by Burgeoning Wolverine Star (LINK).
Here's the video of the play in question:
Note that Quinton Washington pushes Purdue's right left guard back so far that he takes out the pulling left right guard, forcing the RB outside into Jake Ryan and Kenny Demens.
After Air Force, he has been
I am thouroughly dissapointed
I am thouroughly dissapointed about this post. I clicked on hte thread expecting something with Bill Cosby and a magic marker...
Mortimer sees what you did there.
That marker kicked ass btw.
"It's the only place to get the inside story on Wolverine football, so blee bluhh tahh!" - Bo
"He stood there like the house by the side of the road, and watched that one go by"
Glad to see him playing well,
Glad to see him playing well, we need him to. I had heard a story a while back that he was actually one of the strongest guys on the team, next to Mike Martin. Here's hoping he turns into a dominant DT.
He has been a beast in the
He has been a beast in the past few games... Will Campbell also had a sack in this game that he didnt get credited for in the statbook for some reason?
I also wonder what he would be like as a guard
The dude can move some bodies and seems unusally quick for such a large individual.
That's awesome
Look at him churning those feet non-stop to keep that guy moving backward. That's coaching and a player who's bought in.
Q Washington is country
Q Washington is country strong
Washington looked like he had
Washington looked like he had a decent future as a part-time DT in 2010.
Last year I didn't think he looked good, and that carried over to the first couple games of this season.
But now he's looking pretty good. Of course, Purdue's offensive line isn't anything special, but there aren't many Alabamas in the world...
There are a few Alabamas in
There are a few Alabamas in the NFL. Just a few though.
Special Teams means special times!
I also like Roh soaking up
I also like Roh soaking up the lead blocker (on the outside) and the fill by Morgan. Ryan makes a hell of a play as well.
OT: based on BWC's presser
OT: based on BWC's presser yesterday, it sounds as if RVB passed the QB of the DL baton to Craig Roh. Great to hear, much like RVB, Roh often knows what play the O is likely to run.
Maybe I'm an idiot
Isn't that the Left Guard he is pushing into the pulling Right Guard?
You know, Dude, I myself dabbled in pacifism once. Not in 'Nam of course.
Yep, blasted him right into
Yep, blasted him right into his own teammate.
Yeah, that's really
Yeah, that's really impressive. Q is going to be a big key for us over this year and next.
I'd like to see what QW and PeeWee look like next to each other next fall. That could be a lot of fun to watch.
Its Q-Wash
and Campbell time ladies and gents. They only get better and better.
Go Blue!
The best part about that play
The best part about that play (and it was all made possible by Q's crazy push): Jake Ryan makes a great tackle, but if he doesn't, Demens is there to make the tackle at the same place, and if he doesn't, Thomas Gordon is there to make the tackle at about the same place. If somehow all of those guys miss, Morgan and probably Beyer would get to him before he crosses the LOS.
What makes me able to
What makes me able to appreciate that even more is that a few years ago, even if we had that many players in position to make those tackles, they still would have still gained 15 yards.
Special Teams means special times!
If Washington can become at
If Washington can become at least a decent / serviceable DT, that really helps us next season. It allows the younger guys to gradually get used to college football instead of pushing a redshirt freshman into the starting lineup. This will give Godin / Strobel / Wormley / Henry the chance to get some experience without being thrown into the fire right away. So far Washington is looking pretty good at getting penetration and allowing the linebackers to make plays without being easily blocked.
“What the mind can conceive, the mind can achieve and those who stay will be champions.” - Bo
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This is something I've been
This is something I've been wondering for a little while so I'm glad this thread was posted as it seems like the perfect place to ask. This may seem obvious to some, but has Washington been playing the 3-Tech then? And does this mean there's a very good chance PeeWee and Washington are the two war daddies in the middle next year i.e. can they get both on the field at the same time or are they too similar of players?
No, he's been playing 1-tech
No, he's been playing 1-tech almost exclusively (I believe).
