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Denard = Most Explosive Man in Football /Rivals top 10

http://collegefootball.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=1256284

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1. QB Denard Robinson, Michigan, Jr. 
Buzz: Robinson is like a time bomb: Sooner or later, he's going to explode. Each time Robinson tucks the football, opposing fans hold their breath because he always seems one step away from making a big play. Last season, his first as a full-time starter in former coach Rich Rodriguez's spread offense, Robinson had 16 runs that covered at least 20 yards and seven that exceeded 30 yards. He had at least one 20-yard gain in nine of the Wolverines' 13 games last season. He scored touchdowns on runs of 87, 72, 47, 32 and 32 yards. He also had 12 pass completions of more than 40 yards. That's more than Stanford's Andrew Luck. A big question with Robinson is how the new Michigan staff will make use of his talents.

Bomb set for 6 days.

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August 28th, 2011 at 1:39 PM | Unfotunately, we will never (Score:3 Funny)
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Unfotunately, we will never know who or what was the boner sinker of the day.  There will always remain a void.

Hail.

August 28th, 2011 at 10:41 AM | Interesting (Score:5 Normal)
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I hadn't ever really considered what it would be like to root AGAINST Denard.  I'm trying to think of a player Michigan has faced in recent years with a comparable Barry Sanders-esque holy-shit-tackle-him-before-he-does-something-unbelievable ridiculousness.

I am being Twitters

August 28th, 2011 at 10:50 AM | Not to say this is equivalent (Score:2 Normal)
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Not to say this is equivalent to Denard, but your comment immediately took me to flashbacks of Donovan McNabb running all over us one game in the 90s (forgot what year), including running for a TD with one shoe on.

Edit: I guess it was '98.

August 28th, 2011 at 11:14 AM | My first home game as a (Score:2)
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My first home game as a freshman. Coming off the national championship the year before I arrived, then the loss at ND, where Jarius Jackson ran all over us. Yeah, I'd say watching McNabb destroy us to lead to an 0-2 start... pretty painful.

August 28th, 2011 at 4:38 PM | Troy Smith (Score:1)
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When he played against Michigan, Troy Smith might as well have been Denard.  Hopefully, Ohio is the team grasping at air in November.

 

 

 

August 28th, 2011 at 12:12 PM | Vince Young (Score:2 Informative)
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When we played texas in the rose bowl. It seemed liked no one could stop him.

"Those who stay will be champions."
August 28th, 2011 at 12:49 PM | it only seemed that way (Score:2 Funny)
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it only seemed that way because no one could, in fact, stop him

August 28th, 2011 at 12:39 PM | McNabb was as elusive (Score:2)
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but not as explosive.  I squirmed through that entire game as he constantly eluded or D line and scrabled for yards.  I do not think there were as many plays that were actually set up for him to run.  My recollection is that most of the yards were off of scrambles.  This was a game I would like to forget.  So thanks a lot for making me squirm again.  Grrrr.

August 28th, 2011 at 2:22 PM | I still dislike (Score:2)
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McNabb because of that game to this day.

I poop excellence
August 28th, 2011 at 8:01 PM | Ditto (Score:1)
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I found myself yelling "put your shoes back on!" from the student section that day because, well, I had nothing else to yell.  The next best thing would have been "Stop running!" but that would have just been dumb.  Every time I see him play part of me wishes that his legs would just fall off, payback for what he did that day in Michigan Stadium.  I've also hated Syracuse ever since that day.

 

Disgruntled former moderator.  I got a lot of problems with you people!

August 28th, 2011 at 10:53 AM | Vince Young Troy (Score:5 Normal)
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Vince Young

Troy Smith

Juice Williams

Terrelle Pryor

I'm all too painfully aware of what mobile quarterbacks we have faced in the past 10 years.

Hail.

August 28th, 2011 at 11:07 AM | posted from iPhone (Score:5 Normal)
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You forgot Dennis Dixon. That was a painful game to be at.

August 28th, 2011 at 11:12 AM | Armanti Edwards (Score:5 Normal)
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Armanti Edwards, but luckily we won't ever have to play that team again...oh wait, what? 2014 you say?

 

Like a blind man at an orgy, I was going to have to feel my way through

August 28th, 2011 at 12:17 PM | I maintain Oregon would have (Score:4 Normal)
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I maintain Oregon would have won the championship that year without Dixon's injury.

