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MGoPodcast 10.2: Return to Hat Sender Comment Count

Seth

1 hour and 53 minutes

The Sponsors

We can do this because people support us. You should support them too so they’ll want to do it again next year! The show is presented by UGP & The Bo Store, and if it wasn’t for Rishi and Ryan we would have office jobs and STILL be depressed about losing by a touchdown at Notre Dame.

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1. Offense

starts at 1:00

Booing after the first drive is a new level of grumpiness. Deatherage is the greatest football last name. That cut that Chris Evans can make should be a regular part of the offense. Four or five Shea Patterson throws were very impressive. Redshirts and backup hour.

2. Defense

starts at 30:28

At what point does it become not okay to crack a shutout with a field goal when that can't help you win? It was blocked, but ethically permissible. The 3-tech rotation is Kemp now. Hill in the slot is pleasing. Hawkins played well again—working his way onto the field—he's the next safety up after the starters. Ross is now leading that WLB race. Brian doesn't believe we call Watson #Swatson so he owes me a candy bar. Backup hour: Carl Myers played before Jeter, concern at DT depth now?

3. Special Teams & Feelingsball

starts at 50:34

Nordin misses a 40ish-yard field goal—doesn't make us feel fuzzy. Will Hart punts for 170 yards on three punts tho. If he's going to average 56 yards per punt they can put a redshirt on Robbins. Props to Western Michigan's big big boy at tight end. God bless everyone who doesn't say dumb stuff at a football game.

4. Around the Big Ten wsg Jamie MacMillan

starts at 1:06:36

Jonathan Taylor fumbles, Wisconsin still rumbles. Illinois wanted more flair out of their last win of 2018. Rutgers can now score on Ohio State, plays Kansas next. Antoine Winfield Jr.'s crazy notwithstanding, a bit close for Fresno, but their walk-on QB is better than guys they had before. Penn State pulled away in the 2nd half in the rain, Pitt is only running and their Aussie punter can't hold onto the ball. El Assico shoulda ended 6-3. Indiana football has completed DeBorded. The Golden Age of Eastern Michigan football. Northwestern loses the Quiz Bowl. Nebraska almost beats Colorado and almost doesn't lose their only quarterback. MSU El-Assico went to whoever learned to stop running first; State's secondary is not good. I don't want to know who the Arizona State running back is.

MUSIC

  • "September"—Earth, Wind & Fire
  • "PDA"—Interpol
  • "Do the Bartman"—The Simpsons (w/ Michael Jackson)
  • “Across 110th Street”

THE USUAL LINKS

This is like the Brady-Henson situation except Henson is a potato

Comments

dragonchild

September 10th, 2018 at 10:41 AM ^

I wouldn't trade our ents but I was jealous of WMU's ultra-fun kaiju.  That fourth down conversion was brutally effective (in quite the literal sense) and it would've been fun to see Asiasi or TWJ do that.  "Oh, you have a CB holding down the flat?  How cute, now die."

Alas, we'll just have to live with a bunch of #ButtZone targets for Patterson.

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UMQuadz05

September 10th, 2018 at 11:56 AM ^

For the booing:  didn't M have to use a timeout and then get a penalty after the timeout anyway?  That plus residual crankiness from week 1 (I thought) made the booing pretty understandable.

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InterM

September 10th, 2018 at 12:40 PM ^

On the other hand -- when Michigan was up either 35-0 or 42-0, the guy next to me complained about bad and/or predictable play-calling after Michigan ran "the same play" (i.e. runs up the middle) twice in a row.  Dude, it's a bazillion to nothing, and Michigan had been running the ball up the gut quite nicely all game, thank you very much.  And, of course, Michigan proceeded to convert the 3rd-down-and-longish anyway.  Argh.

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