The Lions are killing me this year, Lombardi has to go. I know I seem like one of the bigger Stafford supporters on this site but I really dont think hes the problem. How does anyone expect a team or QB to do anything when theyre getting less than 2 yards a carry? All these draft picks theyve been getting need t go into that O line at tackle. Warford and Tomlinson are gonna be great for a while, draft a stud left tackle in the first round and move Reiff back to right. Get a run game and some protection for Stafford and let him throw the ball. Hes got the arm to air it out to Calvin, he doesnt have the time though.
At least Michigan is looking good this year or I would have probably given up watching football at this point. I think that win htis weekend was a solid test against a good team and Michigan bent them over. That defense is legit and their one loss first week looks pretty good now after the thumping Oregon got at home. For comparison's sake, Sparty is ranked number 2 essentially beating Oregon by 3 at home. Michigans only loss just destroyed Oregon on the road. Now thats not to take away from SParty theyre a solid team (not quite umber 2 to me though) but Michigan has been more impressive to me this year so far and theyre only four games in with the new coach. By the end of the season who knows how they'll lookwith how improved they are already
Worth noting Oregon quit in that game. I still have some serious questions about Michigan's o-line. BYU has given up a lot of yards on the ground. What Utah did to beat Michigan was turn them one dimensional to rely on their mediocre QB. It is a plan the rest of the B1G will try to force feed U of M from here on out, the loss of their #1 RB is also big in this regard.
I am impressed with the progress, but the push they get up front still isn't super impressive.
Though MSU needs to figure out how to run the ball a little better. It is still pretty hard to imagine U of M's o-line handling the defensive lines of either tOSU or MSU.
Harbaugh will correct this, just not sure he can do so this year. Lots of props on the beat down they put on BYU. It was a game we haven't seen U of M play in a long time and extremely encouraging for their fan-base and really the B1G as a whole, MSU and the conference as a whole is better off with U of M meaning something significant again. I will admit as a life-long MSU fan it was fun to watch them squirm, but you need your big boys for national perception and for that win to be truly as significant as it should be, so I welcome them rebounding, I wish it had humbled a larger part of their fan-base more but enough is enough, they need to be better and it looks like they are going to be.
MSU needs more on special teams and on the ground to really get humming. They still matchup well with Michigan, their strength is U of M weakness and I am not sure Rudock can take advantage of their secondary.
Also they allowed almost 30 points against UMASS
No parity. 
