Are our top 3 receivers all injured, or something else?
There was some discussion on this yesterday after the game but I haven't seen a solid conclusion. We know Black is out with is foot injury but what is going on with Perry and Crawford?
According to MGoBlue.com, Crawford has played once in the last 3 weeks, against Minnesota. I did confirm this morning he was on the field for Evans' second TD run. MGoBlue also says that Perry played against Maryland but not Minnesota.
These guys have combined for 1 catch since the Penn State game (Perry had one against Rutgers). It's starting to make sense why Peters is only throwing to TEs and checkdowns to RBs. Does anyone know exactly what is going on with these two?
November 12th, 2017 at 11:29 AM ^
Yes, but Harbaugh told us not to tell you.
November 12th, 2017 at 11:41 AM ^
supposed to tell him that
November 12th, 2017 at 12:00 PM ^
There was some great info on the secret members page about depth, wr targeting and playcalling.
November 12th, 2017 at 12:15 PM ^
I get 20000 points and get the unlock code. Sigh.
November 12th, 2017 at 12:37 PM ^
The problem is that once you get into the secret room, sure, it has great information but then you open the fridge and realize that the mayo is long expired and that there seems to be a constant shortage of corned beef and other deli products. Also, someone keeps hooking up an IV to the bottles of Glenfidditch - it's quite unsanitary actually.
November 12th, 2017 at 12:52 PM ^
you can contract HIV, Glenfiddich was not one I ever considered.
November 12th, 2017 at 1:22 PM ^
to hell away--could you believe it?
November 12th, 2017 at 1:22 PM ^
to hell away--could you believe it?
November 13th, 2017 at 1:08 AM ^
I couldn't
November 13th, 2017 at 1:08 AM ^
I couldn't
November 12th, 2017 at 11:32 AM ^
They need to just line tight ends up outside at this point. I believe in the Gentry TD there were 3 TEs running routes. They aren’t going to beat anyone deep on the outside that way but the current receivers aren’t being connected with anyway so that’s not relevant.
November 12th, 2017 at 11:38 AM ^
But we've seen several throws to DPJ and McDoom the last couple weeks. I can't recall any to either Crawford or Perry, and Perry is our best receiver by a wide margin in my opinion. I'm trying to understand why.
November 12th, 2017 at 11:43 AM ^
On a blown PI call by the refs.
November 12th, 2017 at 11:52 AM ^
think that DPJ. Or are you talking about the under route (the second blown PI).
November 12th, 2017 at 12:15 PM ^
The second one. DPJ was the first.
November 12th, 2017 at 11:54 AM ^
That is right I forgot about that.
I was at the game and the stadium announcer says "Flag on the play" and the crowd cheered loudly because most the people behind the Michigan bench were M fans. Then he says, "wait, no flag thrown." This brought boos.
Pretty good troll job. Lol
November 12th, 2017 at 11:37 AM ^
I suspect they’re not doing the things they’re supposed to
November 12th, 2017 at 3:08 PM ^
Alternatively, maybe they did things that they were not supposed to.
November 12th, 2017 at 11:38 AM ^
I can't believe how many injuries we've had to starters. Currently our #1 WR (Black) and #2 WR (Crawford) are out, our #1 QB (Speight) is out, our RG (Onwenu) is out, our #2 RB (Isaac) is out, and it's possible our #1 RB (Higdon), our #2 CB (Long), our #1 SDE (Gary). That is an insanely high number of starting players are really important positions.
November 12th, 2017 at 11:43 AM ^
I guess you're ignoring my OP. Crawford played last week...
November 12th, 2017 at 11:57 AM ^
He tweeted after the Gentry td. So, I'm pretty sure he was back in AA injured.
November 12th, 2017 at 12:17 PM ^
correct he didn;t make the trip.
November 12th, 2017 at 12:33 PM ^
I said last week, i.e. Minnesota.
But he was in late in the game and I did not see an injury. So if he didn't make the trip, I'm guessing he's in the doghouse.
November 12th, 2017 at 12:40 PM ^
I guess I don't get your point. He did not dress this game, which the other poster mentioned. I don't think he was posting a counter to your OP. He seemed to just give be talking about the crap injury luck this team has had in a thread started to talk about it.
November 12th, 2017 at 12:46 PM ^
People get injured in practice as well. Not just the games.
