2017 defense concerns.....(youth)
I was just thinking about this today.
Take a look at some of the starters and players that will see significant time in 2016 on defense. We are guaranteed to lose 9 of 10 of these guys after the 2016 season.
Defensive Line | |
Taco Charlton | DE |
Ryan Glasgow | DT |
Chris Wormley | DL |
Linebackers | |
Ben Gedeon | LB |
Defensive Backfield | |
Jeremy Clark | DB |
Delano Hill | S |
Jourdan Lewis | CB |
Jabrill Peppers (draft eligible after 2016) | DB |
Channing Stribling | CB |
Dymonte Thomas | S |
The defensive backfield is especially horrifying. I can't remember such an attrition at one spot excluding Never Forget.
Which young guys will play this year? The DL isn't completely scary as we'll have Hurst and Mone in terms of guys that have experience.
I think David Long is gonna see time this year.
April 20th, 2016 at 10:07 AM ^
One more response to the thread?
Every team has a scary depth chart if you look ahead 2 years from now. There are lots of young guys who people forget about between the time they are recruits and when they actually see the field.
As I see it the only scary spot it DT:
At DT you have, Gary, Pallante, Hurst, Mone, Dwumfour and Paea.
At DE you will have Gary, Kemp, Johnson, Jones, Marshall and WInovich.
At LB you get Bush, Uche, Gil, Mbem-Bosse, Ross, Furbush.
At DB you get Washington, Long, HIll, Watson, Kinnel, Hudson, Metellus, Woods, St-Juste.
On top of this there are more recruits who will be in this class and may contribute as freshmen.
DB is the bigger worry for me just because none (except for Watson's few) of the guys you've mentioned have played meaningful snaps in the B1G. Love them as recruits, but they're all unknowns at this level.
Mone and Hurst are well-known and Gary is a different beast from our DB recruits.
April 19th, 2016 at 10:05 PM ^
April 19th, 2016 at 10:55 PM ^
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Man I am really concerned about the 2040 team on defense. None of those kids are even born yet!
holy crap, if I have a boy within the next 2-6 years, he could be on that team. wtf man, thanks for that.
April 19th, 2016 at 11:53 PM ^
April 19th, 2016 at 10:14 PM ^
Yeah, and can you believe Adam Schefter Jr. said Gary would never return to college coaching after almost winning that Super Bowl on the Lions' coaching staff?
April 19th, 2016 at 10:19 PM ^
Jay Harbaugh really knows how to coach em up, and somehow Don Brown is still coaching.
and they have been receiving coaching. Besides, relax and enjoys what goes on in 2016. That staff, if you haven't noticed, gets paid for more than we to take care of that stuff.
Actually, that is one of the things I've always enjoyed about M football, watching the kids we forgot about that were either RSing or just waiting for the seniors to move on out. The good ones always gave us previews of coming attractions.
I recall one season where Bo basically introduce an entire new starting 11 on D. Damn, they were so good, it took an opposing coach to point out just how young they were. When asked about Michigan's D, he replied, "Yes, they are great and we'll have to get used to them. We'll see them for two more years." Good things happen with good coaching.
Like wtf
April 19th, 2016 at 10:05 PM ^
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April 19th, 2016 at 10:12 PM ^
You know, I have spent a long time trying to forget that this was a thing that happened in a game that counted towards the overall record in a season, but yeah, that's rather difficult now with the photo staring me in the face at the moment.
Never forget indeed.
April 19th, 2016 at 10:16 PM ^
April 19th, 2016 at 11:08 PM ^
and our cows are actually super nuclear tanks...
April 19th, 2016 at 10:39 PM ^
definitely a pooch punt on this play judging by the CB's read.
April 19th, 2016 at 10:14 PM ^
April 19th, 2016 at 10:23 PM ^
Great. Now I'm worried about our starting OL in 2018!
April 19th, 2016 at 10:20 PM ^
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Road to the CFP goes through The Game. Let's start winning that before we dream of a title.
That said, OSU has been consistently elite for a while now, so if we beat them we're pretty much bona fide contenders anyway. But we didn't just lose last season; we got destroyed. We should narrow that gap next season, but I don't know if we can completely close the distance in one season.
They'll have their trigger man, a good start to that offense and a star-studded team by time they face us. We'll have tape on everything they did rigth with people that had been in their system for a long time. We have more pieces in place. We have a coach that says, "No one runs agains us," and a greatly improved Michigan team merely because it's Harbaugh's second season. He hates more than anyone having a ready made excuse to fall back on. He likes to straighten things out and more than any coach I've ever seen, he wants and realizes the importance of sending a message, "Hey, we're not waiting for a down year by you to break through. I accept the team I have now. Kick the damn ball. Only way to decide a winner is to start the game." I like that about him.
We wont have a DC who will be interviewing for a HC gig during the week of The Game.
is that the future starters have another year to grow and develop. So we'll see what happens.
If our defense is terrible in 2017, you may tell us that you told us so.
April 19th, 2016 at 10:03 PM ^
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April 19th, 2016 at 10:06 PM ^
April 19th, 2016 at 10:10 PM ^
2017? I like you WD but, 2017?
April 19th, 2016 at 10:13 PM ^
April 19th, 2016 at 10:13 PM ^
Chillax brah, we got nothing but dudes playing on this D.
April 19th, 2016 at 10:14 PM ^