Joe Milton enrolling early.

That early enrollment is just to get the most D1 experience as possible and has nothing to do with a speight transfer or any QB “instability”.

This is good news.

You think the coaches didn't want to play Peters til he was at an All-American level? That makes no sense.

What about the offensive line?  We can't keep sending people in to get crushed and expect them to pass effeciently.

I reported this a couple weeks ago as my good friend coaches Pep Hamilton’s son. Some of you guys didn’t believe me.. As I said, the coaches are HIGH Milton. The coaches seem to love this kid. Like I said, Pep was showing him videos of Milton and saying how good this kid is.

I have been saying since the beginning of the season that it was a bad idea to play Peters this year, and as soon as he played a legit defense he got concussed, hard. I mean, shit, even against Minnesota he had to take two untouched hits by DEs. 

 

I hope he doesn't turn into Devon Gardner 2.0 on us. Kid has a ton of potential.

A QB is only going as far as his OL can carry him. If the OL doesn’t take a huge step up next year, or any kind of step up in general, any improvement made by the receivers or wideouts won’t matter.

I️t would be cool if Freshmen could play in bowl games and preserve their redshirt

DCaff better eat some leftovers..kid is skinny..have to be patient with him

Start adding some weight. Especially for the tackles.

Throws the football like a javelin 70 yards with little effort. What an arm!

Milton to Tarik Black at the Spring Game could be fun.

 

 

Peters can become Tom Brady next year but if improvement doesn't happen on the OL it's basically all for naught. 

This offseason will more or less boil down to the same questions that have faced this team for the better part of a decade. Can the OL take a significant step forward? Can they take any step forward? If they can take a significant step forward, the rest of the offense takes care of itself. Peters has time to survey the field and throw, RBs have holes to run through, WRs and TEs have time to get open, the opposing defense gets tired faster, etc. Always, ALWAYS starts up front. 

If next year becomes same story, different year, where the OL is yet again the sieve in big games, another season equivalent to this one is coming down the pipeline. Don Brown and his unit can only do so much by themselves to win games. 

You honestly expect McCaffrey to start over Peters (who played this year)? I highly doubt that. Classic back up qb syndrome. 

Guys as possible.  I hope every QB on the team is learning their asses off from here to eternity.

Milton...Milton...Milton...

Say it with me

He better learn the damn offense. How frustrating was it to watch such beautiful playcalling after a whole year of vanilla bean bull shit? The offense had clearly been working on a ton of things over the offseason, but the product was pretty bad early in the season. After the QB injury, everything was tabled and they tore away the offense to the barest bones. Need to have a QB that can come out of the gates with a solid grasp of a competent passing attack.

After watching Milton’s HS tape, it does not seem like he has much footwork at all. He looks to need 2 years of work as a dropback QB to get some of these things nailed down. He’s got a great arm and is a good pro style QB, but he bailed out of any footwork on every dropback in his highlight reel. Hopefully he can get this down but enrolling early does nothing for him this year. We need to keep Malzone to have a third string honestly.

2015: Jake Rudock - RS Sr. learning offense, but got reall good toward end of season and bowl, 10-3

2016: Wilton Speight - RS So. knows offense, shaky start, then really good, then injured. 10-3

2017: Wilton Speight (injured), John O'Korn RS Sr. (unproductive), Brandon Peters RS Fr. (2-0, until injured), return to O'Korn as only option 8-4

2018: Brandon Peters RS So. - likely starter, then Dylan McCaffrey RS Fr., Joe Milton Fr., Kevin Doyle, Fr.

Soon Michigan will get to the point where Harbaugh returns with a QB for a second year and doesn't get murdered by an inexperienced or untalented offensive line.

 

 

 

All I ask of these young QBs is to not stand there and watch their pass once the ball leaves the fingers. Especially if the pressure is hot. Get the hell out of there and don't let a 300 lb. lineman cram you into the ground with all of his weight. Dodge, dip, duck, dive and dodge. Just move your ass out of there or brace for the hit. I bet I've seen it two thousand times. The quarterback will get rid of the ball and watch it, then instantly get creamed. If you know that guy is coming, move your fucking ass man!!

What leads you to believe it will be McCaffery over Peters? Just a feeling or something particular good/bad either of them do?

is big, fast (4.8 40 for big guy pretty darn fast imo) , great arm strength.   Got excited when someone hereposted link to Devin Gardners picture with him and Doyle yesterday.  Wow, he's big.   He is young too and may not be done growing, but he looked much taller than Devin in photo even though just listed at 6' 5''.    If Coaches are excited, I'm excited.  Was bummed when heard Speight transferring, but between Peters, McCaffrey, Milton and Doyle we should be good at qb next year as long as OL is solid.  

Already announced early enrollment long before Speight's decision to leave. Will be nice to have him here early though.