NFL Wild Card Round Saturday Playoff Thread [title edited]

Submitted by three_honks on January 13th, 2024 at 4:53 PM
  • Browns @ Texans on now on NBC (0-0, 1st quarter)
  • Dolphins @ Chiefs at 8pm on streaming service I'm boycotting

 

MGoBoard
Football
#NFL
#playoffs

AlbanyBlue

January 13th, 2024 at 4:56 PM ^

They just mentioned Nico's awesome season thus far. Nothing but love for Nico.....

EDITED TO ADD: I forgot to put "1200 yards receiving". Way to go Nico!!

Joined: 09/11/2010

MGoPoints: 22052

AlbanyBlue

January 13th, 2024 at 5:02 PM ^

Not gonna lie, I *would* be kinda upset about the "passing game" especially this year with JJ.

BUT

National title. So I'm not going to be upset.

Run the ball, fine, just use the wrinkles and counters inherent in the Harbaughffense. Play defense, fine, just have it be a historic one, like this one.

Champions. I'm not gonna stress about anything until AT LEAST next season starts, and probably not even then. 

Joined: 09/11/2010

MGoPoints: 22052

othernel

January 13th, 2024 at 6:36 PM ^

This is my unpopular opinion as well.

Our all-time defense made it so that our offense didn't need to put a full game on their shoulders. 

That seemed to cover up the fact that our offense was not playing up to it's full potential. 

So excited to win the title, but hope that the coaches see that there's a lot of room for improvement in the passing game next season. 

Joined: 08/04/2009

MGoPoints: 19920

AlbanyBlue

January 13th, 2024 at 7:32 PM ^

That's the thing -- Our coaches are smart; they know they're not utilizing the passing game. But they don't mind. They're going to be run-heavy, as run-heavy as is feasibly possible actually. But this is the key -- they want to evolve the run game to continue to introduce things they think that other teams can't stop.

You want to fling 8 or 9 guys at the LOS to "stop our run"? That's fine, we'll just put eight or nine excellent blockers on the line and block however many guys you bring. It may not work all the time against the best defenses, but when you have an all-world defense like in 2023, it'll be enough. 

Now, will Michigan run into trouble when they find themselves *having* to pass? Maybe. It happened against Georgia in 2021 and TCU in 2022. But it didn't happen this year. Veteran JJ threw it 27 times against Alabama -- almost a 50/50 run/pass split in that victory. But against Washington? Michigan knew the run would work, and they leaned on it. National Champs.

So, the 2023 Wolverines were scary. A run-first team that can also run an effective passing offense when it's called for, with a historic defense that ranks up there with, dare I say, 2021 Georgia in its effectiveness.

A worthy National Champion indeed.


 

Joined: 09/11/2010

MGoPoints: 22052

PopeLando

January 13th, 2024 at 4:59 PM ^

Watching CJ Stroud throw to Nico Collins makes me mad at the 2017-2019 time period all over again.

We could have had THAT kind of production. His entire Michigan career production has been equalled this year.

Joined: 08/01/2015

MGoPoints: 68314

PopeLando

January 13th, 2024 at 7:10 PM ^

Dude I’ve been flying high on the National Championship all week, and tracked down WolverineDevotee’s highlights on Rumble last night for both the Rose Bowl and the Championship.

That does not - in my opinion - erase the abysmal 2017 offense nor the inability to turn a roster full of NFL players into success in 2018-2019. Josh Gattis is an ALL-TIME bullshitter. 2017 is on Harbaugh and Drevno.

And I still need justice for Nico and DPJ

Joined: 08/01/2015

MGoPoints: 68314

rob f

January 13th, 2024 at 5:03 PM ^

Nothing like trolling the board with a troll-worthy OP title...

 

 

 

Fortunately there's an edit button and an impoverished South American country as possible solutions to this silliness.

 

Joined: 11/11/2010

MGoPoints: 194826

Darker Blue

January 13th, 2024 at 5:26 PM ^

So if you somehow can't afford to spend 5.99 on a month of peacock, there are a ton of easy ways to sail the seven seas and watch sports.

Personally I use Kodi with TheCrew addon. I have Peacock but I watch a lot of NBA and that addon allows me to watch most games in HD.

If you need a walkthrough of how to set up Kodi I'd be happy to help. It's pretty easy.

Joined: 10/30/2011

MGoPoints: 80446

Mr Grainger

January 13th, 2024 at 6:36 PM ^

I sincerely appreciate your offer, but the point is I am now being asked to pay for something which, until this season, I always got for free. A media conglomerate and the most powerful sports league in the world, both worth billions of dollars, are holding me upside down by my ankles and shaking every penny out of me they can get.

Any way you slice it, this is a huge middle finger to sports fans while these giant companies get a few more bucks to throw on the pile.

Please forgive me if I am not jumping at the chance to subscribe to a streaming service with a handful of sports events I might watch and a lineup of worthless sitcoms and boring dramas I wouldn't look at if the only other show available was a test pattern.

Joined: 06/26/2015

MGoPoints: 9444

pinkfloyd2000

January 14th, 2024 at 6:40 AM ^

Here’s the way I see it: I’ll sign up for one month and then cancel. It’s the price of, like, one drink at Starbucks, or one pint of craft beer (at almost any restaurant/bar).
 

I did notice, though, that Peacock’s exclusive premiere of Oppenheimer is on February 15—outside that one-month window if someone just subbed yesterday. Because of course. 

Joined: 01/27/2009

MGoPoints: 18471

kehnonymous

January 13th, 2024 at 5:39 PM ^

Shame that Stroud missed that deep shot just now, you would think that he would be experienced with safeties from OSU whiffing against receivers from Michigan going deep

Joined: 11/25/2011

MGoPoints: 32995

BoFlex

January 13th, 2024 at 5:42 PM ^

This game makes you wonder how much the Carolina Panthers are probably kicking themselves for drafting Bryce Young instead of CJ Stroud.

Joined: 05/30/2011

MGoPoints: 5283