Mike Morris updates injury status - says he's "feeling great" and "just a little tweak"

I hope he’s at least dressed and on stand-by

It's a fair question.  Coach Harbaugh sees the forest very well.  There are times when the trees are not so clear, though.

Yeah,

Things like "apply ice for x minutes, sit in sauna for x minutes, stretch for x minutes or times" all count as "treatment".

4 hours of treatment for semi-pro athlete doesnt really seem all that much, I can easily imagine 1-2 hours for perfectly healthy guys just for things like stretching, mfr's, saunas and ice baths, etc.

Fracture or sprain you can’t really do much about, so it wouldn’t require that much time.

To me it implies it’s something muscular, a bad bruise, strain, pull, that they are really working to try to get it to “relax”.

Agree - that might just be trainer industry standard and not correspondent of anything. 

We've been through the middle part of the "Job" plan for a while. But sign me up for the end of the Job plan where he is restored double for everything that was taken away. 

Its dumb. Whatever he did they knew the season was over weeks ago.

A lot of people were thinking the same, myself included...but notice he said Corum and JJ.

Offensive subs minus the WRs are generally more 1st team/2nd team. Even the WRs can do it more than the defense.

Defense is a lot tougher to do that because there are so many packages. Some of which only have starters and walk-ons. So you pull them and you get REALLY vanilla because you're playbook shrinks so much (if you're trying to play your 2nd team).

Also you're always subbing on defense. As you know, an advantage of the hurry up is the defense can't sub...but the offense can't either, yet it doesn't impact the offense like it does the defense. You just get tired chasing and going 100% every play when you don't know what is going to happen. Meanwhile that outside WR who knows its a run the other way can go 75% and save a little more energy on top of knowing what's happening when he's going 100%.

I know I'm saying shit you already know, just getting to the point that you sub so much more on defense. I wanted to see if Morris was in for the entire drive to that point or if he had subbed in. 

My assumption (hope?) is that Michigan was playing its 2nd team for the most part.  I'm about to go look, but if it was all starters...that's not good. But you can't just go all walk-ons and let Nebraska walk down the field with 6 minutes.

1. Not when you're playing for a CFP and trying to win style points.

2. Remember how miserable that was early in the year when our true freshman looked "bad?" Or that late Maryland score that was all prevent?  6 minutes is a lot of time for a defense. That could be 14 points.

It's one thing when an offense scores a bunch of points, subs in the deep bench and goes 3 and out a couple of times. It's another when the defense does it and gets shredded two drives in a row...there would've been groans.

3. This late in the year, you're protecting redshirts. 

The argument I would make is that while EDGE doesn't have high end talent like we had last year, we have a ton of upperclassmen who play. So Morris and/or Harrell shouldn't have been in, but I'd understand if McGregor, Upshaw or Okie were in (Moore would be the 4th guy in that group that would be playing, but he's a freshman). You can get a 2-deep with subs without Morris (and Harrell).

Guys like Morris and Mazi Smith, should have been planted on the bench.

Last comment, this is why I bitch about CB so much. This could've been DJ Turner, but we don't have 5-6 CBs (not counting NBs) in our rotation. We have 3 guys. That's not good enough, IMO.  You sub Turner and Green off and you're left with Johnson on one side (with no backup who plays)...and air on the other side. Even if you put the other Green over there, you don't have enough behind those guys. Jyaire Hill visits this weekend!

Edit: It was the 3nd and Long rush package with Morris and Okie on at EDGE. The entire front 7 subbed to that package. First down was the Mason Graham beastmode play, 2nd was the screen pass to Palmer and he knee was down when he caught the ball...it was 3rd and 17.

To that point in the drive Harrell, McGregor, Okie and Upshaw were rotating at EDGE. Graham, Grant and Jenkins at DT (maybe Benny, my YouTubeTV keeps crashing on my phone). Rolder and Barrett at LB. Back 4 were starters (Green was CB2, not Johnson) with Q. Johnson sprinkled in at Safety. 

Morris hadn't played that entire drive (until that 3rd and long where he gets hurt)...🤬. You can reasonably assume that was his last play because they punt, we go on offense and chew up clock, punt, and when they get the ball back, it's all 3rd team and walk-ons for Nebraska's final drive. 

Buncha good info and insight in these two posts--thanks for compiling them. 

The obvious coach-double-speak in his comments, I presume.

It's all God's plan?  Yeah, he is out against Illinois and very likely out against OSU.