MGoPodcast 10.3: Kings Do Not Ride Horses
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1. Offense
starts at 1:00
Cranky beginning and they score on their last six drives. Shea looked like he didn't know what he was seeing when he got time: the INT and the shoulda-INT. Then he fixed it. The Gentry Zone is higher than the #Buttzone, should be more of the offense. Pass-blocking was non-disastrous. DPJ Day. Good Evans/Bad Evans and how to use Chris Evans. Patterson needs to keep it more often on zone reads. Felt like gameplan was Higdon-based and they had to use Evans at gametime. Extended Wilson time: pretty good. Ruiz busts.
2. Defense
starts at 30:54
If SMU gets yards it's gonna be James Proche. It was Proche. Slants slants slants—dude just beat Kinnel and Metellus on those. Corners held that down—why no Ambry in Dime? Why not Lavert Hill on that guy all day? Why not do something? Defense got a metric ton of crap penalties: Hudson timed his "offsides" blitz perfectly because he timed the jet motion. Okay-est PI: Ross. Worst PI: Kinnel when the ball hits a GA 10 yards into the sideline AND it wasn't interference. If you're getting held on edge runs go down because they won't call it otherwise. So weird they never call it anymore when arms are outside shoulderpads. Dwumfour was a pass-rushing specialist in this one—that's what he's good at.
3. Special Teams & Feelingsball
starts at 54:23
One of the least fun games ever gone to. This commercial break obviated by Corporation X. Nordin's field goals can get out of the stadium. SMU squibs. Sonny Dykes what are you doing, running into the line twice then punting, then getting your cheap yards at the end to keep us in the stadium. In 22 minutes of game time they had an entire basketball game's worth of commercial breaks. Sitting in the stadium I feel like a sap. What's that paying for because it's not professional referees.
4. Around the Big Ten wsg Jamie MacMillan
starts at 1:14:56
Big Ten lost 7 games to unranked opponents. Michigan's next four opponents lost to Troy, Akron, Temple, and BYU. IU has some good receivers when they're healthy, have a hard time with running QBs and Lewerke looms. Kansas beat Rutgers better than Ohio State did; Sitkowski had another three picks. #CannonIntheD is dead. Wisconsin upset is insane—BYU had four position-switch defenders. Kasim Hill looked worse against Temple than Texas. USF puts 600 yards on Illinois. Nebraska-Troy: UNL still outgained them by 100 yards, didn't have Martinez, Troy is not terrible. Refs hand OSU a win over TCU, who survived with a JuCo left tackle vs Bosa.
MUSIC
- "A Horse With No Name"—Michelle Branch's version
- "Wild Horses"—The Rolling Stones
- "Super 8"—Jason Isbell
- “Across 110th Street”
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You have these referees who can't tell their ass from their other ass
September 17th, 2018 at 7:51 AM ^
Amateur refs make zero sense. Is there even a standard for refs? Someone please tell me there's a test of some kind involved in the hiring process.
September 17th, 2018 at 12:02 PM ^
There is in fact an annual qualification test! See here
September 17th, 2018 at 8:37 AM ^
The only way the commercials will ever be significantly reduced (IMO) is through fan organization -> regulation. Unlikely to happen in the US.
The more immediate problem is the randomness of the 30-second vs. full commercial timeout. SMU had to burn two timeouts because their first one only gave them 30 seconds (unless I missed something and they had a different reason for taking the second one). Timeouts should always be 30 seconds; put the commercials somewhere else (scoring, punts, serious injuries etc.).
September 17th, 2018 at 9:31 AM ^
So much vocal fry.
September 17th, 2018 at 10:49 AM ^
The fact that we didn't see the backup tackles in this game tells us how close the staff thinks the competition is. If you aren't willing to put them in against SMU up 2 scores you aren't willing to put them in when it matters and thus they aren't close to starting. Think it might be time to accept these are the tackles.
September 17th, 2018 at 11:36 AM ^
Spot on. I had the same concern during the game.
September 17th, 2018 at 11:41 AM ^
I don't know if it tells us anything. Maybe the staff is trying to instill confidence in the tackles, and to try and get them as many reps as possible to improve.
September 17th, 2018 at 11:34 AM ^
I sit right along back line of endzone in south end of stadium; it was amazing how high above the uprights Nordin's FG was. Good from at least 25 more yards.
September 17th, 2018 at 1:10 PM ^
The one he missed last week he absolutely hammered too. I think it was 40 yards out and seemed to be still going up when it hit the net.
September 17th, 2018 at 11:39 AM ^
With regards to what you were saying about Evans and missing Higdon's ability to run between the tackles, this weekend's Saints game was a pretty good example of this. Kamara is a fantastic talent and super shifty, but he was pretty ineffective at power running. I feel like Kamara was most effective last year when Ingram was available to run between the tackles.
September 17th, 2018 at 12:03 PM ^
One thing: pretty sure these were shitty American refs, not shitty Big Ten refs.
September 17th, 2018 at 12:29 PM ^
No, they were Big Ten refs. All 8 did Big Ten conference games last year.
September 17th, 2018 at 2:36 PM ^
Somewhere yesterday on the Internet I saw that at least one of the refs was one of the infamously biased OSU homers that officiated the 2016 Michigan-OSU game.
Forgot his name, but he was the one from Athens Ohio & was on record saying he was an OSU fan & that in years prior to 2016 was prohibited from officiating The Game since he was from Ohio (which apparently no longer mattered as of 2016??)
September 17th, 2018 at 12:06 PM ^
Refs may have handed OSU 5 points (who knows what happens when they get the ball after the safety though) but they did not hand OSU that victory. OSU hit another gear in the second half that TCU just did not have. As much as I was unimpressed with OSU in the first half, I was very impressed with their second half performance. Scary team.
September 17th, 2018 at 12:34 PM ^
That's usually the difference with teams like OSU and 'Bama, they have more talented backups, so they can rotate more and theoretically have a bit more left in the tank in the 4th qtr.
September 17th, 2018 at 1:03 PM ^
I don't think OSU "hit another gear." TCU just imploded for 5 minutes in the 3rd quarter.
September 17th, 2018 at 1:36 PM ^
There was no gear. Tcu took more risk and paid for it with mistakes. OSU didn't dominate them like they did Oklahoma 2 years ago. They are beatable. We do need to find another receiver beside DPJ who can game break and we will give them fits
September 17th, 2018 at 12:36 PM ^
Hey Seth, the Google Play feed hasn't been updated since Sep 9th (MGoPodcast 10.2).
Any way we could get that synced up again?
September 17th, 2018 at 1:09 PM ^
I'm also starting to have a real hard time with all the commercials. I feel like I can't even watch a game at the bar with friends anymore because I so often look up from conversation and notice I missed a play or three. The pain is cumulative and it's definitely beginning to affect my priorities on fall Saturdays. The networks really need to clean this up. Sap indeed.
September 17th, 2018 at 1:10 PM ^
Daxton Hill please commit to Michigan. We need good safeties bad.
September 17th, 2018 at 1:46 PM ^
Safeties - maybe I missed it, but I’m surprised Metellus didn’t even get a shoutout for a pick 6. Seems like the safeties at least had one positive in the game...
September 17th, 2018 at 5:29 PM ^
Correct.
Saturday was a day where people wondered if they needed season tickets anymore. The ads are insufferable.
I wonder how much netflix and on-demand viewing has to do with this? Waiting through commercials is a game that fewer and fewer people are willing to play.
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