Shea gave tips about Staee defense to osu QB?
osu QB Dwayne Haskins said he talked to Shea Patterson Tuesday about Michigan State. “I’ve known Shea since I was in 8th grade...I hit him up asking about how they play defensively, and he gave me some tips.”
Shea you’re from Toledo, you know this is no good!
What say you?
November 7th, 2018 at 11:46 AM ^
Yeah MSU has really great coverage and a terrible DLINE. Yup no need to worry just stay back in the pocket and wait until you see a running lane open up. /s
November 7th, 2018 at 1:23 PM ^
I will state this for the fiftieth time. Dantonio and Hollis should've been fired after Auston Robertson was charged with assault. Anyone who pleads ignorant in that situation, including his H.S. principal, should've been fired.
November 7th, 2018 at 1:26 PM ^
Tl;dr
Dantonio: "We vetted the young man."
Outside the Lines Report: "There is no record of Michigan State officials speaking to law enforcement agencies in Indiana about his past or requesting records from them, despite the university's learning that Robertson had been permanently barred from his high school's campus in January 2016;"
November 7th, 2018 at 2:38 PM ^
Gosh, now all OSU has to do is find any semblance of a running game and they might have a shot.
November 7th, 2018 at 11:46 AM ^
Eh. I don't like that.
EDIT: I have to believe Shea understands that an OSU loss to MSU greatly improves the chances that UM gets to Indy, even with a loss to OSU, but wins against Rutgers and Indiana. Maybe he wants both teams to be 10-1 in Columbus.
November 7th, 2018 at 11:50 AM ^
I think he was just talking with a friend.
Non-story.
November 7th, 2018 at 11:57 AM ^
Hard to believe I know, but sometimes people are just nice human beings with friends. I only hated my friends in sports when we played one another. Other times, even after the final whistle, we're friends. I'm sure the same is for Shea and Dwayne.
November 7th, 2018 at 12:00 PM ^
I think this sort of thing happens a lot. But the media is always hungry for a story when they don't know enough about the game to break it down and analyze the way Brian does.
November 7th, 2018 at 12:57 PM ^
Not every sports consumer is looking for hardcore analysis. Drama is appealing to a lot of people. Let's not pretend the only motivation for such stories is media incompetence.
November 7th, 2018 at 12:06 PM ^
eh, if shae provides more relevant info on sparty on a phone call than the osu coaches do all week, then that says a lot about the osu coaches.
November 7th, 2018 at 12:12 PM ^
Tough IMO because I'm happy to see MSU beaten like a drum, and believe that beating a higher-ranked one-loss OSU at season's end could be the necessary leg up over Georgia.
OTOH a two-loss OSU may not have as much heart for our tilt. . .
November 7th, 2018 at 12:14 PM ^
Why would Shea care. He’s a competitor. He knows all that matters is The Game in Columbus in 3 weeks. Everything else is irrelevant.
November 7th, 2018 at 2:27 PM ^
You can't look that far ahead or you get yourself in trouble. No one would have thought that OSU would have had to work hard to beat Nebraska. One week at a time.
I could care less who wins between Sparty and the Buckeyes. We NEED to beat OSU regardless. This is our time.
November 7th, 2018 at 12:30 PM ^
Maybe he was talking to Mineral King and just assumed it was Shea
November 7th, 2018 at 3:30 PM ^
*Chuckles*
November 7th, 2018 at 1:24 PM ^
We need to beat osu, period. Big ten championship doesn’t mean shit to me unless we beat them. Losing to them means no playoffs, and we want osu with 1 loss. No problem with Shea talking to a childhood friend
November 7th, 2018 at 2:51 PM ^
Wanting OSU with 1 loss is just [insert expletive demeaning intellect here]. All you weirdos wanting OSU to be as good as they can be are just odd, unusual aliens with the logic of a soap dish. Please stop. This is a team that has beaten us 15 of 17 times. Yet you want them top flight for the game? How about we freaking win 5 in a row against them before you mince about how competitive they are in boosting our resume...
Give me 0-12 OSU every day and twice on Sunday, forever.
May Sparty crush them this weekend, although Sparty won't. Book it. Mork will toss the game to spite Michigan.
November 7th, 2018 at 3:36 PM ^
I'm with you. They aren't discounting their wins over us in the RichRod or Hoke years when we were mediocre.
I'd rather wrap up the division (essentially) this weekend. Get rid of that goddamn drought. There are high enough stakes on the OSU game already: a possible playoff berth, and a rivalry win.
November 7th, 2018 at 11:48 AM ^
I'm sure he didn't give away anything the OSU analysts and coaches don't already know.
November 7th, 2018 at 11:49 AM ^
If he did then that speaks to OSU internal issues.
November 7th, 2018 at 11:49 AM ^
I understand that but it just doesn’t look good.
