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  • MLD WoodyM MLD Woody

    @the-gipper said:

    Name anyone you think is better than BosaName anyone you think is better than Bosa

    You're missing the point and taking this as some major OSU slight, because of course you are...

    I'm simply stating the guaranteeing Bosa will go top 3 at this point is ridiculous. That's because guaranteeing anyone will go top 3 at this point is ridiculous. Besides all of the numerous things that can happen during the season, offseason, combine, there are A LOT of top flight DL talent in this draft. 

    Ed Oliver, Raekwon Davis, Rashaan Gary, 3 or 4 of the starters on Clemson's line.

    Then throw in the inevitability of QBs moving high up the board.

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    @mld-woody said:

    You're missing the point and taking this as some major OSU slight, because of course you are...

    Of course it is an OSU slight by a simpering little jealous weasel such as yourself. You lie if you deny it.

    I'm simply stating the guaranteeing Bosa will go top 3 at this point is ridiculous. That's because guaranteeing anyone will go top 3 at this point is ridiculous. Besides all of the numerous things that can happen during the season, offseason, combine, there are A LOT of top flight DL talent in this draft. 

    No on said anything about guarantees. At this point, it is a very, very, very high likelihood that he would go Top 3.  Show me one scouting service that does not have him ranked in the Top 3 prospects.

    Ed Oliver, Raekwon Davis, Rashaan Gary, 3 or 4 of the starters on Clemson's line.

    Good players, probably.....NONE as good as Bosa, nor rated as high as him. Your Michisuck guy is not likely a Top 10. 

    Then throw in the inevitability of QBs moving high up the board.

    Yes, probably...but not enough to kick him off the Top 3. Who are these QBs you think would be in Top 3? 

    The ONLY thing that could likely prevent him from being considered Top 3 would be a major devastating injury.

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      sigh

      I'm not sure why I even bother. Not worth it

      I can only hope anyone else on here that isn't blinded with their own fandom can see just how absolutely ridiculous, biased and childish you're being.

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        @mld-woody said:

        You're missing the point and taking this as some major OSU slight, because of course you are...

        I'm simply stating the guaranteeing Bosa will go top 3 at this point is ridiculous. That's because guaranteeing anyone will go top 3 at this point is ridiculous. Besides all of the numerous things that can happen during the season, offseason, combine, there are A LOT of top flight DL talent in this draft. 

        Ed Oliver, Raekwon Davis, Rashaan Gary, 3 or 4 of the starters on Clemson's line.

        Then throw in the inevitability of QBs moving high up the board.

        Garrett was slated #1 from beginning to end. So putting Bosa up there from the start is not really out of line, especially given how the bloodline is doing. That being said I think the Browns will have too many wins to grab him. But there are some good OLs this year and we need help there.

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        @texasag1969 said:

        Garrett was slated #1 from beginning to end. So putting Bosa up there from the start is not really out of line, especially given how the bloodline is doing. That being said I think the Browns will have too many wins to grab him. But there are some good OLs this year and we need help there.

        True, but there wasn't really anyone in the same class as Garrett. And I agree that Joey's success is definitely helping Nick out.

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          Hey Woody, thoughts on Michigan?

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            sigh

            I'm not sure why I even bother. Not worth it

            I can only hope anyone else on here that isn't blinded with their own fandom can see just how absolutely ridiculous, biased and childish you're being.

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            @mld-woody said:

            sigh

            I'm not sure why I even bother. Not worth it

            I can only hope anyone else on here that isn't blinded with their own fandom can see just how absolutely ridiculous, biased and childish you're being.

            You were given a simple challenge:  find any scouting service that does not have Bosa ranked in the Top 3 prospects.  Instead of giving us your little pussy pitter patter, take up the challenge.   Or admit that you ARE just being a jealous little green livered hater, and cannot find any.

