Michigan Football - 2025 Season.

[iam416]

Take the over and pray for terrorism. Two solid stances.

Wrong thread, assmonkey

[Mike]

Well this is embarrassing.

[lineygoblue]

Its four days to kickoff, according to none other than Jim Harbaugh.

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In my rankings, he's the #2 quarterback of the Schembechler era.

[lineygoblue]

https://247sports.com/college/michigan/Article/Kickoff-time-for-Michigan-football-Iowa-game-announced-Wolverines-2022-schedule-193724960/?utm_source=247Sports%2520Newsletter&utm_medium=Newsletter&utm_campaign=220919_120259_MichiganWolverines&utm_content=Link&eid=ffa50f73491f4dc8f7ec272053a4dacbe30ad9a243504f94dbfe41ff878805bb

Just announced that Michigan at Iowa will be a Noon kickoff on Fox.

So that takes away one advantage they'd have.

Unfortunately it gets us having to listen to Gus Johnson, who will be a huge Iowa fan that day, and Urban Meyer looking in a dictionary trying to find decent things to say about Michigan. He doesn't hide his feelings very well.

[Dr. Strangelove]

Gus only erupts on significant plays. Iowa doesn't have those.

[THE_WIZARD_]

I hope UNL-HARBAUGH!!!!! is like a 3am kickoff...

[Jeff Buchanan]

I apologize as most of you have probably seen Brian Cook's (mgo) stylized recap of M v. Ucon. I'm putting it here because this is football genius level stuff. "This is gold Jerry, GOLD, I tell ya!" .......Brian contextualizes M's offense by stating that it may be on the "verge of Denard .... and Brady." When Denard was at full power, DCs and the players had to react to what he brought to the table as (before his injury) - the most prolific RO QB in CFB that could rip off a long TD run at blazing speeds from anywhere on the field. Then there was Tom Brady who, even though he played for Bo who notoriously hated to pass the ball, would rip off a long ball when the opponent loaded the box. There is the possibility that we have a genetic cobo of Denard and Brady at QB.

If there's anything to take from this game going forward it's that we might be on the verge of Denard, But Also Brady. Michigan dumped more wide receiver screens on UConn than they did for the entirety of the Josh Gattis "speed in space" era if you ignore that one Penn State game, and one in particular jumped out. It this one from just before the half:

I have to assume this is a bust since there's no reaction from the boundary corner when Bell goes in motion and then the LB to the field just tears at the QB. But!



I've seen this mania before. That is eight guys in the box or environs, two guys worried about the quarterback, and acres of open space where the ball is actually going. We saw it when Denard Robinson was at full power.

Denard-esque quarterbacks had a moment induced by the introduction of the zone read in college football but have receded to the background as defenses adjusted. These days you need to have both halves if you're going to make it work, and if you have to sacrifice one it's the legs. Very few quarterbacks have enough of both to see real defenses set themselves on fire like this. One of them happens to play for the Baltimore Ravens, where Matt Weiss came from. Another one hung out with Jim Harbaugh at Stanford.

I am heartened to see the easy yards taken, and the easy yards become easier because the opposition is overreacting to something else you put on tape. Michigan is iterating, and it puts something else to deal with on the opposition's platter weekly. I already pushed all my chips in last week about JJ McCarthy being another level of quarterback than any we've seen under Jim Harbaugh. This week I am pushing a smaller stack in on a different table about Michigan's ability to take advantage of the surfeit of weapons they've assembled. We approached a 50/50 split between run and pass on first down in this game, and as we go along here confidence in McCarthy should only grow.

[Tom W]

Brady is OLD, but not quite old enough to have played for Bo

Point well taken, though..

[THE_WIZARD_]

Did liney play for Fielding Yost?

[lineygoblue]

I played for Fritz Crisler.

So shaddup

[THE_WIZARD_]

...a thousand pardons...

[lineygoblue]

I'll grant you a pardon if you can tell me who Fritz Crisler is without looking it up.

[THE_WIZARD_]

Correct me if I'm wrong...but I believe it is an old wooden ship...

[WM Wolverine]

I assumed he sold his car company to the germans.

[WingsFan]

[QUOTE]Unfortunately it gets us having to listen to Gus Johnson, who will be a huge Iowa fan that day,[QUOTE]

Oh thank God. Yes he (Gus) has to pump up both teams, and im sure he will shout about Kinnick being such an advantage, though he is a Michigan fan.