Jake Long Discusses His Time at Michigan
It was never about the name on the back of his jersey, it was about the love for the M on the front.@jakelong77 returns to @UMich with @Hyundai to experience his first tailgate. pic.twitter.com/1CjbfPnDCH
— The Players' Tribune (@PlayersTribune) November 13, 2017
November 13th, 2017 at 8:32 PM ^
November 13th, 2017 at 8:32 PM ^
It was never about the name on the back of his jersey, it was about the love for the M on the front.@jakelong77 returns to @UMich with @Hyundai to experience his first tailgate. pic.twitter.com/1CjbfPnDCH
— The Players' Tribune (@PlayersTribune) November 13, 2017
November 13th, 2017 at 8:33 PM ^
I️ love MICHIGAN and @UMichFootball. Had a great time filming this. Thanks @Hyundai and @PlayersTribune for a drive down memory lane. #GoBlue #AnnArbor https://t.co/7ltGpvhgNY
— Jake Long (@JakeLong77) November 13, 2017
November 13th, 2017 at 8:36 PM ^
November 13th, 2017 at 8:43 PM ^
Thanks, God.
Not to be greedy, but can you bless us with a few more OTs just to be sure?
November 13th, 2017 at 8:50 PM ^
November 13th, 2017 at 9:11 PM ^
I am not high in the least but I cannot stop laughing at your comment re wii bowling. Thank you! I really needed that. Upvote.
November 14th, 2017 at 2:28 PM ^
God, can we please hit Peoples-Jones on one of those wide open post routes this Saturday? K, thanks.
November 13th, 2017 at 8:47 PM ^
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November 13th, 2017 at 9:04 PM ^
If he didn't get injured, I think he could have been quite the tackle. Probably not Jake Long or Taylor Lewan level, but he seemed to be pretty talented.
November 14th, 2017 at 7:48 AM ^
I hope the team remembers what team Newsome suffered that injury against, with a cheap chop block. (I remember being pissed about it even before we realized Newsome was seriously hurt.)
Here's to Mo Hurst and company breaking those Badgers' hearts. Doing so cleanly, but still with character and cruelty.
November 13th, 2017 at 11:17 PM ^
November 14th, 2017 at 1:30 AM ^
yeah and now the team only had 10 players drafted off the defense last year. and 3 recievers picked in the first 4.1 rounds. and their last starting qb to graduate. nfl talent just doesn't want to come here any more like they used to.
#fireharbaugh
November 14th, 2017 at 8:03 AM ^
He looks so HUGE there!!! That poor corner... LMAO!!
November 13th, 2017 at 8:56 PM ^
I met Jake a couple times back in college. Super cool dude.
November 13th, 2017 at 9:36 PM ^
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November 14th, 2017 at 7:41 AM ^
That's weird - i was listening to Chicago XVI on the flight back to Detroit after the Maryland game. I would have pictured Jake singing instead of Cetera had I known his talent.
November 13th, 2017 at 8:57 PM ^
Fucker jumped out a burning building... Nuff said.
November 13th, 2017 at 9:11 PM ^
November 13th, 2017 at 9:18 PM ^
A picture of the car would have been priceless.
November 13th, 2017 at 9:19 PM ^
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November 14th, 2017 at 5:25 AM ^
November 14th, 2017 at 8:21 AM ^
The only thing Hoke did differently from what Rich Rod would have done in 2011 is field a defense that an accomplished DC put together. Rich Rod would NOT have gone 11-1 that year. At best, he'd be 7-5, but probably not even that good. His teams were trending down, he had lost the players, and they quit whenever anything got tough.
No thanks. Rich Rod was done - you get 4 years if the team has a pulse. His didn't. And if you're one of those 'but the record was improving each year' guys, take one look at that bowl game against MSU (NTMSU) and tell me again how his team was 'improving'.
That said, watching an upper-classman DRob run a Rich Rod offense would have been much more enjoyable than whatever that was that Hoke did to him...
November 14th, 2017 at 10:07 AM ^
The B10 was extremely weak in Hoke's first year (OSU and MSU were tire fires). It's very likely RRod would have gone 11-1 but the scores would have been 56-48 type affairs.
November 14th, 2017 at 11:30 AM ^
MSU went 11-3 in 2011. That was the year they roughed the UW punter in the B1G championship game.
BTW, we went 10-2 in the regular season that year.
November 14th, 2017 at 1:05 PM ^
Kirk Cousins, Leveon Bell, Max Bullough, Darqueze Dennard, Jerel Worthy, Denicos Allen.
They won the division, lost a heart breaker against a very good Wisconsin team led by Russell Wilson (yes, that game featured two of the best current NFL QBs).
Then they beat a good UGA team in the outback bowl after being disrespekted by the BCS when we were selected for the Sugar Bowl over them.
But yes, with OSU down that year, the conference as a whole wasn't outstanding. It wasn't much different than it is this year though (no top ten teams heading into this week, with only OSU projected to be there tonight).
November 14th, 2017 at 3:27 PM ^
You're right, I was off by a year as MSU was terrible in 2012. The rest of the BIG still sucked so my point stands.
November 13th, 2017 at 9:17 PM ^
November 13th, 2017 at 9:22 PM ^
Somebody ought to tell Jake that there's not actually an M on the front of the Michigan jersey. (UTL excepted, of course).
Just, uh, not me. I'll observe from a safe distance. ;)
November 14th, 2017 at 1:15 AM ^
when he played...so close enough?
November 13th, 2017 at 9:28 PM ^
Thanks for posting.
November 13th, 2017 at 9:40 PM ^
Awesome stuff. Wish he could have seen us win...
November 13th, 2017 at 9:55 PM ^
It was so easy to take guys like Henne, Hart and Long for granted at the time.
November 13th, 2017 at 10:02 PM ^
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November 14th, 2017 at 8:24 AM ^
Often forgotten is correct. And when he's remembered, its as one of Carr's less remarkable QBs. Which is probably true, given the QBs that Carr sent to the NFL. But Navarre had his time in the league, also. It was a short run, but he was there and did play.
November 14th, 2017 at 8:30 AM ^
He was forced to play too early because Henson left. It did not work out very well, and it hurt his reputation for the rest of his time at Michigan.
But senior Navarre was a completely different QB than freshman Navarre. He was an NFL-level QB when he left. He completely dismantled Ohio State.
That's what he should be remembered for.
There is a lesson in there somewhere for us fans.
November 13th, 2017 at 10:25 PM ^
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November 13th, 2017 at 10:48 PM ^
Used to see Jake and his now-wife all the time around campus. Even as a freshman, he was just massive. It's amazing to see a human being who's obviously about two cuts above what a normal person looks like.