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              @texasag1969 said:

              Garrett was slated #1 from beginning to end. So putting Bosa up there from the start is not really out of line, especially given how the bloodline is doing. That being said I think the Browns will have too many wins to grab him. But there are some good OLs this year and we need help there.

              True, but there wasn't really anyone in the same class as Garrett. And I agree that Joey's success is definitely helping Nick out.

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              @mld-woody said:

              True, but there wasn't really anyone in the same class as Garrett. And I agree that Joey's success is definitely helping Nick out.

              Sure, all the sacks and tackles for losses and All American recognitions  and NFL scouting evaluations have nothing to do with it.

              Like I have said.....you and Ghoolie are thisclose to being the same kind of troll.

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                Hey Woody, thoughts on Michigan?

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                @wargograw said:

                Hey Woody, thoughts on Michigan?

                None that he would be honest about.

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                  Hey Woody, thoughts on Michigan?

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                  @wargograw said:

                  Hey Woody, thoughts on Michigan?

                  I have no problem discussing it with you. I don't expect any blinding team loyalty on your end to make it like I'm trying to debate a scarlet and gray donkey.

                  I'm disappointed. Some Michigan fans are acting like the sky is falling, which is premature. A loss by 7, week 1, at night, on the road to a very good ND team isn't terrible. Plus a few fluky things. It happens. Unfortunate, but it happens. Luckily we've seen many instances of teams rebounding after early losses

                  The game itself really came down to our offensive tackles. They quite possibly had one of the worst pass protection outings I've ever seen. Our LT was so bad his performance basically single handedly cost us the game. I'm not sure if he's that bad or if that was just the worst 3 hours of his life.

                  Unfortunately, our 1st Rd talent LT had a career ending injury and that threw everything off course. We have two true Freshman tackles on campus that people are calling to start. Basically, they can't be worse and they actually have room to improve. We really needed a week or two of cupcakes to start this year

                  Everyone else played basically as expected. Considering the pressure he was under, Shea did very well IMO. 

                  We have a few weeks to figure out the OL before we hit the toughest stretch of games in the country. Here's hoping we figure it out.

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                    So you don’t have any concern that Harbaugh can’t win the big game? I mean yeah this isn’t a bad loss by itself but the sample size is starting to stack up. I also think you can kinda discount special teams scores because they’re so unreliable and with that it’s a two-touchdown loss. 

                    Obviously the people calling for Harbaugh’s head are ignorant but your post seems a little overconfident imo. 

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                      So you don’t have any concern that Harbaugh can’t win the big game? I mean yeah this isn’t a bad loss by itself but the sample size is starting to stack up. I also think you can kinda discount special teams scores because they’re so unreliable and with that it’s a two-touchdown loss. 

                      Obviously the people calling for Harbaugh’s head are ignorant but your post seems a little overconfident imo. 

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                      @wargograw said:

                      So you don’t have any concern that Harbaugh can’t win the big game? I mean yeah this isn’t a bad loss by itself but the sample size is starting to stack up. I also think you can kinda discount special teams scores because they’re so unreliable and with that it’s a two-touchdown loss. 

                      Obviously the people calling for Harbaugh’s head are ignorant but your post seems a little overconfident imo. 

                      It's not over confident because I'm not really guaranteeing anything. Harbaugh has the most unlucky play ever and a bad 4th down spot holding him from two rivalary wins. You could argue we'd have one more without being on our 3rd QB due to injury and having the worst performance from the position in years. Our KR TD may have been fluky but so was NDs second TD.  

                      I'd love to be able to guarantee he'll win the big one, I can't. But I also understand where the program was before he took over, and I understand some of the disadvantages we're playing with in today's landscape. It is what it is 

                      Harbaugh isn't going anywhere this year. It's hard to imagine a better choice for the program. It has been disappointing so far but Michigan is one if the most unlucky, unfun programs to follow relative to expectations, so it is what it is. We'll have a much better idea where everything stands at the end of this season.

