peopl have it in their heads that because they like suh better that everyone does....spagnuolo has made it no secret that he favors mccoy over suh....the rams arent taking suh, they are taking bradford, and if they dont they will take mccoy....
BOO TITLE GAME
either michigan and osu can play twice a year or you have a title game that cant have the 2 premiere programs of the conference in it
i dont like either
KEEP IT THE SAME PLEASE
they might have been going by a sort of judgement....because there were a few times it looked like the QB clearly got touched but they didnt call it....perhaps because it appeared to the ref that he would not have gotten tackled in the situation?
i think denard gives us the best chance to win...as long as he can routinely make the short throws we should be able to move the ball...we run, run, run and throw in a few quick throws
you know what i actually love florida in this game.....ive hated them ever since the game actually happened, but not today....all this talk about all these freshmen that florida has, and how young their team is, but how they have great potential....it reminds me of our current situation, and makes me hopeful for the future
is it just me or with each passing day does it seem like tate is becoming a little less relevant...not saying he wont be the starter or anything, but it seems like denard and DG are getting all of the attention...perhaps hits just because tate was the starter last year, but im just getting a sneaking suspicion that he wont be our starter by seasons end...
so if youre good you cant be overrated? im not saying they were some horrible team, but they werent as good as everyone was trying to make them out to be
they beat an overrated oklahoma team that shouldnt have even won the big 12 and was nowhere near the "goliath" people tried to make them out to be and then beat another mid-major...
lol i know the typical ignorant american like you thinks football is only american football...and i love football in the sense of peyton manning, tom brady, etc. its my favorite sport....but "futbol" as you call it is only the spanish ay to say it...the sport is called football too and rightfully so...its hard for americans to really appreciate world football because its not theirs...which is really selfish...nfl football is theirs, basketball is theirs, baseball is their past time even though they arent the best at it, and even though hockey is owned by canadians and russians the main league is theirs...but world football isnt theirs so they hate it and uits never talked about...but the sport is great and americans cant appreciate it which is a shame..and i just love all the dumb fu'ck americans who say if you want to call it football its called "futbol" when they are to dumb to realize thats only how you call it in spanish....like you....go away gimp and talk about something you actually have a clue about
booooo...anybody who thinks football is boring doesnt clearly doesnt watch it enough...baseball is just as slow paced as football...and for the record i love both sports, not hating on baseball
idk why you guys are so calm and happy....Tavird Forinsner is real problem and we all need to be worried and prepared or else all of our minds will explode from the awesomeness it provides...
mallett and its not even close...tebow was only successful in college because urban developed an entire offensive scheme that was made for tim tebow to be successful...i mean half the time he had 2 RBs or TEs lined up in front of him....and he rarely threw the ball downfield....its more than him just learning to throw before the draft...
hmm...im not so sure our offense is a 10-2 team..i think its more around 8-4...tater is only going to be in his 2nd year with still a long way to go to reach his full potential, were going to have a new group of RBs where vincent smith is the only guy with a start, and he only started 2 (both of which he didnt even get 10 carries)...our OL was shaky at best last year and molk is doubtful to be fully healthy...not to mention huyge or dorrestein is likely to start again...not trying to be a debbie downer or a michigan hater or anything...just not so sure we have a 10-2 offense...i also think our defense will be more like a 6-6 defense and i think it could possibly even be a 7-5 type defense by years end...
hmm...im not so sure thats a good thing...tim tebows whole game was that he was big enough to fall forward for a few yards...thats it...so if tater tot is just tim tebow without the ability to fall forward i would be very worried...fortunately i believe tate has the ability to throw a pass thats longer than 5 yards past the line of scrimmage...
but thats the thing...any FA that has anybody else offering isnt going to come here...robinson sure as hell wont even consider coming here...cromartie is the best we are going to get
cromartie is sure as hell better than any of the other crap at corner right now...bring him in for a 5th rounder and try to make a play for sheppard and we could have a legit secondary by next year
yeah the commentary has gotten annoying ftrom hearing it so much...ive started listening to music while i play because i just dont want to listen to them anymore...
