2017 air force
1 hour and 16 minutes
This edition of MGoRadio was recorded before a live happy hour audience at HOMES Brewery in Ann Arbor. If your bar would like to host us on a week Michigan’s playing on the road, hit me up.
Special Guest: Rishi Narayan, co-owner of our presenting sponsors UGP & the Bo Store, won’t come on the podcast when it’s in his store, but put him somewhere he can get a beer and he makes Rich Rod jokes on the Gimmicky Top Five!
Special Brian Replacement: Brian is sick so Seth Fisher (Hi Mom!) sat in in his stead while Ace hosted.
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Air Force After UFR: The Offense
starts at 1:00
Yeah now we’re worried about Speight. The not seeing his best receiver wide open problem is a new one to tack on to can’t throw a fade and inaccuracy issues. It may be pressure (that right tackle spot isn’t going to fix itself overnight). Positive: he looked kind of like this last year. Running game execution is what it is. Receiver execution is youth. Fanbase is going through growing pains with this team.
After UFR: The Defense
starts at 21:53
When can we give Winovich a shield? Offense designed to make you look foolish made Michigan’s defenders look like savants…except for that one play. Gary is probably equally good but for whatever reason Air Force chose to double him and live and die on whether they can beat Winovich. Good choice.
Gimmicky Top Five: Things We’d Do With MGoBlog While Brian’s Away
starts at 40:03
UGP & Bo Store co-founder—and MGoBlog’s longest-serving sponsor—Rishi Narayan sat in with Seth & Ace as we used the opportunity afforded by Brian’s absence to dream of what we’d do with the site without him. OMG Shirtless Draftageddons ahoy!
Purdue Preview
starts at 50:05
Louisville game was eye-opening; Mizzou has given up on breathing. We’re still pumping the breaks here. Microcosm of the Big Ten: lots of good running backs and linebackers, very weak on receivers, linemen, and safeties, project to get a lot better. Sindelar is the guy Michigan fans think Speight is. PLAY. ASSIGNMENT. FOOTBALL. Talk is cheap.
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- “Don’t Cost My Name”
- “The Love Unconscious” because Devin Bush
- “Ann Arbor Midnights”
- “Across 110th Street”
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Substitution/formation notes: As far as I could tell, coverage and return units featured the same personnel as they did against Cincinnati. The most noteworthy non-change was Donovan Peoples-Jones as punt returner—more on that after the jump.
Michigan’s formations were the same as they’ve been, but they brought pressure on punts and field goals infrequently. Earlier this week Chris Partridge said that they try to limit instances where they bring everything to keep the defense guessing. When Michigan doesn’t bring pressure on punt return, sometimes just one guy will release toward the shield, and even then he will sometimes stop and peel back before hitting the shield. On field goal defense, Michigan only brought pressure from one side and had Lavert Hill step to the line and hold on the other side. As close as the game was, Michigan decided not to gamble. Thanks to Donovan Peoples-Jones, that worked out.
[After THE JUMP: don’t have to bring the house when you take it to it]
SPONSOR NOTES. Just recommended HomeSure Lending to a friend and it's weird that I have to say "you should know this guy sponsors us," because I actually would recommend Matt even if that was not the case because when we refi-ed our house I had quotes for various mortgage lengths very very quickly. The deal was done in a flash.
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FORMATION NOTES. Air Force runs a 3-4, but it's not like that. Whereas your conventional 3-4 has big guys who two-gap, Air Force has little guys. It's a one-gap 3-4, if you will.
The NT almost always shaded between the C and G in a one tech, with four linebackers in the traditional 3-4 umbrella. Sometimes head up with the same umbrella, and check those safeties on first and freakin' ten:
Now, there are a ton of very obvious ways in which this is not at all the 3-3-5 stack Michigan runs. Air Force doesn't stack their linebackers, for one. They rarely insert an OLB between their DEs as anything other than a twist blitz; Michigan is constantly making Furbush an extra DL. AF just about always shaded their NT instead of running a zero-tech, and they had a clear weakside and strongside end, with the strongside end basically a DT. Michigan's DEs have run identical techniques for the duration of the season. Also there is not a withdrawn MLB like Bush; instead two ILBs.
These are the ways in which Michigan's defense is not at all like Air Force's, which is a one-gap 3-4.
SUBSTITUTION NOTES. The regular at QB and OL. Onwenu got pulled for the last three plays of the final drive, with Runyan coming in. Isaac was the starting RB and got the bulk of the work; Evans was pulled after his fumble until late, when Isaac went out with a minor injury. Mason one snap at FB, with the seniors going the rest of the way.
WR was Black, Crawford, and DPJ outside with cameos from Schoenle on running plays. That's getting into a major play tip zone, though Black's injury might change that. Perry got most of the run in the slot; McDoom had maybe a dozen snaps, and not all were jet stuff.
Tight end was the usual rotation of everyone, minus Wheatley. He had a ding that held him out. Also I might not have seen Eubanks? I don't think I saw Eubanks. Bunting is losing ground, BTW, to McKeon and Gentry.
[After THE JUMP: the bone! oh if only]
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