DRob - The new Tyrod Taylor?

Taylor's pretty good, but Denard's a better athlete.

Tyrod Taylor is the old DRob.

Denard is vastly superior I say sirrah

you can't hoodwink me with your preposterous sausage

No other QB can match Denard's running ability and he is already a better passer than TT.

Man, as long as we win, I don't care what it looks like.

That said, Taylor is a fine blue print, but I think DRob is a much better athlete, and our offense will have more designed runs cause you just can't match his abilities.

Wasn't Taylor a pretty disappointing QB until this last season? I know he was one of the top QB's, if not the top QB, in his recruiting class. I know he capped his senior year with that sick scramble and TD pass against Stanford (I think), but I think Denard has shown enough to elicit a more positive comparison than this.

Denard Robinson can not be comapred to anyone, he is the one and only Denard Robinson. None others can do what he does! (not matter how much TP likes to think he can)

I think Denard Robison could possibly be the next Cam Newton but a little smaller, but also faster and without a Dad who exploits him, and whose dad is also not a minister -- but who can also throw a little better on the run and who can do fine in a pro set with an adaptable OC like Al "squishy belly" Borges -- and who is also smarter and less cheesy than Cam Newton.

was a 5* recruit who never really lived up to the hype and recruiting ranking coming out of HS. He's a solid QB but not a great QB.  Denard, meanwhile, is a 4* athlete who weren't recruited as a QB out of HS(except for 3 teams) has set numerous records in his first year of starting.

Not a good comparison IMO.

Denard is a much better athlete and they're both equal in passing aspects of football. Denard will have a better college career, though.

Good discussion point. February is killing me with no football.

Another good question is Taylor's pro prospects. Will he end up being like Denard?  Robinson will play in the NFL as a quarterback if he stays injury free. I have no doubt.  As long as that is something he wants for his future, it will happen.

I would not say Denard is quite the passer that Taylor is yet. In the games I've seen, I have been absolutely wowed by Taylor's arm strength and accuracy when off balance. Taylor was 23TD/5INT this year. Now this is not to say that Taylor is even close to the runner Denard is, but he has improved a ton in passing over the last couple years.

I guess we'll find out this year. Drob is gonna transition well!

several of them in person. Denard Robinson was a much better passer this past year than Taylor was as a sophomore, though in Taylor's defense, he was working with an entirely new corps of receivers and playing behind a very suspect offensive line. Michigan's offensive line in 2010 might have been better than any offensive line Taylor ever had-- VT missed badly on offensive line recruits from 2004 to 2006, and paid a price for it up front against more athletic defenses. Taylor only played as a true freshman in 2007 because the offensive line was so bad that his scrambling was VT's best hope of fielding a running game. He matured tremendously as a passer over his last two seasons.

Athletically, there are obvious similarities, and a few key differences-- Denard has better straight-line speed and lateral quickness, Taylor probably has better arm strength and better accuracy when he's on the move. From the pocket, I actually think Denard's more accurate. VT gave Taylor plenty of rollouts and option passes to get him out of the pocket, because he struggled finding throwing lanes at times. VT also never had to run Taylor as much during his last three seasons, because they had first-class talent at tailback(Darren Evans, Ryan Williams, etc.)  One of the things Hoke and company are going to have to do is find somebody who can take the load off Robinson in the running game. Once they find that player and learn how he can be used most effectively, they'll have a much better idea of how to fit Robinson's running ability into the system. It wouldn't surprise me if they kept some of the designed QB runs and zone-read stuff, but they'll likely use them as changeups against the defense, instead of as the base of the offense.

Denard has dilithium which makes him better the Tyrod!

think alot of people,just do not give SHOELACE credit. He was a 63 percent passer last year,thats not counting all the drops. Come on guys,maybe he is the next Michael Vick.GO BLUE!!!

whats your guys thought on how the team will go in the future? if Denard and Gardener both suceed as mobile QBs in a prostyle you think the coaches will try to stick with that formula and stay with that style QB or will they go back to getting the Mallet type QBs

I was actually in Miami when they played V Tech.  Taylor looked pretty average to me in that game.

Taylor has never had a passing percentage above 60% in his career.  Yes, I'll agree Taylor may be a bit better in his decision making and throwing than Denard, but if you ask me they are pretty damn even.

For everyone that says Denard had a 62% completion percentage because his running ability, so what? I can remember a great deal of throws that Denard had to put on the money during the entire year.  Look at the RB production that Taylor got versus what Denard had this past year.  

I just hope that Denard can continue to work on his throwing motion and hopefully get some production from the RBs so he isn't banged up going into the Big Ten schedule.

I don't really see the comparison. They're both mobile quarterbacks? Okay, but Denard is one of the fastest kids in the country, and is already a pretty decent passer. This seems like journalism for the sake of journalism, not really anything to put much stock into.

Denard as a passer has a naturally stronger arm and a quicker release than Tyrod. I think as of this moment only experience stands between them as an advantage to TT.

Denard is both faster & more illusive with the most explosive 1st step I've seen since Tony Dorsett was at Pitt. TT is stronger on his feet & in general harder to bring down but thats his only edge IMHO.

Either was Denard's upside looks to be a mile higher than TT's.

First of all he suggests that DR might not be the 2011 M qb unless he can make the transition under Borges. What he fails to say is that our other option is Devin Gardner who would have even more difficulty transitioning into Borges' type offense inasmuch as he's run the spread option in both h.s. and under RR.

Speculation, based on DG's proven ability to throw the long ball and his prototypical size for an NFL qb, might suggest that when all is said and done, he'll be recognized as a "must get" for some NFL team in need of a qb. But all throws to date have been against h.s. dbs, and as a result it's quite a leap, in my opinion, to suggest that DG has even a remote chance of taking the starting job away from Denard in what would amount to his first year as a D1 qb.

Because Brandon has indicated he isn't going to allow someone to transition while losing, Hoke and Borges will be forced to play the qb that gives UM the greatest chance of winning this season, not in future years.  All anyone has to do is ask themselves who that person is and answer it honestly to know who will be running the offense for UM the next two years.

He doesn't even mention that DR has a great love for the position, as a sponge when it comes to absorbing the nuances of even a much more sophisticated offense - all borne out by his tremendous improvement from a virtual "Do what you can" as a freshman - and the most important attribute that any offensive leader can possess. That, of course, is the fact that his teammates beleive DR is their leader, and he's proven to be so.

The young man is the most talented athlete we've ever had at UM and an accuracy increase of roughly 25% in regard to his passing skills indicate he'll be able to run any offense he's assigned to do so as a college qb.

With that said, Borges, or any OC for that matter, would be quite foolish not to design a number of plays w/in the "Pro style system" that feature play action sprint outs.  Both of our qbs are extremely mobile and these type of plays not only cause the DL to become tired due to pursuit angles, but would also allow either of these two to decide if they want to run for five yards on every play and move the chains or when their receivers are simply too wide open to ignore to simply put some air under the ball and get 6 now. 

Spath, like all paid monitors has to fill space to generate an exchange of opinions amongst his paying audience. There really should be no question in any one's mind, after having watched DR for what amounts to only one year of Big Ten fb whether or not he'll make the necessary adjustments. Hell, this is "cake" for him compared to all the reads he had to make under the read option attack, in which he more than proven himself.