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It's too bad how negative and cynical the blog has gotten this year.

If Blake Griffin did this, it would be one of the top plays on Sportscenter. yet everyone is downplaying it. Be excited for the future Michigan man,

That was a nice steal, a great dunk over the top of someone and worth the watch.

That's great but if you watch the games you can tell that our pass defense isn't that great. So many B1G QBs have missed huge opportunities to make big plays in the passing game. Our secondary has gotten beat repeatedly but the QBs are just missing.

So what would I say? I would say thank you to the B1G QBs for being absolutely terrible at hitting wide open WR.

Gotta have fun with it. I don't blame Bellomy for what happened on Saturday. It's what you expect from a RS Freshman in that environment, but we gotta be able to joke about it. It's my coping mechanism.

Yes please! I'd love that. And like Magnus mentioned, board posts are good.

Couldn't agree more with this... I'm pulling my hair out with all of the schedule comments.

A pre-season ranking is ranking the teams ability, not what their record might be. Let's take the USA Today Preseason Poll:

Mattison also said things are way different when they get the pads on.



We all know a guy who is "huge" and "fast" who can get open and make some nice catches without pads. You can probably find him playing in a flag football league in your local park and not on the big stage.



Put that guy in pads for a couple weeks and see if he still performs and is getting praise, then we can get excited for the potential.



P.s. Get off of Magnus, he brought up a valid point.

Agreed its best to safe than sorry, but if he can handle that weight for reps, then I don't see the need to think about touching the bar until the last rep. If this a 1RM, then yeah, maybe...

Barwis is a stud regardless and obviously knows what the hell he is doing. More than me, that's for sure.

Strong work, jonvalk! This is pretty sweet.

I don't want to take away from the OP, but I dropped this in a "There are..." thread last week, thought I'd re-drop it here, since it seems to be a logical place. If enough people want a mobile version, I can do that as well.

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I had a Blackberry 3 years ago (not poking fun) and it was significantly easier to write an email with than my current iPhone. However, *everything* else is significantly easier on my iPhone than the Blackberry.

If you are forced to often write long emails via your smart phone then I'll give you that one, the Blackberry is easier, but it still doesn't mean it's cool or justified. 

I did make this, so I will gladly take your 1000 MGoPoints. It would be fun to start a Wallpaper  thread in August and see what people come up with.

Same thought here. I would have never clicked that link if he didn't preview it like that. I was skimming the article as fast as possible trying to find the quote where Saban said that.

Well played, Brian. You bastard.

That's sad that one guy is limiting the potential of the athletes at your school by not allowing them to learn proper form to get everything out of their lifts and their efforts in weightlifting.

I get angry at the thought of the potential of lost power and force for your football players.

Maybe that special ed teacher needs a "special" visit.

The good Crossfitters stress form more than weight, but a quick search on Youtube for Crossfit fail will show that not all of Crossfit stresses form over weight.

Those are some impressive numbers though! Keep up the strong work!

With proper form, your knees should be fine with barbell squatting. I'd recommend looking into Mark Rippetoes instructions on how to properly squat. I have a bad knee from a quadding accident and I can squat all day without knee pain. Now putting bodyweight on my bad knee is a different story. I do any Tebowing without falling over in pain.

These are more like Laquon Treadwell highlights than Shane Morris highlights. Treadwell looks so good. Man would I love for him to Go Blue.

I do like how Shane doesn't try to force it like Hackenberg kid does. Morris checks down to the RB if nothing is there, even in 7v7. 

It's not a good fit because the kid didn't commit immediately? I'm not really sure why you're so convinced this isn't going Michigan's way. Have we been so spoiled with this class that kids we're recruiting aren't allowed to go through the recruiting process now? 

So, it's everyone else's fault that you have no self control? It's not that hard to DVR the game, power off your iPad, iPhone and any other form of technology that may or may not make you aware of the score until you get home and can start the game.

My cousin got married on the UTL game last year. I DVR'd the game, told everyone around me that I will punch them in the face if anyone told me the score, dodged the douche bag DJ announcing the score and made it home to watch the game in its entirety. I enjoyed the crazy finish as if I was watching it live, even though I was 3 hours behind the rest of the world.

THAT was a real pain in the ass, but I didn't blame my cousin for getting married on that day. I did what every Michigan fan should do in that situation.. Man up and make it happen. If you're commited to it, you can avoid hearing the score and watch the game in its entirety. Have a little self control and commitment fergodsakes.

Besides, it's one game. Stop whining.

My man crush is growing for Hoke & Co. What a great thing to do with seniors. Hopefully that weekend yields results this fall. The season can't get here soon enough.

I play MW3 at random times as well. Hit me up when you're playing, I will be the guy doing mediocre. PSN: mrkid85

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And Countess played it really well. Love that kid.

