OT: Did anyone happen to watch the OSU Spring game?
I watched the very end of it.
I may be wrong, but It looked like they were running a lot of "zone busters" (which were WIDE OPEN, by the way), so it seems as if they are anticipating playing against a lot of zone, this year. Another observation....The QBs weren't very accurate (and didn't make many good decisions) when flushed from the pocket.
I watched it, to get an educated opinion of what to expect from this OSU team. Do I think Michigan will win, against them, this fall? I doubt it. However, I think they will be a hell of a lot more "mortal" than the recent past.
I know....it's only Spring, but it's data points, and.....what the hell else do we have to talk about than our rival? ?
Why? I mean, what do I expect from OSU? A thorough ass beating. That's what I expect. Why the fuck would I watch them?
April 18th, 2021 at 12:18 AM ^
It’s like scrolling through Zillow for multi-million dollar homes. Unlikely we ever get there but we do it anyway...
Tried watching it. The "no tackling" rule made it incredibly boring.
Why?
Where is Vladdie? I’ll bet he’s down in C-Bus teaching Day about the KGB’s practice of deception. He’s being paid in Bitcoin.
This is the best response.
Didn't watch it but I assume they'll have some early struggles at QB but they'll figure something out and the death star will carry on, perhaps slightly less death starry compared to the past couple of years but more than enough to win this conference.
I remember hearing Justin Fields looked rough in the 2019 spring game…
I remember when joe Milton was light years ahead of everyone else. The media that follows Michigan football are the biggest morons on n the face of this planet. Every idiot who praised joe Milton should be fired
So much anger. It's just a game, man.
Why? Milton did a lot of praise-worthy things. He had a huge arm, put a ton of work in during the off-season, grew as a leader. He looked phenomenal in practice.
His downfall was when the bright lights turned on and he got hit a few times, he became a deer in headlights and lost his composure. That led to erratic mechanics and he lost his throwing ability that showed so well in practice (where pressure is limited and you won’t get hit). Not to mention never fully grasping the mental aspect of QB play.
He’s a guy with all the arm talent in the world that couldn’t handle the pressure. Get him off-schedule and his mechanics break down, he becomes inaccurate and makes questionable throws. In a practice environment, guys like that will thrive and look better than a lot of people. Same thing happens with recruits and recruiting rankings. They love the guys with all the tools, and those guys look great in a camp setting.
I highly doubt he looked phenomenal in practice. McCaffrey "lost" the QB battle before practices really even started. After Harbaugh unintentionally pushed McCaffrey out the door I don't think they felt they had any other choice but to super-hype Milton. Could you imagine the pitchforks that would of been out before the season started if Harbaugh said Dylan left, Milton is looking average, and we aren't even considering McNamara as our starter? Neither of us can prove or disprove how Milton actually looked in practice but we all saw how average he was last season and I'm jaded from hearing the annual off-season player hype that amounts to a mirage. Odds are he practiced how he played no matter what Sam Webb says.
https://www.mgoblog.com/mgoboard/dmac-story?sort_by=thread&items_per_page=50&page=3
He has all the tools of someone who looks great in practice. Which is what makes those reports so believable.
He has incredible arm talent, and we saw flashes of that ability. When he has time to stand in the pocket, set his feet and just deliver, there’s not a throw on the field he can’t make. That’s 90% of what QBs do in practice. Joe looked really good when he was able to do this. Backing up the “he looks great in practice” hype. His skill set is exactly what would make you say “wow” in a practice environment.
When the pocket breaks down, when he has to roll out, when he has to go through his progressions, when he has someone barreling down on him, that’s when he loses his composure and his game breaks down and he struggles. He couldn’t put it together under pressure. Simple as that.
Milton had plenty of bad throws without pressure. I’m very hesitant to assume he “could make every throw on the field” as long as there wasn’t any pressure. He struggled with accuracy and touch in many clean pockets last year. It’s unlikely that only showed up on game day.
It’s far more likely he connected on more deep balls in practice last year with wide open receivers and that impressed everyone. Practice observers may have been in denial about how bad M’s secondary was but I would expect to still see plenty of incompletions in the “threw it way too hard” and “threw it two feet behind him at his feet” variety.
April 18th, 2021 at 12:17 AM ^
I think Joe Milton being named starter speaks more about Josh Gattis than about Joe Milton.
April 18th, 2021 at 12:17 AM ^
I think Joe Milton being named starter speaks more about Josh Gattis than about Joe Milton.
What tools? His only proven tools were an elite fastball and being a large human. Quit saying "arm talent" like it means something more than being able to throw really hard.
He isn't very fast. He has trouble with touch passes. His senior year in HS he completed 48% with 10 TD to 6 INT. Going into 2020 he was 6/11 with 1 TD to 2 INT. Any QB with these numbers make you question his accuracy and decision making. He's not a physical runner despite being huge. He always had way more unknowns than knowns, a true boom or bust player. The only tool you accurately describe him having is elite arm strength...very similar to Shane Morris except Shane is more athletic.
