MGoPodcast 13.2: Who Flattened the Dogs Out?
1 hour and 32 minutes
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1. Offense vs Washington
starts at 1:00
Vastardis and co. were mauling Tuli and Taki. Lots of interesting runs with pullers going opposite directions. First play: T pull with a backside read. 2nd play: TE crosses one way, Jet and G pull the other way. OL going to come in for huge scores.
UW leaving 2 safeties back, playing one high, so why not? UW had LB flying outside when RB did, were not going to get edged. YOU CAN BLOCK BEHIND THE LINE GUYS! Erick All did work. Honigford is replaceable. Roman Wilson cannot block. Bell missed.
CADE: Bad reads. Didn’t have a lot of time but he spent too long on 1st reads and missed 2nd reads.
[The rest of the writeup and the player after THE JUMP]
2. Defense vs Washington
starts at 32:37
Now you believe me about John Donovan. Why are you running on 4th and 4 when you haven’t run before? Why aren’t you reading an edge when Hutchinson is coming? Josh Ross much better game. Was popping OL. Mike Morris is happening. Hutchinson by god.
Wanted to get Giles Jackson out in space and M had that anticipated. Tried to test Dax Hill on the edge once. Kris Jenkins is happening. Might be a little small still but breakout candidate. Live action for Rod Moore.
3. Hot Takes, Special Teams, and Game Theory
starts at 51:20
Refs had just one (two but the 2nd was overturned) bad call. Their old fashioned punt led to that 4th down play because they have an upback. Good decision to go on 4th and 1, but decision to pass on 2nd and 2. UW: Why not have Jackson return? M: Why Kolesar if he dropped one? Michigan Foug’d one to Jackson and it looked scary until German Green hewed him down. Moody good from….60?
4. Around the Big Ten, wsg Jamie Mac
starts at 1:05:51
QUACK! We look for more MOONs on the schedule.
MUSIC:
- “Mr. Brightside”—cover by Jada Facer
- “I Ran”—cover by Janet Devlin
- “Who Let the Dogs Out”—cover by Matt Mulholland
- “Across 110th Street”
THE USUAL LINKS:
Michigan’s recent history is just a minefield.
September 13th, 2021 at 8:15 AM ^
The insane over-the-top singer that microwaved Brian's brain (aka, brain's Brian)?
That's connected to a new "tradition," of audiences wanting to PROVE their passion by performing too., so everyone notices That includes standing ovations (formerly rare, now obligatory), screaming in falsetto (it carries further), and the now tired cliché of high-pitched "Woo!"
It's more than being eager or a fan, it's a way of saying "Look how eager I am," "Look at what a great fan I am!" In other words, they want people looking at them.
September 13th, 2021 at 10:46 AM ^
I have never done "Wooo" in my life and I absolutely refuse to say "Let's GOOO".
Sincerely,
Another old crank
September 13th, 2021 at 1:59 PM ^
OMG, am I an old fart?
I don't mean to inhibit the woo-ers. Obviously, they can WOO! all they want. It was intended more to point out that crowd response, like most things involving humans, has different fashions, which change over time.
For instance, we know the Romans responded to gladiators with a thumb gesture but the idea that thumbs up is good ("let him live") and thumbs down is bad ("Death!") is a much later idea. A much later fashion.
And the "Woo!" in a high pitch—which performers call falsetto—is the 21st century version of the 19th century "Huzzah!"
September 13th, 2021 at 8:27 AM ^
It was great that Jamie Mac used computer audio instead of a cell phone. Made it *much* easier to hear and understand him.
September 14th, 2021 at 8:30 AM ^
You've got those reversed. I called him on my phone and had it plugged directly into the board this time.
September 13th, 2021 at 8:38 AM ^
Brian is sounding good.
September 13th, 2021 at 8:59 AM ^
Did you have to pay Sony to play “Across 110th Street” or did you just hire some North Korea hackers to hack their system?
September 14th, 2021 at 8:31 AM ^
I've reached out to them. The big issue is on YouTube because YouTube lets anybody issue a takedown notice even if they don't have a claim.
September 13th, 2021 at 9:01 AM ^
Regarding the passing game, it can't be good for quarterback's passing acumen to run a running offense, then every now and then get to pass. More often than not it's going to be on third and long and the defense knows you are going to pass. Hopefully against NIU we'll use the passing offense liberally, from the get-go. I mean without having to be up three touchdowns.
September 13th, 2021 at 9:03 AM ^
Regarding beating Ohio State...they are struggling to stop the run...
September 13th, 2021 at 10:44 AM ^
They are struggling to stop everything. They will not struggle to stop the run if that’s all we plan to do. Talented teams, even ones that struggle in a certain facet, won’t have any trouble packing the box. Don’t overestimate our results against WMU and UW and compare them to Minnesota and Oregon.
September 13th, 2021 at 11:06 AM ^
Per SP+ Minnesota and WMU have basically the same defensive ranking (88th compared to 90th), and Oregon is 26th while UW is 36th. I agree that UM can't just run for 350+ yards against OSU but it's not like UM hasn't faced similar enough defenses.
September 13th, 2021 at 11:32 AM ^
Pretty simple to me, we don’t know if the game plan against Washington is a one off or how we have decided to play all of 2021 because of our inexperienced QB’s and WR’s. Speculate away, we’ll just have to see what the game plan is next week and the following week. All we have is past behavior, which we all pretty much agree has been to run into too many stacked boxes against top 25 teams in general. Fort Schembechler is not going to enlighten us as to future game plans, so here we are. We’re 2-0 with what certainly appears to be two home games coming with us as heavy favorites. Let’s see if our head coach and his staff have figured out that working on a solid passing game to go with their innovative “new” run game would be the smart thing to do. Anyone want to guess the over/under on pass attempts versus NIU? 20? 25?
