Does anybody really listen to someone's opinion who still has a bowl haircut and wears striped suits with paisley ties?

Oddly enough, Im not concerned about the offense, at all.....    re playing Alabama, I am concerned with Stribling, and the our LBs not named Peppers.

And minutes later Darboh is named to the Biletnikoff Award watch list. Right, I dynamic offensive weapons. Can't make this up.

Jim Harbaugh is the best dynamic offensive weapon in the country. Semi-serious. With a veteran offense that can execute the game plan that's put in front of them, our play calling is our best weapon.

To be fair, his point was the Louisville's offense would give Alabama's defense more trouble than an offense like ours. As good as our offense is, I'm not sure it's as good as Alabama's defense. They are pretty good. I think we could give them trouble but it would be a long day for our line. Pollack's idiotic point was that our receivers couldn't do much against Bama. Pepcat could be a difference make against that defense.

Sounds like this guy doesn't know what the hell he's talking about. Not much of a surprise from ESPN's "talent."

So uh let's just let them worry about this and we'll talk about the teams in front of us first?

Secretary filling out coaches poll

Secretary giving Pollack his take

Saban has the cred. Beating him is the only way.

Speight.

Chesson.

Darboh.

Butt.

Smith.

Isaac.

Evans.

Higdon.

Perry.

McDoom.

Crawford.

Hill.

Peppers.

Who's David Pollack?

Really need to get their 2nd string QBs into game shape.

What a joke that comment is.  The reality is exactly opposite -- Alabama doesn't have the dynamic offensive weapons to beat Michigan.  And our most dynamic offensive weapon is Jim Harbaugh and his game plans.

Arkansas had no trouble against their dbs along with a&m and few others

David Pollack is an SEC slapdick.  Sorry your Dawgs suck hot ass this season, Davey!

I can't get worked up about this. Our offense is hitting its stride, but do we have a lot of superstar offensive talent? Not really.

And we know this--read the "star charts" Seth puts together for FFFF. Our defense is loaded. Most (all?) of those guys will get drafted and get time in the NFL. In contrast, the offense has some guys that are really good, but there aren't a lot of "danger men" there.

That Bama doesn't seem to have a lot of danger men is a valid point. The difference here is that Bama's OL has a better reputation. We ourselves know that our OL isn't perfect, and Bama's production speaks for itself. A game like this would come down to which team could give its QB time and open holes, and I'm not sure I like how that leans.

But whatever. This is talk radio hot take stuff, and it's getting exactly the reaction that the programmers want. If Pollack is wrong, we will all see it in January.

WHO CARES? just like we used to say in high school when ripping off the student section..

So we're debating Michigan vs Bama . Seems like good progress to me!

My faith in his college football analysis < the length of his NFL career. 

   

also forgot TAM had already lost to Alabama on live television last Tuesday when rationalizing TAM making the playoff.

MGoBlog: David Pollack Doesn't have Enough Functioning Brain Cells to be Commenting on Michigan.

Fixed it.

 

 

LSU has only one good offensive player surrounded by ineptitude and was in a position to win that game.

Alabama didn't look like they had a ton of explosiveness on offense to give our defense a ton of problems.  Certainly impressed with their defense, and it would be hard to move the ball on them, but their offense doesn't scare me at all.  That LSU game this weekend was not great football.  LSu is Fournette and that is it.  We would have a field day with LSU's offense.  Alabama is clearly the favorite, but I haven't seen much from them offensively that scares me.

They probably compared leading rushers and assumed our offense must suck.

Even after Michigan beats Bama in the playoff final ESPN talking heads will still rank Bama #1 claiming it was a fluke and Bama would beat them 9 times out of 10.  The next day they'll claim "sources" have informed them Harbaugh is ready to move on to his next challenge of winning a Super Bowl.  Their sources for the 10 o'clock show will be the talking heads on the 9 o'clock show, and the sources for the 11 o'clock show will be the talking heads on the 10 o'clock show.

Shut up David.

We don't have a team made solely of 5 stars like Alabama does. But we have a coach who can match wits with Saban, and that's just as important, if not more important than the talent on the field.

If we were fortunate enough to make the playoffs and be slotted against Alabama, we'd certainly be underdogs. And for good reason. But I have faith that Harbaugh would draft up a great game plan that would put his team in position to stay with Alabama. Maybe even beat them.

I say screw all the pundits. Michigan has given me no reason to believe they can't beat any team in America. None. Even with the defensive hiccups from time to time. Our defense is so good that things that are hiccups actually seem major to a lot of us because we've been used to domination in just about every game so that when we actually do see a Michigan point total that resembles a football score and not a basketball score, we get a bit beside ourselves.

The fact that this team can play a gritty game and scrap for a win is just as impressive to me if not more so. In the not too distant past, Michigan's program had very little fight and little to no response to adversity. That hasn't been the case with this program since Harbaugh got here. If we do run into a team that wants to bang, we bang and get the win. Blowout or slugfest, this program has put on the hardhats and gone to work for 10 straight games.

Their goals are beginning to materialize. The ultimate prize is right within their grasp and they aren't gonna let the opportunity slip away. They've come too far and worked too hard for it. We'll make it to the NC game and we WILL face Bama and beat them. I'm calling it.

Beat OSU in Columbus. That's what I'm worried about. Lets cross the Bama bridge when we get there

...in his Immediate Recovery column this am on foxsports.com--his take is that the few teams that have beaten Alabama in the last several years have all been spread offense teams. He says 'you're not going to out-Bama Bama,' meaning that pro-style/traditional offenses like ours play into Alabama's strengths. He says OSU is the better candidate to beat Alabama--should they get the chance--because they run a spread offense.

It goes without saying this all premature with 3-4 games left before we even find out who makes the CFP and who matches up with who. Clemson gave Bama quite a game in the championship last year and we all know that none of these teams are unbeatable.

For all the talk about spread offenses vs. traditional power, 5* recruits and the like, I'll take Jim Harbaugh's ability to game plan and put his players in position to create and exploit opportunities offered by the opponent up against anyone. We are improving every week and our coaching staff builds on what we're doing in each phase of the game based on each opponent and what they see on film.

I'm confident that our coach would embrace the chance to match up with anyone out there and do the unexpected--just like his Stanford team did against overwhelming favorite and 'untouchable' USC in 2009. 55-21 Stanford victory if I recall correctly?!?

Wisconsin scored more points on LSU than Alabama did.

He's concerned about the wrong team's offense.

and an excellent defense.  Anything could happen if we get to play Bama.  Pollack has not watched Speight's progression and ignores the diversity of our offense.