Yeah hopefully the expansion solves it. In general, I believe college football needs to figure out how to reward teams that challenge themselves. Current model of incentivizing weak opponents to “goal seek” a record is not really fun to watch (in my opinion). I used to be a huge CF fan but have enjoyed NFL games more recently due to every game being competitive (don’t see 30+ point wins every week by half the teams for half the season) .
Just a crappy play call blitzing a corner who is covering their best player, below the numbers, 20 yards away from the QB.... Even if the safety gets over top, why wouldn't the D end closest to the blitzing corner flare out to take away the flat since the linebacker is curl first and then flat and most QBs are taught to throw into the blitz?
You would think though that Warde and him have a good enough relationship where they can sit down and Jim can say privately "I have won the big 10 two years in a row and need top tier Big10 market based compensation if you want me to stay", rather than play this out publicly and and harm the future of the program (potentially lose recruits/current players to transfer).
Challenge when looking at totals is you miss the details with specific opponents. Sure the totals are close but the stars "show up" in the talented opponent games. Set aside Georgia and look at our totals (and Hutch) in 2021 against OSU, PSU and MSU and then compare with our 2022 sack totals against Illinois, PSU and OSU...
If we play a elite pocket passing QB (Stetson Bennet) who can actually move off a first read, can we get home in time?
Can understand your PoV if your situation and direct risk of your actions upon others is different (e.g. not driving in residential neighborhoods with young children)
Agree we need to involve him more. I like Bell but Roman Wilson has scored on almost 50% of his touches. Even from the offensive UFR, you can see the DBs giving him Tyreek Hill space off the line of scrimmage. Future DBs should be tossing and turning all night knowing he is coming and they don't have the speed to keep up...
Heading to play a corn fed team that rolls out extra tight ends and full backs is not the best time for our linebackers to decide to be hesitant.....LOL
So we're going to pay 4 and 3 star players double what Ohio State pays 5 and 4 star players? If a legal definition is open to broad interpretation with no possibility of recourse, why would we chose the stricter interpretation?
Agree! At some point factual actions must be held accountable by themselves and we can’t insert unknown systemic racism variables into every factual event as “context”.
Let’s frame this in (perhaps) a more simple way. What if a girl friend left someone to “test the market” and then calls to inform she is coming home.. Are we supposed to be “elated”? Especially when said girl friend didn’t put out in 6 out of 7 years of the relationship… LOL
Our positive momentum from beating OSU, winning B10 and achieving the CFP is now gone with Harbaugh testing the NFL market for weeks. This was the worst case scenario for us to ever turn the tide and recruit elite talent in the 2023+ classes... UGH! Why cant we have nice things.
So next year, do we play McNamara and have a false sense of regular season accomplishment or do we ride with McCarthy and try to achieve something more? What's MgoBlog consensus???
Um, outside of Cass Tech and King, Belleville is probably the most talent producing school in the state. My problem is why did we even offer the kid at that time? His only other offers were Eastern Illinois and Marshal… This seems like an offer that could of waited until the last minute… not the other way around.
I think the psych part of coaching and managing young athletes is fascinating. I think the start of the OSU game will be critical. If we get some stops on defense and go through the first quarter or two tied or with the lead, I think that significantly erases some of the doubt in the back of their minds. But if OSU scores at ease on the first drive.....
Agree that we could of used Chris Evans and DPJ better but Chris Evans has 4 catches and 18! total yards in his nfl career... Lol not like he turned into Alvin Kamara after going pro..
Yeah but our nickel is a 5star and future first round draft pick vs a nobody so basically “let the stallion run” and live with the results. Agree the two high does not give run support but my argument is against good run defenses, MSU hasn’t proven they can actually run the ball so make them prove it and then spin a safety down if we can’t stop it, but don’t lead with that scheme. Our weakest link on defense are corners and their top 2 out of 3 players are outside wideouts so scheme around that.
Not sure I agree with your gameplan. I don't think a cover 3 or any form of single high where one safety would sit and help Dax hill on the slot guy makes sense. Essentially let Dax play his man one on one and forget about Dax. Keep both the free and strong safety back high and play over top. Then sprinkle in the occasional cover 2 and let the corner jump an intermediate out route if they keep dinking and dunking it.
I'm not confident their offensive line will be able to run against our front. Michigan state averaged 2.4 yds per rush on 30 attempts against Nebraska. As we know, Nebraska's defense is solid and ours is even better. (Interestingly, Michigan's offense averaged nearly 5 yds a carry on 42 attempts)
I like the perspective njvictor but a key question I have is if we line up Cade against OSU/Bama/Georgia, and those teams stack the box against our run and dare a downfield throw, can Cade honestly deliver? Can he make the pull read and run the ball? Can he escape pressure, buy time and punish the back end? I honestly don't think so... So then are we just deferring the inevitable truth for some sense of false accomplishment?
