Coach Zordich Presses the Brakes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xa11sgpmU_k
It cant be all positive out of camp, right?
Jay Harbaugh and Mike Zordich talked to the media today.
Positive: Jay highlights we have 4 RBs that can be in on 3rd downs. Says that is unusual and a big positive for the team. Isaac is most improved in pass pro, but all the guys have stepped up pass pro.
Negative: Zordich is not happy that one of the corner spots has not been locked down. He said that Lavert Hill answered the bell and has stepped up his game. It sounds like he has one of the spots locked down. The 2nd spot has not been grabbed. He seemed pretty negative for the entirety of the presser. He knows they have the ability, but someone needs to step up before Florida.
August 21st, 2017 at 4:01 PM ^
its always been that way in some form or another - the young hunter with similar complaints vs tribal elders. way of the world. sorry but thats not new or unique to millennials (of which im one, though on older side)
August 21st, 2017 at 4:24 PM ^
is the worst rationale for why something that is stupid and shouldn't be that way remains that way.
It shouldn't be the way of the world for seniority to be rewarded over productivity in a capitist economy, so complaints about it are legitimate.
I do agree that this isn't really a generational complaint so much as a complaint about being young, and a problem young people have always experienced. I actually like that millennials refuse to accept this as the way of the world and complain about it (and often do something about it) rather than sit around for 20 years at the same company waiting for their turn.
August 21st, 2017 at 5:22 PM ^
not saying complaints arent legit...simply responded to that post by stating its nothing new or unique to millennials
August 21st, 2017 at 5:07 PM ^
"HR strongly enforces the seniority rules about promotions regardless of merit or ability."
If you work at a company with a collective bargaining agreement that mandates seniority then they have a legal obligation to follow the terms of the CBA. If not, then the company is almost certainly violating laws that prohibit discrimination based on age.
August 21st, 2017 at 8:53 PM ^
August 21st, 2017 at 11:33 PM ^
August 21st, 2017 at 3:30 PM ^
Relax
August 21st, 2017 at 4:37 PM ^
stop believing you are so important anyone would care. you happened to have been born at a certain point in history, that is it. no more or no less important then people born and raised in another time.
August 21st, 2017 at 5:22 PM ^
August 21st, 2017 at 6:12 PM ^
That's life. You work your way up.Fuck. That. Shit. You're probably one of those old hacks who does exactly what I described. Don't piss in my pocket and tell me it's raining. "That's life" in a situation like this is the least valid and most clueless, condescending answer possible, and screw you for insisting otherwise.
August 21st, 2017 at 7:34 PM ^
Smile. Focus that energy in a positive way and you'll do great.
Peace.
August 21st, 2017 at 2:47 PM ^
That prior generations did not have to deal with the inter-connected ways of the world. If other generations had a problem with you guys, there's really nothing they can do other than complain to people in their vicinity.
Now, there's been such a negative connotation attached to my generation (31, so I'm just a few years in the start of it).
It's easy to say, "Just don't be sensitive." But it's not that easy in actual, practical living. Because the stereotypes that have exploded in recent years HAVE affected millenials.
August 21st, 2017 at 3:20 PM ^
Your post Is exactly what a millenial would say and an old geezer woiuld make fun of.
August 21st, 2017 at 3:35 PM ^
But that says much, much more about the old geezer, since it's a patient, thoughtful post aimed at educating. There's literally nothing there worth reasonably ridiculing.
August 21st, 2017 at 5:25 PM ^
August 21st, 2017 at 3:49 PM ^
I'm 33. Only 2 years older than you. There's nothing special about what older people say about younger people. The baby boomers were known at the time as the "Me" generation.
"prior generations did not have to deal with the inter-connected ways of the world." What does that even mean? I live in Korea. It's literally the same thing here. BECAUSE IT'S LITERALLY THE SAME THING EVERYWHERE AT EVERY TIME EVER.
https://www.koreabang.com/2015/stories/koreas-gives-up-generation.html
I'm not saying older people don't say dumb shit about younger people. It's just that all of this is so predictable and so old and both sides get so worked up about it.
August 21st, 2017 at 4:23 PM ^
How else I can say it?
Prior generations did not have a voice to broadcast to everyone. Information traveled as fast it possibly good with the poor technology in place.
Now, everyone can say what they need to say. And millenials are the ones that basically get shit all over because the older generation sees them as these technology-stuck people that can't communicate and only care about themselves.
When the evidence OVERWHELMINGLY shows that they have done yeoman's work with social issues and care a ton about their fellow man.
August 21st, 2017 at 2:31 PM ^
it's almost like we're progressing towards a world where shitting on people for things they can't control is no longer funny. If that encompasses your entire humor arsenal, it says much more about you than the world.
August 21st, 2017 at 1:12 PM ^
August 21st, 2017 at 1:23 PM ^
Why would this matter? It could certainly be his peers about which he makes this observation. Or, perhaps it is a self observation?
August 21st, 2017 at 1:32 PM ^
August 21st, 2017 at 3:03 PM ^
When I was in college we didn't need safe spaces to avoid hearing harsh words.
August 21st, 2017 at 3:08 PM ^
Yeah, instead you just shat on people and told them to bend over and take it. Sounds like a much better time. The '50s would be proud.
