MGoPodcast 8.9: Congratulations, You Played Yourself
1 hour 18 minutes
[Patrick Barron]
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1. Offense
starts at 1:00
Michigan State: The only college football program that only people who went there would ever have reason to root for, apparently. Also MGoBlog made a really bad blogger stop blogging so yay us! Oh right, the game: Speight’s Rudockian progression. Both teams had beautifully scripted first drives. The Shane Morris QB lead package isn’t working. Peppers as redzone quarterback: regularly 4 yards, but need to throw from it to break tendency.
2. Defense
starts at 25:55
Mostly dominant except State’s first drive was beautifully scripted and late when the holding was turned off and pass interference sliders went to max. Issues mostly missed tackles. Hurst > Godin.
3. Special Teams, Game Theory
starts at 36:44
The last 9 minutes of the game took 45 minutes because red hats—somebody needs to cap advertising or college football will be going the way of the NFL. Brian agrees with Rod Gilmore on end-of-game strategy once.
This was an upset, but lol: Ohio State has a loss—kick six part of an uncharacteristic special teams meltdown. Barrett shut down as a runner.
4. Talking Big Ten With Jamie Mac
starts at 46:06
Ohio State keeps looking more vulnerable—this time their defense wasn’t able to get off the field against Northwestern. Penn State is good when not playing Michigan. MGoBlog readers are unabashed fans of Wisconsin linebackers. Perry Hills has the best QBR in the Big Ten. Best fight songs and mascots in college football according to everyone except MSU’s stadium announcer, who is sponsored by the movie 300, Muscle Milk, and lifeless concrete structures filled with shitty sports fans like you.
MUSIC:
- “You Played Yourself”—Ice-T
- “Concrete Schoolyard”—Jurassic 5
- “Mathematics”—Mos Def
- “Across 110th Street”
THE USUAL LINKS
October 31st, 2016 at 8:20 AM ^
This would also be appropriate for the playlist. Bonus: Jehu the Damaja approved.
October 31st, 2016 at 8:36 AM ^
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October 31st, 2016 at 10:29 AM ^
The refs sucked both ways, in my opinion.
October 31st, 2016 at 8:38 AM ^
That intro, tho. I spit out my coffee at work
October 31st, 2016 at 8:46 AM ^
October 31st, 2016 at 10:31 AM ^
This was one of the slowest games in Michigan history it seemed. It was a game with a whole lot of running, no long injury timeouts, etc. and it took almost 4 hours.
October 31st, 2016 at 10:33 AM ^
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October 31st, 2016 at 11:48 AM ^
People watching at home are not liking the 4 hour games. It also makes watching in person unbearable. Way too much downtime in the stands, especially if the weather sucks.
October 31st, 2016 at 8:51 AM ^
October 31st, 2016 at 12:21 PM ^
Also the Alarmed Stephen Hopkins pic/GIF from a few years back.
October 31st, 2016 at 9:15 AM ^
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October 31st, 2016 at 9:23 AM ^
Brian said that if we were two or four scores up, game theory would support a more aggressive offense in the second half, but that at three scores, the right call is to turtle up and minimize turnovers.*
Would somebody mind dumbing that down for me or giving a link? Why is 3 scores the ideal zone to freeze the game?
* I probably got something wrong there - feel free to correct that as well.
October 31st, 2016 at 11:00 AM ^
October 31st, 2016 at 9:50 AM ^
Read the sign....
it's delicious....
October 31st, 2016 at 10:40 AM ^
One thing I don't think a lot of people know about Tom Luginbill is that he does have some actual playing and coaching experience. He was a college QB at Georgia Tech and Eastern Kentucky, and in the AFL. He also coached in NFL Europe and in the AFL. He wasn't a great QB or a great coach, but he knows more about football than a lot of average sideline reporters or other "recruiting gurus" like Mike Farrell. He's also the son of a coach, Al Luginbill.
