MGoPodcast 11.0.b: Literally Screams
1 hour and 2 minutes
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1. Defensive Line
(starts at 1:00)
She's been comin' round the mountain. We all have different defensive ends. Danna is a super-Roh—gets very low and MAC types can't handle him. Doesn't make mistakes. Kwity Paye is Don Brown's perfect human, but we need to see some pass rush before we declare him so. Ace is all about Aidan Hutchinson. Vilain, Upshaw (who's 240) and Welschof and Ojabo are all in the future.
Tackle…maybe not terrible? They need to get pass rush; Dwumfour is important and it appears he's got a soft cast on his hand so the injury holding him out currently isn't related to the injury last year. They're talking up Kemp as a guy who can hack it at nose but he's not going to be more than an undersized plugger. Jeter hype means that guy should be useful at least. Hard not to improve on a Kemp/Mone pass rush. More about not getting gashed in the run game; short version is they will.
Now can we talk about Uche? What does Michigan need to go to a 3-3-5? The way the stack works is you're not supposed to know where it's coming from.
2. Linebackers and Hybrids
(starts at 18:57)
More Uche—they're going to get to 3rd downs for him—what can he do on 1st and 2nd? We're going to like Josh Ross just fine. Gil is an okay floor, we'd like McGrone, then Anthony, to pop. It sounds like it's Anthony and Glasgow as the primary challengers, with McGrone maybe one more year away. Need LBs who can keep up with running backs, maybe use a different one each week.
3. Cornerbacks and Safeties
(starts at 34:47)
So that's a bummer. We're taking the pessimistic road with Ambry but the optimistic road with Gray, because last year didn't happen until the very end and not many teams can do that to us. Daxton Hill is going to need some time to develop. At least they're saying the right things about DJ Turner. And okay, we'll buy Brad Hawkins. After those guys…euhhhh. Lamenting the 2018 class (and honorary 2018 Ben St-Juste).
4. Special Teams & Defense: Holistically
(starts at 51:01)
Moody is hitting those long ones now so it's him to start, but let's not forget Wild Thing is great and college kickers are weird. Will Hart outta nowhere. Not going to be a great but we're still top 25 and that should be enough. Seth thinks Don Brown has more interesting stuff to do.
MUSIC
- "DJ Got Us Fallin' In Love"—Usher ft. Pitbull
- "Don't Stop The Party"—Pitbull ft. TJR
- "Feel This Moment"—Pitbull ft. Christina Aguilera
- “Across 110th Street”
THE USUAL LINKS
- Helpful iTunes subscribe link
- General podcast feed link
- Direct download link (right click/save as)
- What's with the theme music?
I have opinions Brian. About football. You should stop doing that.
August 21st, 2019 at 8:16 AM ^
My employer will be incredibly disappointed to hear this pod has dropped directly after my morning commute.
August 21st, 2019 at 8:38 AM ^
Anyone else having issues with both download and stream?
August 21st, 2019 at 8:41 AM ^
Working fine on apple podcasts
August 21st, 2019 at 9:17 AM ^
I'm experiencing issues as well. Hit play, nothing happens. Go through download links, dead page. Guess I'll wait til later to listen.
EDIT: Working for me now, just had to be patient, which I hear is a virtue.
August 22nd, 2019 at 12:15 AM ^
It's been doing that quite often this summer.
August 21st, 2019 at 9:48 AM ^
Finally playing for me on Spotify but freezes every few seconds. Very poor playback today.
August 21st, 2019 at 10:27 AM ^
Yeah, the download won't complete on my phone, and Spotify won't even play it. Nor will the player embedded in the post.
August 21st, 2019 at 10:31 AM ^
Sorry about the player issues. Normally I upload the podcasts late at night the night before I post on the front page so all of the phones that auto-download them don't get in the way of all the people who download them as soon as they see them. I didn't get to it until this morning today so that big initial burst of downloads all came at the same time. Should be good after this morning. It's not even our servers: Podbean is the one struggling to handle our traffic right now.
August 21st, 2019 at 11:12 AM ^
Sorry about the player issues.
They just didn't execute?
August 21st, 2019 at 8:07 PM ^
But they had a great week of practice.
Pad level was also good.
August 21st, 2019 at 12:06 PM ^
I don't think the direct download link is correct either
August 21st, 2019 at 6:26 PM ^
August 21st, 2019 at 12:53 PM ^
I'm having issues on PocketCasts
August 21st, 2019 at 9:09 AM ^
Love you guys but your roster numbers analysis doesn't make sense. Like it's funny you have a laugh at Runyan being listed as 6'5" when he's probably 6'3" and change, then take all the weights as gospel. Upshaw for example I specifically remember Don Brown saying he was up to 265 in an interview, and all of a sudden he's 240 again? Almost same weight pattern with Villian as well. Any publicly published info from a Harbaugh team should be taken with a grain of salt.
August 21st, 2019 at 9:23 AM ^
Grain of salt ain't enough. Roster measurements should be taken as seriously as effin' Hollywood accounting. You'd need enough salt to turn the entire Midwest pork harvest into spam.
It's not like measuring people is difficult; in my yearly checkups my height and weight are consistently within a quarter inch and a couple pounds using ancient technology. I do know that people can grow into their twenties so some change isn't surprising but we know the roster data is as trustworthy as a Craigslist job ad.
Stupid thing is that there's negligible gamemanship to be had for all this rampant dishonesty. Whether Onwenu weighs 350 or 370, he's the same size and moves the same on tape, so the last effin' thing the DC is looking at is his official weight. So why not just be honest? This is lying just for the sake of lying.
I know this issue couldn't get any more first world but as an engineer who's seen competitors brazenly lying about specs to make a sale, I get annoyed by data fraud in any form.
