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WTKA Roundtable 9/23/2021: Competence Confidential Comment Count

Seth September 23rd, 2021 at 11:14 AM

Things discussed:

  • The opening makes sense if you heard what we were tearing up laughing about before the segment started, which is Vance Bedford saying Michigan fans who aren’t excited about this running game need to take some Viagra.
  • Sam wants our thoughts on how well the team is playing vis a vis preseason expectations.
  • OL charting: They don’t screw up very much! This game was like 80%, and when one guy made a mistake they fixed it. Sherrone Moore, please take a bow man!
  • Seth: JJ McCarthy has some competition for AJ’s best friend because Vastardis can move. He’s draftable.
  • DL charting: They don’t screw up very much either! Came back to Earth from Washington but not a weakness, and Hill-Green and Gray have been surprisingly effective when the were expected to be sore spots.
  • Caveat: haven’t faced good QBs yet.
  • QBs: should they find a role for McCarthy? Seth: yes. Other guys: no.
  • Rutgers and Wisconsin previews.
  • What’s going on with Kerry Coombs and Ohio State?

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You can catch the entire episode on Michigan Insider's podcast stream.

Segment two is available here. And you can watch the video here:

The Usual Links:

Even with Coombs having the Paterno headset that’s not plugged into everything…

Comments

kjhager444

September 23rd, 2021 at 12:01 PM ^

Eleby might legitimately be a top 3 QB on the schedule- not arguing that they've faced a gauntlet, but they don't have much left to face in regular season (Martinez, Stroud(?)/Thorne(?)).  Penix was ranked #1 on the preseason list, but he might be the worst in the B1G Right now.

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ak47

September 23rd, 2021 at 12:27 PM ^

Michigan played both Tate and Denard and Alabama did it in some way with Hurts and Tua and Clemson did it with Deshaun Watson and Tahj Boyd but in both those cases the younger more talented guy eventually just took the job.

Obviously the argument is based on JJ's willingness to pull the ball more than the passing game at this point

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maquih

September 24th, 2021 at 9:46 AM ^

Ehh, don't think we want to copy stuff we did when Tate forgive was around but if the coaches feel they have a smart plan to get an advantage out of it I'll trust them.  Just in my mind more often than not we see dual QBs being used too naively and essentially tipping off to the defense what's coming but obviously clemson and Alabama are two examples of using it with success.

 

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Remember_the_G…

September 23rd, 2021 at 11:07 PM ^

I would also like to remind Craig we were favored against OSU less than 3 years ago in other words we’ve been favored in half of the last two meetings. So to say we’re “closer to OSU than we’ve been in a long time” is completely irrelevant at any juncture of the season and even more so after three games. 

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