November 12th, 2017 at 12:54 PM ^
Watson
November 12th, 2017 at 12:55 PM ^
Yes. My fantasy football demise.
November 12th, 2017 at 12:49 PM ^
Why would you guess that he is in the doghouse? Not sure it's fair to Crawford to throw that out there with no information
You do realize that they practice between games, right? Perhaps he re-injured himself then.
November 12th, 2017 at 4:50 PM ^
The chances that both of those are related to the injury he suffered the previous week seems rather high. He's clearly not back to 100%.
November 12th, 2017 at 12:21 PM ^
Crawford did not play this week.
November 12th, 2017 at 12:24 PM ^
You forgot Eubanks. He may not seem like a big injury because it happened early in the year and this was his first year to contribute. However, listening to a few of the offensive coaches interview over the year, he got alot of the reps in the fall for the packages that utilized flex TEs. He also looked really fluid running intermediate and long routes and had good hands. I think his lose is missed more than we fans may realize.
Additionally, I think hill is more likely to miss next week than Gary. I was seated pretty close to where the defense sat when they were off the field. Gary looked like he could go back in if asked and was in high spirits joking with Hurst a bunch at the end of the game.
A concussion doesn't really tell us if more games will be missed. Mild ones see guys back the week after. Whereas, Eubanks got a more serious one and has missed like 4 or 5 games.
November 12th, 2017 at 1:56 PM ^
Bunting was injured at the start of the year and Wheatley missed a couple of games as well (wrist?). Also lost Jeter and Villain from the defense's 2nd string.
November 12th, 2017 at 12:38 PM ^
#1 CB, Vert Hill
November 12th, 2017 at 12:45 PM ^
#1 OT (Newsome)
November 12th, 2017 at 11:41 AM ^
or could be a need for better ball skills and/or more physicality (see above: lack of size/strenght)
maybe they're not running good routes, maybe they're not open, but whatever the case, not many throws coming their way - and the position on the whole, since Black went down, has not been much of an asset
November 12th, 2017 at 11:42 AM ^
So it depends on who is open. Plus with the power scheme the # of WRs on each play are reduced sometimes to just one outside decoy.
November 12th, 2017 at 11:53 AM ^
We r gonna go 5 wide and torch osu
November 12th, 2017 at 12:04 PM ^
why are you still here?
November 12th, 2017 at 12:15 PM ^
When u stop being a pussy ill leave. Deal?
November 12th, 2017 at 12:36 PM ^
Go back under the bridge.
November 12th, 2017 at 3:44 PM ^
I sure wish Inman would change into Outman.
November 12th, 2017 at 11:54 AM ^
position group, IMHO. Even more than QB.
November 12th, 2017 at 12:49 PM ^
QB is more disappointing. Speight played really well last year (except for a few poorly timed turnovers in big games) and his backup was a 5th year player. They both underperformed.
Freshman WR stink. we knew that before the season started.
November 12th, 2017 at 12:52 PM ^
Freshman wr dont stink on other teams. U watch any other games yesterday?
November 12th, 2017 at 12:57 PM ^
How many of them have a RS Freshman throwing to them?
November 12th, 2017 at 1:01 PM ^
I dont know and i dont think ours stink. I think
Harbaugh is purposefully not using them
Right now. I was just making the point that they contribute all across college football
November 12th, 2017 at 3:28 PM ^
there are six freshmen ranked in the top 100 in receiving yards. not to say that defines a "contributor"; you need ~550 yards to crack the top 100. black was on track to be around that mark, but that would still make him an outlier among freshman wr. and our qb situation hasn't helped. still disappointing that we can't get DPJ going.
November 12th, 2017 at 5:02 PM ^
Since Speight went down we have seen very vanilla offensive playcalling that has morphed into straight up mauler formations with multiple TE and usually just one wideout. Jim is trying to win games and is channeling his inner 1970s Bo Schembechler. So far he's put together an 8-2 record out of a very young, banged-up unit. These young guys will all get better quickly and things will open up.
November 12th, 2017 at 1:15 PM ^
Freshman WR can be pretty good but it’s a lot easier if the team has other good veteran receiving threats on the team to be the main dudes. Basically every person except Perry who has caught a pass for us is either a freshman or a RS freshman.