Monday 9/13 Presser Notes: Players
Denard RobinsonOn Heisman hype: "I don't pay attention to none of that." He doesn't have cable,and doesn't go on websites that talk about it. For entertainment "I like being around my teammates, and...
View ArticlePicture Pages: UMass Counter Reconsideration
Normally in these posts I've noticed something or understood something or am trying to explain something. No so much on this one. I grabbed this because it's a play where it seems like four different...
View ArticleMonday Player Presser Notes 10-11-10
Kelvin Grady Dropped passes: "We were frustrated, but it happens. Unfortunately it happened in a pretty big ballgame." They'll catch some extra balls this week, and avoid it happening again. "There's...
View ArticlePicture Pages: The Total Lack Of Backside DE Pursuit
What happened on the 60-yard touchdown? The opposite of the thing that MSU did to prevent a 60-yard touchdown. This is a zone stretch. Michigan State has just run a stretch that creased the line...
View ArticleUpon Further Review 2010: Defense vs Iowa
Substitution notes: Patterson played the entire second half and big chunks of the first as it was clear that Mike Martin was not recovered from the late MSU cheap shot. RVB never came out; Black cycled...
View ArticlePicture Pages: Losing Contain, Again Again
Promised last week but Wife Day occupied the designated space. This week's great linebacker debate is about how I'm sitting in a tree with Kenny Demens, finding reasons to posbang him that would not be...
View ArticleMonday Player Presser Notes 11-1-10
[Ed-M: Added the video provided by Boyz n da Pahokee] David Molk"It's an attitude adjustment... it can't just be some half-assed work ethic." Guys need to fight every game, every down. "We're gonna...
View ArticleSenior Day Haiku
An annual tradition. Special bonus this year: holy pants there are no seniors. Usually I skip a bunch of anonymous walk-ons who never saw the field unless they have a silly name; this year this is it....
View ArticleUpon Further Review 2010: Defense vs Purdue
Formation notes: Against a bad spread rushing attack Michigan went with the stack most of the game, with occasional changeups to a slanting four-man front and extremely rare eight man fronts as...
View ArticlePicture Pages: Lack Of Massive Cutback Lane
Yesterday I put up an analysis of a simple iso that cut back behind Mike Martin and picked up ten yards. In the comments Magnus mentioned he thought this must be a mistake on someone's part because...
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