2021 ttun Shenanigans, Arguments, Surrender Cobras, Feckless Marmots, and Quitty Cowards

[buckeyemania11]

As much as I’d love to see them spiral and go like 3-9 it’s almost more entertaining for them to go 8-4 and then get wrecked in some meaningless bowl by a mediocre SEC team. It’s nowhere near enough to get them any real momentum but it’s also enough to not fire Harbaugh. Basically sticking them in a endless limbo of false hope and mediocrity (not that they aren’t already there)

 

[colobuck79]

Its looking to me like Harbaugh will be a position coach in the NFL next year, unless they do something completely out of the realm of possibility, like win 10 games.

 

[LordJeffBuck]

As much as I’d love to see them spiral and go like 3-9....

You'd love to see scUM go 3-9? You need to be more hateful.

 

[Jaxbuck]

I'd love to see them lose so much they quit the fucking sport.

That's just my imo.

 

[BuckeyeNation27]

I'd love to see them lose so much they quit the fucking sport.

That's just my imo.

They can wait till we get the overall series record.

 

[Steve19]

I'd love to see them lose so much they quit the fucking sport.

That's just my imo.

Not yet. We want to remove all bragging rights.

 

[buckeyemania11]

https://www.mgoblog.com/content/fall-football-bits-ready-season

The final one of these before the season.

curious to see how many of the DFBIA read that and say "yea this is going to be a good season"

Favorite tidbit is about the Dline theyve been swearing all summer is going to be much improved.

On the other hand, the talk starting to come out of the building about the regular DL has me lowering the bar of expectations to the point that it's so low a small rodent could leap over it

Blue Carcajou

September 1st, 2021 at 5:30 PM ^

Haven’t drank in a year but after reading that Defensive Line breakdown…

 

[buckeyemania11]

Also this

One more note: JH mentioned the possibility of using Dan Villari in wildcat situations back in the spring and reports of that popped up for the first time this week, confirming it is indeed being practiced and observers note that it has looked good so far. Take that with a 3 gallon bag of salt.

Nothing like a Wildcat package for a guy whos only reported 40 times I can find are in the 5 range.

 

[BB73]

They can wait till we get the overall series record.

And total wins.

 

[Dryden]

Also this



Nothing like a Wildcat package for a guy whos only reported 40 times I can find are in the 5 range.

Hey, when you beat out Albany, Buffalo, Central Connecticut State, Fordham, Kent State and UMass for a prospect, you can’t leave that kind of talent on the bench.

 

[Buckeye86]

https://www.mgoblog.com/content/fall-football-bits-ready-season

What we're hearing: Sam Webb put out an interesting update ($) talking about how the offensive staff is hoping for the WR's to be more physical this season compared to past years.

AKA they suck and the hope is they can at least block for what they hope will be decent RBs.

In the aforementioned press conference, JH said that they were not going to announce a starting line and that "I feel like we're five, six, seven, eight really good players we consider our starters at this time".

AKA no one has separated themselves from a group that has been mediocre to awful. Hope the more physical blocking WRs can help!

 

[NFBuck]

AKA no one has separated themselves from a group that has been mediocre to awful. Hope the more physical blocking WRs can help!

Worth noting that they sucked with Ed Warriner coaching them, who even if a bit overrated, was at least functional as an OL coach. Now they're coached by a guy who has never coached OL before. Sounds like a recipe for success to me!

 

[Buckeye86]

https://www.mgoblog.com/content/fall-football-bits-ready-season

Couple additional thoughts:

I like how the hype around the edge players on defense is exclusively around their pass rushing (hat tip to their tackles getting burned)… pretty sure they need to do more than that in a 3-4, pretty sure that will be a major weakness for a bunch of converted DEs.

I also like how easy it is to read between the lines and connect the dots with scarlet colored glasses firmly in place.

The DTs look bad. There’s not much talk one way or another about the CBs. The RBs are who they thought they were. They’re hoping the WRs will be more physical.

All this says to me that they’re running the ball like crazy in practice and the passing game is not being featured, or sucks, or they’re not asking much of the QBs, or whatever.

They’ll probably grind Western Michigan to dust running the ball, but as we’ve been saying all summer, even the hype train makes it sound like they’re in big trouble against anyone with a pulse.

One more bonus note, the talk is Dax Hill playing most of the time in nickel, but still having two safeties on the field. They’ll reportedly do this by taking the NT off the field and running a 4-2-5 with the two edge rushers returning to being more traditional DEs.

It doesn’t make any sense for them not to have Dax Hill on the field most of the time, so that is the set they‘ll be running a lot?

It sounds like it’s going to be a complete mess, confusing as hell for the players (will Hill be a standard safety when they’re in a traditional 3-4? the DE/OLBs are going to be REALLY good in coverage if they’re transitioning back and forth a bunch to get Hill on the field in nickel), and a recipe for disaster.

Edit: Ha, and the comments (if true) come through with further proof of my hypothesis—their passing game is awful.

nperna12

September 1st, 2021 at 7:02 PM ^

The interesting part re: the negative reports/thoughts regarding the interior DL, is apparently the Defense still got the better of the Offense in that scrimmage. No clue exactly what that means, maybe they must have been good enough that day to take the day vs a bad/okay/good offense?

 

[cincibuck]

I don't remember who posted about the Michigan no-nil plan concluding that they might be going with the high moral ground stance.

I thought about that and wondered if it could be an administration strategy to get Hairball to come to the conclusion that he can't compete without a nil program and leave on his own saving the school from having to pay his buyout - even if that buyout is not what it used to be.

 

[Buckeye86]

I don't remember who posted about the Michigan no-nil plan concluding that they might be going with the high moral ground stance.

I thought about that and wondered if it could be an administration strategy to get Hairball to come to the conclusion that he can't compete without a nil program and leave on his own saving the school from having to pay his buyout - even if that buyout is not what it used to be.

He tried to leave on his own after last season but no one in the NFL would give him a job so he had to come crawling back to sign his new humiliating contract.