MSU O-Line Woes Continue
Michigan State Red-shirt freshman Offensive Tackle Skyler Burkland is out for the season after getting his leg rolled up on and broken in the game against ND. If you watched the game you'll probably remember cringing in sympathetic pain when they showed the replay.
Let's all take a moment to reaffirm that we are basically good people at heart and we wouldn't wish that kind of injury to happen to anyone, friend or foe.
Done? Good. Now let's look at the damage:
Burkland... was replaced by junior-college transfer Fou Fonoti. Fonoti is likely to be the full-time replacement for Burkland, even after he had been pushing Dan France for playing time at left tackle. To help the team's depth issues, Dantonio said defensive tackle Micajah Reynolds will be moved back to offense. Reynolds has been moved back and forth between offense and defense throughout his career, and saw plenty of action on defense against Florida Atlantic.
Ifyou're keeping score at home, that's about three notches on the "Position Switch(es) Indicating Approaching Doom" scale in that paragraph alone. It's starting to look the MSU game will look like the Western game on steroids - on any given play Cousins will probably either end up throwing a laser to a frustratingly-open reciever, or getting murderized by a Michigan lineman or blitzer.
September 19th, 2011 at 5:06 PM ^
September 19th, 2011 at 8:02 PM ^
September 19th, 2011 at 5:23 PM ^
I wonder if Cousins lives through October with that patchwork line.
Sparty gets John Simon and the bucknuts at the Horshoe October 1st.
Then they get us at home (all right, our D hasn't been setting the world on fire) October 8th.
Then they have the Badgers.
Did Magic Johnson sleep with Delaney's wife or something? Who schedules BigTen openers like that?
September 19th, 2011 at 5:34 PM ^
September 19th, 2011 at 5:37 PM ^
Hooley, the ostracized Columbus radio show co-host (with Spielman) and now of FoxSportsOhio News tweets about Cousins and Ohio's possible perception of MSU:
BHOOLZ Bruce Hooley
Kirk Cousins: good speech-maker, very average QB
BHOOLZ Bruce Hooley
Luke Fickell has blocked NBC on Buckeye hotel TVs. Figures if they keep watching MSU vs ND, he'll have overconfidence issue for MSU game
September 19th, 2011 at 6:04 PM ^
That's going to give them a decided schematic advantage when B1G play starts. That, plus the vaunted offense, and overconfidence will be the only thing the Bucknuts have to worry about.
September 19th, 2011 at 8:06 PM ^
Haven't you heard of "rollover minutes"? Well, "rollover timeouts" are kinda like them, only more so . . . .
September 19th, 2011 at 5:39 PM ^
OSU will still be without 4-5 of their best players when MSU plays them, the only Big Ten team to benefit from the suspensions.
September 19th, 2011 at 5:50 PM ^
Small correction schedule wise. Sparty has a bye week before playing us...again. This is the fourth time in recent memory that they have a week off before our game with them.
Kind of pisses me off that they keep getting those schedule breaks. We have never had a bye week before ND, MSU or OSU.
September 19th, 2011 at 6:18 PM ^
September 19th, 2011 at 6:33 PM ^
They had bye weeks before the 93 and 98 games as well. But I guess those can't be considered "recent" memory anymore. We split those two games.
September 19th, 2011 at 6:33 PM ^
we are playing Northwestern on Oct 8th...not Sparty. I believe they have a bye week on 10/8 which allows them 2 weeks to prepare for us.
Carry on.
September 19th, 2011 at 5:41 PM ^
I wish the kid a full recovery.
It is starting to look as if we might be able to pull this game out if we can take advantage of the injuries and lack of depth.
September 19th, 2011 at 11:13 PM ^
Yeah, they junk