i also agree about the development...every player going up 3-6 overall every year is unrealistic...i expect players to progress, but i think it would be better if they had all of their talent ratings like speed and stuff, and then had like a bar or a rating for experience...because thats such a huge part of the game and i cant tell you how many times i wul just throw in a true freshmen and he would immediately be a good player..
i also think they need to overhaul recruiting because i can get pretty much any player i want and there are too many really good players in recruiting...
they also need to make it tougher to scramble...because whenever i had a scrambler i would just outrun any defensive linemen or LBs who rushed and get a gain of 20 or something...
also personally i would like it if they had more importance on practice...obviously make it so that you can skip it or just set your priorities and let the game do it or something if you want, but id like it if practice made an impact on experience and the development of players rather than them going up an arbitrary number at the end of the season...this would also give more power to you as the coach as it would be your responsibility to ensure that your playersare developing
this kind of goes hand in hand with my last one but i would also lik it if they got rid of the number rating system, added more ratings, or blurred the ratings more than just saying ok this guy is 97 in speed or this guy is 88 overall...i would like to play with the player in practice or scouting or something and see him in the game and make up my own mind how good he is rather than just being told by a rating number...
just some things off the top of my head
well a lot of the decisions you make in the first game influence the second game...and i actually liked the first one better (from what ive got to play on 2 so far)...but my xbox broke whe i was like halfway through the 2nd one and now i have to wait for it to get repaired...but definitely worth playing the first one, and its not very long if you dont do side missions
QB
1. Forcier
2. Gardner (if serious injury to tate)
3. Robinson
RB
1. Smith
2. Toussaint
3. Shaw
4. Cox or Hopkins (as power backs)
WR
1. Hemingway
2. Stonum
3. Stokes
Slot
1. Odoms
2. Roundtree
3. Gallon
4. T. Robinson
OL
1. Molk
2. Schilling
3. Omameh
4. Barnum
5. Lewan
6. Huyge (him or dorrestein will be benched at some point)
7. Dorrestein
8. Washington
Quick
1. Roh
2. Herron
DT
1. Martin
2. Campbell
3. Sagesse
4. Banks
DE
1. Van Bergen
2. Lalota
LB
1. Mouton
2. Ezeh
3. Fitzgerald
4. Leach
Spinner
1. Hawthorne
2. Jones
3. Furman
CB
1. Turner
2. Dorsey
3. Christian
4. Floyd
Box Safety
1. M. Robinson (maybe not immediately, but eventually during the season)
2. Kovacs
3. Williams
Deep Safety
1. Woolfolk
2. Emilien
looking at it, our offense should be good..our DL looks nice despite losing graham...our DB looks like it should be improved despite losing warren, if woolfolk is at deep S...so if our LBs can play ok then we could be a 9 win team
hey im not the one that brought up 40 times...all i said was that he wasnt fast enough or athletic enough to be a solid starting safety for a top program...and that is what michigan should be shooting for AT LEAST after this year...we are getting a ton of great athletes with great speed and i would expect at least a few of them to be ready to play after this year....i mean there is a reason that the kid wasnt recruited by D-1 schools...if we are still having to start walk ons in RRs 4th year that is a very bad sign, because i would expect to get heady players who are sure tacklers, but with really good athleticism and speed by then
the kid is athletic...no doubt...you have to be athletic to play college football...but you cant honestly think that he is fast enough to start at safety for a top college football program...of course you dont have to run a 4.4 to be good, but the kid doesnt even run a 4.6...like i said a great attitude, and hard work are great...athleticism is great, but neither of those alone is enough to be a good solid starter for a program like michigan....his lack of speed was on display quite a few times last year giving the opponent a big play or a bigger play than they should have gotten...
and tackles dont necessarily mean someones good...it can, and usually does...but ezeh was the 2nd leading tackler on the team and the coaches thought him bad enough to bench him at the end of the season
kovacs shouldnt play...and this is going to be his last year to play unless thereis an injury in the following years....hes a great kid, hard worker, has a great attitude...but that can only get you so far, just like athleticism can only get you so far...you need the whole package and hes just not athletic enough to be a starter or even a backup for michigan when we have our usual talent level...
