"Tate will play on Saturday"

Submitted by rlew on

That's from Varsity Blue (at press conference) via Twitter. The quote is VB's quote - note that it's not a Rod quote in the original.

Edit: http://twitter.com/varsityblue

death_roh

September 28th, 2009 at 11:09 AM ^

wait for the injury report thursday or the walkthrough with richrod on friday. They'll have a better idea by then. His shoulders sore as hell right now, he won't know how it will be until later in the week

bigmc6000

September 28th, 2009 at 11:24 AM ^

They might be doing something else but if you use the ultrasonic therapy on a broken bone (or a fracture) it's going to hurt like hell since it's vibrating the sh!t out of your bone. The ultrasonic therapy works more for ligaments and tendons (used it 3 different times for therapy).

I'm guessing he's getting access to stuff that you and I would even be able to get to in our wildest dreams.

bigmc6000

September 28th, 2009 at 11:44 AM ^

I've never seen or heard of an ultrasound for bone healing despite my months and months in Physical Therapy. All the ultrasounds I've seen and used definitely are no gos for broken bones - I guess that's why it says this "the ONLY bone stimulator using ultrasound technology approved to treat fractures that that have failed to heal; approved to heal specific fresh fractures faster."

I'd say the level of treatment and care he gets rivals, if not beats, even the very best health insurance out there.

cazzie

September 28th, 2009 at 11:22 AM ^

A small battery powered device with wire leads attached to pads on the skin overlying the broken bone. The small electric current, or shocks, stimulate the bone healing cells (osteoblasts), to do their thing, i.e. lay down new bone cells. it's cool, it works, been used for 20+ years.
go blue
med-guy '75

Eyebrowse

September 28th, 2009 at 11:21 AM ^

Glad to hear the injury seems pretty minor. Tate's a good kid and a great QB and deserves to play as much as he can. Though, I'm assuming we might see something similar to the DRob/Forcier interchange that took place during the IU game.

The way those two seem so comfortable with each other, on and off the field, really makes that system a lot smoother than many of the two QB systems I've seen in the past. I keep noticing how much they tend to fire each other up going on and off the field.

Tater

September 28th, 2009 at 12:02 PM ^

UM short-circuited four or five drives with bad snaps and still had enough to score 36 points and win. That means that after coaching and another week of experience in practice fix what went wrong, UM will have four or five extra drives against MSU that they didn't have against Indiana.

quakk

September 28th, 2009 at 12:07 PM ^

people keep saying this. two were the offsides snaps. one denard failed to handle. i don't recall the other two.

if moosman stops with the offsides snag and the quarterbacks can handle the snaps that come to them, this is largely a non-issue.

i think the former has probably already been handled, and the latter, well, we can hope. but that's not moosman's fault.

Blue in Yarmouth

September 28th, 2009 at 12:33 PM ^

It's a bit of a stretch to say it was Robinsons fault when he missed the snap. When you are the QB you are expecting the snap in your midsection and that was clearly over his left shoulder. Could he have grabbed it?? Sure, but was it a bad snap, definitely. I can't bring myself to say it was his fault for not snagging that snap, it was off.

MichiganStudent

September 28th, 2009 at 11:56 AM ^

Sorry for freaking you guys out before. Honestly I was not lying about talking to Tate and his comments about his shoulder. It just appears that he may have been favoring it a little more because of its tenderness. Either that or he was using it to bring home some girls (not that being the QB starter at UM, being 4-0, and making SportsCenter Top 10 week after week wouldn't ensure that).

Anyways, I'm very excited to hear that he will be throwing tomorrow and even limited throwing today. From our conversation on Saturday night he made it seem he wouldn't be throwing the football until Friday at practice or Saturday for warm-ups.

griesecheeks

September 28th, 2009 at 1:42 PM ^

great news. I'm intrigued to see how he plays on the road in a rivalry game.

as much as Denard has huge play potential, it's the threat of a balanced run-pass offense that will allow us to put up the points needed for a win in EL this weekend. and we will need at least the requisite 35, I believe, to win.

M 35-34
Brown/Minor/Shaw combine for 200+ on the ground
Tate throws for 150-175 and a score.