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Wilton Speight - Michigan Football Doppelgänger by Michael Spath
The article begins: "When he completed his redshirt sophomore year at Michigan, John Navarre was 11-5 as a starting quarterback, had thrown for 3,018 yards with 27 touchdowns and 14 interceptions, almost an exact 2:1 touchdown to interception ratio."
Spath has a series of these videos:
Checkmate.
Statues get offended when Navarre gets compared to them. Actual marble statues. They say, "wow, we are more mobile than THAT!"
He certainly is better in the pocket. That doesn't mean he moves the chains with his feet though. How many first downs did he actually run for? I think moving the chains with his arm because he escaped a sack with his feet is more fitting.
Did Navarre really just stare down receivers though? That seems dubious to me. My X's and O's knowledge certainly isn't great and would have been nearly non-existent then and if there was even UFR back then it would have been the beginnings when Brian probably wasn't as knowledgeable as he is now. Navarre broke a bunch of passing records despite/because of having a bad rushing offense. Most years I think it was even worse than Michigan last year, no?
Nice video, and there's definitely parallels w/ Navarre, but "faith in Harbaugh", "wait for on-field results before judging" and all that jazz...
1. We don't like to do comparisons because one party comes out on the lesser end.
2. This is a very poor one, as no recollection of any batted down passes from Speight.