B1G Offensive Awards

Submitted by jimmyshi03 on

Jake Butt wins TE of the Year. Magnuson is first team All B1G, Cole, Kalis and Braden 2nd Team. Darboh 2nd Team  WR. Speight third team QB.

Honorable Mentions included D. Smith, Chesson and Ben Bredeson.

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OwenGoBlue

November 30th, 2016 at 6:33 PM ^

Our line is better than this space gives it credit for. Perhaps not to the degree the awards show, but it's an out and out good line. Very good in pass pro.

Now onto recruiting and weaponizing giant human beings. 

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OwenGoBlue

November 30th, 2016 at 6:55 PM ^

I'm pretty excited for where the O line is going, though I would expect some real growing pains along the way. Run blocking this year against the best teams wasn't where it could be or will be, I just think these guys deserve more credit than they got in this space. This is just what playing with three NFL guys looks like instead of playing with five or elite talent at 3-4 spots. I'll eat a lemon if Mags and Kalis aren't drafted, and I wouldn't be surprised at all if Braden is in a camp somewhere (3rd "NFL guy" being Cole in the above).

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BlueGill

November 30th, 2016 at 6:38 PM ^

but Speight definitely didn't show up when it counts in the big games (IOWA/OSU). Count me as a happy camper in him addressing one of the biggest ? at the beginning of the season, but he really tanked when we really needed him (Sure we can spread some blames to OL and receivers but...)

Hopefully he can use this year as a launching pad toward next year's first team B10 Q by being a clutch, MBar handling player for us.

 

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1VaBlue1

November 30th, 2016 at 9:49 PM ^

I'm guessing he missed that 4th qtr bomb to Darboh that closed out Wisconsin, too...

The Iowa game was a clunker all around - nobody had a good game, including the coaches.  I'm still WTF'ing over that game!  The offensive gameplan was a hot mess of vomit thickened with donkey poo. 

Speight came to play against both MSU and OSU.  Not much he can do, though, when Harbaugh takes the ball out of his hands in the 4th...  Come to think of it, only Don Brown came to play for 60 minutes in every game.  If he isn't Asst COY, nobody should be.

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SouthOfHeaven

November 30th, 2016 at 10:55 PM ^

He made a couple HUGE clutch plays in the two toughest games of the year vs. Wis and @ OSU. I feel like he was as clutch as anyone in the B1G this season, if not moreso. 

Then again, QB play was far less than stellar throughout the conference this year. You went from Cook to O'Connor (LOL), Sudfeld to Lagow (not horrific but still a downgrade from a drafted QB), and many other QB's not playing up to lofty expectations (Beathard, Armstrong, Barrett)

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ST3

November 30th, 2016 at 6:53 PM ^

Some of the comments have questioned our having so many offensive linemen get honors. We did finish 2nd in the Big 10 in yards per carry at 5.0. Only OSU was better at 5.5. It makes sense we had a lot of 2nd teamers. We also had the third fewest sacks given up behind Nebraska and Minnesota. We were 2nd in first downs per game. All of that stuff reflects a good offensive line. Elite? No. But certainly worthy of multiple honorees to the All-Big 10 teams.

http://www.bigten.org/library/stats/fb-confldrs.html

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ST3

November 30th, 2016 at 7:06 PM ^

The craziest stat from that link: the leader in "Total Offense" for the Big 10 was David Blough. That guy is a more talented magician than David Blaine to pull that off.

EDIT: I take that back, Michael Jocz leading the Big 10 in punt return average is the craziest. Why don't they have a minimum number of returns required? Crazy.

EDIT 2: More interesting stats: MSU had 3 of the top 15 guys in tackles per game (meaning they were on defense an awful lot) and Michigan had 3 of the top 7 guys in TFLs per game (and 5 of the top 20.) Don Brown. It's like he's playing a different game than everybody else.

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Danwillhor

November 30th, 2016 at 7:51 PM ^

most of those fancy stats were added against the Rutgers, Hawaii, Maryland types. We still didn't run the ball with consistency against a defense with a pulse. Our best day may have been Colorado....? Best as in production vs quality of defense, it may be Colorado.

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Danwillhor

November 30th, 2016 at 7:44 PM ^

was poised for an AA type season and he was either never healthy or never on the same page as Speight. He was almost a non-factor in any game of significance this year. I know Darboh had 100% more reps in the Spring than Chesson but it was as if he Chesson was a Freshman or something. He seemed hardly used, tbh.

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socalwolverine1

November 30th, 2016 at 8:11 PM ^

Well, congrats to Mags, who, if one studies the weekly game reviews on this blogsite, was consistently underrated or more often just ignored. Looking forward to his continued success at the next level. 

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