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There's good reason to temper one's enthusiasm for Patterson and his receivers based on his performance, albeit a very good one, v. IU. From mgo's IU, UFR Offense ........
............no running back in the backfield and no run action, so when the level routes come across the middle that decision is blindingly obvious. Patterson was decisive in this game but the windows were so big that I'm cautious about extrapolating this game out into one against a much better defense.
.........i.e.,v. osu, the windows will not be as gigantic as they were v. IU
One persistent issue popped up again. That would be Patterson's season-long aversion to keeping the ball even when the run reads are almost certainly there. This went from a major issue to a minor one as Michigan shifted the bulk of Patterson's reads to RPOs....... (there were 18 of them v. IU and most of them were correctly read and executed..... again v. IU's defense).
M's offense has become an RPO offense and a good one. Whether or not this holds up v. osu is something we'll not know the answer to until well into the first half. I'm not optimistic. chase young will face Jalen Mayfield at RT. Mayfiled didn't play well v. IU and young's omnipresence in the backfield is going to cause problems for the RPO game.
Another issue is how IU demonstrated an exploitable M weakness v. run-blitzing CBs. M appeared to formation tip a run play without attempts to not make it obvious. Backside pursuit producing ankle tackles on Haskins and Charbonnet on what looked like well executed Harbaughesque run plays that might have been long TD runs were ended with them.
............no running back in the backfield and no run action, so when the level routes come across the middle that decision is blindingly obvious. Patterson was decisive in this game but the windows were so big that I'm cautious about extrapolating this game out into one against a much better defense.
.........i.e.,v. osu, the windows will not be as gigantic as they were v. IU
One persistent issue popped up again. That would be Patterson's season-long aversion to keeping the ball even when the run reads are almost certainly there. This went from a major issue to a minor one as Michigan shifted the bulk of Patterson's reads to RPOs....... (there were 18 of them v. IU and most of them were correctly read and executed..... again v. IU's defense).
M's offense has become an RPO offense and a good one. Whether or not this holds up v. osu is something we'll not know the answer to until well into the first half. I'm not optimistic. chase young will face Jalen Mayfield at RT. Mayfiled didn't play well v. IU and young's omnipresence in the backfield is going to cause problems for the RPO game.
Another issue is how IU demonstrated an exploitable M weakness v. run-blitzing CBs. M appeared to formation tip a run play without attempts to not make it obvious. Backside pursuit producing ankle tackles on Haskins and Charbonnet on what looked like well executed Harbaughesque run plays that might have been long TD runs were ended with them.
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