FRIDAY POSBANG

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It's the Friday after a short work week.  Bang with an enthusiasm unknown to mankind.

 

 

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LSAClassOf2000

September 9th, 2016 at 7:10 AM ^

Well, we made it through another week as a blog, although we did have some rather interesting fails in the thread game here and there. That's fine, of course, and it certainly isn't at the pace it was just a few short years ago, where there was angst around every corner. Yes, I like this version of the place much better. 

To a point someone sort of touched on above, the day we see "SIAP: Friday Posbang" is a day where....yeah, maybe we all just back away for 24 hours then. 

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csmhowitzer

September 9th, 2016 at 7:21 AM ^

I have a feeling that we're closer to that point. More now than ever. It seems that for the past month there has just been a ton of repeat threads (maybe it's been longer, a lot longer, but this summer seemed like a lot). I hope your job gets easier LSA. This thread cleanup, it would've taken down a lesser moderator.

Happy Friday.

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Hammer of Thor

September 9th, 2016 at 7:22 AM ^

Flying to Seattle (University Place) to watch the Curtis Vikings play against the team the #1, 2017 recruit Foster Sarell is on. I think Michigan is still after him. I'll be on the sidelines filming (for Curtis), but am excited to see the impact he has on the game!

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dragonchild

September 9th, 2016 at 8:07 AM ^

This defense is good, but it's also very different.  I don't just mean the DC's style or that it's built to stop the spread whereas the '97 defense devoured pro-style rosters.  If we take the most obvious comparison -- Woodson vs. Peppers -- it's turning out they're very different types of keystones.

Woodson was foremost a shutdown corner, but a complete-game one in that he could also play the run, blitz, do safety-like things and generally cause downfield havoc.  But it all started with him blanketing the #1 receiver better than anyone in the league.  '97 Michigan would mess around with secondary assignments on his side because he didn't need safety help.

That guy on the '16 unit is actually Jourdan Lewis.  Lewis isn't as complete a player as Woodson -- well, we don't know yet because he mostly did press man so far and sat during Brown's debut.  Anyway, coverage is turning out to be the one thing Peppers isn't great at.  He plays more like a pure modern nickelback, and an excellent one at that, but that means he doesn't have a '97 analogue.

Not that it matters, because we're not playing '97 Nebraska.  UCF is a poor man's poor man's Oregon, and we have the best DC in the country to devour spread rosters.

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M-Dog

September 9th, 2016 at 8:51 AM ^

Good analysis, but way too serious for a Posbang.

You're supposed to post something like "Wreck UCF, Whoo Hoo!!" with a .gif of a Russian truck crash. Or a monkey knocking over a motorcycle rider.

Something like that.

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dragonchild

September 9th, 2016 at 7:51 AM ^

It's difficult to overstate the extent to which Michigan dominated its first game.  The only thing that could be said is that they played hard.

The coaches were ludicrously cautious about injuries; Lewis, Hurst and Braden didn't play at all.
The entire second half was garbage time.
We didn't just play backups; we played 4th string, true freshmen and walk-ons almost everywhere.
The refs basically stopped officiating in the 2nd quarter.
The offense ran standard plays; the defense mostly used Peppers as a safety.

Blowouts during RichRod were rare because of the defense, though he did steamroll Delaware State.  During the Hoke era, Borges would unveil his latest gimmick on a flat-footed opponent (then coast for three damn weeks).  It was still our schematic best against overmatched talent, until we eventually pull away and put in the 2nd string late in the fourth quarter.  That. . . that was NOT that.

Harbaugh gave Hawaii due respect in the pressers but what I realized after putting it all together is that Michigan didn't just take its foot off the throttle early; they were so sure of the outcome that they went into the game with one hand tied behind their back.  Then the refs tied the other.  Then the backups' backups went in doing the crabwalk.  We still won by 60 points.  As for Hawaii, they are an FBS program.  No they're not good, but they're not a Delware State or Furman and would be favored over such.

This team might be pretty dang good.

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