MGoPodcast 5.3: Grouchy Grouches Grouchin'
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Grouchin'
MISCELLANEOUS WHAT WAS THAT TALKIN'
The press box while that was happening, and the stands.
OFFENSE
What's going on, Devin Gardner? THEORIES! We can't run. This is sad. It's bad and sad and bad.
DEFENSE
Frank Clark: what's up. And that goes for the rest of the defensive line. Pipkins isn't playing, and we don't get why. Why is Countess at nickelback if Michigan can't cover deep?
SPECIAL TEAMS
Guh? Guh.
TALKING BIG TEN WITH JAMIEMAC
Oh, Big Ten, you pick us up.
MUSIC
"Across 110th Street."
"Wreck of the Old 97," Johnny Cash. Yes, again. The second verse is applicable.
"Young Pilgrims," The Shins
"The Legionnaire's Lament," The Decemberists
The usual links:
September 16th, 2013 at 4:05 PM ^
September 16th, 2013 at 4:37 PM ^
Dymonte Thomas can't cover walk on receivers? yikes, doesn't sound good
September 16th, 2013 at 4:41 PM ^
probably just doesnt know the play book quite yet or didnt have a good week of practice. he played well against central so who knows what it could be.
September 16th, 2013 at 5:11 PM ^
though possible i'm not sure what knowing the playbook has to do with the ability to play man coverage
September 16th, 2013 at 4:53 PM ^
Would be better if those guys in different color uniforms were not on our side of the line of scrimmage immediately following the ball snap.
Walk-on left guard, 3* center and 5* right guard don't seem to be helping out very much. 4* backup left guard can't seem to get ahead of the walk-on in the depth chart.
Coaches need to figure out a solution to these issues.
September 17th, 2013 at 2:33 AM ^
The problem is being understated a little bit here. It's not that our RS Fr. right guard is outperforming some veteran lineman in order to earn his spot. It's not as if our three star RS So. center is a diamond in the rough type player and taking a spot away from an upper-classman. There isn't any experienced depth there. We have children competing against other children for starting OL spots. It's unfortunately going to take time to develope the talent at these positions in particular.
September 16th, 2013 at 4:57 PM ^
Funny, I actually watched a Marx brothers movie on Saturday night as a way to forget the game that had just happened.
September 16th, 2013 at 5:01 PM ^
Personally, I am interested in "practice buzz" from Heiko.
September 17th, 2013 at 9:57 AM ^
I actually came to the comments to say the same thing. The exchange basically went like:
Brian/Ace: "Why do the coaches do this?!"
Heiko: "Well, they do it because in practice-"
Brian/Ace: "We don't want to hear about it! Why are they making these decisions?!"
As much as this podcast, especially the defensive section, was all about not understanding why the coaches are making the decisions they're making, Brian and Ace seemed aggressively uninterested in learning more about why the coaches are maybe making these decisions.
September 17th, 2013 at 10:14 AM ^
Me as well - Brian and Ace cut off Heiko explaining the practice buzz to say we should look at the games, who cares about practice! I would like to hear about it as it may inform why Thomas isn't in there, why Pipkins isn't getting a lot of snaps or why Lewis is playing as a true freshman, something that is not always clear just from the games.
If fact, I wouldn't mind a section of the podcast devoted to practice buzz or what Heiko has learned doing his actual reporting.
September 17th, 2013 at 1:50 PM ^
If not Heiko, someone needs to be there to disagree with Brian sometimes. Even smart people aren't right 100% of the time.
I'm not advocating for manufacturing an argument sports-talk style, but there should be plenty to discuss/debate intelligently.
September 16th, 2013 at 8:09 PM ^
Oh, the podcast... Making shitty games sound slightly less shitty.
And for future reference, if a game like this happens again, I will be ok if you guys decide to talk NOT about the game. I hear 'Breaking Bad' is doing well on television.
September 16th, 2013 at 9:44 PM ^
Except that past events do, more often than not, correlate with future events. If not, we should just stop worrying about global warming right now because we have no reason to believe CO2 levels will continue to rise. In fact, everything will probably get a lot better all by itself! Oh yeah, and we shouldn't expect Americans to become more tolerant of marijuana use any time soon either. The fact that several states allow for medicinal use and some even have decriminalized it entirely does not in any way give credence to the idea that this trend will continue. And don't worry about that rebellion in Syria. Just because there is a rebellion today doesn't mean all of those violent people wont just go home tomorrow. In fact, they probably will.
September 16th, 2013 at 11:52 PM ^
I think he was being what do you call it oh yeah ironical. Brian was expressing angst that, although he would like to believe that past events (awesome Devin vs. ND) predict future events, they in fact did not in this case (horrible Devin vs. Akron).
September 17th, 2013 at 2:35 AM ^
Devin was great against ND. Devin was terrible against Akron. One of these two things is an anomaly. My confusion stemmed from which one he assumed was the anomaly and which one he assumed would be the trend.
September 17th, 2013 at 5:52 AM ^
September 17th, 2013 at 9:36 AM ^
Yeesh, this was sooo negative. Also you guys are kind of harsh to Heiko, I am interested to hear about what the coaches are seeing in practice.
September 17th, 2013 at 10:14 AM ^
One thing I learned after listening to this podcast, I tend to agree with Heiko more than Brian or Ace when they start arguing. MORE HEIKO!!!
September 17th, 2013 at 1:46 PM ^
I enjoy the podcast but Ace and Brian agree...a lot. Seems like when Heiko offered some interesting counter thoughts he got shut down. I wanted to hear more.
No, I'm not Heiko's Mom, but I bet she agrees.
You'd think there would be a little more listening going on, especially given how wrong some of the pre-season assumptions stated here were (specifically: "don't worry about the OL - they can't possibly be worse", "worry, no, panic, about Jerrod Wilson", and "Dymonte Thomas is the nickel starter and should never move" .)
September 17th, 2013 at 3:00 PM ^
"Young Pilgrim:" by The Shins: Excellent choice after the Akron game, thematically.
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