Blue in Yarmouth

March 17th, 2014 at 2:43 PM ^

Those ten plays mirror about 10,000 plays we watched last season, so it isn't like he's basing his pessimism soley on those ten plays. Honestly....the last time we saw our defense play like that it was the last time they played against our offense. Not a great sign IMHE, but more than anything I would like to be wrong about that.

JimBobTressel

March 15th, 2014 at 7:45 PM ^

I refuse to get excited about the players competing hard and making plays in scrimmages until they prove it agasint cupcakes like Akron

LSAClassOf2000

March 15th, 2014 at 8:06 PM ^

Were we looking at Wyatt Shallman out there in a few clips with #33? If so, I actually was liking what I was seeing. He got to the edge rather quickly on one run. 

These videos make me want August to get here sooner, even despite the tremendous success of other varsity sports at Michigan. 

Avon Barksdale

March 15th, 2014 at 8:12 PM ^

MGoBlue.com should know better than to put a video like that up. I'm glad that was only practice five because that was brutal. Same issues as last year:

-One run that went more than 2 yards.
-Receivers running wide open.

This could be another disaster.

MGoStrength

March 15th, 2014 at 8:56 PM ^

I remember last spring/fall camp we thought the d-line was a strong point.  Now we realize it's because the o-line was awful.  It's hard to tell what's what any longer. 

Avon Barksdale

March 19th, 2014 at 10:15 AM ^

No, we're not predicting it off "two minutes of the first scrimmage." We are predicting it off of the same things happening over and over again that happened last season. It's not very difficult to watch that film and see that our DL (which wasn't good at all last year), dominated the OL (which was atrocious a season ago).

Likewise, it wasn't very difficult to see WR's (who couldn't get open outside of Gallon a year ago) running free all day vs a secondary (that essentially covered no one last year).

The Barwis Effect

March 15th, 2014 at 9:40 PM ^

Does anyone remember when Michigan Maize looked like the color of the QB's jerseys? Speaking of those QB jerseys, what happened to the orange ones that they made such a big deal out of last season?

WolverineMac

March 15th, 2014 at 10:56 PM ^

Last year everything on the board at this point was unbridled optimism and this year the theme is clearly unbridled snarkiness.

I'll go with, it was 2 minutes of the 4th or 5th practice and it deserves neither the first or second.

FreddieMercuryHayes

March 15th, 2014 at 11:26 PM ^

Oh man! We're gonna win (or lose) so much this season. My analysis. Several players moved their feet on various plays. They this did not walk on their hands, which is a good thing, unless it's bad. There was some tackling which is bad, unless it's good. Kids have numbers on their jerseys.