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2010 TSUN News offseason (football)

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goblue15;1751070; said:
The oline is not a concern for me, this is the one position where we actually have an elite level coach in Frey. The Oline is going to be real good this year.
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I wouldn't be too worried about them either. When you're only on the field three plays at a time with a fair amount of rest in between, you should be solid throughout the game.
 
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Tate in front of the press: "There is no 'I' in team".

Thinking to himself: "But there is an 'M-E'."

CBS

Competition puts Michigan QB Forcier's ego in check

ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- Tate Forcier was oozing with confidence before he took a snap for Michigan last year.

Then, he started every game.

Instead of being even more sure of himself, the quarterback seems a little
shaky entering his sophomore season.

Denard Robinson was more impressive than Forcier during the spring, when highly touted freshman Devin Gardner was added to the mix, a teammate publicly took a shot at him this summer and coach Rich Rodriguez didn't let him practice with wings on his helmet.

Humbled?
Yep.

Forcier did his best to stay quiet Sunday during media day, until he asked for and received permission from Rodriguez to talk to reporters. After posing for pictures with Robinson and Gardner, the returning starter said he didn't know what his chances were to keep his job when he was peppered with the first of many questions.

"It's way too soon to tell," Forcier said. "Coach Rod keeps it as open as possible and I don't think he's close to a decision."

The three QBs each had a chance to impress the coaches Saturday during a scrimmage at the Big House, but Rodriguez wasn't saying much about the competition less than 24 hours later.

"It's a race that is not going to be settled in the next couple of days," Rodriguez said.

A couple days before the scrimmage, Forcier practiced with the school's famed wings on his helmet for the first time in camp after being relegated to wearing one without the maize decals.

"I saw it more as a challenge," Forcier said. "The majority of our team had their wings. I didn't. It made me work a little harder to get them back. I got them back, so I'm happy."

He was challenged earlier in the month when defensive back Troy Woolfolk said Forcier was falling short of the senior's expectations during summer workouts.

"I'm happy he did call me out because it's about the team," Forcier said.

"There's no 'I' in team, and that's something Coach Rod likes to get across to everybody on the team. All I did was keep working and gained the respect back from the coaches and everybody.

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WolverineMike;1751260; said:
Is it sad I get the best Michigan coverage on a buckeye message board? what's up with that?......:lol:
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knowing your enemy is made a helluva lot more entertaining when said enemy happens to be hilariously inept at just about everything they do

Michigan was certainly a topic of conversation around here prior to 2008 (Michigan? yeah, they will be good, we will see them at the end of the season), but Rodriguez took it to a whole new level
 
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Beaver's spin on the continued tackling issues shown in Saturday's scrimmage? It was due to the vanilla defensive playcalling and the fact that they couldn't tackle the qb...affected their focus. You can't make this shit up...
 
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From Mgoblog:

My belated Saturday scrimmage notes | mgoblog

It is a rundown of what this poster saw in the scrimmage.

- Unfortunately, it still looks to me like none of the 3 are naturals at the zone read.
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This right here tells you that RR is trying to jam square pilings into pins holes as the zone read is the meat and potatoes of his offense. All of the claims of DR being the next Pat White does not hold water if he can't master the zone read.

Defense: They look more smash-mouth in the Front 7.
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Really? Um, that crack taste good there buddy? They lost their best, by far, DLineman and this guy thinks they look more smash-mouth up front? The D 1s were going against the O 2s and 3s, so I think you have to take a bag of salt with the "smash-mouthing" the front 7 does.


At least one guy puts all of the sunshine being blown up his ass into some perspective:

Obi
STW P. Brabbs

Joined: Aug 27 2008
MGoPoints: 1747

We all know Obi can take on blocks. Many times, I've seen him take on blocks for the sheer pleasure of it, while the RB runs past him a couple of yards to his side.
I want to see Obi tackle.
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:lol:
 
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