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Michigan Chatter - 2004

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Ginns bigger than Antoine Winfield... and he did pretty well against much bigger rcvrs... if Henne made the slightest mistake, he'd pay for it... whereas, I'm not as convinced these other fellas will make him pay for a mistake...

but DC you may be right... I tend to go for big risk in big risk situations... am an avid believer in "Great Players Play Great in Great Games"
 
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I don't see why everyone is being hard on Underwood. He might a great break on the ball and just missed. Yeah he blew the coverage on the TD. As far as the blitz. That was just a great fake and a great play call. Most players would bite on that.
 
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The problem is that Underwood bit twice, and both times Purdue scored touchdowns. I give credit to the Purdue staff after he jumped that route and almost had an interception. He bit the next play, but the WR took it for a TD.

Underwood came in with huge, and unfair, expectations. Everyone has expected great things from him and anything less than a shutdown corner is a disappointment in many people's eyes. All of his mistakes today were mental ones that can easily be fixed with coaching and focus by EJ. I have confidence it will all click for him soon.
 
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I don't think you can say Underwood's expectations were unfair this year. Tressel himself said that EJ was the most talented CB he'd ever coached. We weren't the only ones expecting him to be excellent.
 
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bucknut11 said:
I don't think you can say Underwood's expectations were unfair this year. Tressel himself said that EJ was the most talented CB he'd ever coached. We weren't the only ones expecting him to be excellent.
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This year, no. His freshman year, yes. We all heard the stories about the "hips" and how that made him so good.
 
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I actually agree with the idea of doing with Ginn what we did with Gamble when he was learning. Put him on the best WR and say never leave this guy wherever he goes. If Fox is down next week, it may be our only chance with the way our depth is in the d backfield.
 
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As far as Ginn, if you tell a guy to play bump and run man to man, he doesn't have to know the defense. You could have him cover someone man to man and zone the rest of the field.

The only time we had a any success shutting down Purdue yesterday was when we played man to man. If you can't cover that long, your pash rush better get to the QB and we don't do that either. We are stuck between a rock and a hard spot with both these problems. If we had all our DB's we should be playing more man to man/ 2 deep while mixing zone in with man to man looks. We just don't get to the QB fast enough to make him rush. I hope we can do something to Henne this week while shutting down Hart.
 
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Winfield was a PHYSICAL anomaly. Ginn is a SPEED anomaly. Big difference IMO. I said it before, Ted can keep up with the other WRs, but Edwards is too physical, especially since TG hasn't played D all season. Just not gonna happen.

And yes, Fox was in on just one PAT. OZone reported just one and it was, of all things, an injury problem. He didn't do anything, just shadowed the kick. Here's hopin' he's better next week.
 
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