Looking like Spring game will have actual draft and game
March 14th, 2015 at 10:45 AM ^
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March 14th, 2015 at 10:45 AM ^
Peppers goes #1
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March 14th, 2015 at 10:48 AM ^
March 14th, 2015 at 10:49 AM ^
I take him.
March 14th, 2015 at 11:05 AM ^
March 14th, 2015 at 11:09 AM ^
Although he might cause some injuries out there trying to win the game.
March 14th, 2015 at 10:50 AM ^
March 14th, 2015 at 11:46 AM ^
Usually it was a roster issue and not so much a coaching one.
March 14th, 2015 at 11:50 AM ^
That's still no excuse to have an hour of stretching and punting drills.
Agreed....and if that was really the case, why the hell did they call it a "game". It should have been called "The last spring practice that gets televised". It was called a game for a reason at one point.
well at least they have enough QB's to field four offenses.
They just didn't want to, although they gave lip service to doing it in the indefinite future. Note that I'm not saying they didn't have very good reasons for not wanting to...
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March 14th, 2015 at 10:58 AM ^
March 14th, 2015 at 11:09 AM ^
If it can be sunny and 60's, it would be an epic event. Could get 80,000+.
March 14th, 2015 at 11:02 AM ^
It'l be interesting to see where the Qbs go. Looks like coaches will be making the selections, so I'm sure they'll do it in a way that'll mask where the players truly stand. The article does say the selections would be made based on how hard the players are working though. Well, "outstanding work in practice" to be exact.
March 14th, 2015 at 11:03 AM ^
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To that I'd add Mason Cole ... just a hunch, but I think he keeps taking his game up and up.
March 14th, 2015 at 11:06 AM ^
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March 14th, 2015 at 11:57 AM ^
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March 14th, 2015 at 11:09 AM ^
I don't know if we have enough QB's to run a full scrimmage.
March 14th, 2015 at 11:14 AM ^
March 14th, 2015 at 12:18 PM ^
if both teams try to run the A-11
March 14th, 2015 at 11:12 AM ^
March 14th, 2015 at 11:15 AM ^
Can we get a mock draft from Mel Kiper Jr? That way we will know the exact order the players WON'T be drafted
March 14th, 2015 at 11:26 AM ^
never cared for having a spring game. RR and Hoke said they never had enough players for a spring game. I hope Harbaugh re-starts the spring game. I like his draft method the best.
March 14th, 2015 at 11:33 AM ^
... never had enough players for a spring game.
I don't understand that thinking. They had enough players to field 22. My guess is either (a) they didn't have enough to do exactly the things they wanted to do, or (b) they didn't see value in a game, and used that as an excuse to do other things.
As for (b) ... I guess an argument could be made that continued work on fundamentals is more important that a "game." I'm not sure I agree with that.
March 14th, 2015 at 11:48 AM ^
They never really wanted a game, and never pushed too hard for it. They would rather have the 15th practice session.
As a fan, I want a game. But I can see the reasoning for wanting the 15th practice session if you are a coach. The number of practices you have are limited at that time of year, and you still want to work on basics. The live game experience can come later, it does not really need to be in April.
I've always had this question, though: Are we allowed to have a "Summer Game"? Can we have the equivalent of a Spring Game on the last Saturday of fall practice?
It would make more sense from the point of view of getting players live game experience closer to the actual season, ala the NFL exhibition games. The fans would go nuts. We'd easily get 100,000 people for a "Summer Game" in late August.
They already do a pretty intense final scrimmage at the end of fall camp, most of which winds up on public video. Can they move it to the Big House and play it in front of the fans? I'd watch.
March 14th, 2015 at 11:51 AM ^
We had an open scrimmage last August.
Was that the thing they did at night, or am I thinking of something else?
Yeah, it was in the evening. It wasn't the most crowd-friendly event though - the PA rarely informed us what was going on or who made a play, preferring to blast RAWK the entire time.
This is a good defense of Hoke's no-Spring-game strategy, noting that while we fans want a Spring game, the coaches want another practice to work on fundamentals.
However, Hoke's no-Spring-game strategy has been outflanked by Harbaugh's class-on-grass strategy. By taking players out of the classroom and putting them on the field for the first 14 practices, Harbaugh's class-on-grass strategy achieves even more fundamentals work than Hoke's no-Spring-game strategy.
And it simultaneously provides the benefits of an actual, draft-me, play-in-front-of-the-fans scrimmage for practice #15.
I'll take Harbaugh.
I shudder to think of what the 2012, 2013, and 2014 seasons would have looked like if Hoke didn't have his extra practice to work on "fundamentals".
March 14th, 2015 at 11:45 AM ^
I'd take Graham Glasgow at C with my first pick. Other team would have real problems at that position. If my opponent took Peppers, I'd take Jourdan Lewis. Other than that, I think the squad could be divided up pretty evenly.
March 14th, 2015 at 12:01 PM ^
would take the backup center with the 1st pick?
March 14th, 2015 at 12:44 PM ^
Glasgow isn't a backup since Miller left.
March 14th, 2015 at 11:47 AM ^