DPJ already impressing people on 1st Day of Practice
I'm sure many on the board expect great things from DPJ, but it's nice to hear his teammates are already being impressed by him and his play-making skills.
Michigan has had some good receivers the last decade, but this Wilton Speight quote is quite encouraging: "Just the catch radius he had. If the ball is way out here; there was one that was going way out of bounds and he just plucked it. Some guys that were standing out of bounds just looked at each other after that one."
http://michigan.247sports.com/Bolt/Peoples-Jones-impresses-immediately-51965080
In other news, Coach Harbaugh stood by his support of Legal Services Corp and the work they do with indigent clients. I know we try to avoid anything that might even seem political on this site, but I really liked Coach's response to whether he should have avoided this topic:
“As I’ve told you before, this is a bipartisan issue. It’s an American issue and I’m allowed to be an American.”
I think DPJ, Black and Crawford are going to be the REAL DEAL this year.
I haven't been this excited about the potential of a position group since Henne/Gutz/Richard were battling.
March 25th, 2017 at 11:52 PM ^
Players like Sammy Watkins and Laquon Treadwell dominated as true freshmen. Watch for DPJ to do the same.
March 26th, 2017 at 12:22 PM ^
March 25th, 2017 at 10:07 PM ^
No it's not. It's one of the easiest. What are you talking about?
Maybe not this year, but I predict he will be great in JH's offense.
The QB was "under pressure." Despite great blocking by our young OL, and excellent coverage by our young DBs, the QB deftly eluded the onslaught of Gary and Hurst to make a near-impossible throw.
March 25th, 2017 at 11:49 PM ^
Not the catch radius as a fault of the quarterback. Anyways, I think he was saying it mainly jokingly so we should probably take it that way.
a big catch radius, it's one of the things Brady said he loved about Moss.
1. You don't always make a perfect throw, esp when under pressure.
2. Allows accurate QB to pinpoint a ball that beats close coverage.
March 25th, 2017 at 10:50 PM ^
His catch radius is the best thing I've heard about all off-season, other than some certain other things I've heard about Don Brown (which, wow). I feel like we haven't had a WR that will bail out a QB on some bad throws in forever.... 'bout time.
March 25th, 2017 at 11:51 PM ^
Or are you the new UMbig11 who has omniscience within the AD?
Not sure that Don Brown's catch radius is going to help us that much.
His moustache is still awesome though.
I'm not worried about the WRs. DPJ can be a Manningham, Julio Jones etc. type impact player off the bat and he enrolled early. Then we have guys like Mcdoom, Crawford, Johnson who are sophomores who played relatively well last year and Martin, Black, Collins etc. that are extremlely athletic. I'm more worried about OL, the DBs, and if we have injuries on the DL to guys like Hurst, Gary, Mone.
March 25th, 2017 at 10:51 PM ^
OL is *the* huge question mark for me. For some reason, maybe naively so, I feel like our defense will be just fine.
Speight will have no shortage of people to throw to this season. The only real question, for me, is whether or not they can get a ground game going.
our RB group is fine.
March 25th, 2017 at 10:53 PM ^
Totally agree.
March 26th, 2017 at 10:31 AM ^
Politics in America has taking the form of rooting for your favorite sport team. Issues mean squat. The only thing that matters is if your team won the game.
March 26th, 2017 at 12:32 PM ^
although I am a fisical conservative and for small government.
you meant "physical conservative"
(insert pic of your favorite ripped repub here)
:)
March 25th, 2017 at 11:39 PM ^
March 25th, 2017 at 11:47 PM ^
JESUS!!!
Jesus may be dinged up a bit, but give him three days and he will rise up and be ready to go.
March 25th, 2017 at 11:47 PM ^
March 25th, 2017 at 11:58 PM ^
Yeah, wish we had a solid oline because I'm sure speight is going to end up hurt with poor protection.
for freshman receivers to get targets because of upperclassmen hogging all the snaps. That may not be an issue on our team this year.
Overthrow DPJ!
GO BLUE!!
Will have the most yards this year out of all the WR's, book it.
HAHAHAHAHAAAAA!!!!!
Those damn nuiscances!!
But you're right, the nuances involved are fairly deep.
