I hate Captain Obvious too
EDSBS has posted a fine rebuttal to the question every Captain Obvious has asked: "You know, Denard Robinson is gonna get hurt, and then where will Michigan be?"
The question applies so universally that it has no specific value. Plug it in with any player: "What if Terrelle Pryor gets hurt?" (Answer: "They'll play the next incarnation of Todd Boeckman behind him.") "What if John Brantley gets hurt, and then where will Florida be?" (Answer: "We'll just give up on the pass game entirely and bypass those frustrating drops on four yard hitches called on 3rd and 5," that's what we'll do.) "What if Jordan Jefferson gets hurt?" Well, LSU will probably play Jarrett Lee, and then really spectacular things start happening.
Yes, Michigan might be in trouble if Denard goes down. Just like every other team would be in trouble if they lost their best player.
September 29th, 2010 at 3:06 PM ^
I guess we will have to play a returning starter at qb from last year, who is 12/12 this year
September 29th, 2010 at 3:08 PM ^
Tate Forcier!? But what if HE gets hurt? Then what? WHAT!?!?!!!1!!!? A true freshman?! But what if HE get's injured?
/s
September 29th, 2010 at 3:11 PM ^
and Grizzly Adams had a beard.
September 29th, 2010 at 3:23 PM ^
If Devin gets hurt then Jack Kennedy leads us to a national championship! I've always been arguing that we should fire RichRod because he won't play our clear #1 QB.
With the bloodlines of a Kennedy how could he be anything but the best? Plus he's a physics major, so he knows the proper trajectory of a deep ball.
September 29th, 2010 at 3:36 PM ^
...goes down, I'm sure that Kelvin Grady would be an able replacement. I propose that if it does come to Kennedy as QB that we have several threads that ask if RichRod will devise a way to get Kennedy and Grady on the field at the same time.
September 29th, 2010 at 4:26 PM ^
What if Grady got hurt? We don't have that kind of depth at QB! Then we'd have to move Gallon back to his back to his original position and then what?! Move Odoms back inside to Slot! We don't have that kind of depth at slot! We don't have that kind of depth at WR! When will you people learn...
September 30th, 2010 at 8:30 AM ^
...conundrum.
September 29th, 2010 at 3:12 PM ^
A healthy Forcier, with another year of film study under his belt and 8-10 more pounds of muscle on his frame, will do JUST FINE, thank you very much!
September 29th, 2010 at 3:10 PM ^
..When I looked at the title, I thought Carty was back in the media.
September 29th, 2010 at 3:13 PM ^
but he writes for the New York Times:
September 29th, 2010 at 4:07 PM ^
Given the long, slow slide at The Gray Lady, I am unsurprised.
September 29th, 2010 at 3:10 PM ^
we would be in the best shape if we lost our starting qb. None of the above mentioned schools have a second string quarterback with the experience Tate has.
September 29th, 2010 at 3:12 PM ^
Considering the improvements in WR play I'd imagine Tate could function as a very effective player. Assuming the run game could get consistent and our RBs kick out a 120 or yards a game, coupled with an effective passing attack and our offense would hum along nicely.
We'd lose the explosiveness Denard brings and I'd imagine we'd become death by a thousand cuts (quick passes, running plays, Tate scrambles in the 6-10 yard range as opposed to 40 yard runs) but I don't think we'd have to panic.
Or we bring in Devin and that gliding evasion he has, coupled with that deep ball and focus on big plays via deep routes.
September 29th, 2010 at 3:22 PM ^
I think our offense would definitely be solid with Tate as the QB, but I don't think it could put up the points needed to make up for the defenses short comings.
September 29th, 2010 at 3:24 PM ^
Be honest, there would be some panic. I modded the BGSU game, and there was plenty 'o panic.
Forcier would be fine, but the offense would instantly drop from world beater to somewhere around 4th in the Big 10. Combine that with the looming possibility of disaster on defense and there'd be plenty of understandable hand wringing.
September 29th, 2010 at 3:13 PM ^
I thought you were calling out this guy: http://mgoblog.com/users/captain-obvious.
I was getting excited for some internet crazy.
September 29th, 2010 at 3:19 PM ^
Oh, I hate him as well, but I didn't think it was relevant enough for a board post.
September 29th, 2010 at 3:22 PM ^
he seems like a good dood.
September 29th, 2010 at 9:38 PM ^
About what he's really like?
September 29th, 2010 at 3:59 PM ^
Unfortunately we get this bs...
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<br>*sigh* ufr soon please!
September 29th, 2010 at 3:19 PM ^
Do u know how many Notre Dame fans have asked me this in the past month?
September 29th, 2010 at 3:23 PM ^
"something better than what happened when Crist went down"?
September 29th, 2010 at 3:27 PM ^
I hope he does. On the Friday night before the Notre Dame game I was talking to a Notre Dame fan. He said he thought the defense's strategy should be to hit Denard as hard as possible in order to injure him and knock him out of the game. I told the Notre Dame fan that I thought it would be a much better strategy for Michigan since Notre Dame's backups are terrible while I was pretty confident in Michigan's backups.