                      There's one thing that's blindly wrong with this team. That's a positive in the sense we know what needs corrected. It's one of our worst depth positions, that's partially on Hoke and partially on Harbaugh. We'll have to see if we can get it corrected by our next tough game

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                        How can you still be blaming Hoke? His last class was 4 years ago. Harbutt has done NOTHING but continue your schools decent into mediocrity

                        Oh wait, the team got to go to Europe and waste the schools money 

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                          How can you still be blaming Hoke? His last class was 4 years ago. Harbutt has done NOTHING but continue your schools decent into mediocrity

                          Oh wait, the team got to go to Europe and waste the schools money 

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                          @browns149 said:

                          How can you still be blaming Hoke? His last class was 4 years ago. Harbutt has done NOTHING but continue your schools decent into mediocrity

                          Oh wait, the team got to go to Europe and waste the schools money 

                          I'm not here to teach OSU fans how to read. If you want to come at me in an insulting way with the typical, blinding ridiculousness that's way too common on this board, then there's no reason to engage you. I said partially on Hoke, partially on Harbaugh. That's 100% true. I'm also not going to waste my time breaking down our roster to you or posters like you when I'm just going to anti-Michigan vomit back. 

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                            @wargograw said:

                            So you don’t have any concern that Harbaugh can’t win the big game? I mean yeah this isn’t a bad loss by itself but the sample size is starting to stack up. I also think you can kinda discount special teams scores because they’re so unreliable and with that it’s a two-touchdown loss. 

                            Obviously the people calling for Harbaugh’s head are ignorant but your post seems a little overconfident imo. 

                            It's not over confident because I'm not really guaranteeing anything. Harbaugh has the most unlucky play ever and a bad 4th down spot holding him from two rivalary wins. You could argue we'd have one more without being on our 3rd QB due to injury and having the worst performance from the position in years. Our KR TD may have been fluky but so was NDs second TD.  

                            I'd love to be able to guarantee he'll win the big one, I can't. But I also understand where the program was before he took over, and I understand some of the disadvantages we're playing with in today's landscape. It is what it is 

                            Harbaugh isn't going anywhere this year. It's hard to imagine a better choice for the program. It has been disappointing so far but Michigan is one if the most unlucky, unfun programs to follow relative to expectations, so it is what it is. We'll have a much better idea where everything stands at the end of this season.

                            There's one thing that's blindly wrong with this team. That's a positive in the sense we know what needs corrected. It's one of our worst depth positions, that's partially on Hoke and partially on Harbaugh. We'll have to see if we can get it corrected by our next tough game

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                            @mld-woody said:

                            It's not over confident because I'm not really guaranteeing anything. Harbaugh has the most unlucky play ever and a bad 4th down spot holding him from two rivalary wins. You could argue we'd have one more without being on our 3rd QB due to injury and having the worst performance from the position in years. Our KR TD may have been fluky but so was NDs second TD.  

                            I'd love to be able to guarantee he'll win the big one, I can't. But I also understand where the program was before he took over, and I understand some of the disadvantages we're playing with in today's landscape. It is what it is.

                            What disadvantages are those? What hurdles does fmu have to jump that other big name program's don't?

                            Harbaugh isn't going anywhere this year. It's hard to imagine a better choice for the program. It has been disappointing so far but Michigan is one if the most unlucky, unfun programs to follow relative to expectations, so it is what it is. We'll have a much better idea where everything stands at the end of this season.

                            What is this "bad luck" you are referring to?

                            There's one thing that's blindly wrong with this team. That's a positive in the sense we know what needs corrected. It's one of our worst depth positions, that's partially on Hoke and partially on Harbaugh. We'll have to see if we can get it corrected by our next tough game.

                            Hoke?  How long has Harbaugh been there?  Is there even a single player left in the program that was recruited by Hoke and not Harbaugh?  Oissh.

