MGoPodcast 13.10: Sorry It's Going in the Face
1 hour and 20`minutes
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1. Offense
starts at 1:00
One of the most boring Michigan games we've ever watched? Too many commercials, it was cold, and they played the Applebee's song. Haskins Hurdling a Fool count is up to five. Injuries compromised the offensive gameplan a bit. There was a literal line of players trying to get into the injury tent. Cade only had 18 pass attempts, JJ has another yakity-sax play, Brian apologizes for trying to sing Yakity-Sax but sang Calliope instead.
[The rest of the writeup and the player after THE JUMP]
2. Defense
starts at 26:40
Defense - great performance against not great offense. Zero sacks from Hutchinson due to being doubled and held. Ojabo continues to be a freak of nature. Junior Colson is developing nicely. Some key Indiana players getting injured makes the defensive performance even murkier to grade. Nine games in and still not much to be said about the cornerbacks.
3. Hot Takes, Special Teams, and Game Theory
starts at 40:44
Takes so hot they're the inverse of how we all felt for 3 unnecessary hours in a November night game. Editor's note: I was not prepared for Seth's take. The entire state of Indiana, minus West Lafayette, should not exist at night. DJ Turner fills in for AJ Henning on punt returns, proceeds to get two kick catch interferences on a single play. Brad Robbins is secretly good but nobody really talks about it. Tweet about Brad Robbins, get a like.
4. Around the Big Ten, wsg Jamie Mac
starts at 58:26
Purdue beats Michigan State with a play from Tecmo Bowl! Brohm claims to have stolen if from a YouTube video of a high school team years ago. Purdue now in a four-way tie with Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Iowa for the Big Ten West. Does Ohio State look beatable or was this a one-off bad game (spoiler: it's the less fun answer). Nebraska is 1-6 in Big Ten play and outscoring their Big Ten opponents. If you're Nebraska... it... still kind of... makes sense to keep Scott Frost? Iowa and Northwestern in the Battle of Backup Quarterbacks. Seven punts in a row to start the game sounds about right. This podcast team was never fooled by Iowa's top five ranking. Brian demands a Grover Bortolotti on Michigan's team. Brandon Peters: 7-of-9 for 80 yards for a win over the number 20 team in the country! Shout out to the Illinois punter for rowing the boat three times and then snapping the paddle.
MUSIC:
- "Meet Me at Our Spot"--The Anxiety
- "Dennehy"--Serengeti
- "Crutch"--Band of Horses
- “Across 110th Street”
THE USUAL LINKS:
I feel like I've been disrespected all day and now I just want to slap someone's face with a leather glove and have a duel.
November 8th, 2021 at 7:57 AM ^
Meta Tag says “Northwestern” but we played Indiana.
Unless that was intended to be a meta commentary on how we felt about this game?
November 8th, 2021 at 8:10 AM ^
I fixed. Surprising that we don't make that mistake more often, the way our meta tags are set up.
November 8th, 2021 at 8:28 AM ^
Boring Northwestern game... Boring Indiana game... What's the difference? The game was a snooze-fest - the podcast said it all right at the start.
November 8th, 2021 at 6:51 PM ^
FWIW, I like my Michigan games just how MGoBlog likes their safeties: boring.
A season of 15 "boring" games in a row where our victory is never really in doubt? I'll take a couple of those seasons right about now.
Would we eventually get tired of "so much winning"? Possibly, but I'm willing to take that risk for a few seasons to find out.....
November 8th, 2021 at 9:24 AM ^
MY HOOD OF A REVVING MUSTANG IN AUGUST DETROIT HEAT HOT TAKE IS:
THERE SHOULD BE TWO COIN TOSSES FOR ALL INDIANA GAMES. THE FIRST WILL BE FOR WHO GETS TO INJURE THE OPPOSING TEAM MORE AND THE NEXT FOR WHO GETS TO RECEIVE FIRST.
I am thinking of some kind of weight system (e.g. you may either belly flop on a player of Winovich importance OR you may injure 6 players enough to remove them from the game but not the season).
November 8th, 2021 at 9:24 AM ^
The fact that you played Dennehy by Serengeti gives me warm fuzzies.
November 8th, 2021 at 9:31 AM ^
I might have missed it, but what about the long Haskins run? Was that the same play Higdon used to have so much success with?
November 8th, 2021 at 1:24 PM ^
He had a few, but IIRC the ones where he broke free (instead of rugby scrumming for 10-15 yards) looked like outsize zone.
November 8th, 2021 at 10:38 AM ^
4th and 1: I like Seth's proposed rule change. But it would take away significance from the "Temptation" song if going for it becomes mandatory.
November 8th, 2021 at 12:36 PM ^
After the 4th and 1 timeout thing, it looked like Cade was yelling at Harbaugh on the sideline until a random assistant guy came over and calmed Cade down. Harbaugh was ignoring Cade. The broadcast never went back to it though.
November 8th, 2021 at 12:54 PM ^
I was sitting right on the LOS behind the Michigan bench for the play. I saw that also.
November 8th, 2021 at 1:27 PM ^
FYI I checked; the Purdue trick play is called "Reverse-Fake Z Post" in Tecmo Super Bowl.
I think Purdue threw to their RB, though?
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