Derrick Green hurt in practice & out 2 weeks
From the twitter:
Jeff Weintraub @TheDailyTraub 17m
Per source: Michigan freshman RB Derrick Green got hurt in practice today and is out 2 weeks.
EDIT: More from person on twitter reporting story:
Jeff Weintraub @TheDailyTraub 54s
@MGoShoe I'm not gonna reveal my source, but it's the same person that told me Jake Ryan tore his ACL before it was announced
the messenger
I mean, was Green really going to pick up all the pass protections and blocking schemes by the first game? It's all good, get well soon derrick!
This is being "reported" while our beat writer for Detroit news is still tweeting about food.
the human body is very tough - I once saw a movie where a guy with a gunshot wound hit a homerun.....that is how tough the human body is
Wait..... Is Green retiring?
Anybody else pick this up yet or does this guy just have the best source out there?
No word yet on CNN FOX or MSNBC - I'll be monitoring all night.
A user posted a topic asking over on 247, but none of the gurus have weighed in yet.
So I guess he's not that efficient at 240 huh Borges?
FIRE BORGES!!!1!!!!!!!!!1!!!!!
Obviously Fitz was overweight when he got hurt last year. It's football, guys get dinged. Lets not overreact.
If true, the real question is what will Hoke call it? ... "dinged up" is a good guess, but I'm going to go with "boo-boo" ...
Damn, this is especially concerning in light of Brian revealing this morning that Deveon Smith had been eaten by an editor.
Let's just hope that was either false or he gets regurgitated.
...you want Derrick Green to be ingested and then thrown up? You sick bastard. AMRRBG is a fate incomprehensible.
Nooooooooooo!!!!!!!
Practice can't hurt Derrick Green. Derrick Green hurts practice.
True story.
...the one thing I almost forgot about football season is how much people over-fucking-react around here. It's embarassing. It's TWO WEEKS! Hell, it may help him to be able to stand on the side and learn the playbook a little more and watch. If the 2 weeks is accurate, he'd be able to play in the season opener.
Don't you think that much of the "over-fucking-reacting" is just members being facetious for the purpose of offering some modicum of comedic effect? I do, but perhaps I'm wrong.
I think you're the only one over-fucking-reacting.
August 7th, 2013 at 10:33 PM ^
The biggest reaction i've seen out of anyone in here...
Really? I honestly do not sense mass over reaction. Not really sure what you expect people to post in response to this news. Other than listing, ad nauseam, every permutation of the two deep using remaining healthy players or absurdly saying its a good thing one doesn't have many other options. To be honest, screaming, "TWO WEEKS!" appears to be the most significant over reaction posted.
You don't "learn the playbook" by standing around watching. You learn by doing it. This is a problem that the corches will have to sort out. Borges had just said that in the next week he and Freddy J had hoped to narrow down our stable of RB's, because you can't get them all ready...
August 8th, 2013 at 10:20 AM ^
"The biggest thing I tell my guys is I didn't get all the reps (when I was a freshman), but I made sure I watched every rep," Hart said. "There's freshmen on my team over there talking, and they don't know the playcall or what's going on.
"You can process these things without getting a physical rep. I think that's kind of what helped me transition, is I was only getting a couple reps, but I was really getting 15 reps per period. A new playcall, I was thinking about what I had to do and how I had to do it."
http://www.mlive.com/wolverines/index.ssf/2013/05/mike_hart_once_a_1000-yard_fre.html
I don't like change. Also looking at you MGOBLOG. Neg away.
Well, we can't neg...well played, you clever devil
It will be OK, Fitz was going to be the starter anyways. Green will get a week of practice before the first game and will get carries against Central Michigan. Running back is not like quarterback where you need an unbelievable amount of repetition. Pure talent can carry a person, experience just makes them great.
BWAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! I'm not even going to let myself get worked up over this crass.
In the words of Spandau Ballet, this much is true... Not worried.
....ain't that a bitch
Well, this puts us in the same position we were in last year - Toussaint, Rawls, and Hayes (minus Vincent Smith). Not to diminish the loss, but we do have some depth there.
August 7th, 2013 at 10:32 PM ^
just do not agree with this man. if a warm body equals depth, maybe. certainly not quality depth.
August 8th, 2013 at 12:35 AM ^
Same position with regards to running back, but without Denard our rushing attack is hardly in the same position.
He wasn't going to be the main rb until the second half of the season anyway. IF this rumor is true, my only real concern is that he probably needed the exercise to lose weight.
Any one else besides this guy confirm this news?
I haven't heard or seen any
I like D. Smith equal or better to Green so true or not I have no worries.
Still no confirmation.
CURSE.
From here on out make your weekly obsession about Urban Meyer.
We'll be fine.
Did we write off Rawls already?
Aside from about one run against Illinois last year, Rawls hasn't shown anything. If he's heavily in the rotation, that's bad news.
I thought it was tough for everyone last year. I'm not a pro, but it seemed like the blocking was the issue. He's a between the tackles runner, and our interior blocking was atrocious. I'm not saying Rawls is great or anything, but he might still be an unknown. I bet most RBs would have struggled behind that blocking.
August 7th, 2013 at 10:08 PM ^
I don't know man, Rawls looked pretty slow and didnt break many, if any tackles last year. Even without Greene I doubt he gets any carries unless its a blowout.
He still couldn't break any tackles or outrun anyone. Yes, the interior blocking was poor at times, but he's not fast or powerful. The most power he's shown was when he ran through Jarrod Wilson's tackle...when Wilson enrolled early and should have been a high school senior during the 2012 spring game.
When he went head on with the Strong Safety Sunseri and got blown to pieces.
August 8th, 2013 at 10:42 AM ^
Clearly you were paying zero attention to Coach Jackson during his descriptions of Mr. Rawls. I'd be suprised if this minor injury to Greene doesn't result in a Heisman for Rawls within a year or two.
August 8th, 2013 at 10:54 AM ^
For once I agree with you about a player.
Rawls is a great kid and I met his parents and they are wonderful people, but he had a lot of trouble last year. It may or may not have been the interior O-Line being weak (looking at you, Mealer), but man he was completely ineffective. Watch pretty much any game last year and you will see Rawls getting hit in the backfield and going down quick. It was pretty bad.
August 7th, 2013 at 10:08 PM ^
2 weeks is nothing. Work him out elsewhere, keep him in shape/better shape and a week from his return he is running all over CMU
August 7th, 2013 at 10:17 PM ^
When he went down, 37 people were killed!
August 7th, 2013 at 10:22 PM ^
does that mean we lost 37 players on defense? :)