August 28th, 2011 at 8:02 PM | No doubt about it (Score:2 Interesting)
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My neighbor is a former lineman for the Ducks and he told me the team was devistated when Dixon got injured.  That team was stacked!

 

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August 28th, 2011 at 11:18 AM | Ummm, you forgot (Score:3 Normal)
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Tony Fucking Rice (ND).  Late '80s or early '90s I think. 

"I promise you we would have walked to the University of Michigan."  - Brady Hoke

August 28th, 2011 at 11:29 AM | I did forget about Dixon.  (Score:5 Normal)
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I did forget about Dixon.  Armanti never happened, so I don't know what the hell that poster is talking about, and I guess I'm too young to know about Rice.  Granted, I know that I'm not a big fan of guys whose middle names are Fucking, i.e. -  Pitch the damn ball Tyler Fucking Ecker!

Hail.

August 28th, 2011 at 1:01 PM | Tony Rice wasn't particularly scary (Score:1)
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I don't remember if Rice started in 1987 and can't find the box score, but we lost that game mostly because of seven turnovers and Tim Brown. In 1988, Rice did start but they didn't score an offensive touchdown. They did have a punt return for a touchdown and four field goals and Mike Gilette missed a last-second field goal. In 1989, Raghib Ismail's two kickoff returns for touchdowns killed us, as Tony Rice and the offense only managed 10 points. 

Where's Charlie Bauman when you need him?

August 28th, 2011 at 11:39 AM | posted from iPhone (Score:0 Redundant)
August 28th, 2011 at 11:42 AM | posted from iPhone (Score:0 Redundant)
August 28th, 2011 at 12:02 PM | Agreed (Score:2)
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But Michigan's struggles with mobile quarterbacks probably forces me to give too much blame on Michigan and not enough credit to said mobile quarterbacks. I mean, sure Juice Williams took us roughly behind the woodshed,.. but against everyone else he was less than fantastic. 

I'd forgotten about VY in that Rose Bowl. I'm sure I said "HOLY BALLS WILL SOMEONE PLEASE TACKLE HIM" ten or twelve times.

I am being Twitters

August 28th, 2011 at 11:51 AM | Freddie Milons (Score:2)
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He was terrifying in the 2000 Orange Bowl. I'd swear he was faster then Denard, as sacrilegious as that might be to suggest. Certainly changed direction quicker.

If only Coach Mo hadn't gotten so drunk.

August 28th, 2011 at 12:41 PM | Rocket Ismail (Score:2 Normal)
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and his returns 

August 28th, 2011 at 10:50 AM | Hate to say it but our (Score:2)
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Hate to say it but our defense the past few years has made average players look like Barry Sanders.  I am confident that will change this year.

August 28th, 2011 at 10:56 AM | posted from iPhone (Score:2 Normal)
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GERG- making mediocre opposing offenses look great since the year after 2008.

August 28th, 2011 at 11:14 AM | It wasn't GERG's fault... (Score:2)
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...it's all on the beaver.

August 28th, 2011 at 10:58 AM | closest equivalent to playing against denard (Score:2 Normal)
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playing the raiders in tecmo super bowl.  Every time Bo got the handoff...

Tremendous!

August 28th, 2011 at 11:21 AM | Ha, Techmo Bowl... (Score:1 Normal)
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If you have Miami, the tight end over the middle play is UNSTOPPABLE, even if you select the correct defense.  Whenever me and my buddy played, we had to outlaw that play call.  You could run it all the way down the field every posession and score. 

"I promise you we would have walked to the University of Michigan."  - Brady Hoke

August 28th, 2011 at 11:29 AM | Really? Techmo? (Score:1)
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What the fuck is Techmo Bowl? Rayburn. 

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August 28th, 2011 at 11:59 AM | "Techmo Bowl" (Score:1)
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is what you get when you're typing shit, but 80% of your attention is on the TV. 

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August 28th, 2011 at 12:12 PM | Acceptable (Score:1)
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Acceptable response 

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August 28th, 2011 at 2:39 PM | Techmo Bowl (Score:4 Funny)
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OONTS OONTS OONTS

***FIRST DOWN***

Abort, Retry, Fail?

August 28th, 2011 at 11:09 AM | McNabb destroyed UM and Tom (Score:2)
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McNabb destroyed UM and Tom Brady in our fist game after the 1997 National Championship. UM then went on to ND and lost to start 1998 0-2. I believe that was the year we rebunede and ended up 10-3 and beat Alabama in the Orange Bowl....

