MGoPodcast 8.9: Congratulations, You Played Yourself

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2016 michigan state

1 hour 18 minutes

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[Patrick Barron]

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1. Offense

starts at 1:00

Michigan State: The only college football program that only people who went there would ever have reason to root for, apparently. Also MGoBlog made a really bad blogger stop blogging so yay us! Oh right, the game: Speight’s Rudockian progression. Both teams had beautifully scripted first drives. The Shane Morris QB lead package isn’t working. Peppers as redzone quarterback: regularly 4 yards, but need to throw from it to break tendency.

2. Defense

starts at 25:55

Mostly dominant except State’s first drive was beautifully scripted and late when the holding was turned off and pass interference sliders went to max. Issues mostly missed tackles. Hurst > Godin.

3. Special Teams, Game Theory

starts at 36:44

The last 9 minutes of the game took 45 minutes because red hats—somebody needs to cap advertising or college football will be going the way of the NFL. Brian agrees with Rod Gilmore on end-of-game strategy once.

This was an upset, but lol: Ohio State has a loss—kick six part of an uncharacteristic special teams meltdown. Barrett shut down as a runner.

4. Talking Big Ten With Jamie Mac

starts at 46:06

Ohio State keeps looking more vulnerable—this time their defense wasn’t able to get off the field against Northwestern. Penn State is good when not playing Michigan. MGoBlog readers are unabashed fans of Wisconsin linebackers. Perry Hills has the best QBR in the Big Ten. Best fight songs and mascots in college football according to everyone except MSU’s stadium announcer, who is sponsored by the movie 300, Muscle Milk, and lifeless concrete structures filled with shitty sports fans like you.

MUSIC:

  • “You Played Yourself”—Ice-T
  • “Concrete Schoolyard”—Jurassic 5
  • “Mathematics”—Mos Def
  • “Across 110th Street”

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Comments

philthy66

October 31st, 2016 at 8:46 AM ^

Yes please! Put a cap on advertising! I stopped watching the NFL once the sequence went to Touchdown-commercial-kickoff-commercial. College football is heading this direction and this topic needs to be talked about more. Live sports is the only thing on tv that people watch commercials anymore and it's getting out of hand. Thank you for addressing this topic that I'm very principled about

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LSA91

October 31st, 2016 at 9:23 AM ^

Brian said that if we were two or four scores up, game theory would support a more aggressive offense in the second half, but that at three scores, the right call is to turtle up and minimize turnovers.*

 Would somebody mind dumbing that down for me or giving a link?   Why is 3 scores the ideal zone to freeze the game?

 

* I probably got something wrong there - feel free to correct that as well.

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UMfan21

October 31st, 2016 at 11:00 AM ^

I believe at a high level, the thought is this: At 2 scores, the game is far from locked up. you keep the pedal down. At 4 scores, the game is out of reach. might as well go for style points and/or let the second string come in and play aggressive to compete. 3 scores is that in between. the game is technically out of reach if you don't screw up. it's not far enough away to put in the backups, etc. you could stay aggressive, but you run the risk of if backfiring (a la Dantonio 2 point attempt).

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Magnus

October 31st, 2016 at 10:40 AM ^

One thing I don't think a lot of people know about Tom Luginbill is that he does have some actual playing and coaching experience. He was a college QB at Georgia Tech and Eastern Kentucky, and in the AFL. He also coached in NFL Europe and in the AFL. He wasn't a great QB or a great coach, but he knows more about football than a lot of average sideline reporters or other "recruiting gurus" like Mike Farrell. He's also the son of a coach, Al Luginbill.

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lou apo

October 31st, 2016 at 10:40 AM ^

Agree with Point 1.

Shane Morris hand-off then he lead blocks doesn't seem to go well, even though Shane throws a pretty descent block.  It would appear that defenses know that play.  And the Peppers goal line thing is quite effective, but I suspect without some twists to it, the D's are going to stop it.  Is it me, or does that play seem to always go right?  Maybe that is so JP can throw from it since rolling left would be a tricky throw for a right handed non-QB kind of guy.  Maybe it is the threat of the pass (that never happens) that makes that play work and rolling left would mean the D can commit to the run.

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Yard Dog

October 31st, 2016 at 11:50 AM ^

that Harbaugh and Drevno are just setting up other plays with Morris and the Wildcat with Peppers.  No reason to show it yet, but it is frustrating because currently the opposition knows exactly what's coming.  Hopefully OSU will be the recipient of the next up plays from those formations.

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michiganfanforlife

October 31st, 2016 at 11:29 AM ^

Keep em coming!! Mondays are so much more bearable with a podcast to listen to. My favorite part was the very end when they mentioned that Michigan has bigger goals and bigger fish to fry this year. I agree that this game might've been more important to the Fanbase. What a great weekend!



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sailman100

October 31st, 2016 at 11:35 AM ^

I think your comment that not much happened on special teams bears a little closer look.  If  the angry man kicks the extra point on the last touch down look at how close the onside kick was to a last play six point score against us.  Butt doesn't play the bvall assuming it will go out of bounds and the sparty coming down the side line comes very close to picking it up while our safety came way up field and in no position to make a tackle.  This was extremely close to a disaster to rival last year's disaster.  Take a look! 

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lou apo

October 31st, 2016 at 12:09 PM ^

Anyone know how clock works for onside kick recovered by kicking team?  Rules I know

1) Clock doesn't run on kickoff until someone touches the ball

2) Never runs on touchback catch or kick out of the end zone.

3) Never runs on kick out of bounds

?? What if ball only touched by kicking team and recovered?  I think the clock runs immediately when kicking team first touches ball and does not stop but rather is placed with clock running for the next play, unless someone calls a time out.  With only a couple seconds left in the game and no time outs, it would appear that short of UM committing a penalty that stops/gives them a non-timed down, the clock, even had Sparty succeeded in the onside kick, the game would have been over.

Which leads to a strategy here which says, let them get the onside kick when there are only 2 seconds left.  Just get the heck out of the way so you can't commit any penalties and you wouldn't have to run another play.

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Ronnie Kaye

October 31st, 2016 at 11:39 AM ^

Brian has some real chutzpah to be saying "This is IT buddy. This is the END" about Dantonio given that he's been burned on similar proclamations several times, sometimes in glaring fashion.

Better have audio of "Never Gonna Give You Up" to insert into this link if it doesn't work out.

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LGenius

October 31st, 2016 at 11:57 AM ^

Charlton was getting crushed and giving up the edge play after play. Not sure how much of that was his fault or line slants just being RPSed. That was when they put in Winovich, who... also got crushed. After the first drive they were much better at setting the edge, but I thought Charlton had a pretty rough game. 

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