The best way to tell on this play is who he's next to - he's lined up next to Roh, the SDE (or 5-tech) which is where the NT lines up, between the 5-tech and the 3-tech.
Thanks, makes sense to me.
Thanks, makes sense to me. Can PeeWee play the 3-Tech then in anyone's opinion?
Although both of them are
Although both of them are typical NT types, I think PeeWee could play the 3-tech better than Q if you wanted them both on the field at the same time, especially once Pipkins drops the weight he's trying to drop.
Our defense intreagues me
Why is that our defense seems to improve so much over the course of the season? Can part of it be that the B1G sucks and we look better against B1G teams or at least maybe that we are more familiar with what their offenses are trying to do to us? Or is it that our Mattison & co. are awesome coaches? If it is the latter, why do we improve so much over the course of the year? It seems to me like the offseason would be the best time to improve, yet at the start of both the last two years we struggled and the defense improved as the year went on. I would think with an entire offseason of coaching we would come out on fire, but that didn't happen, instead we struggled. I find this interesting as I would think making improvements during the year would be hard, but D-line and linebackers especially seem to be really improving. It's both frustrating and encouraging at the same time. I love seeing improvement, but at the same time seeing poor results in the beginning of the year makes you question if players are really that good.
Strength equipment is expensive and guarantees you nothing. A strong will is free and can give you everything you want.
Well
For one, we played Alabama out of the chute and mixed in a lot of underclassmen, so we were going to struggle. Two, we played aginst an offense that we almost never see on a shortened week due to travel. After those two games, the defense has been pretty damn good.
You never know how an underclassman is going to pan out in a game situation even though they looked great in the offseason.
NCAA rules really limit the
NCAA rules really limit the amount of direct, technical coaching players can receive in the off season. It's limited to the 18 or so spring practices. But since the preseason, the defense has been getting 20 hours a week of technical coaching on their positions from what seems to be a very good staff of assistant coaches.
The offseason is the time to get strong and in shape for the season, but we shouldn't be surprised to see improvement in playing ability, particularly in the positions on the line where the technical parts of feet and hand positioning and leverage are hard to practice without pads and without coaches observing.
I don't know if it's that our
I don't know if it's that our defense has improved that much, or that it looks like it has (implying it was always good).
Our first game was against the Pittsburgh Steelers of Tuscaloosa. So yeah, we looked not great against them. Our second game was against the wacky offense of Air Force. After that? No one has done anything of substance against us.
Competition breeds success.
Competition breeds success. A lot of times it takes seeing yourself and/or your teammates on film for things to really sink in. For example, if a NT doesn't hold his ground against a double team, and he's shown on film what happens to the MLB who gets caught up in the wash and can't make the play, then he sees that his own individual play is holding back other people from making plays. Sometimes that's enough to trigger the fundamentals and hard work it takes to improve.
Question for Elaydin (or anyone else)
Does anyone know why this page loads on the app funny? It seems that opening up certain pages with videos embedded in the OP that the video blows up 1,000,000% and takes 20 minutes to scroll to the comment section. I thought I remember Elaydin talking about updating the app soon and thought this might be something that could be checked out on.
Also, I haven't noticed any problems with videos embedded within comments, it just seems to happen in the OP, maybe it has to do with where the video is embedded from? Not sure if anyone else is havin this problem.
iOS6 will do that quite a
iOS6 will do that quite a bit. I re-downloaded the new You Tube app along with updating to iOS6, and I still am getting about 50/50 viewable embeded videos. Its a glitch that will take time to settle I imagine.
"Everybody thinks of changing humanity, but nobody thinks of changing himself." - Leo Tolstoy
Hmmmm, much anger in him
That PU guard had to be like "WTF dude!? Jeeze, take it easy!"
I just re-realized that QWash is only a RS Jr
I like the idea of having him for another year. I had swore he was a senior too for some reason
After Air Force, he has been a pleseant suprise. I feel alot better about stopped MSUs run game, especially with that offensive line