I'd also argue that with our solid defense to bail us out it might have been worth having a volatile offense through these first 7 games against crummy teams and develop JJ into a quarterback that can beat those top 5 teams.
Appreciate the post and future work but not buying it.
Barely beating Rutgers with their FPI rating of ~40 (which is based off of wins against Temple, Syracuse and Delaware) is not where we want this program to be in Yr. 7....Justifying shitty play to substantiate future projections has been a consistent in Harbaughs tenure.. Just my own opinion though
Stroud is really inaccurate. Stack the box to take away the run game, cede the screen / quick throw game and get after him on the deep throws and I think you are ok….
He has shown he has what it takes against Rutgers… against everyone else he was awful. The point of recruiting 5 star game changing players is to let them play… Kirby Smart might now recognize that…
Projection: The best is yet to come. He’s going to redshirt, work out a lot, bring it, work out, grow a bit more, work out, keep working out, fill out some, post on the MGoBoard, develop a new kind of protein shake, work out more, and maybe down the road when Michigan is desperate for DTs again they’ll have a 290-pound team guy with violent hands and the 3-star mafia will whine that he’s not Walter Nolen while UFR quietly appreciates his positive contributions. Then he’ll graduate and put together a group of wealthy alumni to funnel money to Michigan recruits.
Haha!! Best conclusion yet. On the bright side, if he become a stud, I can add Cannoli to the food spread during Michigan football games..
Awesome article. Thanks for writing this. After watching the Stanley cup playoffs, I really came to appreciate the game and want to learn more. If anyone knows other good website to read and learn, I’d greatly appreciate it!
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Yeah hopefully the expansion solves it. In general, I believe college football needs to figure out how to reward teams that challenge themselves. Current model of incentivizing weak opponents to “goal seek” a record is not really fun to watch (in my opinion). I used to be a huge CF fan but have enjoyed NFL games more recently due to every game being competitive (don’t see 30+ point wins every week by half the teams for half the season) .
Why can’t we play a decent to good team? This isn’t fun to watch
Great write up!! Love the hockey content
Just a crappy play call blitzing a corner who is covering their best player, below the numbers, 20 yards away from the QB.... Even if the safety gets over top, why wouldn't the D end closest to the blitzing corner flare out to take away the flat since the linebacker is curl first and then flat and most QBs are taught to throw into the blitz?
You would think though that Warde and him have a good enough relationship where they can sit down and Jim can say privately "I have won the big 10 two years in a row and need top tier Big10 market based compensation if you want me to stay", rather than play this out publicly and and harm the future of the program (potentially lose recruits/current players to transfer).
Thinking the same thing. Already 6'4 and 220. Add 20 or so more pounds and could be a nice complement as an athletic TE .
Challenge when looking at totals is you miss the details with specific opponents. Sure the totals are close but the stars "show up" in the talented opponent games. Set aside Georgia and look at our totals (and Hutch) in 2021 against OSU, PSU and MSU and then compare with our 2022 sack totals against Illinois, PSU and OSU...
If we play a elite pocket passing QB (Stetson Bennet) who can actually move off a first read, can we get home in time?
Can understand your PoV if your situation and direct risk of your actions upon others is different (e.g. not driving in residential neighborhoods with young children)
SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED
Does the amount of ammunition or car speed factor into the unconstitutional charged felony?
Seeing excellent offensive line run blocking is really like art. When it flows together at the proper points its just great to watch
Ahh we can't have an open discussion on a football blog due to the potential of MiSiNfOrMaTiOn....
Offensive play calling has been fine? LOL
Everyone is frustrated with this play calling. This is terrible
This is a great game for our offense for the long term. Think they are going to force us to win by passing the ball.
Feel like playing Maryland right before OSU could expose some passing deficiencies with not enough time to correct...
Really missing Roman Wilson… no threats to anything deep…
Agree we need to involve him more. I like Bell but Roman Wilson has scored on almost 50% of his touches. Even from the offensive UFR, you can see the DBs giving him Tyreek Hill space off the line of scrimmage. Future DBs should be tossing and turning all night knowing he is coming and they don't have the speed to keep up...
Heading to play a corn fed team that rolls out extra tight ends and full backs is not the best time for our linebackers to decide to be hesitant.....LOL
Agree. I'd imagine defenses are more fearful of Roman Wilson than CJ at this point in the season.
For sure... Loved watching Adrian Clayborn back in the day. Guy was a beast.
haha Love it. When dust settles, think we need a diary on commits per pound of burger meat and see how it has trended over the last couple years
So we're going to pay 4 and 3 star players double what Ohio State pays 5 and 4 star players? If a legal definition is open to broad interpretation with no possibility of recourse, why would we chose the stricter interpretation?
