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This was the first game I…

This was the first game I took my future wife to. Afterwards she was confused that I was even a little happy. 

The size of the circle…

The size of the circle/square is how good the team is. You can generally discount the really small ones because those are the Binghamtons of the world.

Yeah I don't know why people…

Yeah I don't know why people keep saying that. You can't "blueshirt" after taking an official but blueshirting is a football exclusive activity designed to work around the annual limit of 25 guys. I googled this and there is absolutely no mention of this being a real thing. 

Michigan's relatively low…

Michigan's relatively low because there are a lot of teams that do nothing but go on the road for buy games. There are 3 high majors in the top 40 spots. 

I gave Patterson an MA, not…

I gave Patterson an MA, not an IN, for that throw: we agree. He could have done better. He made enough of a play. I noted that I thought Sainristil ran the wrong route immediately before I embedded the play. 

I don't get what the issue is. 

My grading has been hardly…

My grading has been hardly different than PFFs, which had him at a 70 in a system where 64 is average and 20th among QBs on their top 25 teams. You're imagining an animosity that is not there. 

I expect a high level D-I QB…

I expect a high level D-I QB moving to his throwing arm to be able to get it 15 yards downfield without taking his WR off his feet. Patterson did that *in this game,* except it was 18 yards and he was moving opposite his throwing arm. 

I expect that because I've done this for 15 years and developed a corpus of knowledge about the game. If you don't think that's valuable, Maven.io is thataway. 

 

kawaii is now an English…

kawaii is now an English loanword and i'm writing in English 

fixed now, sorry guys

fixed now, sorry guys

you think THIS is cursed? do…

you think THIS is cursed? do you have the memory of a goldfish?

ban

ban

pretty close from Ace:
https…

pretty close from Ace:

https://twitter.com/AceAnbender/status/1130333545044598784

We did a hoops/hockey one…

We did a hoops/hockey one after the FF in 2013. We rolled it together with the football one and I think we only broke even on it--tough to tell given how we did it--and it was a lot of work to only break even. 

If there's interest we could do a separate kickstarter for it. 

https://www.youtube.com…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_HbC5FnSz0

about 2:50. Pretty sure it's "That's right! Get up, bitch"... but it could be something else. 

There are Clearinghouse…

There are Clearinghouse concerns with him. 

A crack block is when a WR …

A crack block is when a WR (or sometimes a TE) split wide on the LOS comes down to block a LB or DE. If you're in man coverage you'll be following that guy because it looks like a drag or slant; when it becomes clear that the guy is blocking you need to replace the guy who got cut off. Thus "crack replace." 

banned

banned

absolutely not the case. 

absolutely not the case. 

Your attempt to defend this…

Your attempt to defend this makes Pep sound infinitely worse. 

1. There is no way Michigan wanted DPJ to catch the ball on a hitch and immediately get tackled with his back to the first down sticks. Maybe if that's a drag or something where DPJ is put in a spot to catch with his momentum either going to the sticks or at least parallel to them.

How many tackles on hitches and the like did Michigan break in this game? Zero. How many this season? IIRC, zero. 

2. Fades are hot garbage.

https://www.profootballfocus.com/news/pro-its-time-to-fade-the-fade

Fades where the CB is always going to win over the top because he doesn't have to worry about a slant are hotter garbage. 

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I think Pep did this stuff on accident because he had a bad game. If your post was true he'd be a worse OC type than DeBord or Borges. 

+ means the throw was…

+ means the throw was pressured and the QB either stood in and got it out or was able to buy time and make the throw. 

* is an extreme version of a negative event. Throwing to a covered guy when there's an open guy is a BR. Throwing an interceptable pass is a BR*, aka BRX.

Before the redshirt rule was…

Before the redshirt rule was changed it was four out of the first six games. Rutgers was game six. 

reader points out on twitter…

reader points out on twitter that it was Marshall on the second TD, not Dwumfour

I don't recall exactly what…

I don't recall exactly what game it was but Hurst set a probably-unbreakable record last year. +15 might be a LB record though. 

I thought I'd blocked those…

I thought I'd blocked those already but apparently not. I have blocked them now. 

The first bit yes, is on our…

The first bit yes, is on our list to add.

The boxes were a youtube feature that got removed, it's depressing. If anyone can point me to an easy way to add those back in myself I'd do it but I couldn't find one. 

Slot runs into Metellus…

Slot runs into Metellus because he hops in front of him to anticipate the cut. That might be something he's willing to risk near the goal line but not when you might get hit with a wide open 40 yard slot fade by overplaying the slant. 

Warinner is an excellent OL…

Warinner is an excellent OL coach who got run out of Columbus despite that soon after becoming an OC. 

