It's official boys - Sheridan is out
For those who don't believe the blogs and message boards, there is an article on the freep - a blog, but from a "reputable" source.
http://freep.com/article/20090325/SPORTS06/90325110/U-M+QB+Sheridan+app…
In Tate we trust?
Your needed on deck...QUICKLY
This dosen't bode well going forward pertaining to the depth at qb. Justin has now become a option...again.
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Not sure if you're being sarcastic or not, but either way:
Whoever thought anyone could even feign disappointment like this at the thought of Sheridan not playing?
The plus side: Tate will get many more snaps now, which will help in the fall.
yeah, this is a big deal.
Not withstanding all of the jokes, Michigan how has how many viable QBs? They are all without any college experience (OK, Feagin took a couple of snaps and seemed forbidden to throw), and other than Feagin, they are both true freshmen.
Not a good situation.
Depth is a major, major concern. It has been ever since Threet transferred. You have to presume that Sheridan was going to make amazing strides over the offseason in order to consider him a "viable QB."
March 25th, 2009 at 10:11 PM ^
You have to presume that Sheridan was going to make amazing strides over the offseason in order to consider him a "viable QB."
Michigan is not too far from playing guys that were behind Sheridan like Feagin and Brown. Compared to Sheridan, neither is viable. Robinson, who knows?
If Sheridan doesn't recover, this team is 1 injury away from the abyss.
Definitely not sarcasm. Yes, Sheridan was DEATH last year, but he was our only experienced quarterback, and I'm sure he would have been better this year. Tate and Denard might be DEATH coming out of the gate this year - who knows? What we do know is that if they are, that's all we got.
Player A- Very talented, lacks experience
Player B- Horrible, experienced
I would go for player A. After the first snap he is "experienced".
Agreed.
Player A will have the keys handed to him...should be a wild ride.
But its still worrisome, because if Tate goes out there and, god forbid, can't handle it, we then move on to someone with even less experience than him.
March 25th, 2009 at 10:07 PM ^
Sheridan adds depth we desperately lack. It's far from assured that the QB woes of '08 are as bad as it gets.
March 25th, 2009 at 10:14 PM ^
And I certainly agree -- bad news indeed. It's just ironic after all of the "Sheridan better not play next season or else" talk we all endured (and perpetuated) in the fall.
Why are [some] people losing their minds over Sheridan's injury?
Sure, he's going to miss the spring game and all the practices in between - but it's only March 26th and he's got over four months to recover from it until the rest of the 2009 recruits join their new teammates.
It's certainly a setback and that's never a good thing, and admittedly, I don't know just how serious the fracture is - but it seems a little premature to write him off for the 2009 season.
Just a thought. Maybe I'm not quite getting something everyone else is.
to the the Freep as well. They will stop at nothing to perpetuate this lie.
they will start putting "liquid heat" in the player's jocks.
Abandon ship? Run for our lives?
David Cone, at your service....
If I ever see him run out on the field for offense I would just go off myself.
Edit: Too harsh?
It might be a little too harsh, but the mindset is right: if David Cone takes meaningful snaps for this team, it's in deep trouble.
... check out the comments. Somebody by the call sign valstaker wrote:
"Mark, (author of blog)
Mgoblog.com had this about 5 hours before you did. Why do you think you're going out of business?"
Gotta love that.
I'm Valstaker on freep. Thanks.
As to this situation. It isn't good, but it's not that bad. Personally I was one of the group that thought Sheridan would take the first snap against Western and then never see the field again. It would be nice to have some competition at practice. We now need to hope Tate doesn't get too cocky.
could be more good.
Long run, yes. Short run, NOOO
Yeah. That's what I'm saying!
spanish for "Break the Legs"? My logic is this, whatever-that-is-in-spanish = the new "Querme Los Barcos" battle cry for the football team. No looking back, no whining, ON WARD!!
I think it's either "Rompe las piernas" or "Rompie las piernas." I don't remember conjugation at all.
I believe it's "Ponlo en una bolsa para cadáveres, Juanito."
Queme is the 3rd person subjunctive form of Quemar, which is (obviously) "to burn." In this case, however it is used as a formal command (3rd person, usted is the formal version of "you" which is treated as a 3rd person pronoun, not sure if you get the point, but 'nuff said)
So, if you are trying to recreate the formal command it would be "Rompa las piernas," but I was never sure why it wasn't a more colloquial informal command ("Quema los barcos") so in that case it would be "Rompe las piernas." I like it best as "Rompe las piernas" because that also doubles as "breaks the legs" (as in saying Michigan football "breaks the legs").
Eh, whatever. I was just pumped because my semi-fluency of spanish has never been useful on this board.
is David Cone running the second team.
Although I would imagine that in the disaster scenario Feagin would see meaningful PT before the ConeBone.
"The Coner" taking snaps in a game this fall than having to endure watching Dontrelle Willis or Nate Robertson pitching this year for the Tigers.
Ugh, I had forgotten Dontrelle Willis existed. Thanks, dick. However, I kinda like Nate Robertson. At least he's good sometimes.
Nate was injured today, too.
March 25th, 2009 at 10:02 PM ^
DonSMELL
Eight Run Nate
March 25th, 2009 at 10:13 PM ^
Nate Robertson has been a league average starter over the last five seasons and has been worth 4-5 times on the open market what he's been paid.
In all seriousness, because I've never had one, how long does a broken leg, assuming it isn't a major joint like an ankle or knee, take to heal?
Depending on what exactly broke and how severe, prob 6 weeks in a cast, 2 weeks of limited activity and getting rid of the worst of the atrophy, and then he has to get back in shape
Not a doctor here, but I have had more than a handful of broken bones thanks to motocross.
Fibula injury, quick recovery (relatively). Femur or tibia or otherwise...not so fast.
If these drills are truly no contact, I would guess it is a spiral fracture of the fibula. That bone is non weight bearing, it controls rotation of the foot and a good twist can break it (and screw up the ankle at the same time!).
Just my guess...again not a doctor but do have quite a bit of broken bone experience and broke my fibula a few years back.
I would be impressed.
March 25th, 2009 at 10:12 PM ^
but I concur.
March 25th, 2009 at 10:33 PM ^
If you read the Freep blog, Sheridan was in a walking boot.
When you break your femur, you don't get a walking boot. You don't get a boot, period. You get a giant fucking cast and a hospital bed to wheel yourself around in.
My official diagnosis:
It is not a broken femur.
At the time of the OP it didn't say anything about crutches or a boot. It was titled something like "Sheridan has serious leg injury" with no other info. It was probably updated by the time you clicked it.
Anyway, sounds better for Nick. Well, as good as a broken leg could anyway. I wonder who broke it? I hope they start.
When I broke my leg (in two places) all I kept thinking about is "They kill horses for this shit." And now that I am all "healed" and go out running, I know why they do. Still hurts like hell. 2 plates 10 screws YYYEEEEAAAAA!
Arnold Schwarzenegger was all metal, and he didn't whine.
I hope Jeremy Gallon gets his ACT score where it needs to be. He may have to be number three.
It would probably be Gordon
Another way this is bad - Coner running the second string offense can't be good for the development of the rest of those offensive players. Just can't. Also, forcier running the first team offense when he doesn't know all of it can't be good for their development, either.
Return of the Angry Michigan Quarterback Hating God
Now Tate will be with the first team offense for spring ball :-).
Feagin back to QB?