MGoRadio 1.5: We Are All Perfectly Calm
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October 21st, 2015 at 4:05 PM ^
Just an FYI, the direct download is pointing to a missing page. Thanks.
October 21st, 2015 at 5:34 PM ^
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October 21st, 2015 at 4:46 PM ^
I fully expect that they will. I'm thinking 35-0 or similar. At the half.
October 21st, 2015 at 5:14 PM ^
I went to Moe's last Friday and went apesh*t. Bought enough M gear to last me through the fall and winter. It was a wonderful shopping excursion and even better weekend. Except Saturday.
I don't remember what happened on Saturday. I eternalsunshine'd that entire day.
October 21st, 2015 at 5:43 PM ^
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October 21st, 2015 at 5:24 PM ^
October 21st, 2015 at 6:18 PM ^
When discussing Rudock, I pulled up his stats and realized he hasn't thrown a TD in 9 quarters (since Maryland) and has thrown for fewer yards in successive games since BYU. The rest of his numbers for the year look like Rembrandt's The Game Manager. A lot of the low numbers are warped by the strong defense and ability to burn the clock, but I think this is working against him.
Rudock has not had timing and/or accuracy on downfield passes all season yet by the 2nd half every game since Utah, it has been unnecessary. In a way, the success has limited his reps. Through his first seven games at Iowa last year he had 1564 yards and 10 TDs, and that included one game he didn't play the second half. Through seven this year he has 1303 and 5 TDs.
With that said, Rudock also hasn't thrown a pick since Maryland and has done a great job of, well, managing the game. I don't know what is wrong - maybe it is a lack of confidence or extreme conservatism, lack of eligible competition pushing him, new system, players, etc. or some combination of many things but something just doesn't seem right.
I really hope that it is really just a long con on OSU, and we'll just see Rudock connecting on every deep ball because they don't respect the pass.
October 21st, 2015 at 9:02 PM ^
October 22nd, 2015 at 9:46 AM ^
Exactly. Rudock has done great on a lot of the intermediate stuff like 10-15 yard outs, ins, and flags however a lot of that is off playaction and teams trying to stack the box. To me, that is still a conservative call, but it works. Nobody will complain so long as the chains are moving and he is not turning the ball over, but he and this offense won't get any better if he tops out with the short to intermediate stuff. Some of it is on him for not pulling the trigger and some of it is overthrowing/timing.
Either way, he needs some Rex Grossman Dragon Tonic™.
October 21st, 2015 at 7:44 PM ^
Have we heard any word on the injury status of Drake Johnson?
October 21st, 2015 at 8:03 PM ^
oh yeah. it's not as bad as "the play" (stanford/cal...tuba player down). It's not "rugby instincts" , yeah you know 6 guys are about to disembowel you not the time to kick...it's the mission. get off the kick, and... leg in air it's roughing the passer. goddamn the protection. he was fucked. PS 1979 , we lost to OSU by a missed field goal, but THAT GUY came to our (TKE) party that night... if you leave game in hands of kicker, you deserve to lose. it's %. sorry it was coaching error. fuck OSU. PS. little brother? I hope you see the future...it is your past (couldn't help it "back to the future" day and all...
October 21st, 2015 at 10:06 PM ^
Didn't listen to the podcast because I figured it would either be a repeat of Monday's or pretty much the same content. Just registered for the blog (longtime reader) because I haven't seen the coaches feet held to the fire for two things:
1) The alignment on the punt
- Coaches may not want to give away any info, which is understandable. However, if Baxter truly believes he didn't put his charges in the best possible position to succeed, he should at least admit that the staff failed the players on that play. Accountability is supposed to be a central tenet of the Harbaugh regime. I'm sure the coaches are being held accountable internally, but the fans have a right to see the question posed publicly and directly (I know Harbaugh demurred when asked about this over the weekend; I hope someone in the press is pushing on this topic).
2) The rationale for not sending the offense out on 4th down to try to draw MSU offsides
- Lining up to go for 4th and 2 to end the game would present a very credible threat to the MSU defense.
- I'm guessing Harbaugh has some formations along with motion and cadences designed to draw the defense offside
- MSU is an incredibly aggressive defense -- in that situation I have to believe that there's a reasonable chance they could be drawn offside.
- The only explanation for not attempting this would be that they didn't want to give up 5 yards in the event that they then botched the punt -- doesn't make a lot of sense to me.
It seems to me the coaches really weren't prepared for the last 10 seconds of the game. Given Harbaugh's genius and attention to detail, I find this shocking. As many sites and posts have already stated, shit happens; no issues here with the punter making 2 mistakes, but the coaches have some explaining to do.
October 21st, 2015 at 11:26 PM ^
I can't "like" anything because I haven't kissed enough ass yet...
October 22nd, 2015 at 2:14 AM ^
October 22nd, 2015 at 5:16 AM ^
You're certainly right on #2. There was absolutely no reason not to at least attempt to draw MSU offsides.
I think the reality is that was simply a mistake. I know we've all sort of bought into to the idea that Harbaugh & Co. were somehow mistake proof, but it may turn out that Harbaugh is merely a one of the best coaches in country and not actually Jesus Christ himself.
October 22nd, 2015 at 9:35 AM ^
So Harbaugh has gone out of his way all season to protect Rudock from criticism from the media and the fans -- as he should have. Why haven't the coaches done the same for O'Neill?? They actually owe him more than they owe Rudock.
I don't expect anyone here to be able to answer this question except for perhaps the various moderators/contributors to the site, who apparently have some amount of direct access to the staff. Again, I would like to see the staff's feet held to the fire. Harbaugh's getting paid $5 million a year.
I'm reasonably confident that the staff and team will learn from this and do things differently, if they're ever in a similar situtation. I'd be 100% confident, if they would simply come out and tell me so.
October 21st, 2015 at 11:03 PM ^
#4 to Michigan to play for #4.
October 21st, 2015 at 11:24 PM ^
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October 22nd, 2015 at 5:44 AM ^
LOL, his call was awesome. Gave me a bit of perspective.
October 22nd, 2015 at 6:54 AM ^
October 22nd, 2015 at 1:34 PM ^
I think he was talking about undergraduate enrollment only. I did some quick Googling, and there was an MLive article from February that talked about total student enrollment--undergraduate and graduate--where the in-state population has now dipped below 50%.
October 22nd, 2015 at 1:15 PM ^
my Aunty Olivia just got a year 2012 Mitsubishi Lancer Evo only from working parttime off a laptop...
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