Losing Record for Ohio in the B1G was 1999

When Scheelhaase made that audible I immediately hit rewind and pointed out to the people I was watching with that Scheelhaase just got Mattison'd.

Do you think Scheelhaase thought everyone was going to drop into coverage and that the dive play would work like it did in the ND game? That was my interpretation.

The guys I was watching with were wondering if after Scheelhaase audibled, did the defense then check and switch to base? I didn't see any evidence of the defense making a check, but rather staying with the original play call.

Great play calling by Mattison all day. And thanks for the recap. I look forward to these every week.

But I won't be happy with a win like that. I want a convincing win and prove that we're a good football team. I'm tired of that sinking feeling of watching games and questioning if we're a good team or not.

Michigan Football doesn't win 67-65. Michigan Basketball does.

Michigan takes it home 31-20. A late TD by Iowa will make it appear closer than it was.

These things always make me laugh. That Martin section had me audibly laughing. Good stuff as always.

And I agree with you on the arm tackles. I have terrible flashbacks of GERG days when I see that.

Haha. Linking is hard.

Remember how many times Tebow was Tebow-ing against the Lions yesterday? That was awesome.

I completely disagree that Michigan is a "winnable" game for Purdue. Call me a slappy, but I just don't see that at all. How do you see Michigan as a winnable game for Purdue? Match up wise, Michigan is far better than Purdue, especially coming off of a bye.

To me, their winnable games are Iowa and Indiana, only because Iowa is at home for Purdue.

Would love to see Fitz and Smith get 100+ each in this game, let Denard pick up 50 yards or so.

Looking at the film, it seems that Fitz will be the better back against this Defense with the room they provide, he should be able to use his moves and speed.

I really like Allen at CB for Purdue. I watched that Illinois game and he was very solid and I remember him being solid last year. I agree that we need the running game to show up because Denard will need to be accurate against these corners, especially Allen.

I think Michigan gives up a 1st quarter TD and a 4th quarter TD, but shuts them out in the 2nd and 3rd.

Our offense gets rolling in the 2nd half and we win 24-14. Yes, I'm predicting Gibbons makes a late FG

Maybe they switched the jersey fitting to see if the defense wouldn't be able to tackle Fitz by streching his jersey for 10 yards like Minnesota did, but of course, Fitz never really gave them a chance to try to catch him from behind.

WolverineBlue, this is tremendous. I now have yet another thing to look forward to every week. Hat tip to you. Great work.

In addition to putting it on the tickets, save it for big games, not games on BTN or against opponents who can't beat high school teams. Oh well.

My hope for tomorrow and entering the B1G season is that this defense is starting to show that they're not the same defense that will give up 35 pts to a 2010 Indiana team, or 33 to a 2009 Indiana team. They shut down Eastern Michigan, they handled a good SDSU team. They're showing that they're a defense that could keep us in games.

I can't see this defense allowing Minnesota to come in on Saturday and put us in an offensive shootout like we did with the 2009 and 2010 Indiana. Same goes with Northwestern. I don't see us getting into defensive trouble in that game either.

I agree that we need Denard to start hitting his receivers, and hitting them early in games. Our defense might be able to keep us in games for a while, but until the passing game starts clicking, I don't know how long we will be able to stay in games being one dimensional.

I'm hopeful for 6-0 heading into the scum of the earth on Oct 15th.

Darrelle Revis does both. I went to find evidence of what the "Best" CB in the NFL does, and it's a mix, and I believe it has to do with what Magnus said. If they can keep up with the WR, they should turn their head when they see the anticipation, but if they don't feel like they can keep with them, then just keep your back turned.

See highlight video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyCfGHgc6eg&feature=player_detailpage#t=27s

Revis vs Ochocinco (Johnson), he keeps his backed turned most of the time, but in other highlights in this same video, he turns his head.

I'm sure it has to do with confidence vs WR and since our CBs got torched last year, I imagine their confidence isn't very high.

Thanks for dilligently posting these.  I love being able to watch the press conferences every week from Mattison.

After hearing Mattison say he wouldn't have called that play again in that end-game situation, and after seeing what the Picture Page Post showed on the Kovacs INT with that one WR wide open, I'm curious to see if Mattison calls that  play again against EMU, and if he does, how the players execute it after watching the film back. I can only imagine with this staff that if they run that play again, the players will have learned from their mistakes.

I could listen to Mattison talk all day. What a great coach.

I'm torn because at first I say I want the Irish to win, just to knock MSU fans down, since we already beat ND, I don't care who ND beats from here. I hate MSU more than ND.

But then I think, I want MSU to be undefeated (if they can get through that team in Ohio) when they play us, which would be nice for us to beat them if we're both undefeated at that time. That would be fantastic. So then I lean towards MSU.

In the end, I simply cannot root for MSU, so I'd have to say ND.