September 13th, 2021 at 9:11 AM ^
The bumper music choices were incredible. I don’t usually pay attention and even when I do, it doesn’t typically peak my interest…but these were great. I’m not sure which is better, the mr bright side or The Who let the dogs out. Those two were just ::chef’s kiss:::
September 13th, 2021 at 10:21 AM ^
pique
September 13th, 2021 at 11:01 AM ^
Peikue
September 13th, 2021 at 10:39 AM ^
I think we have very different tastes in music.
September 13th, 2021 at 9:12 AM ^
"Bad reads. Didn’t have a lot of time but he spent too long on 1st reads and missed 2nd reads."
I predicted before the season that Cade was going to surprise people with his play. I guess I jinxed him.
September 13th, 2021 at 9:49 AM ^
To be honest, I’ve been surprised, so there’s that.
September 13th, 2021 at 10:07 AM ^
In the end it’s one bad game where the play calls did him no favors, after a game where he was great. But yeah, this performance definitely stalled the hype train
September 13th, 2021 at 9:14 AM ^
Where Alex at?
September 14th, 2021 at 8:33 AM ^
Moving.
September 13th, 2021 at 9:47 AM ^
Is pronouncing Filiaga as Filianga a bit?
September 13th, 2021 at 9:54 AM ^
It's pronouncing his name like it's supposed to be.
https://mgoblue.com/sports/football/roster/chuck-filiaga/21977
There's an audio pronunciation of Filiaga's name on his MgGoBlue page, and it's pronounced Filiunga.
September 13th, 2021 at 10:24 AM ^
Ah, sorry about that. Thanks for correcting me.
September 13th, 2021 at 10:38 AM ^
It’s a Pacific Islands thing and I’m not sure why, but there are several names where there is an understood “n” pronunciation even if it’s not spelled out. Similar think with DJ Uiagaleilei at Clemson and fun fact, Nadi, where the international airport for Fiji is located is pronounced Naan-Di.
September 14th, 2021 at 9:06 AM ^
The 'ng' sound doesn't have an English equivalent. We make our 'n' with our tongue on our top teeth (try it). Now try to move your tongue to the roof of your mouth and make the same sound. If you pop it off you make something like our 'g' but there's definitely a sound like the French 'en' in there before the g sound.
The early missionaries who brought the Latin alphabet to the islands were not very good about phonetics, and the spellings from their original bible translations became encoded into Polynesian orthography. Similar issue with the glottal stop that doesn't exist in most Indo-European languages but is now being brought back with an apostrophe so readers will pronounce it as intended, eg Hawai'i not Hawaii.
September 13th, 2021 at 11:26 AM ^
Thank you, Bambi and Rabbit21,
A little background and some technological help go a long way.
September 13th, 2021 at 10:20 AM ^
Brett is Blaine Gabbert's younger brother. I am really quite shocked and amazed that apparently none of you watched the excited 2019 Lending Tree Bowl that Brett started as a freshman for Miami. I figured at least jamie would have had a bet on it. There innumerable mentions of Brett's more famous brother during the broadcast.
September 13th, 2021 at 11:13 AM ^
So is our understanding that Michigan was paving them and Washington never overreacted, so Michigan kept doing it? Add on the fact that Bell was out and Baldwin barely played to help against their elite corners. Thinking back to our long bomb to Bell vs WMU: that came against a Cover 0 look where Bell had tons of room in the slot. I don't think we got any similar looks or matchups in this game.
September 13th, 2021 at 11:45 AM ^
That’s the story. Also, UW was overplaying the edge and keeping their safeties back, so inside runs were left almost entirely on their DL.
The issue I have is that the paving didn’t start until the second half. Over half the game was a 3-0 sludgefart. The UW DTs eventually crumbled, but we needed that to happen. Against a deeper DL, we’d have had no answer. If the strategy was opponent-specific, great, but the facts that Cade was playing badly, the WRs couldn’t get open, and they were still running on 3rd and long don’t bode well for an opponent with good DTs.
The point isn’t that the strategy was bad. It’s the concern that we might not have had a Plan B.
September 13th, 2021 at 2:19 PM ^
The issue I have is that the paving didn’t start until the second half. Over half the game was a 3-0 sludgefart.
Say what? The paving started from the first series and wore W down throughout the 1st half. Which in vase you missed it, ended 10-0 Michigan. Not sure where you get “over half the game was a 3-0 sludgefart” from.
Sure you can argue 10-0 isn’t great either, but that wasn’t your position.
Personally, I’m OK with 10-0 and looking like the better team at half.
September 13th, 2021 at 8:21 PM ^
I watched a different game, I guess. UM rushed for 168 yds. on 23 attempts in the first half (I’m not counting the fake punt.) That’s 7.3 yds/carry. If you take out Corum’s 67 yd run, it’s still 4.6 yds/carry. If you take out the 3 carries at the goal line which netted 1 yd total, as well as the Corum run, Michigan averaged 5 yds/carry in the first half. The paving was happening from the get go. Literally from the first drive. Here are the yd totals from the first 10 run plays: 7, 5, 9, 16, 4, 8, 4, 2, 2, 14.
September 13th, 2021 at 3:15 PM ^
Good podcast, although now I have a visual of Seth photoshopped onto ScarJo's Black Widow catsuit but that's probably a me-problem.
Six years into that Harbaugh regime, I think a lot of us were wondering how did it end up like this? There are still some things to work on - regarding the passing game, I just couldn't look, it was killing me. On the other hand, it was good to see the running game come out of its cage, Saturday night it was doing just fine, it was taking control and you could see the RB and OL (if not the WR) recruits opening up their eager eyes.
September 13th, 2021 at 4:01 PM ^
well played... now we just need Jada Facer to sing it
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