Every white athletes comp is another former white player…
Maybe we let athletes fight mid game and get it all out then the post game handshakes will be like hockey?? Lol
Agree! At some point factual actions must be held accountable by themselves and we can’t insert unknown systemic racism variables into every factual event as “context”.
Just a general analogy my friend! Also meant to be a little humor mixed with some truth….
Yeah but he couldn’t even consistently get the best of MSU/Wisky/PSU, let alone OSU.. and don’t even mention the bowl game record…
What? This take is kinda delusional…
Let’s frame this in (perhaps) a more simple way. What if a girl friend left someone to “test the market” and then calls to inform she is coming home.. Are we supposed to be “elated”? Especially when said girl friend didn’t put out in 6 out of 7 years of the relationship… LOL
Our positive momentum from beating OSU, winning B10 and achieving the CFP is now gone with Harbaugh testing the NFL market for weeks. This was the worst case scenario for us to ever turn the tide and recruit elite talent in the 2023+ classes... UGH! Why cant we have nice things.
Can he shoot the 3 or defend the PnR?
So next year, do we play McNamara and have a false sense of regular season accomplishment or do we ride with McCarthy and try to achieve something more? What's MgoBlog consensus???
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Um, outside of Cass Tech and King, Belleville is probably the most talent producing school in the state. My problem is why did we even offer the kid at that time? His only other offers were Eastern Illinois and Marshal… This seems like an offer that could of waited until the last minute… not the other way around.
I think the psych part of coaching and managing young athletes is fascinating. I think the start of the OSU game will be critical. If we get some stops on defense and go through the first quarter or two tied or with the lead, I think that significantly erases some of the doubt in the back of their minds. But if OSU scores at ease on the first drive.....
Agree that we could of used Chris Evans and DPJ better but Chris Evans has 4 catches and 18! total yards in his nfl career... Lol not like he turned into Alvin Kamara after going pro..
Haha I’ve never seen a quarterback throw the ball off his own linemans helmets more than Cade.
I am now dumber for having read that
Yeah but our nickel is a 5star and future first round draft pick vs a nobody so basically “let the stallion run” and live with the results. Agree the two high does not give run support but my argument is against good run defenses, MSU hasn’t proven they can actually run the ball so make them prove it and then spin a safety down if we can’t stop it, but don’t lead with that scheme. Our weakest link on defense are corners and their top 2 out of 3 players are outside wideouts so scheme around that.
Not sure I agree with your gameplan. I don't think a cover 3 or any form of single high where one safety would sit and help Dax hill on the slot guy makes sense. Essentially let Dax play his man one on one and forget about Dax. Keep both the free and strong safety back high and play over top. Then sprinkle in the occasional cover 2 and let the corner jump an intermediate out route if they keep dinking and dunking it.
I'm not confident their offensive line will be able to run against our front. Michigan state averaged 2.4 yds per rush on 30 attempts against Nebraska. As we know, Nebraska's defense is solid and ours is even better. (Interestingly, Michigan's offense averaged nearly 5 yds a carry on 42 attempts)
I like the perspective njvictor but a key question I have is if we line up Cade against OSU/Bama/Georgia, and those teams stack the box against our run and dare a downfield throw, can Cade honestly deliver? Can he make the pull read and run the ball? Can he escape pressure, buy time and punish the back end? I honestly don't think so... So then are we just deferring the inevitable truth for some sense of false accomplishment?
I'd also argue that with our solid defense to bail us out it might have been worth having a volatile offense through these first 7 games against crummy teams and develop JJ into a quarterback that can beat those top 5 teams.
Appreciate the post and future work but not buying it.
Barely beating Rutgers with their FPI rating of ~40 (which is based off of wins against Temple, Syracuse and Delaware) is not where we want this program to be in Yr. 7....Justifying shitty play to substantiate future projections has been a consistent in Harbaughs tenure.. Just my own opinion though
Stroud is really inaccurate. Stack the box to take away the run game, cede the screen / quick throw game and get after him on the deep throws and I think you are ok….
Just missed another extra point… great leg but just couldn’t figure out the accuracy! Rockford kid too!
He has shown he has what it takes against Rutgers… against everyone else he was awful. The point of recruiting 5 star game changing players is to let them play… Kirby Smart might now recognize that…
https://www.espn.com/college-football/player/_/id/4427455/cade-mcnamara
Haha!! Best conclusion yet. On the bright side, if he become a stud, I can add Cannoli to the food spread during Michigan football games..
Awesome article. Thanks for writing this. After watching the Stanley cup playoffs, I really came to appreciate the game and want to learn more. If anyone knows other good website to read and learn, I’d greatly appreciate it!
Ah yes because we wouldn’t want to beat out an actual championship contender for one of their prospects….