October 31st, 2016 at 10:40 AM ^
Agree with Point 1.
Shane Morris hand-off then he lead blocks doesn't seem to go well, even though Shane throws a pretty descent block. It would appear that defenses know that play. And the Peppers goal line thing is quite effective, but I suspect without some twists to it, the D's are going to stop it. Is it me, or does that play seem to always go right? Maybe that is so JP can throw from it since rolling left would be a tricky throw for a right handed non-QB kind of guy. Maybe it is the threat of the pass (that never happens) that makes that play work and rolling left would mean the D can commit to the run.
October 31st, 2016 at 11:25 AM ^
October 31st, 2016 at 11:47 AM ^
I like that idea. Just so long as Shane keeps his head on straight and doesn't drop in a beautiful interception.
October 31st, 2016 at 11:50 AM ^
that Harbaugh and Drevno are just setting up other plays with Morris and the Wildcat with Peppers. No reason to show it yet, but it is frustrating because currently the opposition knows exactly what's coming. Hopefully OSU will be the recipient of the next up plays from those formations.
October 31st, 2016 at 12:05 PM ^
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October 31st, 2016 at 12:46 PM ^
loose lips
October 31st, 2016 at 5:33 PM ^
Shane = sweep with Shane lead blocking. But then we did break tendency and did .. a fullback dive? i think? We definitely broke tendency, it just didn't work :(.
October 31st, 2016 at 11:14 AM ^
Are the time stamps screwed up for anyone else? I'm at 23 minutes, and Jamie is already on talking about the rest of the B1G. I feel like a huge chunk of the offense section is missing.
October 31st, 2016 at 11:22 AM ^
Yes, it was for me as well. I had no issue with the direct download link.
October 31st, 2016 at 11:32 AM ^
Podcast works not the direct download....
October 31st, 2016 at 11:29 AM ^
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October 31st, 2016 at 11:35 AM ^
I think your comment that not much happened on special teams bears a little closer look. If the angry man kicks the extra point on the last touch down look at how close the onside kick was to a last play six point score against us. Butt doesn't play the bvall assuming it will go out of bounds and the sparty coming down the side line comes very close to picking it up while our safety came way up field and in no position to make a tackle. This was extremely close to a disaster to rival last year's disaster. Take a look!
October 31st, 2016 at 11:38 AM ^
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October 31st, 2016 at 12:09 PM ^
Anyone know how clock works for onside kick recovered by kicking team? Rules I know
1) Clock doesn't run on kickoff until someone touches the ball
2) Never runs on touchback catch or kick out of the end zone.
3) Never runs on kick out of bounds
?? What if ball only touched by kicking team and recovered? I think the clock runs immediately when kicking team first touches ball and does not stop but rather is placed with clock running for the next play, unless someone calls a time out. With only a couple seconds left in the game and no time outs, it would appear that short of UM committing a penalty that stops/gives them a non-timed down, the clock, even had Sparty succeeded in the onside kick, the game would have been over.
Which leads to a strategy here which says, let them get the onside kick when there are only 2 seconds left. Just get the heck out of the way so you can't commit any penalties and you wouldn't have to run another play.
October 31st, 2016 at 11:54 AM ^
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October 31st, 2016 at 11:39 AM ^
Brian has some real chutzpah to be saying "This is IT buddy. This is the END" about Dantonio given that he's been burned on similar proclamations several times, sometimes in glaring fashion.
Better have audio of "Never Gonna Give You Up" to insert into this link if it doesn't work out.
October 31st, 2016 at 11:57 AM ^
Charlton was getting crushed and giving up the edge play after play. Not sure how much of that was his fault or line slants just being RPSed. That was when they put in Winovich, who... also got crushed. After the first drive they were much better at setting the edge, but I thought Charlton had a pretty rough game.
October 31st, 2016 at 5:34 PM ^
It looked to me like he was getting doubled by a TE and tackle to fold in his edge.
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