Minor Injury Update
Mates,
Minor injury update, one-off from a current player. Both Edwards and Schoon were good-to-go on Saturday if they were needed but held out to keep healthy. Corum's imaging showed no structural damage, and he should be good-to-go Saturday, also.
Not earth shattering hot tips, but at least it's good news.
On to ohio and the toilet bowl.
XM
November 21st, 2022 at 6:40 PM ^
Star Trek TOS is great. I’ve seen every episode multiple times but never tire of it.
November 21st, 2022 at 11:01 AM ^
Doesn't shatter our earth. Hope it shatters someone else's.
November 21st, 2022 at 11:11 AM ^
Like Nicola Tesla's earthquake machine...
November 21st, 2022 at 11:37 AM ^
Nikola not Nicola - he was Serbian, not Italian 😀
November 21st, 2022 at 11:40 AM ^
Nice quick fix there on Serbia/Serbian Mr. spelling policeman.
November 21st, 2022 at 12:04 PM ^
Dude...
November 21st, 2022 at 12:39 PM ^
Am I just old or did I miss something? What did he say that warrants a "Dude..." response?
November 21st, 2022 at 1:07 PM ^
Dude...!
November 21st, 2022 at 1:31 PM ^
Dude Response...
November 21st, 2022 at 1:06 PM ^
I was just kidding around. However, I am an expert in the spelling of the name "Nicola" and its derivatives - my legal first name is Nicolangelo.
I go by Nic to make life easier for eveyone... lol
November 21st, 2022 at 11:44 AM ^
Knowing about teslas earthquake machine. +1
November 21st, 2022 at 11:02 AM ^
Good update. We need everyone to make it 12-0.
November 21st, 2022 at 11:41 AM ^
I tried to give you your twelfth upvote, but someone beat me to the punch. Alas.
November 21st, 2022 at 11:52 AM ^
Actually think Edwards may be more important than Corum. I’m guessing there is an entire WR package for him, and that’s the bigger need right now.
November 21st, 2022 at 11:55 AM ^
Hard to say this given how central Corum has been to the team's success, but I think I might agree.
I was thinking the whole second half on Saturday that if Edwards was playing this would've been a comfortable 2 score win. They would've had so many ways to use him to beat what Illinois was doing.
November 21st, 2022 at 12:37 PM ^
It's funny because during the Illinois game I kept thinking how much Schoon or All would have helped.
November 21st, 2022 at 1:42 PM ^
Funny thing is, you can both be right. Lost track of how often I thought during the game how great it would be to have Edwards & Schoon out there.
November 21st, 2022 at 12:26 PM ^
We've seen it just a couple times this year, but I expect to see a healthy amount of plays with both Corum and Edwards in together.
The run/pass possibilities there are endless and as we seen with the RB Screen calls against Illinois, M has some previously uncalled plays in the playbook.
Time to let it all hang out.
November 21st, 2022 at 1:43 PM ^
<I want to believe gif>
November 21st, 2022 at 2:02 PM ^
Ive said for a few weeks they can open things up having corum and edwards out there at the same time. It will make osu pay attention to both of them.
November 21st, 2022 at 7:16 PM ^
We need all hands on deck if we’re gonna make it to regionals.
November 21st, 2022 at 11:03 AM ^
I love good news! Hopefully, everyone keeps healing up and can be ready to have a monster performance on Saturday.
With the injuries, I keep thinking back to Speight and how he was a warrior in 2016 to come back and play in the OSU game. If he was 5% healthier, we win that game without going into OT. Here's to hoping we get the better of them this time.
November 21st, 2022 at 11:42 AM ^
OSU line has moved from the -9.5/-10 it opened at yesterday down to -7.5. Sounds like Vegas has learned something about Corum’s status.
November 21st, 2022 at 1:31 PM ^
I jumped on the early odds - $20 on the good guys for the outright win gets me $70.
But of of the sweet scent of victory is priceless.
November 21st, 2022 at 11:55 AM ^
If Harbaugh hadn’t tried to run out the clock with 10 minutes left in the game with no running game, they would have won easily. They just gifted 3 and outs in the 4th qtr.
November 21st, 2022 at 12:32 PM ^
Harbaugh took a risk in this game but he would have thought about that game and others where he probably contemplated later what he could have done.
It worked out and hope we beat the buckeyes. I am off the mindset that Harbaugh has this game circled and he was going to do whatever he can to put UM in the best place to win this game. Buckeyes better be ready because UM is going to come out swinging. Go Blue!
November 21st, 2022 at 11:04 AM ^
I'm curious what "were good-to-go on Saturday if they were needed" means in this case. I guess technically we won without them, so they weren't needed. But.... come on, probably did need them and yet
November 21st, 2022 at 11:07 AM ^
Honestly, to beat Ohio State you may have to risk losing other games. Even if Michigan had lost to Illinois on Saturday, it is The Game that decides the conference title and BTT game. And they didn't lose, so it was a gamble that paid off.
November 21st, 2022 at 12:35 PM ^
This exactly. We can get to B1G championship losing to ILL but not losing to OSU. Glad Harbaugh is focused on OSU.
November 21st, 2022 at 2:08 PM ^
Honestly, to beat Ohio State you may have to risk losing other games. Even if Michigan had lost to Illinois on Saturday, it is The Game that decides the conference title and BTT game.
That was probably his thinking. All losing to illinois would have done was knock Michigan out of the playoff, but they'd still control their own path to Indy by beating osu.
I'm probably in the minority thinking that wouldnt be so bad because I dont think anyone is beating UGA again this year.
November 21st, 2022 at 11:18 AM ^
I think Harbaugh decided he was willing to sacrifice potentially losing to Illinois to ensure that players he absolutely needs to be 100% against OSU are going to be 100%, and that there was no risk of potentially re-injuring them or re-aggravating the injury.
Illinois, whether Michigan lost or not, was a mulligan game, as I believe Brian put it. Michigan could've lost, beat OSU, won the Big Ten and still almost certainly makes the playoff. Especially since it was a divisional cross-over game and had no effect on East standings or allowing Penn State to catch up.
Edwards and Schoon are guys that Michigan absolutely needs to be 100% going into Columbus. They may be this team's two most reliable pass-catchers. JJ needs Schoon back to have a reliable safety valve, and Edwards adds a huge element in the passing game as well.
Hindsight is 20/20 of course, but I think he made the right call. Potentially let the little fish go so you have a better shot at catching the big fish later.
November 21st, 2022 at 11:29 AM ^
This is what 'calculated risk' is all about. Harbaugh looked at everything and decided his odds were good enough to roll without them. And it worked out. So, yeah, it was the right call to sit them for another game.
November 21st, 2022 at 11:45 AM ^
Subject as always to hindsight.
Had Michigan lost to Illinois, there would have been much less shrugging about that game being a mulligan.
November 21st, 2022 at 11:56 AM ^
The funny part is if Michigan lost to Illinois and then beat OSU, in all likelihood they face a rematch vs Illinois for the Big Ten Championship. So they would have had a chance to avenge the loss. And Illinois is probably ranked at that point too.
But, a 12-1 Big Ten Champion is qualifying the playoff 100 out of 100 times. The only question is would that be enough to avoid Georgia in round 1. That I have no idea.