What if Devin were to get hurt?

[Guest]

I trust the coaches and don't see why you coach out of fear or put Gardner in to have him 'hand the ball off to a FB' to spare DRob. I'm half way thru the EMU game on DVR and have yet to re-watch this controversial drive, but I recall a pretty good mix of plays, not all involving Shoelace taking hits.

And then there's that whole lost 4th Q vs WMU.

Time to move on to SDSU

 

[hungry]

mb09 continues to ignore the fact that Denard hardly ran in the 4th quarter. He ran 3 times. The rest of the plays were handoffs or passes. The O needs to work on handoffs and passes. The next question to ask is if these 3 running plays that Dnard had, were they scrambles when a pass was the called play or designed runs? I'm betting on improvisation.

Watching Inside Michigan Football, I see that several of Denard's runs ended with him harmlessly scooting out of bounds. How many of these 3 runs in the 4th quarter did he get tackled and how many did he run out of bounds?

 

[MAIZEandBLUE09]

mb09 continues to ignore the fact that Denard hardly ran in the 4th quarter. He ran 3 times. The rest of the plays were handoffs or passes. The O needs to work on handoffs and passes. The next question to ask is if these 3 running plays that Dnard had, were they scrambles when a pass was the called play or designed runs? I'm betting on improvisation.

Watching Inside Michigan Football, I see that several of Denard's runs ended with him harmlessly scooting out of bounds. How many of these 3 runs in the 4th quarter did he get tackled and how many did he run out of bounds?

I'm not ignoring it, I'm just saying 1 time is too many - let alone 3.

 

[wlvrnstlr4life]

Then you'd lose, cause Bo always played his back-ups with a big lead, especially the defense.

We're talking about the starting QB finishing the game, managing the clock and getting reps not rotating in 2nd & 3rd stringers on D. Harbaugh didn't come out in games so his back-up could get experience or out of fear he'd get hurt.

No, Harbaugh came out with big leads as did Steve Smith as did John Wangler. You need your backups to have game speed experience. We had a big lead, he should have come out plain and simple.

 

[Guest]

We're talking about the starting QB finishing the game, managing the clock and getting reps not rotating in 2nd & 3rd stringers on D. Harbaugh didn't come out in games so his back-up could get experience or out of fear he'd get hurt.

No, Harbaugh came out with big leads as did Steve Smith as did John Wangler. You need your backups to have game speed experience. We had a big lead, he should have come out plain and simple.

Well Gardner has 'game experience' and so does Shoelace. And both need more.

 

[tinselwolverine]

OK here's a strategy that will keep every offensive skill position starter from ever getting hurt on any play ever.

Every first down, Michigan punts.

That's it.

You may laugh, but it worked on the snow bowl against Ohio State all those years ago.