November 7th, 2018 at 11:58 AM ^
Lol, to who? Fans? I’m sure Shea and coach Harbaugh are worrying about what fans think of two old friends talking about football together
November 7th, 2018 at 12:06 PM ^
There was just an article out about how Don Brown advises NFL and other college coaches in the off season. Oddly, the people who get most uptight about this stuff are the people who don't actually play or coach.
Give away game prep to a foe--absolutely not. Give general thoughts about a common opponent or about the game in general--that's just being decent.
It's possible to have character and still win (with or without cruelty).
November 7th, 2018 at 2:36 PM ^
Heck, Urbz got a bunch of his spread ideas by talking to RichRod, who was happy to talk to anyone. Harbaugh has stated in the past he got ideas from other teams. Coaches and players talk all the time, it's just networking.
The fact that Haskins reached out tells me he's at least a little worried.
November 7th, 2018 at 12:09 PM ^
Nonsense.
Besides, it gives Dantonio something to get #disrespekted about.
November 7th, 2018 at 12:19 PM ^
Yeah, I'll pile on here. These players didn't grow up being enemies of each other, and many of them became friends through the process. This is a complete non-issue. Like the other posters said, if Shea is sharing info that the OSU coaches/scouts couldn't uncover themselves, we should feel very good about our game against them.
November 7th, 2018 at 2:39 PM ^
It went awry a decade ago, but I'd like to see M and OSU help each other vs opponents, before the big game.. its in each others interest to do so.
November 7th, 2018 at 12:50 PM ^
It looks great. Two friends who will compete later, talking now about a similar experience. This is what being alive is for.
November 7th, 2018 at 1:27 PM ^
If this doesn't happen like all the friggin' time I'd be shocked. It used to happen without a bunch of dumb fucks on Twitter and talk radio acting like it mattered.
November 7th, 2018 at 11:49 AM ^
Trojan horse operation - he fed him Fake News
November 7th, 2018 at 11:59 AM ^
....or Alternative Facts.
November 7th, 2018 at 11:49 AM ^
Would like to see MSU lose this one. Then we can beat a higher ranked OSU team that will help us in retaining a position in the top 4. As it’s been noted the committee seems to want 2 SEC teams in the playoff with both Georgia and LSU out there lurking so a higher ranked OSU win for us would pay bigger dividends.
November 7th, 2018 at 11:49 AM ^
Eh. Setting aside everything else, we definitely want OSU to win if the goal is maximizing our playoff odds. There's a real chance that Michigan gets left out in favor of one-loss Bama, Georgia, or ND teams. Beating an OSU team that's looked at as top 10 reduces those chances.
EDIT: Or in other words, what everyone else says.
November 7th, 2018 at 11:58 AM ^
I want an OSU loss big time. I don’t care if we “back in” to the conference game, I want to win the division regardless of whether or not we beat the Bucks.
November 7th, 2018 at 12:11 PM ^
agree. an osu loss increases our rose bowl chances greatly, even if we lose to osu. i would gladly take a rose bowl victory as a consolation prize should we lose to osu. i really don't see an osu loss hurting our playoff chances should we go 11-1. a sparty win would likely move both them and osu into the top 15 range. two road wins against top 15ish teams would be something none of the other teams have on their resume.
November 7th, 2018 at 2:29 PM ^
Yeah, that's fair. My counter is that I think we've legitimately been playing much better football than OSU, I expect a win in Columbus, and so I think an OSU win against MSU improves our overall season expectations.
November 7th, 2018 at 11:50 AM ^
All good as long as he received info on the vaunted Rutger D for rivalry week.
November 7th, 2018 at 11:53 AM ^
Quid pro quo, Clarice.
November 7th, 2018 at 11:58 AM ^
Yes....squid pro row.
November 7th, 2018 at 12:23 PM ^
Terns?
November 7th, 2018 at 11:52 AM ^
Scylla and Charybdis my friends, how do you choose?
November 7th, 2018 at 12:14 PM ^
Easy, choose Scylla. Better to lose six men than your entire ship. This has been a solved problem for almost 3000 years!
November 7th, 2018 at 12:16 PM ^
BUT WHICH TEAM IS SCYLLA????
November 7th, 2018 at 11:53 AM ^
Good disinformation campaign, Shea. Haskins really walked into this seven-year trap.
November 7th, 2018 at 11:53 AM ^
Non story. This happens all the time. Most of the better college football players know one another.
November 7th, 2018 at 11:53 AM ^
Nothing burger. Just a couple of friends talking. As if the film osu reviews is somehow less helpfull than a quick talk with shea.
November 7th, 2018 at 11:53 AM ^
Also, I think I differ from others, in that I want OSU to lose. Want them down. Want the title wrapped up sooner not later. Want them to be demotivated and then UM can smash them to bits.
November 7th, 2018 at 11:55 AM ^
Hear, hear!
November 7th, 2018 at 11:58 AM ^
I think I know how that conversation went.
"Yo Shea, what gives me the best shot at beating Spart?"
"Transfer to Michigan"