August 21st, 2019 at 9:58 AM ^
Agreed. In general, anything that has a number seems to be more likely to be interpreted as a fact. Look at recruiting rankings - assume a guy goes to an Opening Regional or something. His testing numbers are actual data in that at least an independent observer measured something. The SPARQ score is a metric based off of those and can also be used as data of some value. Recruiting ranking is literally a collective value invented by a group of people, yet you put .9012 next to one 4 star and .9127 next to another 4 star and obviously the second guy is better, look at the number!
August 21st, 2019 at 9:12 AM ^
10 more days.....10 more days.....10 more days
August 21st, 2019 at 9:36 AM ^
Corner will be OK. Coaching there has been excellent. We won't be tested there until at least Iowa? Or Penn State? The defense won't be elite but it shouldn't be a liability either. We aren't stuck fielding walk-ons, at least.
August 21st, 2019 at 9:48 AM ^
I agree. They'll figure something out. Hopefully the offense will be able to carry the team for a change.
August 21st, 2019 at 10:16 AM ^
Remember that one year under Brown/Zordich when we played a ton of press-man coverage and our corners sucked?
Neither do I.
August 21st, 2019 at 10:44 AM ^
I agree, just because we haven't seen these guys on the field yet doesn't mean anything. I'd like some 4* 5* athletes molded by Zordich, but what we do have isn't scabs, and are still coached by Zordich.
Mister personality he ain't but he's made better corners out of less than what we have now.
August 21st, 2019 at 11:00 AM ^
I'm not worried about the corners vs teams like the bottom of the Big 10, just worried about top tier teams like Ohio State, you need athletes to deal with their players in space. Don't get me started if we beat them, the type of talent you're facing is potentially another beat down like last year's but on an even bigger national stage
August 21st, 2019 at 11:23 AM ^
Hell they molded Brandon Watson a dude, until he wasn't. And Zordich is one to seriously undersell is crew, so I expect corner to at least be solid.
I am probably irrationally worried about DT, but thing is -- and it's easy to forget given the riches we enjoyed under Hoke -- good DTs are hard to find. Really hard to find. You're trying to find 300-pound men of a certain height with quickness, endurance, and technique. Too light and they get blown back. Too heavy and they can't move. Too short and they can't get skrong. Too tall and they can't get low. Too slow and they can't threaten gaps; too small a tank and you gotta find more of them to rotate (and DTs already rotate); too undisciplined they get gashed. DT is arguably the most complete athlete on the field.
We got some guys but none of them strike me as the complete package, which means Brown is going to have to get creative with his packages. And I'm sure he will. But I'd really like a Martin/Glasgow/Hurst type that just wrecks plays at the line of scrimmage because as we've all seen, that's one thing OSU usually doesn't have an answer for.
August 21st, 2019 at 10:15 AM ^
It's not working for me
August 21st, 2019 at 10:27 AM ^
That's okay. You can just cuddle with the phone.
August 21st, 2019 at 10:28 AM ^
Happy and then sad as my iPhone podcasts app is not letting me listen
I'll hang up and listen to more knowledgeable members. Already tried the hard reset.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
August 21st, 2019 at 10:40 AM ^
I can't think of a sport less conducive to deep preseason analysis than college football. Brian, Seth and Ace do what they can, but most of their takes rely on flimsy items like "the coaches are talking about him," "we haven't heard much buzz" and breaking down two-year-old recruiting profiles. The parts about zone defense and a 3-3-5 stack are helpful, but other than that, I don't see a ton of value in listening to speculation about a lot of players these guys haven't really seen play much, if any, college football.
It must suck to have to produce content on a team where something only truly happens 13 days a year.
August 21st, 2019 at 11:20 AM ^
Not working on Apple podcasts.
August 21st, 2019 at 11:48 AM ^
So I don't listen to the podcasts, but I read the write-ups, and my main question is: why so much Pitbull?
August 21st, 2019 at 11:08 PM ^
Would you prefer the spokesman Dr Pepper replaced him with?
August 22nd, 2019 at 4:34 PM ^
It can't possibly be any worse
August 21st, 2019 at 12:29 PM ^
Cool it with the Pitbull. Ace's ska tunes are better than that
August 21st, 2019 at 12:54 PM ^
Outstanding podcast. I am really looking forward to how Brown will deploy Uche and Hudson on the field at the same time. Feels like much more blitzing this year, with Uche and Hudson taking turns creating havoc. Also, really liked Ace's idea of spotting Ben Mason out as the SAM to play some defensive FB like snaps ... he effectively becomes a "blocker" enabling the Uche or Hudson gap blitz.
My take is that Brown is going to be much more aggressive this year, willing to take chances because the offense is going to be potent. We could see a lot of games be like the boxer going for the knockout punch in the first round of a fight. Havoc rate is going up in 2019.
Go Blue !!!
August 21st, 2019 at 1:16 PM ^
Damn I hope you guys are right with how the defense will adjust and improve from the last two games last year in order to make up for personnel depth issues they haven't had in the past and nagging positional issues in certain areas that make them vulnerable to explosive passing games.
August 21st, 2019 at 2:14 PM ^
Spotify is for some reason not working, all my other pods are fine
August 21st, 2019 at 3:41 PM ^
Not sure how it's going for anybody else, but for me, the audio is buffering more often than a video on 56.6K dial-up.
August 21st, 2019 at 5:59 PM ^
Love the podcasts and can't really complain since they're free, but is there any alternative/competitor to Podbean you can switch to? Every podcast takes so long to download, even over my very fast internet connection (500 Mbps). I've tried mobile apps (Pocket Casts) as well as the direct download and it's the same thing every week. I've heard Podbean isn't free, as in MGoBlog is paying for this hosting, yet the quality of service is trash by 2019 standards. There must be a better way.
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