How MSU is prepping for Denard
Michigan State is using wide reciever Tony Lippett (who?) to emulate Denard Robinson in practice this week. At first glance it sort of makes sense since the guy was a spread qb in high school, but hes 6'3'' and ran a FAKE 4.53 forty coming out of high school. Do they really not have a faster shorter guy to try and show what Robinson can do? Other random things from the article:
Dantonio having trouble moving still, but hopes to get on to field.
Wisconsin game was "best moment of his head coaching career"
http://noise.typepad.com/hey_joe/2010/10/dantonio-is-here.html#more
October 6th, 2010 at 12:14 AM ^
Denard cannot be prepared for or stopped without opening up other aspects of our offense. Anyone proposing a magic bullet theory is an idiot. Denard is a balanced offense in and of himself. A single spy would never work to contain his run--no one matches his speed and we have excellent lineman who can block downfield. All you could really do is blitz contain with a couple guys...leaving them 11 on 9 or opening up a run up the middle, which Denard has no problem going for 6. Stopping Denard's running ability just means he will throw for 300-400 yards and murder you downfield. He's not one dimensional and simple theories to stop him are absurd.
The offense only sputters when he makes a poor read or makes an errant throw. That's all opposing defenses can hope for. When he runs the offense correctly it cannot be stopped.
We have two more years of this. He will only get better, playing faster mentally and physically. Picture Denard, next year, with our schedule and veteran OL, WR, TE and RBs. It's going to be ridiculous.
October 6th, 2010 at 12:19 AM ^
I saw an X-Files episode where these teenagers would go in a cave and step into this light and it would make them have the ability to go faster than a bullet. They couldn't catch Denard.
October 6th, 2010 at 3:04 AM ^
I heard that they are working on controlling the clock too.
October 6th, 2010 at 9:13 AM ^
Two more thoughts:
- I can't wait to see Taylor Lewan in this game. His natural game hate + Sparty hate will have him road-grading people, and, unfortunately, probably getting flagged a few times.
- I think the full RR playbook comes out now. We've always heard it's been deployed only partially; if I had a guess, I would say he believes this is the most important game of his career, that this one dwarfs OSU at the end of the year. He's got two mandates: get Sparty back in their place this year and OSU next year in Ann Arbor. The kitchen sink will come out on Saturday.
October 6th, 2010 at 9:26 AM ^
The Spartans can prepare for Denard by getting out the record books so they can be rewritten. Otherwise, not much else they can do.