Thank you. At no point did…

Thank you. At no point did Patterson make a post-snap read and decide to throw a screen. The bubble action does hold two defenders out there but that's been standard for 10 years now. Maybe if people did the work they'd see the patterns.

yep!

yep!

that "taxable value" thing…

that "taxable value" thing keeps getting thrown around but it is also entirely false. Ann Arbor's general fund is around $100M. Detroit's is $1B.

https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/detroit/2018/02/23/dugg…

I do pay AA taxes. As a homeowner, even. 

You're describing …

You're describing "inclusionary zoning," which is a common approach to addressing affordability issues. IZ is controversial amongst wonky housing types because it drives up the cost of new buildings, raises market rates, and doesn't require anything of existing landowners. But it does produce units. 

IZ's prohibited by state law but the city gets a version of it by offering zoning bonuses to developers. A couple of projects on the docket, Lowertown and the Library Lot, would create about 80 affordable units in exchange for getting zoning that makes their projects viable. That's not that many but it's more than the city's managed to do over the last few years. 

I very much agree that housing of all types is necessary. Almost all of Ann Arbor is zoned for the two most expensive types: single family detached and high-rises. Small apartment buildings up to six stories are the cheapest to build per unit but the small amount of land zoned for any rise makes it more practical for developers to build high and charge high prices. 

Public housing has issues but I don't know if it causes those issues or just houses them--kind of think the latter. It's rough being poor in America. The proposed Y-Lot workforce housing is a different kind of project that I think would be good; it would largely be aimed at people who work downtown and wouldn't have the same sort of issues, I think. 

So is Liberson. I dunno what…

So is Liberson. I dunno what it is about Burns Park. 

That keeps coming up and is…

That keeps coming up and is completely untrue. The spaces are being rented 24/7 at 125% of the current hourly rate. The net present value of that is $24 million, which is more than it takes to expand the Ann-Ashley deck by three floors and replace all of that parking. 

No, there's no real chance…

No, there's no real chance they lose in the general. Ginyard might be okay? 

Since when do we post…

Since when do we post offseason non-commit recruiting news on Saturday? Pay 24/7 its money, man. 

I'll probably vote for…

I'd probably vote for Hughes in the main election (I'm in Ward 3), but the top priority is Not Hayner. 

referencing SF prices and…

referencing SF prices and traffic

I thought you had AA…

I thought you had AA politics related objections. 

If you can't take an average of one post a year in the offseason, this one on a Saturday, that is not on a topic you care about then, sure, I'm trolling you. I have a platform and care about the direction of my city and want to use that platform to do what I can to help. If that annoys people oh well. 

I just can't support someone…

I just can't support someone who clearly doesn't want even downtown development. It's one thing to not want your neighboorhood upzoned, that's understandable even if I think it's ultimately a bad thing.

Ramlawi has consistently complained about putting a big building in a narrow mid-block lot on top of a parking structure designed to hold a big building. Anyone who wants a plaza the city has to pay for right next to another plaza instead of a slightly smaller privately funded plaza and a bunch of hotel rooms, office space, retail, and condos that should produce 2 million in taxes every year should not be on council. 

This remains the definitive piece on the economics of the Library Lot:

https://treedowntown.com/2016/06/22/the-library-lot-get-busy-living-or-…

it's on the list

it's on the list

I read a fair few of them…

I read a fair few of them but it's not often I feel compelled to respond since I've already laid out my POV in the post itself, especially in the offseason. I tend to reply to a lot of UFR comments since people are pointing out errors or I feel like I need to defend my work sometimes. UVs and recruiting profiles not so much. 

i'd love to address any…

i'd love to address any specific objections you have

i'd love to address any…

i'd love to address any specific objections you have. 

promise 

promise 

My wife is pregnant and her…

My wife is pregnant and her due date is the 12th. I expect to resume duties next year. 

a lot of the bad things…

a lot of the bad things about the class don't show up in these posts because they're air. Michigan got zero DTs. They got zero interior linemen. They got one linebacker. They got one wild-card WR. 

et tu, stephen

et tu, stephen

I scratched him because he…

I scratched him because he'll be 34 and the only guys that old I even thought about are guys with a long history with the national team. Also Ream has been pretty bad in his appearances with the USMNT. 

It is relatively new, and…

It is relatively new, and there are also loopholes. The most prominent is that if you have an EU passport FIFA can't stop you. Pulisic had one and went at 15. Gio Reyna is trying to do the same thing. Sargent doesn't have the right relatives to follow suit. 

I don't have a huge problem…

I don't have a huge problem with Headlee, actually. I think it should be a little less strict but without it you would see some huge tax bills in Ann Arbor suddenly. It's the combination with Prop A that's bad. If it was inflation plus 2% or something along those lines you'd strike a balance between preventing huge spikes and completely insulating homeowners from their zoning choices.