RUMOR: Fields has a broken thumb and hasn't practiced this week
Again, this is a RUMOR. However, Fields did hurt his hand/wrist during the game, and could be seen grimacing several times throughout the day. Could be a massive development.
Link:
https://247sports.com/college/ohio-state/board/120/Contents/justin-fields-broken-thumb--139261107/
November 26th, 2019 at 2:25 PM ^
Or. Could be a deliberate disinformation ploy by Day to soften our team, then come out blazing.
We are winning anyway.
November 26th, 2019 at 2:27 PM ^
If it's a trick, it means they're scared.
November 26th, 2019 at 2:33 PM ^
If it isn't a trick... there is no way he is playing. Anyone who has had a broken thumb knows it would be close to impossible. Even if it were on this non-throwing hand.
If it is broken and he ends up playing, he will be full of more drugs than a horse at the Kentucky Derby to make it through the game.
November 26th, 2019 at 2:43 PM ^
Well, he hurt it during the Penn State game and finished the game. Cortisone works wonders.
November 26th, 2019 at 2:57 PM ^
Didn't Demetrius Brown play QB at UM with TWO broken thumbs one season? I think he threw like 500 interceptions (citation needed) in a game while doing that.
November 26th, 2019 at 6:50 PM ^
If it isn't a trick... there is no way he is playing. Anyone who has had a broken thumb knows it would be close to impossible. Even if it were on this non-throwing hand.
If it is broken and he ends up playing, he will be full of more drugs than a horse at the Kentucky Derby to make it through the game.
Tell that to Ben Roethlisberger.
November 27th, 2019 at 10:22 AM ^
Sorry to burst your bubble but I played QB and had two broken fingers, complete break on pointer finger with side splint and fracture on middle finger, that I got in the previous game and I had one of my best days throwing. Was I in pain? yes, did it cause me to have issues on my non throwing hand? 100% but I took about 100 snaps pre game both under center and gun and coach and I focused on just maintaining control, nothing fancy. There is an old saying in sports, be leery of the injured or sick man. Point being is they don't get "loose" with movements, they focus on absolute fundamentals and try to stay under control. I'm not saying Fields is going to have a career game but this whole idea that he is screwed is just ridiculous.
November 26th, 2019 at 3:12 PM ^
It was some dude on a message board who claims he has a friend who's friends with a member of Fields family. Doesn't seem to be the best way to spread a misinformation campaign. Then again, I'm not a Michigan grad, so what do I know?
November 26th, 2019 at 3:22 PM ^
Just can’t help yourself can you. Someone starts an OSU thread and here you come running. Your whole fan bases unhealthy obsession with Michigan would be enough for a restraining order against a husband from a wife. But then again we aren’t Buckeye fans so what would we know about restraining orders.
November 26th, 2019 at 3:30 PM ^
It seems you have an obsession with OSU fans......
November 26th, 2019 at 5:10 PM ^
...said the OSU fan that created an account on a Michigan blog, defending another OSU fan that created an account on a Michigan blog
November 26th, 2019 at 3:43 PM ^
Huh? Who gives a crap if an OSU fan posts here, especially during game week?
Sure, trolling, etc. is lame, but that's not what happened here. Rather, the reply was a substantive response to the original post.
Get over yourself. MGoBlog isn't sacred ground.
November 26th, 2019 at 4:27 PM ^
Well Mr Spielman, you could have been a Michigan grad.
Anyways what's wrong with Bucknutz' post here? He is saying if Day is trying to start a fake rumor, you might try and do it somewhere where it is more likely to actually circulate. I hope he's right. For a while it looked like OSU had scrapped any reads and was just giving it Dobbins after the fumble on which Fields took a helmet to the hand.
To my dismay, it appeared he got more and more comfortable as the game went on. THEN he twists the ankle. To my dismay again, he is casually, almost jokingly talking to the PSU QB after the game not appearing to need any sort of medical attn.
November 26th, 2019 at 4:41 PM ^
Ignore the haters, this was as useful a rumor post as the OP.
November 26th, 2019 at 2:25 PM ^
When he now has 400 yards of combined offense and 6 TDs this board is going to Creampie you.
November 26th, 2019 at 2:27 PM ^
Gross
November 26th, 2019 at 3:05 PM ^
Of course not...
November 26th, 2019 at 2:27 PM ^
That's disgusting... and judging by your user name, there's some weird shit going on over there.
...and Creampie is a proper noun?
November 26th, 2019 at 2:35 PM ^
It is if you do it right
November 26th, 2019 at 2:56 PM ^
no idea what it means and i am most definitely not going to google it....
November 26th, 2019 at 2:28 PM ^
I was going to say execute but I guess that works too? I'll let you handle it...
November 26th, 2019 at 2:33 PM ^
Looks like you prematurely shot your wad on what was supposed to be a dry run, if you will, and now you have something of a mess on your hands.
November 26th, 2019 at 4:24 PM ^
Great arrested development reference
November 26th, 2019 at 2:34 PM ^
Devin Gardner had 450+ yards of combined offense and 5 TDs on a broken foot against the Buckeyes in 2013.
November 26th, 2019 at 2:50 PM ^
Devin Gardner also broke his foot at some point during the game; adrenaline probably got him through the rest of it. If Fields has broken his thumb well before the game, he's not playing.
That's a big if, though--I think it's likely to be the usual pre-game bullshit and that Fields is at worst a little banged up.