We all know how it turned out but I haven't gone back and rubbed my sage prediction in his face yet.
September 29th, 2010 at 3:40 PM ^
.... and why the hell not!!!??
September 29th, 2010 at 3:24 PM ^
Was it before or after they told you they totally would have beat us if Crist didn't miss most of the first half?
September 29th, 2010 at 3:26 PM ^
Forcier is a hell of a lot more ready for prime time than Montana or that freshman kid.
As to the original post, I would happily take a wager in which Michigan plays OSU with both starting quarterbacks out. The drop-off from Robinson to Forcier is nowhere near as big as the drop-off from Pryor to Bauserman (though Bauserman is not a stiff).
September 29th, 2010 at 3:24 PM ^
what our offense would look like if we lose denard for the season...
September 29th, 2010 at 3:28 PM ^
On the other hand, I appreciate your tortoise picture.
September 29th, 2010 at 3:31 PM ^
On the other hand HOLY SHIT HE'S GOT THREE HANDS!
September 29th, 2010 at 3:34 PM ^
To me that just means, not as fast, but steady and determined.
September 29th, 2010 at 3:38 PM ^
the hare smoked that tortoise.
September 29th, 2010 at 3:58 PM ^
....is the angle I was going for! As much as I love playing the "what if" game if d-rod gets injured it's one of the few positions we have some actual depth in.
September 29th, 2010 at 5:30 PM ^
Well said, but tortoises are not known for being able to throw on the run.
September 29th, 2010 at 3:27 PM ^
This post just proves how lazy you are. We should all be willing to answer the same stupid question overandoverandoverandoveragain.
September 29th, 2010 at 3:31 PM ^
Yeah, it's kind of a silly thing to consider. it could happen to anybody. the answer for oregon when Dixon went down was "fail". For us, this year, it would mean a tailback or 2 would really have to step up, but we'd be fine. If Denard remains completely healthy the rest of the year, I could see him leading us to 10 wins, singlehandedly. If he gets injured, I would be confident in the Tate/Devin combo to win more games than we lose. We definitely lose the instant-impact side of Denard, but we potentially replace it with clock-eating, steady drives with Tate at the helm.
September 29th, 2010 at 4:05 PM ^
"We definitely lose the instant-impact side of Denard, but we potentially replace it with clock-eating, steady drives with Tate at the helm."
What a weird world we're in where our QB who is a running threat would lead to quicker drives than our QB who is more passing oriented...
September 29th, 2010 at 4:12 PM ^
Based on the UConn and ND games (when we enjoyed a huge TOP advantage), and last year's games with Tate at QB, it seems to me that's Denard who offers us better potential to milk clock. We were killed in TOP almost every week last season.
September 29th, 2010 at 8:40 PM ^
I think our OL with a healthy Molk and Taylor Lewan would make a big difference.
September 29th, 2010 at 3:32 PM ^
Yeah but what would happen to the Lions if Stafford went down....well?????
September 29th, 2010 at 3:46 PM ^
The nice thing about the Lions, is that it can't get much worse.
September 29th, 2010 at 3:52 PM ^
BAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Oh, kids and their crazy fantasies.
September 29th, 2010 at 4:51 PM ^
Blaze, I think you've crossed a threshold with your humor. It's now "sublime."
September 29th, 2010 at 4:27 PM ^
Half of the point of a person making this comment is that DRob is the linchpin of the offense. The rebuttal rebuts that part of their point, as it makes clear that the qb is the linchpin of a great many offenses.
However, the other part of the point of a person making that comment is that Robinson takes more hits and so an injury to him is a more likely scenario than an injury to qbs with less of a workload.
This may actually be the truth, but here's how one would have to analyze it. How many hits do other qbs take in a game. Statistically, what are the odds of a football player being injured in a contact situation. From those two statistics, one should be able to obtain the likelyhood of any given qb getting injured during a season and compare.
Pocket qbs take hits as well; RR claims that in a lot of ways, they're more dangerous hits (blindside, defenseless).
My gut tells me that DRob is no more likely to get injured, but is more likely to get hurt or dinged. My differentiation being that an injury keeps you out for a week or more, a ding keeps you out for a drive or two.
September 29th, 2010 at 4:40 PM ^
Losing any two of molk, schilling and omameh would be more disastrous.
September 29th, 2010 at 5:30 PM ^
The Patriots would stink without Brady.
September 29th, 2010 at 6:07 PM ^
The comments on that post are hysterical.
September 29th, 2010 at 11:25 PM ^
if Brian went down with carpal tunnel? Would MgoBlog fall apart at the seams? I don't think so. Magnus would take control of this blog so fast it would make your head spin.
September 30th, 2010 at 9:30 AM ^
then what? Do we organize by point total?
Hmm... who's in front of me that I have to kill now....