WTKA Roundtable 11/23/2021: Linebacker Hells
Things discussed:
- Michigan history corrections.
- Maryland: Michigan was looking past then, Donovan Edwards brings a new dimension.
- McNamara performance: not like MSU because he wasn’t getting pressure, his reads were more open, and his receivers helped him out more. It was a good performance—just stop throwing it off his OL’s helmets.
- McCarthy: Perfect game for him because UMD’s secondary falls apart, gives their running game more space, POPS. Also definitely not the starter.
- OSU-MSU: Not surprised MSU fell apart in the secondary, surprised they couldn’t move the ball, but that happens when they lost their Heisman candidate to an ankle thing.
- M-OSU: How do we win this one? Beat their linebackers, screw with Stroud’s reads, get pressure, and get the ball to Michigan’s playmakers. #SpeedinSpace time.
- Nebraska/Penn State vs OSU through-lines? Both teams make life hell on linebackers!
- We talk about OSU’s receivers, what about Michigan’s receivers?
- Michigan is the best team Ohio State’s faced this year (yes including Oregon), and Ohio State’s been in some games this year.
- Seth: It’s going to matter if Ojabo and Hutchinson are allowed to play football under the rules.
- Hoops: significantly down on Houstan, who’s not a 3. Johns has no confidence. Team is shooting <28% from three so they’re not punishing you for doubling Dickinson.
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November 23rd, 2021 at 11:41 AM ^
For what it's worth, Craig doesn't look a day older than 2,000 as far as I'm concerned.
November 23rd, 2021 at 1:13 PM ^
Every time I hear Craig Ross reference a game from a literal lifetime ago my eyes roll back into my head and I start hearing static.
November 23rd, 2021 at 1:49 PM ^
“The thing you have to understand about their offense is that it’s not just talented; they’re also very disciplined. They will spread you out with their speed and hit your weaknesses with surgical accuracy. I remember one matchup where the opponent tried to pave them up the middle, but they just got outflanked.”
-Craig Ross about the Mongol Invasions, probably
November 23rd, 2021 at 7:51 PM ^
As always Erik, you flatter me.
November 23rd, 2021 at 12:22 PM ^
Erick All is linebacker hell. He's not the receiver Jake Butt was, but he's an excellent blocker, so he can really sell the run block and then break open by yards.
November 23rd, 2021 at 12:41 PM ^
’Hope. It’s the only thing stronger than fear. A little hope is effective. A lot of hope is dangerous.” After listening to this, I am more hopeful. I just have a feeling the team is going to be dangerous on Saturday.
November 23rd, 2021 at 1:30 PM ^
Craig needs to go on mute when he's not talking, all I could hear was his heavy breathing and sniffing the entire time
November 23rd, 2021 at 1:52 PM ^
Ross is a codger; let him have his mic noise and warm milk.
I’m concerned about Brian. He doesn’t seem to be getting better. I know he’s going through a lot but he seems even more of a wet blanket now than at the start of the season when we were expecting disaster.
November 23rd, 2021 at 3:20 PM ^
On the other hand, Brian has had a lot of personal challenges to manage the past two weeks. He spent the last few weeks dealing with intermittent migraines, surprise oral surgery, and children at home on COVID leave. Almost anyone would struggle to project an aura of positivity in the face of those challenges.
November 23rd, 2021 at 7:54 PM ^
My bad. I came down with a cold this AM.
And I can probably rectify this as a rule.
If not, please tell me.
November 23rd, 2021 at 2:55 PM ^
The overreaction to five games of basketball is wild, especially for a true freshman like Houstan. People were obviously way too high on what the team would look like out of the gate, thinking there wouldn't be a beat missed and now area just overreacting the other way.
November 23rd, 2021 at 8:03 PM ^
I sure hope you are right.
November 23rd, 2021 at 2:57 PM ^
O$U jokes aside, Seth has very specifically called out the Ohio receivers as being mercenaries on a few occasions. To be clear I am sure he's right, I just wonder why it's specifically just the WR's.
I definitely recall hearing Chris Evans in 2017 chiding one of their DBs, basically calling him overpaid after a sideline play where Evans went for about 12yds. The announcers of course pretended not to hear it though it was clear as day thanks to that parabolic sideline boom.
So frustrating that we're tasked with beating someone who doesn't play by the rules as the only measure of success, at least according to David Pollack and the ESPN toadies.
Oh well, this football isn't going to kick itself. Hang on Lucy, here I come!
November 23rd, 2021 at 3:23 PM ^
Wait what is Craig's secret OSU tell? He can't drop that and then not explain it!
November 23rd, 2021 at 3:30 PM ^
Pretty sure he didn't say what it was so that it remained a tell. He says it, gets back to OSU coaches, and they correct it. All he has to do is tell Sam off air and it gets to our coaches. If there even is a tell.
November 23rd, 2021 at 8:01 PM ^
I noticed it during the Neb game and started predicting play calls (with broad generality) with success as David Nasternaak can attest. It may be nothing. It may be something UM already saw. It might have been game specific and not salient going forward. But I will pass it along tomorrow.
November 23rd, 2021 at 4:25 PM ^
I'm sure he got it from some weird Michigan facebook page.
November 24th, 2021 at 6:26 PM ^
This sniff roundtable sniff was sniff brutal. Better sniff get some sniff Zicam.
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