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Shea Patterson Returning For Senior Year Comment Count

Brian December 21st, 2018 at 4:58 PM

Via Chengelis:

Michigan quarterback Shea Patterson repeatedly has said during the season his experience with the Wolverines has been the best of his football life.

With that in mind, Patterson has decided to return to the Wolverines for his final year of eligibility, he told The Detroit News on Friday.

“I think my original plan was to come here and help the team out as much as I could,” Patterson, who transferred from Ole Miss a year ago, told The News. “The thoughts were maybe come out after one year, so I think there might have been some speculation there. At this point, I feel like everybody thinks I’m coming back. Excited to get that out there so they know.”

Unless Patterson has the same injury fate that Wilton Speight did this will be the first time in Harbaugh's tenure at Michigan that he has returning starter at QB for most of the year. 

Comments

TD Billy Taylor

December 21st, 2018 at 5:26 PM ^

Awesome. Glad he is coming back.

This better put Harbaugh on notice to actually design some unique and effective plays for Shea next year. I think Ann Arbor will riot if Shea goes back to his usual 12/15/150/1 TD stat line that he pretty much had for most of the year--it'd be such a waste of his talent.

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LKLIII

December 21st, 2018 at 10:06 PM ^

Who knows?

 

But at minimum, this is a huge boost to the offense in terms of comfort and familiarity with each other. Not only with Shea, his receivers, etc, but also Harbaugh knows his capabilities and likely trusts him a hell of a lot more.  This spring they can pretty much give Shea a huge % of the snaps knowing he’s the likely starter. No NCAA uncertainties hanging overhead.  And Shea now likely can go from understanding the playbook to total mastery  

Not to mention 2nd year Warriner has the OL who only graduates one guy & all but the true freshmen will understand his terminology and concepts.

The ONE key position we are losing is Higdon at RB. Even then, we’ve still got about 2-3 decent veteran options there until Zach Charbonnet can get up to speed and familiar with the system—which is usually pretty doable if it’s a talented RB which ZC is.

Bottom line is, barring catastrophic injury or truly dumb or uninspired play calling, this offense has a huge ceiling.

 

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JFW

December 22nd, 2018 at 9:21 AM ^

An offense can be efficient and score slot of points but if it doesn’t pass the Pass -a-Lot spread eye test people will complain. It seems like people will take an incomplete short crossing route over a 2 yard run any day.

Yes. I’d like more passing. Or to have the o line hulk up to the days of 90’s o line performances. 

I dont care. We were good this year. We can really get better next year.

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DTOW

December 21st, 2018 at 5:34 PM ^

I don’t see this as bad new for McCaffrey. It’s not like he’s an older player, he’ll only be a redshirt sophomore. Plus he’s still underweight by 10-15 lbs so the extra year will help in that regard. He’s also going to get a bunch of reps next year, I’d guess even more than this year. Then he’ll come in as the unquestioned starter as a RS junior with 2 years of starting time left. 

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YaterSalad

December 21st, 2018 at 5:45 PM ^

Plus Dylan has to recover from a broken collarbone.  This will likely set him back in the weight gain department.  That extra year of tutelidge under Harbaugh and with Shea passing down tidbits won’t hurt his potential in the slightest.  

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bronxblue

December 21st, 2018 at 6:40 PM ^

This offense has a real chance to be one of the best we've seen in a long time around here, even with whatever real or perceived issues people may see with Pep.

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Dorothy_ Mantooth

December 21st, 2018 at 8:37 PM ^

'19 = better UM team and better record, more success including a victory on November 30th, 2019 

Book it!

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HarmonHowardWoodson

December 21st, 2018 at 8:39 PM ^

Senior QB + 3 STUD junior WR = ???

 

The answer better not be 30 rushes per game and an offense ill-equipped to compete in a shootout vs OSU. Jim needs to open up the offense early and often so it is a fine tuned machine by the end of the season no matter what type of game they are in.

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albapepper

December 21st, 2018 at 8:45 PM ^

Very excited to have him back! Best QB we've had in a long, long time. Makes everyone around him better.

 

My favorite moment of the 2018 season was when he and Higdon fumbled the handoff and he went straight to Don Brown, grabbed his shirt, and told him to get him the ball back so he could fix it.

 

Next possession, 79 yard TD pass. 

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Mongo

December 21st, 2018 at 9:48 PM ^

This deserves a ... FUCK YES !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sugar Shea going to win the Heisman.  Let's go Jimbo ... take the governor off that offensive engine and give her some gas !  MOAR passing and RPO.  

Go Blue !!!

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Mongo

December 21st, 2018 at 10:06 PM ^

This is what we need.  This Toledo kid gets it.  Go Blue !!!

quote from Detroit News:

“I’ve been thinking about it for the past month, ever since after that game,” Patterson said of mulling his future. “I just thought to myself there’s no way in hell I’m leaving this place on that note. Regardless of a draft grade, whatever the case may be, I would never end my career with an opportunity to come back with a loss to that team. That’s the one thing that has ignited me. I think one of the biggest things that impacted me coming back – one of them – was that last game in Columbus.

“I just felt we worked so hard and had such a good season leading up to that game. I was more upset that I couldn’t do enough to get us a win. I love the guys so much and let down the Michigan fan base, and I just felt like we all did that that day. That just brought a lot of emotions. Anger. I think anger was the biggest one. I hated to lose and even more, I hated to lose to them, especially with what we had in front of us.”

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