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2009 TSUN News (football only discussion)

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MGoBlue: Michigan Football: Letters From Camp
• Quarterback Nick Sheridan tossed three touchdown passes to three different receivers in team drills, tossing scoring plays to wideout Greg Mathews and tight ends Brandon Moore and Kevin Koger.
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• The defense stopped the offense on 5-of-6 final play of the game from the 11-yard line.

• The only score on the final play competition was an 11-yard TD pass from Sheridan to Koger.
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• Actor Jeff Daniels watched practice and talked with U-M head coach Rich Rodriguez.
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• Quarterback Denard Robinson had a pair of plays over 40 yards, including a 45-yard TD pass to receiver Greg Mathews in the two minute drill.
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• The defense stopped the offense on four of six possessions on end of game situations where the ball was spotted at the 12-yard line with 14 seconds left and the offense had to score a touchdown.
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• Quarterback Denard Robinson scampered 68 yards on a broken play during third down drills.

• On a first-and-10 drill from their own two-yard line, running back Kevin Grady burst through a hole in the right side of the line for a 45-yard gain.
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• Quarterback Denard Robinson accounted for four touchdowns at practice, scoring a pair of rushing scores and tossing two TD strikes.

• During a third down drill, Robinson escaped from the pocket and had a long 72-yard touchdown run down the right sideline.
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• Wide receiver James Rogers grabbed a pair of touchdown receptions in practice, including a 58-yard grab on a fly pattern from quarterback Tate Forcier.
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• Quarterback Nick Sheridan found tight end Martell Webb open for a 48-yard touchdown through the middle of the defense.
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• The biggest hit of the day might have come from the team's smallest player. Tailback Vincent Smith cracked back on a Forcier run and laid out a Wolverine defender.
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Tony may be trying to help his teammate land a better offer, of course that might result in less playing time if he's getting helped into a school above his ability.

Once those come in, who knows if Tony still settles for a school like Wisconsin.
 
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DaddyBigBucks;1520361; said:
Air... TSUN defense...

Sorry, I'm not seeing the difference.
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Unlike the UM defense, air can actually do damage sometimes:

Air at work:
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UM defense at work:
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MGoBlue: Michigan Football: Letters From Camp

Quarterback Nick Sheridan tossed three touchdown passes to three different receivers in team drills, tossing scoring plays to wideout Greg Mathews and tight ends Brandon Moore and Kevin Koger.
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If only it was that easy in real life.

Actor Jeff Daniels watched practice and talked with U-M head coach Rich Rodriguez.
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Funniest thing he's seen since Dumb and Dumber?

On a first-and-10 drill from their own two-yard line, running back Kevin Grady burst through a hole in the right side of the line for a 45-yard gain.
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Notice that says Kevin Grady, NOT Kelvin Grady. He of 14 rushes for 33 yards and a long of 7 in 2008. He of 55 rushes for 187 yards in 2006.

? Quarterback Denard Robinson accounted for four touchdowns at practice, scoring a pair of rushing scores and tossing two TD strikes.

During a third down drill, Robinson escaped from the pocket and had a long 72-yard touchdown run down the right sideline.
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Again, in for a rude awakening once games start.

Quarterback Nick Sheridan found tight end Martell Webb open for a 48-yard touchdown through the middle of the defense.
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In other news, Nick Sheridan transfers to a team where he will get to play against Michigan.
 
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buckeyesin07;1520408; said:
mgoblog says that UM is a 12 point favorite against WMU in week 1. Are you kidding me? Give me WMU and the points, as that seems like a sure thing.
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Good QB or not, WMU is still an awful football team which lost most of its personnel. A bad UM team should still dominate them. Whether they will is yet to be seen.
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In other news, Nick Sheridan transfers to a team where he will get to play against Michigan.
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Nick Sheridan is inexplicably in the mix for PT, and that's not just coachspeak (like when RR says there is no depth chart).
 
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buckeyesin07;1520408; said:
mgoblog says that UM is a 12 point favorite against WMU in week 1. Are you kidding me? Give me WMU and the points, as that seems like a sure thing.
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U-M versus MAC teams since 2006:

Sep 9, 2006 Central Michigan W 41-17
Nov 4, 2006 Ball State W 34-26
Oct 6, 2007 Eastern Michigan W 33-22
Sep 6, 2008 Miami (OH) W 16-6
Oct 11, 2008 Toledo L 13-10

Since blowing out the Chippewas in the second game of the '06 season, U-M hasn't beaten a MAC team by more than 11 points in four contests over the past three seasons.

As a matter of fact, not only has U-M not beaten a MAC team by 12 points recently, in their latest contest, they didn't beat a MAC team at all.

They lost to Toledo.

The last point isn't as important as the first. I just like typing U-M LOST TO TOLEDO!
 
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cfn said:
This has been a strange team to figure out. It was good enough to beat Illinois last year, ruin Iowa’s bowl dream in 2007, and has put up fantastic offensive numbers, but when push came to shove, it lost a shootout against Central Michigan, was blown out by Ball State, and was embarrassed by Rice in the Texas Bowl. Unfortunately, that was with a veteran team that had everyone back on defense and a receiving corps full of tremendous talents.
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There will be times when nothing works. There’s good potential at receiver and defensive back, and the overall starters will be fine, but the depth is lacking and there will be a disaster if major injuries strike. Even so, the Broncos will simply outbomb their way out of several problems, while the defense should be able to get into the backfield on a regular basis.
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The team will be far better if … the secondary shows up. Last year’s secondary boasted NFL safety Louis Delmas, all-star corner Londen Fryar, and depth, experience and talent all across the board. It didn’t matter as the Broncos allowed 255 yards per game, gave up 21 touchdown passes and only came up with ten picks. This year’s secondary needs Miami transfer Doug Wiggins to be a star at safety, while the spotlight will be on Josh Price and David Lewis. The pass rush will help out, but the corners will be on an island with so much blitzing and aggressiveness. They have to come through.
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I forsee a lot of yardage by UM's offense, which might leave UM a little overconfident heading into their ND matchup.
 
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Quarterback Nick Sheridan tossed three touchdown passes to three different receivers in team drills, tossing scoring plays to wideout Greg Mathews and tight ends Brandon Moore and Kevin Koger.
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Quarterback Nick Sheridan found tight end Martell Webb open for a 48-yard touchdown through the middle of the defense.
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Maybe I'm glossing over something, but is this not a pretty sure-fire rebuttal to any citation of impressive-looking statistics being put up by Forcier or Robinson in practice?
 
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jwinslow;1520412; said:
Good QB or not, WMU is still an awful football team which lost most of its personnel. A bad UM team should still dominate them. Whether they will is yet to be seen.
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I thought WMU was supposed to be pretty good this year. CFN says that WMU and CMU are the two best teams in the MAC this year. In a typical year (maybe the MAC is down this year?), that would be enough to tell me that WMU is going to be pretty good this season.
 
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