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I posted this in another…

I posted this in another thread, but can’t resist here. 
 

https://youtu.be/dYSYv7kb2H0

 

Yeah. He played his best…

Yeah. He played his best game, in my opinion(until next week). Kudos. 
 

Thanks, Shea

  https://youtu.be/dYSYv7kb2H0

 

Just because an extremely…

Just because an extremely tiny demonstrable slice of the tiny white supremacy group has “leaned in” to the 4 Chan joke that made a mockery of the very news source you quoted(among others), doesn’t mean any sane person has the requirement or expectation to change everyday habits. This is the case even if those habits are as meaningless as the okay sign. That would be obtuse whether it’s willful or not.

 

The peace sign doesn’t mean the second coming of hitler, even if some white supremacy nut jobs try to play it off as such. Drinking milk isnt isn’t a sign of white supremacy. Holding one one finger in the air isn’t a sign you are a part of ISIS. The rainbow flag isn’t a sign of white supremacy. Yes, these are all ridiculous things that have been proposed recently.  

Sorry if I missed it. Where…

Sorry if I missed it. Where is Gary in this sack party? Breather? Did I miss an injury?

Really gonna miss winovich…

Really gonna miss winovich. Turned into a hell of a player and leader. 

Hammerin’ murder face?

Hammerin’ murder face?

Exactly, mgrowold. While…

Exactly, mgrowold. While these statistics are nice and all, I take them a lot like early polls. No one knew if we were #14 in the country or whatever we were preseason. No one knows if we should be favored going into the tough games.  These predictions are very much based on what we do moving forward. And just as mgrowold said, if we win in our tough stretch, these numbers will obviously hugely change, and mean very little now. 

 

That being said, it was a good talking point and distraction midweek for football fans. 

You did great. Lol

You did great. Not the exact pic I had in mind, but any opposite of dantonio will do.  Yes I know this is Ryan day if any lurker is wondering. 

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I tried to upload a pic of herm grinning but I failed. I will take my downvotes now. 

Let’s go fighting Herms!

Let’s go fighting Herms!

Lol. +1 insightful. Made me…

Lol. +1 insightful. Made me think for a second. 

I honestly don’t know who…

I honestly don’t know who runs a clean program. I don’t think any average fan truly does. I am also not a Clemson fanboy. I only said that I’d pick them over the other teams that are talked about as championship contenders (which will change, but at this point, usually is Alabama, Clemson, osu, okla/wash). Maybe I’m wrong. Which team would you pick?

Ok.  You made me look for it…

Ok.  You made me look for it,but I couldn’t find anything. Now I must see it. Link? Pic?

I hate to say this, but …

I hate to say this, but “bama hasn’t played nobody”. Louisville was s&p+ 78 and tamu is 21. Maybe it’s wishful thinking, but I’m optimistic that the Bama empire will hopefully not roll this year. 

Ha! I had the same thought…

Ha! I had the same thought when he had that huge grab. One of those players that seems to have been there forever. 

Pitt is giving me (maybe…

Pitt is giving me (maybe false) hope that we could run against penn state. Here’s hoping. 

Maybe similar in terms of…

Maybe similar in terms of frustration to their respective fan bases, but I still see a potent offense and good qb play on penn st. It seems to me that the defense is what is keeping the other teams in the game(so far, as of q1 game 2, lol)

Went for it on 4th and goal…

Went for it on 4th and goal on the 1ish and fumbled the snap. 

I’m with you.  Clemson is my…

I’m with you.  Clemson is my favorite of the teams that are expected to compete for a championship at this point. They are fun to watch. They have two exciting good qbs, a good oline, good at the skill positions, and a dline that is hyped as possibly the best in the modern era(probably a bit much, but such is preseason hype).  Most of all, they are not Bama or osu.

 

EDIT: I meant to reply to your comment a little further down that said Clemson was looking good. This comment might actually make sense there. 

I don’t know.  Tamu is a big…

I don’t know.  Tamu is a big school. It has a lot of money. A large fanbase that cares about football.  It recruits in a recruiting hotbed, and in a hotbed when UT is down. It will be hard to climb the sec ladder for sure, but I’ve seen stranger things.

Watching good football games…

Watching good football games is fun. Watching ranked games is fun. Sometimes you lose. As a fan, are you really hoping and wishing that we play more useless games against cupcakes? I just cannot get behind this, and this is very snowflakey. 

Spread isn’t a formation. 

Spread isn’t a formation. 

You seriously think that?

You seriously think that?

Everything about this is  …

Everything about this is  “hot-take-y”. You thought it out, though and put more effort than a one sentence rant, so +1 to you. This is a Michigan sports blog, after all. 

 

If if you want my incoherent rant, I do not understand the overall feeling that Shea was great but the line was letting him down. I think he will do well, and I think he is a good player, but I did not see a significant plummet of efficiency when mcaffrey was in. I think if there is any blame to be placed on an opening day loss to a ranked opponent on the road, it should be spread around evenly. 

Agreed. The douche level is Agreed. The douche level is getting too damned high on this board. I'm not sure if it's just because of the points system, though. It might be a direct result of its increased popularity and moving to the mainstream that dilutes out the quality posters. That doesn't stop me from visiting daily, though.
I know that this all in good

I know that this all in good fun, but who really does a consistently good job as a solo talk radio host? National guys like Jim Rome/SVP have a room full of people to keep churning out the topics, and are hardly in the same category. I really don't know of any, and stand by my Caputo reference. Even if you think he's an idiot, the man has been doing the job for a long time, knows his craft, and can fill a strange air time by himself with reasonable consistency.

