodriguez Wolverines, it pours turnovers and mental mistakes.

Michigan was out coached, out played, out everything today. After the first drive the Wolverines were lost in just about every aspect of the game. I have been a big supporter of Rich Rod's Wolverines and there were plenty of reasons for poor play the last two years. There are no excuses for the performance I just witness. The only Wolverine that came to play was Brandon Graham.

This team has won one Big Ten game this year against Indiana. They played hard against MSU and Iowa and could have/should have won those games. It was clear who was the better team in the Big House on Saturday.

I sure hope the Wolverines can fix some problems before they travel to Illinois next week for a Halloween showdown of teams in the bottom half of the Big Ten standings.

Cheers:

• Brandon Graham
• Zoltan Mesko

Jeers:

• Greg Robinson's defensive game plan: He got out coached terribly on Saturday. Covering running backs with linebackers is not a good idea. What is with the 10-yard cushion on the PSU WR's? The WR screen gets seven to 10 yards every time! Play some bump and run for goodness sake.
• I am getting a little tired of the QB rotation. Denard is a great athlete but he is not ready to run the offense. He makes too many bad decisions with his arm and fumbles the ball way too often.
• Catch the GD Ball! Why can't the Michigan tight ends catch the ball? I counted at least three drops.
• Injuring our own players: That Warren-Hemingway crash was awful to watch. I'm afraid that Hemingway is seriously injured.
• Poor David Molk, I hope his knee isn't serious
• Rich Rod's offensive game plan - was great for the first series and terrible for the rest of the game.
• Kick off coverage continues to be a problem for the Wolverines. Penn State had one of the worst ranked returns in the country and still returned the ball for great field position.
• The safety and the plays leading up to the safety was just terrible football.

Bottom line is, Michigan wasn't ready to play and they got their hat handed to them by a better team. Michigan needs to do all they can to beat Illinois and Purdue, because if they play like they did on Saturday, they don't have a chance at beating OSU and Wisconsin.