MGoPodcast 12.6: Sickos!
1 hour and 55 minutes
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Also we had to go with the audio from the Zoom call for Part 4.
1. Offense
starts at 1:00
Milton eh? Blake Corum, eh? Charbonnet's blocks, eh? Ben Mason ooooooooooo (stop at the whistle baby). Wide receivers fast, kinda wondering why Jake McCurry was more visible than Cornelius Johnson. All had concentration issues but Gentry speed. We didn't think to mention the line until the end which is a very good thing. Also a good thing: Gattis's playcalling and how it incorporated Harbaugh stuff.
[The rest of the writeup and the player after The Jump]
2. Defense
starts at 28:17
Before and After Dax (we think he'll be okay. Paige was not quite as okay in his absence. Kwity Paye, eh? Aiden Hutchinson, eh? Cam McGroon, eh? Dalton Hill, eh? Green looked fine—one push-off that was crafty work by the receiver and that was basically it. Gray still had to commit PI but he also stayed with Bateman most of the day. Edge issues popped up. OH HEY MICHAEL BARRET, EH?
3. Hot Takes, Special Teams, and Feelingsball
starts at 58:39
COVIDly day. Punt block was a missed stunt pickup by Josh Ross. The Barrett return was Charbonnet dodging the ball then throwing a monster block. The Haskins stick was impressive. Herbstreit tries to pronounce things.
4. Around the Big Ten wsg Jamie Mac
starts at 1:14:42
We welcome in Jamie Mac of Just Cover Blog, who's bouncing off his seat to talk about Indiana-Penn State, but can't because we want to give a good 15 minutes to Michigan State-Rutgers. Also the rest of the Big Ten happened, much of it on Maryland's face.
MUSIC:
- “Golden Age"—TV On the Radio
- “Duck Down”—The Roots
- “Kings Left Behind”—Ikebe Shakedown
- “Across 110th Street”
THE USUAL LINKS:
Last year Rutgers only scored 27 first-half points all of their Big Ten season, and they had 28 points yesterday.
October 26th, 2020 at 9:53 AM ^
Sorry this article got unpublished. Not sure how it happened. Should be working now. Thanks to everyone who contacted me this morning.
October 26th, 2020 at 9:58 AM ^
Glad it's fixed.
Extremely frustrating hitting a Read More button that does not work.
October 26th, 2020 at 10:07 AM ^
I understand. There's actually a way that readers can get around that and read all of the content we haven't published, like drafts for this week's articles, Hello posts for 5-stars who didn't commit when we were sure they would, and some incredible insider stories that we had to instantly take down because we weren't ready to be the site accused of breaking the biggest scandal in history at a rival. What you have to do is go to
October 26th, 2020 at 10:12 AM ^
Too funny.
October 26th, 2020 at 10:36 AM ^
podbean dot com, my friend.
October 26th, 2020 at 10:29 AM ^
As a thank you for always giving me great, free content to read/listen to, I will never complain about anything having to do with this site.
October 26th, 2020 at 10:12 AM ^
Thank you for putting the podcast up for listening early enough that I had it for the drive in this morning. I listened to the offense and defense sections before arriving at work - man, what a great thing to listen to so early in the day!! I'll cap it off with the rest on my way home, and look forward to it.
The quick hitter I came away with is that you've (more or less) confirmed my suspicions that the DB's (specifically the CBs) and the DTs were decently sufficient. If not good, in Green's case, anyway! With the DB's, we'd figured they would be okay. And sure enough, they pretty shut down a really good passing attack. We hoped the DT's would be functional pluggers, and I think we got just a little more than that. In both cases, I'm happy with the results!
That offense, though... Man, that was a thing of abject beauty!
October 26th, 2020 at 10:38 AM ^
Gattis' gameplan was Kyle Shanahan-esque (in a good way)
Joe can make all the throws but I like how Gattis kept things close or behind the line of scrimmage often to keep Joe comfortable.
- speed in space
- great run game
- keep the QB comfortable
October 26th, 2020 at 11:17 AM ^
Even though he dropped it (presumably because he couldn't believe how easily he was going to score...), that TE-seam pass to All that was a piggy-back off of all of the right-side run action all night was the moment I was completely satisfied that Gattis is going to be a major strength for this offense this season.
October 26th, 2020 at 11:09 AM ^
Quick thought on the Paige section - For the remainder of the season (assuming Dax is ok) he won't be asked to cover WRs a bunch. Or at least, I don't think as much as he did. He's the #3 safety and the deep Cover 1 guy more than the shadow 1 on 1 guy who has to cover slants/fades a bunch. If he comes in with Hawkins (underneath stuff and run support) and Hill (basically Nickle CB) he'll be ok.
October 26th, 2020 at 11:25 AM ^
I have a much different opinion on how Gray played.
But man, i came away more impressed by way more players than i came away depressed. Milton looked much, much better than i thought he would. If he plays that well against MSU, im officially on the bandwagon and will devour my crow.
OL was solid. I was actually more shocked at how well Filagia did than even Milton. Props to him. I expected him to be -8 on the game.
Outside of the starting OL and Milton, i was also very shocked to see that the guy who had more snaps than any other skill guy on offense was our backup TE (All).
I would say the most impressive for me where....
1) Barrett
2) Filagia
3) Milton
We all sort of expected Paye to be ... Paye.
October 26th, 2020 at 11:34 AM ^
I like your observations.
It's Filiaga, not Filagia.
October 26th, 2020 at 11:36 AM ^
Thanks, i figured i probably chopped that name up.
October 26th, 2020 at 11:50 AM ^
I prefer Fuck Chiliaga
October 26th, 2020 at 11:32 AM ^
#9WINDIANA still a possibility thanks to Frames!!!!
October 26th, 2020 at 11:51 AM ^
Re: bad commentating. They also called Mike Sainristil a 5th year senior. And doubled down on it.
October 26th, 2020 at 11:54 AM ^
Dax have a twin brother they've been hiding???
October 26th, 2020 at 12:04 PM ^
Dalton Hill sounds like a player. Do want.
October 26th, 2020 at 12:06 PM ^
Glad I wasn’t the only one whose heart stopped when the announcers gave the lead in for their joke about Harbaugh’s khakis.
October 26th, 2020 at 12:37 PM ^
Just here to +1 the choice of TV on the Radio as bumper music.
October 26th, 2020 at 1:10 PM ^
Being able to take my dog for a long walk while I listen to the MGOPodcast talking about an actual game is the closest I've felt to normal since March. Thank you men!
October 26th, 2020 at 7:12 PM ^
Brian, you should totally watch Curb. It's your kind of humor. It's about a guy with no filter who points out all the annoying things around him.
October 26th, 2020 at 11:06 PM ^
I feel that having Jamie on zoom made the segment go much better. It killed a lot of the talking over each other.
October 27th, 2020 at 9:17 AM ^
I think the idea expressed that our defense was taking away the RPO throws at the expense of defending the run was correct. We need to see if Don Brown agrees with that statement. A media question might be good.
Although we gave up running yards, I believe they were 4.1 per attempt, much better than giving up the typical Minnesota RPO passes.
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