Guess it's time to return fire: Boomers are the gold medal winners in crapping on things they don't even attempt to understand. "This isn't intuitively obvious to my pea brain, therefore it is bad and threatens society."
August 21st, 2017 at 6:13 PM ^
Oh, the "return fire" is so painful. You really sound like a whiny baby in this thread. If that's how you come off in real life, that's probably the source of your problem.
August 21st, 2017 at 3:43 PM ^
I think it's been pretty well shown that college students nowadays study and read less than they used to. Are you only basing that on your 2 daughters?
August 21st, 2017 at 1:14 PM ^
The F ever. This is such an old bit.
August 21st, 2017 at 1:29 PM ^
Is "constructive criticism" the latest thing that my generation has killed? Seems we're racking up quite the body count: diamonds, housing, Applebees...
August 21st, 2017 at 1:41 PM ^
I don't remember which coach it was and I'm not going to dig through the internet to find the answer, but someone on the staff recently praised today's recruits for being more prepared and willing to take coaching than those who came before them.
In conclusion, go fuck yourself.
August 21st, 2017 at 1:22 PM ^
Nothing concerns me more than the CB position. We were very lucky to have the Lewis-Stribling-Clark crew the last couple of years. And a single struggling CB can lose games.
Just to be clear: this is not intended to predict doom at all or to suggest that we should set ourselves on fire and jump off of a cliff into a tank of hungry crocodiles who are prepared to ritualistically kill us to appease their angry gods.
August 21st, 2017 at 1:36 PM ^
Nothing? Not even Nolan Ulizio repping with the 1s in mid-August? Thanks, Victor_Von_in_Dayton.
August 21st, 2017 at 5:10 PM ^
Offensive line, Mortimer. The CB's need to have a good year despite inexperience, but the offensive line is the key to this team.
August 21st, 2017 at 1:24 PM ^
Well thankfully we're starting the year by playing a very offensively challenged team. The back four is going to take some time to get settled.
Hopefully Gary, Hurst, Mone and Winovich can consistently get enough pressure to the point where whoever UF has at QB is forced to run for his life and make questionable decisions with the ball.
August 21st, 2017 at 1:32 PM ^
"I'm not concerned. I have confidence in myself. I have confidence in those guys. I don't want to sound like the sky is falling. Because I see it in them, I think that's the more frustrating thing for me. I see it. It's there. Just do it on a consistent basis."
August 21st, 2017 at 1:39 PM ^
to Submerge.
Awake for kickoff and a M win 35 3.
August 21st, 2017 at 1:42 PM ^
Just a reminder that we should give a big FU to the NCAA for not granting Jeremy Clark a 6th year despite scout team player of the year Ed Davis getting one just a year prior.
August 21st, 2017 at 2:16 PM ^
J Clark got drafted so even if he should have gotten a sixth year, it ended up turning well for him.
August 21st, 2017 at 1:45 PM ^
August 21st, 2017 at 2:53 PM ^
Troy Woolfolk injured. Season in peril! Frank Clark alone must make every play now.
August 21st, 2017 at 4:39 PM ^
years were but a speck in Michigan history though. You'd have to be really young, dare I say, a young millennial for that to be normalized in your head. Those days did not exist prior to him.
It's also just the one question mark in the secondary, not necessarilty the entire defense. One could argue the DL depth is a question mark and LB is unproven at a couple spots.
August 21st, 2017 at 1:46 PM ^
August 21st, 2017 at 2:46 PM ^
everyone gets upset if they don`t think a coach is giving honest answers, but then when he does there is panic. this is what you want to hear from a coach. all i got from it is that these players are very talented but not consistent. never did he say anything about not having talent. he is demanding , just like harbaugh. more power to him.
August 21st, 2017 at 2:15 PM ^
I love the honesty and openness. This will make those other guys work even harder. The worst feeling is disappointing others when you know you have the ability to succeed.
August 21st, 2017 at 2:25 PM ^
I think it's all relative. Coach Brown's defense places a ton of pressure on the secondary and safeties that even if the guys are playing average in any other system, they are underperforming in this one.
I do expect UM to give up at least 2 big plays per opponent per game this season, let's just hope the offense can compensate for that.
August 21st, 2017 at 5:43 PM ^
they gave up big plays last year. so what happened?
August 21st, 2017 at 2:33 PM ^
Hopefully these inconsistencies are merely because our WR's are that good! Obviously I wouldn't want our DB's to admit that and would expect our DB coach to challenge them to step it up.
August 21st, 2017 at 2:44 PM ^
August 21st, 2017 at 3:03 PM ^
I would hesitate to believe what someone that close to the situation has to say for the very logic you use to believe them. He is the position coach and has to motivate players and build a narrative that suits him. Honesty isn't necessarily what will work best from his perspective so skewing the message may be just what he needs. The narrative he puts out is curated for public consumption.
August 21st, 2017 at 3:43 PM ^
I think that's a fair point. Everyone is different with respect to what motivates. For me, criticism motivates more than praise but many of my coworkers and management training these days seems to promote the opposite approach. Perhaps our DBs are playing reasonably well given their age but Zordich sees a higher ceiling and wants absolute focus going into Florida.