I can just picture him saying that.  Turning on the charm and humor.  Glad he's getting looked at for the NFL, but if he doesn't get looked at for a post-NFL media career, I'll eat a lemon.  (Okay, I like lemons.  Nevertheless...)

And then he'll use his social work skills in his spare time.

I wonder what he could have achieved under Harbaugh or Rich Rod. I think it's pretty clear our staff let him down.

Why would anyone hate you for saying that?

that might have been the highpoint of the Hoke era. I legit thought we were gonna be a good team that year...then Akron and UCONN happened

Michigan had more talent than nine of the teams they played and ended up losing to four of those teams.  That always says more about the scheme on offense than any one player on the team.  DG didn't suddenly turn into a QB who couldn't do anything; there was nothing for him to do.  

There was no separation because defenses knew where the receivers were going before DG could even see them.  Except in a few games, there were no holes for running and nobody was fooled into leaving the edge open.  He was told to stay in the pocket, but for the most part there was no pocket.  

DG's only "shortcoming" in 2014 was not being enough of a chef or alchemist to make chicken soup out of chicken feathers.

The thing about that is that I don't think many of the spread systems focus enough on QB mechanics for him to get where he'd need to get in those systems. Rich Rod famously teaches very little mechanics. At OSU they teach a marginal amount and go from there (much of the mechanics is focused on footwork and ball handling in the run game and reads, not in passing mechanics). DG's mechanics were awful coming into college. There was no way with those mechanics he would have been consistent enough throwing the football to be a viable NFL player.

Gardner's best shot at the NFL and sticking in the NFL was in a system like Michigan's, similar to Young while at Texas. A sort of hybrid NFL style offense that mixed in some of his athletic strengths. People say he needed a spread system, but Borges ran him plenty but provided him enough tools from a throwing mechanic standpoint where he looked like a very likely NFL prospect early on. If the OL would have stood up at all in 2013, I have little doubt DG would have looked like an NFL prospect QB at the end of 2013 (though he still had many flaws in his game that needed to be improve, he was at a level in terms of making the throws that were required to be an NFL QB).

A simpler system (such as a spread-to-run system) may have helped him as far as defensive reads prior to the NFL, which may have allowed him to get drafted as a QB. There is certainly a good chance it would have made him a better college QB. But it only would have seen him exposed once he got his opportunity in the NFL, and once exposed that grossly, his career would have been over quickly. He absolutely has trouble reading defenses regardless, and he would in the NFL in an NFL system with NFL defenses. He needed the opportunity to learn that skill in college to improve enough to ever be a viable NFL QB long term.

So I disagree that he needed to go to that type of system and he'd be an NFL QB. He needed a system much like the one that he was in, that showed off his skills as a runner (he ran the ball about 12 times a game) while improving his skills in the passing game. But he needed a program without a sieve for an OL to actually allow him to continue improving not just in practice, but just as importantly with game experience. Instead, the game experience likely ruined him, not the system. The system displayed many of his strengths (run threat, arm strength, and play designs that accounted for marginal accuracy at times).

Guess you missed the huge thread with 328 comments titled "

"247 reports MOAR HARBAUGH coming to Ann Arbor!"

Guess that OP could've been a little more clear in his title.

/s

Using the search function helps

I watch that GIF and I think, "QB why you no cut block Jake Ryan?"

at pac bell and stanford in the past and the players were far from the crowd and it was about as exciting as going to a high school football game....a mediocre one. Crowds not into it at all.

What I find completely hilarious about your statement, is that Green Bay has played Clay Mathews a ton at their inside backer position this year. Green Bay also credits this move with shoreing up their defense. Guess what we did with Ryan, moved him inside. So maybe Clay Mathews is playing more like Jake Ryan than Ryan playing like Mathews.

It boggles my mind that anyone after watching the Minnesota game can continue to assert that the team would have been better off if Morris had started at QB.

I'm guessing that you meant "DG" and not "DR."  Per East-West Shrine Game Rosters . . . For the East squad, LB Cole Farrand of Maryland was assigned number 47 and Tennessee-Chattanooga's DL Davis Tull was assigned number 90 on defense, so Jake Ryan was denied the opportunity to wear either of the numbers he wore at Michigan.