definitely looks like a defensive backfield stacked with talent and athleticism (except kovacs)...it will definitely be a strength if not the biggest strength of the team in a few years if they all stay....but the fact that at some point this year we will probably have 3 freshmen starting scares me...but can you imagine a DB core with Turner, Christian, MRob, and Dorsey in 2 years? that seems like it could potentially be one of the top defensive backfields in the country
all of you keep saying.."if he lives up to his hype there is no way he stays for a fifth year"
i think its VERY likely he stays for a fifth year...every player thats good doesnt leave early...he would probably have to be a top 3 or maybe 4 CB as a junior for him to be prjected high enough for it to be a smart decision...even then he would be a late 1st or 2nd round pick, i would certainly expect him to come back to try and move up his stock...not to mention by then we might be at the point where we could be a NC contender the next season...you dont think he would stay if that were the case?
just because he's expected to be really good doesnt mean its a lock he'll leave early if he is...
and you dont think its worth giving up AT BEST a low bowl appearance for even the potential of having him as a 5th year senior and being a HUGE impact player on what could be a NC caliber defense?
i dont see whats so hard for you to understand about that...like i said earlier, we arent going to be sitting here 2 years from now thinking how great it was to get a 6th win and go to the pizza crust bowl...i think it would have been a waste to burn his redshirt as much as it would as to keep it on him and him leave early...because at most last year we would have been 6-6 and made a bad bowl appearance which is still bad by michigan standards..when RR would have at least taken a chance at getting what would have been one of the best defensive players in the country for a 5th year
yes if he can produce he should play...but when your dealing with burning a redshirt you have to consider how much he would produce for you in the extra year he is getting vs. the few games as a true freshmen...
lets say he was really good for a true freshmen like roh was...the most we could realistic hope for in that case was for him to be a decent to pretty good player...would that have been enough to fix our defense? our LBs were really bad that let teams run at will on us, and we would still have one more huge liability at one safety position...im not sure turner would be THAT much better as a true freshmen than our other option as to enable us to win another game on that alone...as a matter of fact i wouldnt expect turner to play much better if better at all than floyd played against OSU
now lets take a look at what he could potentially do for us in a full season with 3 or 4 years of experience...he has potential to be one of the top corners in the country and i would damn sure think that someone would want potentially one of the top corners in the country for a full season rather than a true freshmen playing for the first time for 4 games...
13 games vs. 4 MAYBE 5 games
4 years experience vs. true freshmen
even if i was guaranteed that we would win 1 more game and go to a bowl if we burned his redshirt, i still wouldnt want them to do it...turner has the makings of being a HUGE part of a defense that could potentially help s to the rose bowl or NCG...in 2 years we arent going to eb thinking about how we didnt go to a bowl or how we went to the pizza crust bowl...would it have been nice to go to a bowl? sure, but i dont think the hope of maybe going to a low bowl is worth a full season in which we could compete for a BCS bowl
yes but if and when dorsey does play safety, he will be at deep safety....our box safety is much like our spinner position...a safety thats lined up in the box for run support...our spinner position is a S/LB hybrid type position, but our box safety is very similar...
im not sure what your trying to get at here...idk what mike williams has to do with dorsey or cullen starting since they play completely different positions...
you even said you expect turner to start and floyd to be a nickel at worst, in response to me saying i expect floyd to start the season...so thats 2 CB spots right there and that means neither dorsey nor cullen would start...you cant have turner, floyd, woolfolk, and cullen/dorsey starting since none of them play box safety
but your assuming that he will leave after his RS junior year...and thats along with assuming that him playing for the first time in a college football game as a true freshmen would be good enough to win us another game...
i will definitely take the potential for a full year with 4 years experience behind him over a few games playing for the first time every time its offered to me
but my point remains the same...whether its a full 5th year senior year, 4th year junior, or 3rd year sophmore...its an extra full year with a few years in the system compared to a few games as a true freshmen when the defense would still have huge holes in it..
im not so sure the best thing to do was put in a true freshmen CB on the hope that would be enough to win one more game over saving his RS and giving him a full year as a 5th year senior instead
while i didnt neg him i definitely can see why...he said we run a 3-4 and then put roh as one of the 3...roh is more of a DE than an OLB, but if you view this defense as a 3-4 then roh would be an OLB
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