I can't believe all of the

I can't believe all of the negative comments in this thread. I understand that a thread like this will bring out the vocal minority that for whatever reason dislike a radio show (see the many threads where other shows get blasted), but this seems over the top. I enjoy listening to Ira and wtka. I think the point that is lost in all the negativity are that it is a blessing and a curse to cover Michigan sports so in depth. We all tune in because we like hearing about michigan football, but the problem is there really isn't a whole lot of news to fill in multiple hours every single day. Sure, they do a good job during the football season, but how could you not ramble about a random michigan factoid or a game from 20 years ago when it's April and there hasn't been any real michigan football news in months?

I'm also surprised that Ira is being criticized a little about rambling. It is an extremely difficult skill to fly solo in a talk radio show. It is literally just you meant to fill the air for x amount of hours, and be sure to fill that air, too because nothing is worse that pauses or dead air time. Rants and long winded conversations with yourself are absolutely inevitable, and actually necessary. Combine that with the fact that you have no social cues to know exactly when your audience is losing interest, it makes it extremely difficult. Sprinkle in the fact that the audience is so niche that callers don't exactly light up his boards all the time, and it's a lot of Ira talking without it being his fault at all. I think Ira does a great job. I don't listen to many national radio talk shows anymore, and the only local guy that can really fly solo on the radio pretty we'll is pat caputo besides Ira. Again, I'm sure there are people here that don't enjoy his show, but I think he does a great job of keeping a show entertaining even if he doesn't have a cohost to bounce conversations off of. Pat has been doing this for decades, has many more topics available for him to cover, and has a much larger Detroit sports fan base to "turn it to the people" when he hits a lull. Let's give Ira some credit.

Keep up the good work Ira. I moved out of the area 2 years ago. I used to solely listen to sports talk radio, but when I made the move yours is the only talk radio I listen to anymore via the radio app. You do a great job and we appreciate it.

We're you a big fan during

We're you a big fan during the horror? Nothing is worse than app state. Ranked #4. Coming off a season that many thought we should have played for the NC, senior star running back and quarterbacks that had been pegged to be national contenders for years, the future #1 overall pick. Bite your tongue, young man. Nothing is worse than the horror.

Crowd shot from MSU game...

Crowd shot from MSU game... Eww.

I'm all for jumping all over

I'm all for jumping all over the espn hype train,but I have to give them credit on the clowney case. They sure did hype him to insane levels, but he also got a whole hell of a lot of criticism after that first game. Between the first and second game there was some residual hype and discussion as to whether the first game was an outlier, but after two nondominating performances, I haven't heard that much hype on him. It only took two weeks to crush espn's golden boy, and that's not too bad.

Wow that was a ridiculous

Wow that was a ridiculous play. Even more ridiculous that TAMU caught it.

Watching this pass rush makes

Watching this pass rush makes me sad about our pass rush.

What's with manziel and weird

What's with manziel and weird sleeves?

Don't be silly. Nobody wants

Don't be silly. Nobody wants bama to win today.

Anyone else feel for Texas a

Anyone else feel for Texas a little bit? I know they snubbed us with joining the big ten and I know Vince young torched us, but for some reason I don't take the pleasure in them sucking as much as I do USC.

We absolutely did not stuff

We absolutely did not stuff them every time we got aggressive. I was surprised how well they seemed to pick up our blitzes and with our corners playing off so much it seemed like it was raining short slants for 8-9 yards a pop.

Manziel is looking sharp

Manziel is looking sharp today. I hate to say it but I thought his hype train was out of control. Those deep balls to single coverage are on point.

That is what always happens

That is what always happens on a standard play action pass.

There is no way that a

There is no way that a rational person can believe that at this point in their respective football careers Devin Gardner gives us a better chance at winning a football game compared to Denard Robinson. That thought is silly, in my opinion, but so is us arguing about exactly how awesome DG is right now. We both are glad he's on the team, and we both are looking forward to seeing him kick some butt next year, everything else is arguing over minutia. It was a good game. Go Blue.

Come on. Based on a couple

Come on. Based on a couple deep throws that could, no would have been picked off against better DBs? He has looked good today against a big ten bottom dweller, and I'm glad that the guy is having a breakout game, but all you need to do is rewatch the past few spring games to realize how silly you sound.

Furthermore, throwing mechanics? Neither Denard nor Devin are picture perfect throwers. Both have great arm strength, but your kidding yourself if you don't see DG short arming his throws.

Everyone needs to temper

Everyone needs to temper their excitement for DG a little bit. No, he is not better than Denard. We are all excited to have a QB option that could be a threat next year, but this is Minn.

We do know that Michigan used

We do know that Michigan used to run the triple option, right?

That's not true at all. It

That's not true at all. It completely depends on the injury.

Boomslang!

Boomslang!

Still think we lose this one?

Still think we lose this one?

I was wondering the same

I was wondering the same thing. My guess is to get more speed and aggressiveness on the field.

I'm not as high on AF as you

I'm not as high on AF as you are, but I agree with you.

No. We have to whine about

No. We have to whine about Borges running Denard either too much or too little.

Our offense is moving the

Our offense is moving the ball at will, as it probably should be against this defense. Our defense is certainly not calming any concerns from last week, but it is a defense designed to line up against pro sets and zone read options. I am not sure how much struggling against this team tells us going forward.