November 26th, 2019 at 3:25 PM ^
And we may note that Gardner then missed the bowl game a month later.
November 26th, 2019 at 2:58 PM ^
I dont think you know what that word means
November 26th, 2019 at 3:04 PM ^
You can creampie me all day brother...
November 26th, 2019 at 4:32 PM ^
Sorry, I’m allergic to without drugs or poisons.
November 26th, 2019 at 5:34 PM ^
You have a very unusual posting history—going an entire calendar year between consecutive posts.
12/16/2016
02/27/2018
02/11/2019
November 26th, 2019 at 2:26 PM ^
Huge, if true.
November 26th, 2019 at 2:26 PM ^
Dammit! Hopefully this doesn’t impact his online courses.
November 26th, 2019 at 2:26 PM ^
Do not want.
When Michigan wins on Saturday, there shouldn't be any asterisks by the W. Our best guys beat their best guys straight up.
November 26th, 2019 at 2:29 PM ^
Fuck that. We barely lost to them in 2017 with a 3rd string QB. We've barely ever had a healthy QB play against them since 2006.
I am not above rubbing it in their stupid faces even if Fields is out. It's time they have some of our "luck"
November 26th, 2019 at 2:32 PM ^
Is there an that they beat John O’Korn, our 3rd string QB?
November 26th, 2019 at 2:32 PM ^
Screw that. OSU has a mountain of wins vs us where our starting QB was injured and no one is putting asteriks on those
November 26th, 2019 at 2:32 PM ^
Sorry but this thinking is fucking INSANE to me. Do you think for one nano-second OSU gives any pause to the 2016 win because Speight got banged up at Iowa? Do you think they've every once considered "hey, that 2017 victory doesnt mean as much cause it was John O'Korn at QB?" Or look back at 2012 and say "well if Denard's elbow isnt a disaster we might've lost that one." Or the 2013 game with Devin Gardner playing on a broken fucking foot and still almost winning?
I want to beat them and would LOVE it if Fields, Dobbins and Young all come down with the 24 hour flu on Saturday and cant go. I will give absolutely no shits about the win nor will anyone else other than the lunatic fringe of Michigan fans who think wins are somehow more "manly" if we beat their best players.
November 26th, 2019 at 2:45 PM ^
I want to completely agree with this, except..... Ohio State has positioned themselves so that they can lose this game and still make the Playoff. If they flat out sit Fields so that he isn't injured further, be it thumb or ankle, to be healthy for the BTT game, a win would lose its luster a little bit for me. Not because other people would say it wasn't a "real win," but because it would symbolize that the rivalry has become so lopsided that they are sitting players to essentially rest them for the post-season, and that the college post-season itself has messed with historical rivalries so much that we have arrived at this point.
Do not get me wrong, it would be great to beat them and it would feel good, but if Fields sat out for "precautionary reasons" like Tom Brady in Week 17 and then he played and they beat somebody down the following week, it would take something off it for me.
November 26th, 2019 at 2:50 PM ^
Candidly I dont care. I dont care if they suit up the marching band and send out the tuba players cause it's long, long, LONG past time we beat them.
I just checked the record books and the five games I mentioned in my post have zero asterisks next to the final score so it looks like healthy starting QB or no healthy starting QB, the game counts the same.
November 26th, 2019 at 4:15 PM ^
Exactly. You think they give a shit that their win in 2017 came against a third string QB? Or that they had to play against Threet in 2008? No. They relish those wins and don't mind rubbing Michigan's face in the dirt about it, either.
Take what you can get in this rivalry, for god's sake.
November 26th, 2019 at 2:33 PM ^
Beggars can’t be choosers, pal. I’ll take a win however the hell I can get it. Even if it means we are playing OSU’s towel boys.
November 26th, 2019 at 2:42 PM ^
lol
Michigan could lose 30 years in a row and people would still say shit like this. How about we just beat them once? Would that be okay? Can we just have one nice thing? I don't give a flying fuck how it happens. As long as 11 dudes in scarlet and grey take the field, I'm gonna take the W.
November 26th, 2019 at 2:27 PM ^
We can only hope. Wouldn't be surprised if he's dressed on gameday and does practice drills pregame. How effective he'll actually be remains in question.
Remember last year when our guys, Gary, Winovich and Bush were ailing. They were not 100% for that OSU game, someone can correct me if I'm wrong about this.
November 26th, 2019 at 2:41 PM ^
Gary was hurt pretty much all year. Winovich hurt his back in the Indiana game before OSU.
Bush, though, was basically 100% going into the game, but hurt his hip during the game.
November 26th, 2019 at 3:10 PM ^
Even in 2015, for all the shit that Durkin gets over his game plan, the bigger problem was that we were basically out of nose tackles. Mone went down preseason, and then when Glasgow got hurt we just couldn't hold up in the interior. OSU would wait until our "backups" (which I think included a former 4th string DE) were in and just tempo us with power runs so we couldn't get the starters back in. Once again, the Indiana game showed them what to do, because once Glasgow was out, Jordan Howard ran over us so fast that he scored too early and gave us a chance to tie the game afterward.
OSU's problem this year is that they are, for once, pretty thin at QB with three transfers (that I can think of) in the last couple years. If Fields can't go I don't think they have a plug-and-play QB ready to step in like they did in previous years.
November 26th, 2019 at 3:30 PM ^
They have terrible, terrible back-up QBs. If Fields can't go Michigan will win by double digits.