 

 

August 28th, 2011 at 11:22 AM | FWIW, (Score:1)
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the Orange Bowl win was 2000 - I'm almost positive. 

"I promise you we would have walked to the University of Michigan."  - Brady Hoke

August 28th, 2011 at 11:26 AM | We opened with 1998 ND. I was there. (Score:1 Normal)
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Were shocked by the Irish coming in there ranked #2 in the nation then we went home and got run over by McNabb.

August 28th, 2011 at 11:28 AM | Pat Kratus (DL on the 1998 (Score:1)
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Pat Kratus (DL on the 1998 team) told me that chasing Donovan McNabb was his most helpless feeling ever on a football field.

Also, it was M 45-31 over Arkansas in the Citrus Bowl, not Alabama in the Orange Bowl.

Brady's last game at UM was the 35-34 OT win over Alabama in the Orange Bowl a year later, on Jan 1, 2000.

August 28th, 2011 at 1:05 PM | Other way around... (Score:1)
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We played ND first, then Syracuse. We did finish 10-3, beating Arkansas in the Citrus Bowl (Alabama was the next year).

Edit: Remember to read further down the thread before commenting.

Where's Charlie Bauman when you need him?

August 28th, 2011 at 11:30 AM | ND had this guy (Score:1)
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ND had this guy they called the bus....

GMW

August 28th, 2011 at 12:04 PM | Justin Siller (Score:2 Normal)
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**sigh**

Only thing that could of been worse is his total yard equaling 353:(

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August 28th, 2011 at 12:33 PM | i was there (Score:3 Normal)
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 i was at the Justin Siller game, yeah not so much Justin Siller as a very bad defense. i mean with that train of thought we could add Mcgloin, and numerous other players over the last 3 years. shit lets add that WR from Toledo while we are at it. (his name escapes me at the moment and im waaay to lazy to look him up...wait...Moore?)

August 28th, 2011 at 12:33 PM | i was there (Score:1)
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 i was at the Justin Siller game, yeah not so much Justin Siller as a very bad defense. i mean with that train of thought we could add Mcgloin, and numerous other players over the last 3 years. shit lets add that WR from Toledo while we are at it. (his name escapes me at the moment and im waaay to lazy to look him up...wait...Moore?)

August 28th, 2011 at 1:46 PM | I think he main problem... (Score:1)
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...of not understanding how to defend a mobile QB was because we stuck to a power running offense and pro-style drop back passers, and our defense never got experience against someone who could run out of the pocket.

wait...what?!?

"That's all there is...there isn't anymore"

August 28th, 2011 at 1:46 PM | another mobile QB (Score:3 Normal)
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Antwaan Randle El was a handful when he was back at Indiana. Also, kind of the opposite style of player tortured us in the Rose Bowl - Mike Williams of USC wasn't terribly nimble - he was just so big and strong that he kept our DBs from the ball with his body, kind of like a collegiate Antonio Gates . . . 

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August 28th, 2011 at 1:57 PM | I have a really good feeling (Score:1)
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I have a really good feeling about the upcoming season. 

August 28th, 2011 at 2:35 PM | Denard's Explosive Quality (Score:1)
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"A big question with Robinson is how the new Michigan staff will make use of his talents." - from Rivals.com

I am confident Hoke and company will find places where they can cause "explosions", and out of the smoke and ruin of the opposing D will come one Denard Robinson.

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August 28th, 2011 at 2:38 PM | A ND fan tried to tell me Taylor Martinez was better and faster (Score:1)
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yesterday. I will be showing him this article to further add on to my epic beat down of him.

Yep, that's Simba made out of a pineapple.

August 28th, 2011 at 4:14 PM | Or... (Score:3 Normal)
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...you could show him this:

and ask him "how much faster does he need to be?"

I am being Twitters

August 28th, 2011 at 4:56 PM | He's This Fast Now... (Score:2 Normal)
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"Funny isn't it, how naughty dentists always make that one fatal mistake."

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August 28th, 2011 at 7:41 PM | So many Star Trek movies (Score:1)
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So many disappointments :..,(

Abort, Retry, Fail?

August 28th, 2011 at 8:24 PM | A Few Certainly.... (Score:1)
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I still maintain that "The Wrath Of Khan" was the best of the movies. 

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