Poor Damn Maryland (QB Injury?)
November 5th, 2017 at 11:29 AM ^
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This.
November 5th, 2017 at 11:29 AM ^
when really all we know is that he interviewed for other jobs (with permission of his boss) and we conceded 42 points. We have of course no evidence that we would have won or fared better if he hadn't interviewed for other jobs but you know, it's 'obvious'. ;)
November 5th, 2017 at 11:48 AM ^
November 5th, 2017 at 12:16 PM ^
and I criticized him for it at the time. But it's really very speculative that it really affected the game itself. Don Brown as far as we know didn't interview for anything ahead of the Penn State game and yet the outcome was what it was.
November 5th, 2017 at 2:50 PM ^
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November 5th, 2017 at 1:04 PM ^
I think people are looking at the super vanilla defense and lack of adjustments mid game as a piece of evidence too. I'm not saying it's "obvious" or that those pieces of evidence are anything beyond circumstantial. But, it sure does look fishy.
November 5th, 2017 at 11:28 AM ^
As many strings as a guitar!!
GO BLUE!!
November 5th, 2017 at 2:51 PM ^
November 5th, 2017 at 11:40 AM ^
November 5th, 2017 at 2:54 PM ^
no red shirt needed....
November 5th, 2017 at 11:40 AM ^
Baltimore Sun reports Maryland sophomore quarterback Max Bortenschlager couldn’t finish Saturday’s game after an apparent shoulder injury. Sophomore walk-on Ryan Brand finished the Rutgers game and was 8 for 12 passing for 68 yards. Redshirt junior quarterback Caleb Henderson, who transferred to Maryland from North Carolina, may also be the next man up in case Max Bortenschlager is not available for the Michigan game.
At this time it is unclear who will play QB for Maryland next week.
November 5th, 2017 at 1:18 PM ^
seems a bit paltry. You can't win games in today's era with passing numbers like tha... uh... oh, never mind. Maybe you can.
November 5th, 2017 at 12:06 PM ^
November 5th, 2017 at 3:30 PM ^
Especially since Maryland is actually in the Washington DC area.
November 5th, 2017 at 12:21 PM ^
They brought nothing. The league already had Purdue, Illinous, the golden goofers and Indiana to beat up on, we didn't need anymore MAC competition like Rutgers and MD.
November 5th, 2017 at 12:26 PM ^
November 5th, 2017 at 1:25 PM ^
And as the cable cutting has grown into the millions every quarter, the Big Ten network will be soon be on life support.
Do you really enjoy playing MD and Rutgers?
Couldn't have picked two worse additions.
November 5th, 2017 at 1:44 PM ^
November 5th, 2017 at 4:33 PM ^
Sure, and Rutgers sucks at all of them and Maryland is good at basketball and that's it. The rest who the hell cares.
My god I can think of ten schools that would have been better for not just football but other sports as well.
Excuse me while I get all hyped up to play Maryland next week.
November 5th, 2017 at 1:09 PM ^
Speaking about QB injuries, it looks like David Blough is out for the season with a leg injury. I hope he has a full recovery.
I did wonder, though, as I saw them loading him into an ambulance, if they took him to the crappy on-campus clinic or a better equipped and staffed facility, and if the attending doctor asked them to do what they could to get him there more quickly if the response was rude and snarky.
Edit: I also see on Hammer and Rails, they're claiming the hit should have been targeting and the Illinois player ejected (they do admit the "targeting" had nothing to do with Blough's injury), but, of course, when their 300+ pound DT did a belly flop onto the back and neck of Speight who was already on the ground, that was just a perfectly clean play.
What a bunch of hypocritical asswipes!
November 5th, 2017 at 1:28 PM ^
at this magical "better equipped and staffed facility"?
And nice to hear that their player was afforded the luxury of an ambulance ride to this wondrous land of medical science.
November 5th, 2017 at 1:51 PM ^
I think all fans become hypocrites when dealing with that dumb-ass targeting rule. I think all teams by now have been burned by it several times.
On a side note, an Oklahoma DB made a great football play to break up a pass that got tipped and picked on OK St's final drive. A targeting was called and the helmet to helmet contact ocurred about 1/2 second before the pick. That call gave OK St another shot to tie that game up or take the lead. While it was helmet to helmet contact, it was caused because the WR moved his body in a way in a split second that caused the helmets to line up. It wasn't purposeful or malicious, but according to the letter of the law, it was a penalty and an ejection. A great football play could have cost Oklahoma their shot at a B1G title and a playoff spot.
Wasn't it called "Targeting" because you intentionally "target" someone's head? The rule has gotten way too general and seems to be called in a myriad of circumstances that I don't believe the original rule was intended for.
November 6th, 2017 at 11:20 AM ^
I saw that OU-OSU play. Was watching with a friend and we started discussing targeting right then and there. I know what you mean, how the receiver kind of fell into the hit and helped create the head-shot targeting.
However, if that safety came in with his head up and his arms wide and tried to make an actual football tackle on the receiver, that's never going to be targeting. Too many of these guys get themselves in trouble trying for the highlight hit, head down leading with the shoulder.
Hitting the receiver the way he did, targeting the head or not, is done with intent to inflict as much damage as possible on the defenseless player (and hopefully the ball is jarred loose or the receiver falls to the ground). If he instead tries to form tackle, there's no flag.
IMHO
November 5th, 2017 at 1:29 PM ^
Bartender, I'll have one Bortenschlager please!
November 5th, 2017 at 1:59 PM ^
kick them while they're down...part of the game...
kind of like Iowa stepping on the Suckeyes throat yesterday... that was just magnificent !
November 5th, 2017 at 3:04 PM ^
Since College Park, MD basically abuts Washington DC, I'll ask my DC friends for advice, thank you.
Also, poor damn Terps QB's. What a crazy injury situation.
November 5th, 2017 at 4:58 PM ^
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November 6th, 2017 at 11:07 AM ^
Quarterbacks all the way down.
November 6th, 2017 at 11:56 AM ^
Its those crappy Under Armour shoes and equipment. Their players are slipping all over the field. The QB who was injured in the Texas game got hurt this way.