You think a QB who struggles when the pocket breaks, he has to roll either direction, making progressions, or faces pressure likely looked phenomenal in practice?... come onnn man. These are literally all the most important skills a QB needs to not suck and you admit Milton was poor at all of them. Just because Milton throws harder than NFL guys does not mean he must of been a practice field All-American.
The MN game he looked good. Not sure why he just cratered in the MSU game? I know he had a big arm and accuracy was his issue and it really showed in the MSU game and he was never the same. Hopefully Cad or JJ are a step up.
So JH then?
OSU will beat the rest of the B1G by a combined score of 837-12
You’re wrong. 837-15. I called it, right here. ; )
Important detail: They'll lose to ... Minnesota, maybe, 12-9. That one victory against OSU by Minnesota in many tries will have MGoBloggers clamoring for P. J. Fleck and bemoaning what an incompetent buffoon [1] Harbaugh is.
[1] I'm not thrilled with the guy going into year seven.
This is a good post. I hope it doesn’t start a trend though I don’t want to spend my life reading footnotes on MGoBlog.
April 18th, 2021 at 12:19 PM ^
The question is: do we score any of those 12 points?
I'm guessing they look lightyears ahead of us. Their QBs will perform like Heisman contenders and they were on the run so much cuz their DL is ridiculously good.
And then they'll play Alabama in their bowl and will lose 57-10, and then we'll get to have one good Ohio State schadenfreude thread like we do every year.
"Haha you lost in the national championship game" do people really consider this schadenfreude?
You are easily the worst poster on this board
Have you been introduced to RXwolverine? I'd call it a tie.
Because he called out making fun of a team who perennially competes for a national championship and just so happens to not be able to get past 1 or 2 more teams that literally no other teams can?
And if it's for "other posts" then why reply here? It was quite a normal and sensible post.
For a lot of UM football fans... yes. It's the UM equivalent of an, "SEC! SEC! SEC!" chant from UK fans... taking pride in another team's victories. I don't get it, but I'm neither a UM fan, nor an SEC fan.
It's the UM equivalent of an, "SEC! SEC! SEC!" chant from UK fans...
Meh. I usually root for the meteor. But following your analogy, wouldn't the UM equivalent of this be to cheer Big10! Big10! Big10! and root for OSU? ?
But serious question. Would you actually root for UM if they made it to the championship game?
April 18th, 2021 at 10:09 AM ^
I suppose it depends on the opponent.... if it's Clemson, Go Blue! I at least respect UM as an institution, and have a lot of good friends who are big time UM fans. I'm tired of Alabama's reign, so Go Blue there as well. Any of the Oklahoma's, Georgia's, Oregon's of the world... I'm not sure if I'd care enough to watch the game. That's my honest response.
Edit: forgot to ad ND in that list... that's the meteor game for me.. hope you both lose!
Thanks for the honest answer. I'll tell you a little secret, but this is only between you and I so don't tell anyone else on the board. (whispering)...I actually rooted for OSU against Clemson.
Shocker... people from different points of view can come together and agree on something! I’d buy you a beer anytime.
I'd let you buy me a beer anytime! And even buy you one in return.
I’d happily lose to Alabama in the national title 100-0 for the next five years in a row if it meant it would replace the results we have now.
Our qbs are nowhere near Justin fields and they never will be. Our team will still be good this year, but will still have mediocre defense and mediocre quarterbacks this year, and will probably still win big ten
Jack Sawyer is going to be a problem.
I didn't watch, but if a true freshman is getting 3 sacks in the spring game, could that be more an issue of bad OL play?
Perhaps, but considering the current state of affairs for both programs, I'm just going to go with the worst case scenario for us.
I'm not ready for the constant BPONE of:
April 17th, 2021 at 10:48 PM ^
If you don't know much about football, then yes. If you do, it's going to be a huge problem for college tackles.
No, Putin's right. Jack Sawyer will be a problem.
Unfortunately for the BIG Sawyer was the #4 recruit in the country in the 2021 class and the #3 SDE in the country. OSU has both their starting tackles back from last year. LT is a 2 year starter. He was also the #1 rated player in Ohio and chose to sit out his senior season because of covid. It was basically a two hand touch game defensively. He actually had 4 sacks. He’s one of the early enrollees, a 6’ 4” 240# true freshman. He looks like he could walk into a nfl game now. He played QB on offense in HS lol
We can’t even beat msu and your worried about watching osu. Regardless how good or bad their team looks they will beat us by 20+. That’s the harbaugh difference. WHOS GOT IT BETTER THAN US!??!!
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Im sorry is ur verison of inaccurate different from mine ??? Besides miller I think his name was the other two werent inaccurate