August 25th, 2018 at 9:35 PM ^
No, just some bad luck with a few key injuries the last few years: Newsome, Black, Speight, Peters, Black again
August 26th, 2018 at 12:08 AM ^
Denards nerve thing, Darboh broke his ankle, Antonio Bass, Jake Ryan ACL, Gardner's ankle and PTSD, I know Im missing some . . . Just injuries in general.
August 26th, 2018 at 12:25 AM ^
Grant Newsome. We make the playoff two years ago if that never happens.
August 25th, 2018 at 8:21 PM ^
Of course... Seems like he can't catch a break. I was looking forward to him burning DBs this season.
August 25th, 2018 at 9:59 PM ^
Black isn't really the "burning DBs" kind of receiver, is he? I thought he was more of a possession receiver and DPJ was more of a DB burner. Am I right?
August 25th, 2018 at 10:11 PM ^
my significant memory issues are preventing me from recalling...
August 26th, 2018 at 1:21 AM ^
Manual upvote for you, sir.
August 25th, 2018 at 10:30 PM ^
If you want to call a (college) WR version of Gronk a "possession receiver" go ahead, but he was clearly our best WR weapon last year. I don't recall any lack of speed, but it was his size and ball skills that stood out.
August 26th, 2018 at 10:43 AM ^
“If you want to call a (college) WR version of Gronk a "possession receiver" go ahead,”
Black had 11 catches for 149 yards and 1 TD in three games. Those stats mostly came from 2 catches in the Florida game. He followed that up with 4 catches for 11 yards vs Cincy and 5 catches vs an over matched Air Force team. To compare him to the biggest mismatch in the NFL is a stretched even by MoGoBlog standards.
August 26th, 2018 at 3:28 PM ^
I was also considering the 2017 Spring Game in which he did it to the UM secondary.
August 25th, 2018 at 10:50 PM ^
I deleted my text messages, so I can't recall.
August 25th, 2018 at 10:57 PM ^
Glad you’re still up :)
August 25th, 2018 at 10:55 PM ^
Why are you here?
August 25th, 2018 at 8:22 PM ^
Was this during the scrimmage? Makes sense to have a full-contact scrimmage a week before the damn season when the guys are reportedly already beat up.
August 25th, 2018 at 8:23 PM ^
I posted in scrimmage thread that no way starters would be in this scrimmage. I have no words for this staff if he got hurt in this.,
August 25th, 2018 at 8:26 PM ^
You're right, you have no words, because you likely have no idea how preseason practice works. Most of us don't.
August 25th, 2018 at 8:36 PM ^
Actually I do I’ve been to it before. Along with Spring practices
August 25th, 2018 at 8:42 PM ^
How often? Which coaches, and which teams? How does Michigan's practice regimen differ from Alabama, Ohio State, Michigan State, USC, and Washington?
August 25th, 2018 at 8:30 PM ^
It is football camp. Do you suggest they don't hit at all until the season starts?
All teams have several live scrimmages, and do plenty of hitting drills like the Oklahoma drill, etc. Unfortunately injuries happen to every team. Hoping this one is false still.
August 25th, 2018 at 8:38 PM ^
I suggest after a grueling camp, that they have hit each other non stop, you don’t put starters in a scrimmage 7 days out when their job is won.
Hoping that wasn’t the case.
And he is hurt. No one knows how bad yet
August 25th, 2018 at 8:40 PM ^
How many practices have included full contact? How many have been in shorts? How grueling has it been? Which teams use contact only to determine who the starters are? What teams have no contact at all a week before the first game?
August 25th, 2018 at 8:52 PM ^
We don’t know what happened to him yet. Let’s just calm down.
August 25th, 2018 at 8:55 PM ^
You're being ridiculous. It's football. They need to practice. And most of these types of lower leg injuries happen without contact anyway. He's a WR, he needs to run routes.
And if it's that serious of an injury, it could have happened at any point. Would you be just as pissed if this happened at a full contact practice two days ago? Injures are part of the sport, chill out.
August 26th, 2018 at 8:18 AM ^
I think the bigger issue right now is roster management. If he is hurt, we have two outside receivers in our team. He wasn’t some all world receiver, but we needed to keep Kekoa Crawford. That was a bad move to let him get away if we had a shot to hang onto him. Are DPJ and Collins going to play every snap? We are one more injury away from having to split out Nick Eubanks. We may have to convert some d-backs. That should not happen.
August 25th, 2018 at 8:24 PM ^
No. The scrimmage is tomorrow
August 25th, 2018 at 8:25 PM ^
No, it was today. Tomorrow is an open practice for fans to come to. Two separate things.
August 25th, 2018 at 8:52 PM ^
Just wait until you find out the starters practice all season long!
August 25th, 2018 at 11:21 PM ^
Meh, Harbaugh knows exactly what he's doing. If he thinks a scrimmage a week before kickoff is best for the team then who am I to say he's a dumbass?
