Land of 10 Expecting Lots of TDs from Shea Patterson
Land of 10--Michigan is expecting more than 23 TD passes from Shea Patterson this year.
Link: https://www.landof10.com/michigan/michigan-football-shea-patterson-touchdown-projection-2018
After just 9 TD passes last year, that would certainly be MORE than welcome.
Lots of blame for last years painful passing game was put on the QBs, the receivers, and the O Line, in other words, the players. Not much was placed on the coaching. I personally don't think that was completely fair. The passing game looked dysfunctional most of the time. And wouldn't the coaching share some of the blame for that? Seems they should....
Either way, forgetting last year would be good. 23 TD passes would do it for many fans.
26 second video of Shea Patterson's first TD pass in college: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETaXvRgM4gc Yes, that was his first TD pass in college.
May we see this type of excitement in some plays this year at Michigan!
It's a running thing that Land of 10 has where they take opposing viewpoints on any future possibility related to Michigan Football.
The article above is written by Sean Keeler, while Chris Howard writes the other. Link
the numbers in his coaching history don't bear that out.
Here ya go...
for a 9 TD season, that does seem to be a fair question. But seeing all the downvoting for talking about it, you can see some on this blog don't want to see Pep Hamilton talked about. Maybe the downvoters want to talk about the players though.
threw for more TD's than Michigan.
Air Force 10; GA Tech 10; Navy 10 and then these powers with more UNCC 10; Rutgers 11; Ball St 11; Ore St 11; Tulane 12. So, yes the coaches do need to take some blame as well as the players.
Welllllllll technically, we could throw for less. I mean, the meltdown would be one for the ages, but it could happen.
Wow, that is brutal. Not that we needed it but just one more note that puts it into perspective. Amazing we won 8 games.
I really hope Shea can deliver 2 tds a game. We would have had 11 wins last year, if we had that at QB. The only game I don't think we would have won, even with average QB play, was the Penn St game.
Thanks for the extra pain. ;-)
with Steven Threet and Nick Sheridan at the controls, threw for more TDs than we did last year.
Yep and is sure seems that Coach Harbaugh has acknowledged that the coaching was not good enough. And when there is THAT much dysfunction it can be hard to know as a fan exactly what went wrong inside of the coaching room. So, I'm going to trust the guy who has coaching in his veins and has done it at the highest level to know who needed to stay and who needed to go...
So Pep stays and will be under a very bright light this year along w JH and the rest of the O staff..but I'm sure he and JH know this already. As a fan, I'm pulling for him and the O staff to make that 180.
put the players in position to suceed, but the play at QB, from the first game on left a lot to be desired. Have to be able to hit open receivers to have success.
Pep Hamilton was the QB coach last year. Jedd Fisch was the QB coach 2 years before that. Do you think the coaching change from Jedd Fisch to Pep Hmailton had any affect on the passing game?
Maryland played 4+ QB's last year, including their 5' 8" walk-on Air Force transfer who started against us.
They threw 15, including 10 from Bortenschlager, who was their 3rd string when the season began.
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(EDIT: Not arguing against the quality of the OSU game plan.)
People forget what Johnny Manziel did against Alabama, AT Alabama.
12 min video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykxRc-kSH74
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Please tell me you wife and sister are separate people. If not, user name check out. Too much.
Well I hope he can throw even just an average amount of TDs. There were three separate service academies who through more TD passes than Michigan did last year. SERVICE ACADEMIES.
It's painful to note that getting just average QB play last year probably wins every game except for Penn State and maybe Wisconsin.
Air Force and Navy. Army only threw 2 TD passes all year.
Not much blame was placed on the coaches for last year?? Has SkyPanther spent any time on this site? I think the blame has been pretty well allocated to ALL of the responsible parties.
How much was directed at the passing game coach?
I saw little of it.
I am not just talking about this blog. Overall, most of the blame has been on players.
Every time 9 TDs is brought up, it's always: "The O Line didn't pass block well. The QBs didn't get of the ball out quick enough. There were guys open, but the QBs didn't see them. The running backs didn't pass block good enough. If the O Line blocks better this season, the QBs will do better. The wide recevers dropped a lot of passes. Why was Crawford ever a starter? Tarik Black went out early, or things would have been different. Etc, etc, etc."
There has been a constant drum beat of blame on the players.
20+ would be good. I think the WR's will have a lot to prove and I'm hoping take a big step forward. They graded out as one of the lowest units last year. Now that there is actual coaching for them I'm hoping for good things.
23 passing TD's and this team probably wins at least 10 games. There still is a lot of "depends" and "remains to be seen" things on the offensive side of the ball. But if things come together even a little bit, I think the offense can be pretty good.
Which is good, but not great. I'd like to see at least a 3:1 TD:INT ratio as well. That would make the passing game an asset and not a liability.