Blake O'Neill Twitter Harassment

[bphillips4gg]

Wasn't Blake's fault anyway. The loss is all Harbaugh's.

10 seconds left from that distance, don't put it. Run the ball on 4th down and eat some more time off the clock. Leave them at best one play for the Hail Mary.

In hindsight, yes. At that time, hell no. Your punter just needs to get that kick off. Out of bounds, out of the end zone, doesn't matter. You don't leave them with 5 seconds to go from your own 45, you leave them with, at best, 1-2 seconds from their own 20. I'm sure every one of us, Harbaugh included, has thought all night about scenarios that would have taken. 10 seconds and minimized the risk. I'm also sure that's something that may happen once in a decade in that spot. it had to be the absolute worst possible combination of circumstances to amount to a TD there and low and behold, it was the perfect set of circumstances when it was Michigan in that position. Put snap, put judgement by the punter, lucky bounce to a guy who was able to scoop the ball up on his first attempt and he had about 5 guys there blocking with one Michigan player in the vicinity.

By the way, I don't think I've seen one person mention this, but that was a hell of an effort by Jake Butt. One yard less and we're breathing that sigh of relief.

 

[zyxt9]

Better yet, they didn't run a bootleg option run/pass all night. 2nd down would have been a perfect opportunity to run that. MSU was crashing so hard to stop the run all night, and UM didn't once run a misdirection at a critical point in time. Not once.

 

[tsume99]

Better yet, they didn't run a bootleg option run/pass all night. 2nd down would have been a perfect opportunity to run that. MSU was crashing so hard to stop the run all night, and UM didn't once run a misdirection at a critical point in time. Not once.

That's yet another thing that was so frustrating about this game. Hardly any creative playcalling. Was there any at any point? I'm still too traumatized to watch the game, and will probably never re-watch it.

 

[Michlady]

In hindsight, yes. At that time, hell no. Your punter just needs to get that kick off. Out of bounds, out of the end zone, doesn't matter. You don't leave them with 5 seconds to go from your own 45, you leave them with, at best, 1-2 seconds from their own 20. I'm sure every one of us, Harbaugh included, has thought all night about scenarios that would have taken. 10 seconds and minimized the risk. I'm also sure that's something that may happen once in a decade in that spot. it had to be the absolute worst possible combination of circumstances to amount to a TD there and low and behold, it was the perfect set of circumstances when it was Michigan in that position. Put snap, put judgement by the punter, lucky bounce to a guy who was able to scoop the ball up on his first attempt and he had about 5 guys there blocking with one Michigan player in the vicinity.

By the way, I don't think I've seen one person mention this, but that was a hell of an effort by Jake Butt. One yard less and we're breathing that sigh of relief.

Agree with this too on all points

In fact when the refs were standing in the endzone we were joking about review
To see if the knee was down but it was clear

And yes one yard and I think Lyons was also in there near the end

 

[Michlady]

I didn't like the offense overall

 

[Jessica]

I tweeted him this morning after reading all the BS people have been saying. I just told him to keep his head up and that we are all human. Poor kid, I feel terrible for him.

Those assholes in our fanbase can get the fuck out of our Michigan family. They are classless scumbags who do not represent The University of Michigan.

 

[tinselwolverine]

Blake sort of speaks a foreign language anyway.

So maybe he won't notice that some of the tweets are harassing.

 

[bphillips4gg]

I tweeted him this morning after reading all the BS people have been saying. I just told him to keep his head up and that we are all human. Poor kid, I feel terrible for him.

Those assholes in our fanbase can get the fuck out of our Michigan family. They are classless scumbags who do not represent The University of Michigan.

I tweeted him last night, told him to ignore the noise and shit happens. Very disappointed in the people that are harassing him. That game should've been won by two scores. I'm over Jake. That missed long ball last night was the last straw for me.

 

[byco42]

Most of the negative and idiotic tweets to O'Neill were from teens. So that's somewhat of a consolation, I suppose.

 

[dubbsco]

I haven't posted on any of this game at all because I am slowly having a life revelation. Games like this shouldn't drain me and make me ill as much as they do, and I'm going to begin stepping back and distancing myself from sports in general. It's too much, and I'm tired of Michigan and Detroit sports for letting me down time and time again.

This football team is cursed with some of the worst losses I've ever seen, combined with MSU being blessed with some of the luckiest/BS wins in history. It's just sick.

Anyways, I just don't understand the punt. Bring the offense out. Snap it to Rudock 5-6 yards deep. Have him take a few steps back and heave the ball in the air as high as he possibly can. The ball will get bounced around and everyone will collide, game over. It's just going right by the book and being afraid to take make the somewhat gutsy yet correct call. Hell, how about on 2nd down when you are trying to kill the clock, do a roll out with the QB? He can have the option to do a quick pass or just tuck and run. They played not to lose, and that's exactly what happened.

 

[byco42]

The notion of a Hail Mary running out the game is highly unlikely with 10 seconds on the clock. All this second-guessing is because the snap was dropped.

 

[Michchamp]

I haven't posted on any of this game at all because I am slowly having a life revelation. Games like this shouldn't drain me and make me ill as much as they do, and I'm going to begin stepping back and distancing myself from sports in general. It's too much, and I'm tired of Michigan and Detroit sports for letting me down time and time again.

This football team is cursed with some of the worst losses I've ever seen, combined with MSU being blessed with some of the luckiest/BS wins in history. It's just sick.

Anyways, I just don't understand the punt. Bring the offense out. Snap it to Rudock 5-6 yards deep. Have him take a few steps back and heave the ball in the air as high as he possibly can. The ball will get bounced around and everyone will collide, game over. It's just going right by the book and being afraid to take make the somewhat gutsy yet correct call. Hell, how about on 2nd down when you are trying to kill the clock, do a roll out with the QB? He can have the option to do a quick pass or just tuck and run. They played not to lose, and that's exactly what happened.

it was a fluke bad play; the same thing could've happened if Rudock fumbled the snap or the ball was picked off deep, and MSU got to run it back against a broken field.

 

[dubbsco]

I trust the game more with a 5th year senior QB who handles the football all the time, vs a punter who is facing an all-out blitz.

 

[Michlady]

And a punter who is only in his second year of American football

This young man has been fantastic

Furthermore who missed seeing the lineup?

Our OL is not as strong as we thought and msu DL shut down our run

What O'Neill did is what he is used to and I felt while he forgot about falling on it, he felt confident to kick it

 

[wlvrnstlr4life]

Our offense on Sat was not the same offense that has been run over the past 5 weeks. Barely any shifts whatsoever and not many different sets. It looked very vanilla to me. I was wondering if others felt the same way?

 

[rumseyhouse77]

The most exciting thing I saw on the offense was brining in Peppers. That really threw them for a loop and that guy is fast. They should have used him more. I hope they will in future games.

I was also thinking that with MSU being all on the line for that punt and not having a return guy, it would have been a wide open pass to a receiver down the middle of the field. Man, if Michigan had only one more time out!

 

[dubbsco]

Offense was horrible. Where was all the creative stuff that they ran against BYU? That fake double screen with the TE streaking down the middle? Jet sweeps? Reverses, anything??