JJ “extremely injured” in the Maryland game
“To hit on the narrative, first off, yeah, he was extremely injured in the Maryland game,” Campbell said. “There was concerns in the building that he wasn’t going to play that game, let alone go out for the second half. You know, I hit on this last week — if you hurt your front and your left knee that you can’t rotate through to throw, you’re not gonna have the velocity, you can’t scramble, you’re not gonna trust it. And J.J. moving out of the pocket, even if it’s a supplement — a huge part of his game. So not only was it cautious by our part how we called the game, but like, yeah, it’s gonna affect his game.
Glad he’s had time to recover. Go Blue!
January 7th, 2024 at 9:20 PM ^
SIAP. I knew he was hurt in Penn State, but this was information I didn’t know.
January 7th, 2024 at 9:30 PM ^
And a thread title that made half of us freak out upon first glance. Not now dude.
January 7th, 2024 at 10:07 PM ^
Yeah seriously. Let's talk about this in the recap
January 7th, 2024 at 10:10 PM ^
Had a heart attack 3 words in…
User name checks out.
January 8th, 2024 at 11:58 AM ^
This is old news. Sam Webb was on this story weeks ago, as in right after the B1G title game against IA.
JJ's fine. JJ played great against 'Bama. JJ will do his thing tonight. Trust in JJ.
January 7th, 2024 at 10:38 PM ^
Go watch the (post Zinter injury) Corum TD vs Ohio State. JJ shows discomfort mid celebration. He appears to grab his clavicle/wincing as he rotates his shoulder while running to the end zone to finish celebrating with Corum/teammates.
I'm going off memory from the game...I haven't rewatched it in a while as Michigan keeps giving me new material to obsess over but that's my best recollection as of today.
January 7th, 2024 at 9:20 PM ^
You scared the ever living Jesus out of me when I first glanced at the title.
January 7th, 2024 at 9:25 PM ^
^^ cmon OP, I nearly passed out.
January 7th, 2024 at 9:25 PM ^
Sorry, I was just quoting.
January 7th, 2024 at 9:34 PM ^
Yah but have some perspective. People see it on their small phone screen and the mind assumes the worst for a second...
January 7th, 2024 at 9:49 PM ^
Have you ever died halfway through a sentence and then come back to life at the end of it? That's a thing that can happen, apparently, because I experienced it just now.
January 7th, 2024 at 9:23 PM ^
i missed that game. what happened v. maryland that injured JJ?
January 7th, 2024 at 9:25 PM ^
He came in injured from Penn State.
January 7th, 2024 at 9:26 PM ^
and i missed that game, too. what happened v. PSU?
January 7th, 2024 at 9:27 PM ^
He got hit on a scramble and came up limping in the 2nd half at one point. But, you know, we ran the ball 100 times.
January 7th, 2024 at 10:42 PM ^
Come on Henson, I'm pretty sure XM was just messin' with you bro.
You've seen him on here, does he seem like the type to miss 2 really important games?
January 7th, 2024 at 10:49 PM ^
I considered that. But he also wanted me to give score updates after every basket in the basketball thread the other day and seemed genuine so you never know.
Also, re: the Maryland question, that seemed believable. The PSU one, not so much.
January 7th, 2024 at 10:55 PM ^
LOL, I hear ya, good points that I wasn't aware of.
Gotta watch that XM fella, he's a character but a lovable one!
GO BLUE, beat the shit out of the Huskies, even though it's my favorite dog, they're just so beautiful.
January 8th, 2024 at 6:00 AM ^
oh gosh, now i'm really the heel. one of our sons starts on his college team and has for a couple of years. that requires me to travel all friday night and saturday to get to his games. i watch his games. i travel home. i missed almost all of michigan's regular season. i got gametracker updates. i got texts from buddies. one game, one glorious rainy game there was a big tent set up for us boosters of the college team and i was able to watch the michigan v. IU game and that son's game, simultaneously.
so no, i wasn't kidding. i wasn't pulling anyone's chain. i had heard mentions of 'JJ got hurt' somehow but i thought that had been v. PSU and i had no idea how/when.
thank you for filling me in.
January 8th, 2024 at 8:21 AM ^
Well I sure hope you're buying the 15-game VHS set of the season so you can enjoy every glorious minute of it this winter.
January 7th, 2024 at 10:43 PM ^
you missed both games and never watched recordings or highlights to see?
how did you get 87,000 points?
January 7th, 2024 at 10:48 PM ^
woo00oo0o00oooshhhh...
January 8th, 2024 at 12:53 AM ^
lol, he got me with that one. I totally fell for it. My bad XM
January 8th, 2024 at 6:02 AM ^
see explanation, above. i was not kidding.
January 8th, 2024 at 8:14 AM ^
Da fuq? Do you watch any games?
January 8th, 2024 at 4:48 AM ^
The general consensus is something happened on one of the mostly unblocked vicious hits JJ took vs psu that caused the team to call runs on 32 of the last 33 snaps.