August 25th, 2018 at 8:23 PM ^
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.
August 25th, 2018 at 8:24 PM ^
Fuck
August 25th, 2018 at 8:26 PM ^
People who gripe about a full practice a week before the game are... myopic. Teams have practices, some of those practices have hitting, and all teams scrimmage.
And if there is an injury (and this is just a rumor, but it's blowing up in the last half hour) that's going to happen occasionally. It happens, literally, to every team.
But if Black is hurt, that really, really stinks.
August 25th, 2018 at 8:28 PM ^
It'd be greater malpractice to not have any physical contact in practice for an entire week before the game. As you said, injuries happen. That's the game. Hopefully the severity of the injury is being exaggerated as the rumors spread, and he can play.
August 25th, 2018 at 8:30 PM ^
Yeah. The idea that an entire preseason to lead up to a game without any contact practices is... absurd.
August 25th, 2018 at 9:41 PM ^
The whole grapevine thing is getting out of hand. Someone made mention of something and your focus on it almost raises it to the level of fact. I heard in MgoBlog that the team goes the entire preseason without contact practices. Along that line.
August 25th, 2018 at 8:39 PM ^
What? Two leg injuries is not snakebitten. He’s a tall WR and he’s 19-20 years old. Todd Gurley would laugh at your advice.
August 25th, 2018 at 10:12 PM ^
I know this hard for a lot of you to understand but I’ll try.
First they just had a grueling fall camp where they hit a ton. Position battles should be won at this point. Having your ones in a full blown scrimmage a week before the game is absolutely stupid. It’s unnecessary. Let your backups and 3s go at. Why have you 1s hitting again? It’s the last day of camp!
Some of you will defend Jim at all costs but this is not a smart move. You go back to hitting on Monday or Tuesday as you prepare.
Saquon Barkley on practicing at PSU “I really didn’t practice at PSU they saved my body”
August 25th, 2018 at 10:48 PM ^
It's not hard for us to understand, you just don't really know what you're talking about. You're not a high level football coach. You simply don't have the standing to criticize the coaching style of a D-1 program. The idea that you somehow know better than Jim Harbaugh, Jim McElwain, Pep Hamilton, and Don Brown (or, for that matter, Nick Saban or Mark Dantonio or Les Miles or any other coach) is beyond absurd.
Your defense? A quote from Saquon Barkley.
And I'm calling you on it because the "Internet commentator who knows everything" trope is not a good look, and you aren't particularly good at it.
August 25th, 2018 at 8:28 PM ^
Damnit
August 25th, 2018 at 8:28 PM ^
WTH?
Come on. How many dong punches ? Par for the GD course as a michigan fan.
August 25th, 2018 at 8:39 PM ^
ATBHG strikes again
August 25th, 2018 at 8:28 PM ^
Something this big will be confirmed or debunked pretty quickly. Hoping someone will come forward right away with accurate information.
August 25th, 2018 at 8:28 PM ^
Please no.
August 25th, 2018 at 8:29 PM ^
Even if true this isn’t going to make or break our season. Every team seems to lose a key contributor at some point. Nico Collins has all the talent in the world. He’s just gotta step up. Don’t forget we still have DPJ, Perry, Gentry, and McKeon. We aren’t dying for receiving options.
August 25th, 2018 at 8:31 PM ^
...and Eubanks and Martin. It wouldn't be a season-ruiner that's true. Black's talent is undeniable though, and this would certainly lower our tolerance for any other injuries.
August 25th, 2018 at 8:33 PM ^
Nico has been getting the most hype I’ve seen out of the skill guys all offseason. I think we would be ok. Would be ideal to have Black but I don’t think we pack it in. Also everyone over looks getting Eubanks back. That guy is a mismatch.
August 25th, 2018 at 8:38 PM ^
While true, the 107th ranked passing attack in 2017 could use all the help it can get.
August 25th, 2018 at 8:47 PM ^
The fact your are putting TEs in there as options to replace him shows how brutal this injury is. Good luck trying to throw the ball with Mckeon @ WR again. This sucks.
August 25th, 2018 at 9:10 PM ^
I don't see a problem with increasing McKeon's (and Gentry's) targets if we are down a WR. They have different strengths but both of those guys are major match up problems and many CBs wouldn't know what to do with bodies like that coming at them.
August 25th, 2018 at 8:51 PM ^
I know you are trying to be optimistic, but we really need Black. Two elite WR is infinitely better than one (DPJ being the potential other one). We need someone to take the top off the defense and Black is the only one who has shown that. He's also our top receiver, so I don't see how any team losing their top receiver is a good thing, especially considering the offense we fielded last year.
August 25th, 2018 at 8:59 PM ^
I certainly would never argue that losing Black would be better than having him - that would be lunacy.
By what measure is he our top WR, though? That's projection, by any reasonable standard. It could be true, but it's not true in evidence yet.