How good are our linebackers?

Submitted by Cold War on

On WTKA Monday morning, Andy Mignery and Marcus Ray were agreeing how poorly the linebackers played.Mignery said they  had been swallowed up by Ohio's O-line, and Marcus said something that really surprised me - how Hoke and Company needed to go out and recruit some that are athletic enough to compete at a higher level.

I was  under the impression we have a pretty good  group of young  linebackers. Thoughts?

BigBlue02

December 5th, 2013 at 2:18 AM ^

Oh man, I got so lucky you wanted to be a dick to me but ended up not being a dick to me. I'm relieved.

You know, for someone who didn't want to be a dick, you sure come across as a prick. The condescending attitude is what does you in.

Truth be told, I don't usually understand people who talk out of their ass, so you're right, I don't understand what you're getting at. First off, I am guessing Magnus doesn't give a shit if you believe he is a coach. Second, I'm not sure why him being a coach is a reason he should never use stats as to how well a unit played. Third, I would like to know what amazing barometer you are using to let us know how stupid everyone is and how smart you are regarding how good the DEs were this year. I'm guessin it isn't as good as, you know, statistics, but please enlighten us as to how you came to your conclusion. If it starts out with "I just watched the games and I got a feeling," then you lose. At everything. Fourth, unless you rewatched every game and and broke down plays for both the DEs and the LBs, you really have no business spouting off about how good the DEs were and how lousy the LBs were. I don't really care whether you are correct or not, but I think it fucking ridiculous that you are telling someone with quite a bit of football knowledge that their stats aren't valid because Frank Clark himself was "far and away much better" than all the LBers and Heitlzmen was on par with the entire LB unit, you know, just because you said so. Actually, it looks like your overall point was that Frank Clark was better than the LBers, which wasn't even the original argument. But please, tell us how your eye test is better than stats Mr joined the site 2 weeks ago.

Magnus

December 5th, 2013 at 6:14 AM ^

"And yes Magnus if he is indeed a football coach, which I believe to be true should never be using stats as an indicator of O or Dline play."

Never? Like...never? So Michael Strahan's 22 sacks weren't indicative of anything? Taylor Lewan only allowing 1 sack last year didn't mean anything?

EDIT: By the way, Keith Heitzman made 8 tackles and .5 tackles for loss this year. I'm going to go ahead and use those statistics to conclude that maybe he's not as good of a player as James Ross or Jake Ryan or Desmond Morgan. Sorry.