Big Ten Draft O' Snark: The Final Snarkdown
PREVIOUSLY ON "MGOBLOG WRITERS DRAFT BIG TEN TEAMS SO YOU CAN NOW, FINALLY, VOTE FOR THE TEAM THAT HAS DENARD ON IT"…Rounds 1-3: At Jim Leyland's lakeside mansion in Somerset, quarterbacks are...
View ArticleUpon Further Review 2012: Offense vs UMass
Formation notes: Nothing particularly new from Michigan except the Norfleet-end-around thing, which I just called 2-back. The plays run from it are being called "triple veer" since there's a third...
View ArticlePicture Pages: ND Shift, Belly Defeat
Notre Dame has a very good defensive line, possibly great. If they still had Aaron Lynch holy pants man. They don't, but Tuitt is a 300 pound pass rusher, Nix is hard to move, and their Kapron...
View ArticlePicture Pages: Unblocked ILBs FTL
Why can't Michigan run the ball without Denard? As with anything in football, the answer is "it's complicated" but against Nebraska the pendulum swung decisively towards an inability to block...
View ArticleUpon Further Review 2012: Offense vs Nebraska
Formation notes: Much of the game was spent with Michigan in 2WR looks, leading to a lot of 4-3's like this with the linebackers shifted over the slot and a cornerback overhanging. When the receivers...
View ArticlePicture Pages: Peeling Back
Yesterday's Picture Pages covered extensive confusion on Michigan's part as they tried to run basic isos against a basic defense but couldn't get the ILBs blocked, with a side of playcalls that leave...
View ArticleUpon Further Review 2012: Offense vs Minnesota
Formation notes: much, much more under-center in this game. FWIW, Minnesota had some packages where they'd put a linebacker in between two DL, as below:Last year people told me this was a bear front,...
View ArticleUpon Further Review 2012: Offense vs Northwestern
Formation notes: There apparently wasn't anything that I thought was notable in this department; I have no screenshots. Here's a FINAL/OT shot for no reason:Oh look here's something. Look, I-Form Big....
View ArticleOFAAT: Seniors, Iowa Past
Brian has already waxed poetic about the seniors, so I'll stick to moving pictures and keep the words to a minimum. I've done my best to cover each member of the outgoing class. Let's just say it was...
View ArticleWith Pride
Heiko Yang/MGoBlog"I will wear it with pride."To a man, the seniors of Team 133 thanked the University of Michigan Club of Greater Detroit for the rings presented to them at last night's annual...
View ArticleFall Camp Presser Transcript 8-16-13: Al Borges
"Heiko, what's up? How's it going?"MGo: Not bad. How are you?"Good ... I'm supposed to give a shout out to Devin Gardner. Don't ask me what that's about. So I did it, okay?"..."Well this is pretty...
View ArticleUpon Further Review 2012: Offense vs South Carolina
IT ALSO EXISTSFORMATION NOTES: Michigan did a lot of that stuff the Redskins did in Tecmo Bowl, lining up in one formation and then changing everyone around. There were some oddities.This I called...
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