And that it was exacerbated vs Maryland. Coach Campbell seems to be enjoying the press access this week!
January 7th, 2024 at 9:24 PM ^
All I saw was "JJ extremely injured" and just about fainted.
January 7th, 2024 at 9:24 PM ^
I thought I saw this here, but I don't find it. Michigan Insider from last week.
January 7th, 2024 at 9:25 PM ^
He didn't look "extremely" injured. And he played. I get that he was dinged up. But okay.
January 7th, 2024 at 9:31 PM ^
Zak Zinter looked extremely injured to me. Its ok to say JJ was just "injured" and battled through it. We know hes a damn good leader, but dont tell me he's Jesus Christ himself
January 7th, 2024 at 10:21 PM ^
He was crying at the half of the Penn St game because of the pain which led Sherrone to call almost no pass plays in the second half. He practiced either 1 or 0 times leading into the Maryland game so he was more than just "banged up"
January 7th, 2024 at 10:27 PM ^
There’s no crying in football!
January 7th, 2024 at 11:02 PM ^
You didn't really believe that we ran the ball 30 straight times against PSU "just to prove that we could" did you?
January 8th, 2024 at 12:10 AM ^
Um, kinda
January 8th, 2024 at 7:36 AM ^
Oh sweet summer child. Let me introduce you to a man named Jim Harbaugh.
January 8th, 2024 at 8:18 AM ^
There was a pass in the 2nd half that went for ~20 yards to Loveland. It drew a DPI (so was wiped off the records) or it would have been caught. That throw was fine. The 32 straight runs was mostly because of the defense PSU was running, but I'm sure JJ's knee played a role.
January 8th, 2024 at 11:23 AM ^
That was the PSU game, not Maryland.
Anyway, I'm sorry that my post is being misunderstood by some. I was merely objecting to the use of the word "extremely." That seemed, well, extreme.
I can forgive Campbell for using those words, he's just talking, it wasn't like it was a planned statement. But if someone is "extremely injured," to me that means they go to the hospital. Not they suck it up and grit it out in a football game.
Call JJ's health 50%, 60%, whatever you want to put on it. He was limited due to injury, obviously. And it hurt badly and he's tough. I am down with all of that.
January 7th, 2024 at 9:28 PM ^
That was obvious and drove me nuts as fellow fans would keep saying "no, they called him totally healthy" as if it wasn't clear he was struggling to move most snaps. They called him 100% for OSU when he still had a limp.
I'm not even sure he's 100% right now.
January 7th, 2024 at 9:35 PM ^
I'm with you. He didn't look 100% when he got up after getting hit on the Edwards throwback. We took zero shots downfield. Zero! He had a really bad overthrow to CJ and other throws that were off. And almost no designed runs. I think he's about the same as he's been late season.
January 7th, 2024 at 9:57 PM ^
He got face-planted and grass in his facemask in that play. He then came back to kick Bama's ass. I'm good, so is he.
January 8th, 2024 at 12:11 AM ^
He looked woozy after his helmet hit the ground on that wild double pass Bama play
January 8th, 2024 at 8:21 AM ^
Zero shots downfield is also an indicator that Alabama's Cornerbacks were pretty fucking good. They're both 1st round draft picks - do you seriously think Wilson and CJ will go in the first round? C'mon, man - perspective... Watch the all-22 (skycam view) of the game, there was nothing remotely close to open downfield - except when some gimmicky thing schemed Wilson open over the middle (twice).
January 7th, 2024 at 9:45 PM ^
Purdue, Penn State, Maryland, Ohio State, Iowa.
Those 5 games, JJ totaled 1 TD and 1 INT. That’s on the heels of a 4 TD game against MSU.
It’s not just the eye test; the stats back it up. JJ went from “lighting the world on fire” to a complete scoring drought. How anyone can argue he was good to go during that stretch is beyond me.
The fact that he got a month off and then returned to throw 3 TDs against Alabama is just more evidence that you’re correct
January 7th, 2024 at 10:17 PM ^
They blame it on Stallions leaving.
January 8th, 2024 at 5:20 AM ^
Well duh. Stallions was O and D coordinator! Wake up and read the articles! Such bullshit!
January 8th, 2024 at 8:22 AM ^
But he stood next to Harbaugh, and even talked to him sometimes!
January 7th, 2024 at 10:52 PM ^
I hear you Pope, although it would have been 2 TD's if Donovan runs into the EZ on the long pass against Purdue instead of inexplicably running out at the 2 yd. line, SMDH at Edwards this season, I just don't understand his play this year.
January 7th, 2024 at 10:55 PM ^
I think DE's momentum carried him out. Maybe he could have made a big effort to stay in.
The Purdue game was weird. That definitely didn't seem like an injury game. He threw a bunch. He was just a little off...the to tune of 335 yards.
January 7th, 2024 at 10:58 PM ^
Yeah, being that it was the game before PSU, he was still healthy and played well.
Hopefully we'll get the MSU version of JJ from this season in tomorrow's game.