MichiganCardinal

This game is so fucking stupid.

Time to abandon the run

Bronx cheers rain down

This is seriously the kind of football you expect from a mid December McDonalds Big Mac Bowl presented by Pepsi. Its just so bad. By both teams.

Need a defensive turnover

13 points in 10 minutes isn’t that much the way the offense can produce… too bad the defense will continue to look like they didn’t make the trip.

Neither of these teams deserve to play for a National Championship

They’re just so unprepared.

This is such bad football.

Embarrassing output. If it’s a business trip, you’re going to be fired.

TCU isn’t going to roll over like Rutgers. Offense needs to keep cooking.

McCarthy needs to make the read on that and option into something else.

Realistically the Ohio State game would have been a score just like this had there not been two big plays for TDs. Here the two big plays were just short and they choked it away. It sounds absurd but I’m not worried. We will know within 5 minutes of the 3rd quarter. If we see a good team, they should catch up quick. If we see what we saw against Illinois, it’s over.

Still very early. If they didn’t have their heads in their ass it would be 17-14. Boys need to settle down.

Every large university in the country is perverted in one way or another.

The idea I heard floated around was that NIL money could be tied into bowl games, as a sort of bonus. $10k or whatever probably wouldn’t stop an NFL bound player from opting out, but it might make a transfer portal player wait until after their bowl game.

Yeah the line will likely fluctuate quite a bit depending on tomorrow, no matter what the matchup is. I would have expected more of a pick, but silly as it sounds, think being a line underdog would give Michigan something of a psychological motivation (if winning a natty isn’t enough)

That OSU line on Michigan should be printed and posted in the M locker room all week if that game happens.

Michigan may be regretting not parting ways after the Wisconsin debacle

I still feel the same way about both of the games. I do think Max Duggan will be a problem for the Michigan defense. They haven’t seen a mobile QB this year, and Duggan is one of the best. RE Ohio State, I think they have the most offensive talent of any team in the country, and I think they’ll be playing pissed off after hearing nothing but how bad they are since late November. Michigan 37 TCU 26 Ohio State 45 Georgia 42

After seeing Stafford show what the addition of the right QB can do to a team last year, we’ve been treated to quite a bit of “grass isn’t greener” this year. Broncos, Cardinals, and Raiders may be wishing they didn’t have that “QB of the future” they thought they had. Browns are probably sweating too, though falling on their face without Watson gives his something of a pass. The Lions are pretty fortunate to have Goff until the right next QB presents themselves.

I expect them to make at least one defensive splash in free agency this offseason too. Last year was full of prove-it deals and re-signing their own guys. I think they’ll be ready to find at least one starter this time around. Jamel Dean (TB CB), Marcus Davenport (NO EDGE), and James Bradberry (PHI CB) are all possibilities that would be immediate plug-and-play options. If you can address one layer of the defense in free agency, I would be perfectly okay with taking a stud running back and another layer in the first round, and then another defender or two in the second round. If you leave the off-season with four upgrades on the defense, I think you’re in really good shape to compete for the North. Offense is what wins championships in the 2022 NFL. If you see Bijan Robinson as the Kamara to your Saints or McCaffery to you, I think you take him even if it’s with the first pick. With the comps I’ve seen for him, I don’t think he makes it past #10.

I definitely wouldn’t say it’s likely. He probably stays at Michigan. I think the NFL left a bad taste in his mouth after the Vikings debacle last year though and I don’t think he entertains going to a job like the Broncos or Colts. I don’t think he’ll be a head coach for the sake of being an NFL head coach (like it seemed he wanted last year). I could see politics too. He’s just not like any other coach, and it’s why the NFL beat guys are always so wrong about him. He’s an independent thinker and doer, for better or worse.

The organization might have historically but I don’t think there is any indication that the front office we have now has any interest in taking a tight end that high, unless it’s a freak of nature like Kyle Pitts. I think we’ve seen with the success of guys like Wright and Zylstra in Hockenson’s absence that this offense doesn’t need some dynamic threat at the TE position to be successful. They need a quality blocker who can get open on a designed route. Those grow on trees.

The four-week break before playoffs is one of the weirdest and dumbest things in sports.