Michigan receivers diving for catches

I saw this thread and dove under the table.

Ten yards or more be worthy of an Olympic medal?

I don't know but I'm just sayin'.

Howard to your list.

On the first one, Rudock got face planted and had to get rid of it early.

On the second one, Chesson burned his guy and then he slowed slightly for some reason and then sped up once he saw the ball in the air.  Had he not slowed he may have gotten to it.

These were not that far off from hitting for TDs.  It is just a matter of timing.

Do you guys think UM will be ranked if they are 5-1 going into the MSU game?

With how wide open those guys were - its the QB's job to put a little air under it. That shouldnt need to be coached to a 5th year senior.  The pressure got to him - & that was that.

We need another option as QB. Hopefully Gentry will step up soon. He's big enough easy ... & can run like a mofo too.

 

 

 

 

He needs to give the recievers an opportunity to make a play on the ball lay it up in the air for a jump ball, Chesson and Darboh prove that they have ability to make plays.  I agree that they have yet to prove however that they posess the abiltiy to make athletic plays in the air.  That seems like a job for Drake Harris if he get the abiltiy to make such a play. 

Man.  Braden got straight up beaten on that long play to Darboh. If he blocked that guy even a little bit more that's a TD. Rudock stayed in there and took a shot.  

He should have dove and that is all there is to it.

Chesson, no. Darboh... Maybe. I yelled at my tv at the time and watching it again, I still think that's a catchable ball. There's a lot of factors at play (altitude, wind, first game etc). I didn't lose faith in Rudock over last night. I'm more concerned with the running game. Rudock hung in and ate shit on that pass to Darboh and delivered a pretty accurate and catchable ball imo. Our Rb's run hard but it's obvious they lack speed and vision. I still don't know why people aren't convinced Drake is our best back. Big powerful backs can dominate in high school without speed or vision. It doesn't work that way at the next level. You can't just run at defenders. You have to hit holes and be able to make people miss. Drake & Ty will be our best 1-2.

...even if they could have been touched with two hands.

You throw a deep ball so the receiver can adjust to it not so he has to lay out for it.

Now maybe in a few more weeks, on a nice sunny day in the Big House, one of those receivers might make the Howardesque grab.........but thurday night under the lights Rudock needed to give them a moment to find it.

But it shows how far they have come in a couple months so those plays should be open especially against weaker defenses. 

Michigan football is at the point where we are debating why our receivers don't dive for one or two passes which may or may not have made a difference.

I can't wait until we just start lining up and running fuckers over left and right again --- on both sides of the ball. When does that happen? I'm ready for that debate: "Why'd we only run 300 yards and not 400!!!"

The wind obviously played a big part in judging the balls. Along with Chesson and Darboh's limited reps with their new QB (wasn't the clear cut starter until game time. So I'm sure practice reps we split with Shane.). Combine those factors with how difficult it is to dive when running full speed, they would've have to had slowed down a bit just to push off.

Those plays sucked and were absolute game changers, but like Brian pointed out in his post earlier today, QB's miss those types of throws all the time... In perfect weather conditions. I've seen Tom Brady miss them in the playoffs and in the SB. The first miss was the main one I think we'd all like to have back. Chesson had his man beat by damn near 20 yards, if Rudock could've/would've just waited a beat, maybe he can see that and put a little more air under the ball. The 2nd one he definitely had the corner and safety beat, but it wasn't nearly as bad and Jake did the right thing by not risking an under throw. He threw it where his man would catch it, or no one would.

Things will get much better as the season wears on. It wasn't a fluke that the guy only threw 5 INTs last year, he just had much more time to establish his rapport with his WRs/TEs/RBs. He's capable of standing in there and making great throws, as witnessed by the absolute gem he threw to Butt for the TD following getting a Bledsoe like sideline tat just the play before... And even the near miss to Darboh when the DT came in like a blitzing DB untouched.

Even Desmond couldn't have reached those overthrown balls.

receivers LOVE to make diving catches.  I have to believe if those guys thought they could have made diving catches, they would have done so. 

Darboh seemed to stumble a bit on that play if not he probably scores, little bit unlucky. Chesson's play was just a classic overthrow.

Ala Howard and Manninghan

I logged in just to say to the OP ur crazy to think the receivers didn't lay out intentionally. The balls were uncatchable and had they been they players would have dove. Clearly you never played sports bc you don't dive to make a fan happy

It has been reported before that diving actually slows you down, as oppose to running through the play

Wonder what Desmond would say about those balls being catchable ?

He would say I would of had two touchdowns and we would of won.

I am very happy with our receiver play. We needed better QB play. I also believe Rudock will make better throws than Thursday come Big Ten play. If our receivers continue to at well, we are in good shape. A strong passing game will allow us to beat Sparty. We won't run on them.