re: Thoughts on the offense

Has it occurred to you that maybe the coaching staff feels Jalen is the best quarterback right now? It’s unfair to both Jalen and Ty to continue bill him as a much better quarterback than Jalen. I root for them both but there’s no evidence that Ty should be starting over Jalen. Jalen is dominating this season so far and so many of you can’t enjoy it because you’re thinking about a fantasy. Are there limitations to his game? Yes. But you haven’t seen Ty start for a full season and seem his weaknesses and strengths. Michigan won a championship with Jj McCarthy at quarterback and he’s nowhere near as good as Jalen.

I like the offense. All of the deep shots help keep defenses honest. It backs them up. They know we can hit a big TD pass at any moment.

With the defense back in coverage, that gives more room for the run game.

I COMPLETELY disagree that we need to stop running Milroe. Milroe is our best running threat, and if he gets hurt, we just throw in Ty Simpson and keep rolling. We don't need to be calling plays based on fear of injury. Milroe is not injury-prone. We need to go balls to the wall and let him run wild - especially against our toughest opponents like Georgia.

Nobody has an answer for Jalen's legs.

FEI Offense: 9th (UGA: 3rd)
FEI PPD: 18th (UGA: 65th)
FEI YPP: 10th (UGA: 34th)

Given the OL injury situation for the first two games I'm simply not going to bemoan the state of our offense when we're a top 10 efficiency unit through three games and are ranked ahead of teams like Tennessee.

1) We were a mess without our tackles and the first two games we played without them aren't really reflective of what we should expect moving forward.
2) There is a real chance we are running a better version of the Jalen Hurts offense right now where against bad teams we’d torch them using speed and athleticism, but completely stall against elite defensive fronts. We just wont know until we see whether it can function when the athletes we're playing are equal to what we put on the field.
3) The results have been a Rorschach test where people who want to see problems see them and people who see the positives focus on them with facts to support both arguments. Between Milroe and the OL its impossible to isolate variables and I also have doubts as to whether the offensive scheme we'll run against UGA is what we've seen YTD. If it is we're in trouble because I haven't been very impressed so far.

But I'd rather have our healthy offense than the offense I saw UGA put on the field against UK so there's real reason for optimism IMO.

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Michigan won a championship with Jj McCarthy at quarterback.

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My point exactly.

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he’s nowhere near as good as Jalen

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Wait, You think McCarthy is "nowhere near as good" as Milroe ? At playing QB ?

Jalen was labeled as "raw" out of H.S. We have come to understand why he was labeled raw. It would be beating a dead horse to list it all.

Meanwhile Ty was a five star QB. He is clearly more fundamentally sound. Ironically I'd also say Ty has more wiggle and a better feel for the read option and when to run the ball.

It's hard to understand so it creates a lot of conjecture.

Hurts Vs Tua all over again.

All I know is we will play teams this year that will not allow us to simply throw the ball over their heads.

He was on the field. Sheridan praised him today for blocking. People need to understand that we haven’t shown the entire play book. Prentice didn’t have a reception on Saturday. Henderson only had one catch but he looked good:

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Hurts Vs Tua all over again.

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Hurts vs Barnett maybe.

So because Ty was a five star in high school means he’s better than a guy who was in consideration for the heisman trophy? I understand you’re an anti Milroe guy but you literally can’t bench a guy who’s playing as well as Jalen is right now. You’ve never seen Ty go into a hostile environment and play. You’ve never seen Ty bounce back from a bad interception. You’ve never seen Ty throw a deep ball at Alabama. All of your points are speculation. You anti milroe guys are destroying our season because we can’t talk non biased football. We know who our quarterback is at this point and it’s nothing any of us can do about it.

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All I know is we will play teams this year that will not allow us to simply throw the ball over their heads.

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Its no secret who Milroe is. Teams are not allowing us to do that. Its pick your poison. They are keeping defenders up to stop our run, including QB run. And the OLine has done a pretty good job getting him some time to wait on the WRs.

For opposing defenses, if you dont get early pressure on him, you are kinda fricked. I think the best defense would be to bring heavy rush from all over and make him guess where its coming from.

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People need to understand that we haven’t shown the entire play book.

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I strongly suspect you’re correct and that the offensive scheme the first two games in particular was to a degree an attempt by the the coaches to feel out Milroe the way Rees had to until halftime of the TN game last year.

People seem to forget that Simpson is a good runner too. Not quite as fast as Milroe but IMO is shiftier than Milroe and can make guys miss.