I agree with the OP - it boggles my mind why they don't use Maye more. He and Maxx Williams seem to be our two biggest weapons on offense and they both barely touch the ball.
I think Williams has ended up playing the H back blocking fullback type position instead of the Y that Goodger has because he simply must be a better blocker than Goodger. Maxx seemed to be limitted in the routes he was involved in a lot on Saturday because he was attempting to be the lead blocker a lot, and Williams was involved a lot in trying to help the offensive line block.
You could tell the Gophers missed Mike Henry's blocking Saturday, not saying it was the sole reason that the running game and offensive line struggled but it did play a role. Could have used Henry's ability to leak out and run a few wheel routes on Satuday, he is a physically strong guy and takes on a lot of linebackers for the Gophers, we definitely missed his play and lead blocking ability against Iowa.
This is one of the depth issues you have when an injury occurs to a primary blocker, and the team has become a little dependent on a certain play style or types of plays that they had executed well. Maxx had to fill in at H block because they needed him there. That is another reason I wasn't so sure about the run right at them game plan and philosophy on Saturday by Limegrover. Iowas was well versed in the read option and we were starting a returning off Injury Nelson at QB, you would have thought they would have worked on some new stuff last week after watching the film they had to know Iowa was really stout up front. Oh well live and learn, got to come up with something against Michigan that allows the team some chance for success on offense. I think Nelson started on saturday because they knew they needed to pass against Iowa and that Nelson gave them the best chance to accomplish that.
Not saying Mitch can't pass he just doesn't have the experience or opportunity's that Nelson has had.