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                              @browns149 said:

                              How can you still be blaming Hoke? His last class was 4 years ago. Harbutt has done NOTHING but continue your schools decent into mediocrity

                              Oh wait, the team got to go to Europe and waste the schools money 

                              I'm not here to teach OSU fans how to read. If you want to come at me in an insulting way with the typical, blinding ridiculousness that's way too common on this board, then there's no reason to engage you. I said partially on Hoke, partially on Harbaugh. That's 100% true. I'm also not going to waste my time breaking down our roster to you or posters like you when I'm just going to anti-Michigan vomit back. 

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                              @mld-woody said:

                              I'm not here to teach OSU fans how to read. If you want to come at me in an insulting way with the typical, blinding ridiculousness that's way too common on this board, then there's no reason to engage you. I said partially on Hoke, partially on Harbaugh. That's 100% true. I'm also not going to waste my time breaking down our roster to you or posters like you when I'm just going to anti-Michigan vomit back. 

                              What do you expect when you make lame excuses? Every team has had injuries to key  starting players (including OSU...I mean, remember that last year it was the backup QB that finished the FMU game, and remember that Cardale Jones was like 3rd string QB, after Miller and Barrett a few years ago...etc. etc.)

                              And then there is this "bad luck"  and "disadvantages". ...and Brady Hoke.  😳

                              Why don't you just give the real, honest, excuse:  You just are not good enough.   Go ahead, say it.....thatta boy, go on.  You can do it Cinderelly, you can do it. 

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                                I’m not sure you can play the Hoke card in year 4 man, especially when you’ve already had two 10-win seasons. 

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                                  @mld-woody said:

                                  I'm not here to teach OSU fans how to read. If you want to come at me in an insulting way with the typical, blinding ridiculousness that's way too common on this board, then there's no reason to engage you. I said partially on Hoke, partially on Harbaugh. That's 100% true. I'm also not going to waste my time breaking down our roster to you or posters like you when I'm just going to anti-Michigan vomit back. 

                                  What do you expect when you make lame excuses? Every team has had injuries to key  starting players (including OSU...I mean, remember that last year it was the backup QB that finished the FMU game, and remember that Cardale Jones was like 3rd string QB, after Miller and Barrett a few years ago...etc. etc.)

                                  And then there is this "bad luck"  and "disadvantages". ...and Brady Hoke.  😳

                                  Why don't you just give the real, honest, excuse:  You just are not good enough.   Go ahead, say it.....thatta boy, go on.  You can do it Cinderelly, you can do it. 

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                                  @the-gipper said:

                                  What do you expect when you make lame excuses? Every team has had injuries to key  starting players (including OSU...I mean, remember that last year it was the backup QB that finished the FMU game, and remember that Cardale Jones was like 3rd string QB, after Miller and Barrett a few years ago...etc. etc.)

                                  And then there is this "bad luck"  and "disadvantages". ...and Brady Hoke.  😳

                                  Why don't you just give the real, honest, excuse:  You just are not good enough.   Go ahead, say it.....thatta boy, go on.  You can do it Cinderelly, you can do it. 

                                  The truth hurts 

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                                    I’m not sure you can play the Hoke card in year 4 man, especially when you’ve already had two 10-win seasons. 

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                                    @wargograw said:

                                    I’m not sure you can play the Hoke card in year 4 man, especially when you’ve already had two 10-win seasons. 

                                    I'm not "playing the Brady Hoke card". I said partial responsibility is held by both staffs. Without getting into all of the details, past recruiting failures by previous regimes made the more recent recruiting failures by current the current regime even worse. Lost redshirts, upperclassmen depth, a terrible transition class, etc. It all effects the current situation, it's just a fact. I'm not playing any card or putting this squarely on Hoke, but I follow the team very closely and have a pretty good understanding of its recent history.

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                                      That’s pretty much the definition of playing the Hoke card. Unless you wanna give a specific example, that doesn’t hold water for me (especially when Michigan signed a class ranked in the twenty-somethings last year).

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                                        @wargograw said:

                                        I’m not sure you can play the Hoke card in year 4 man, especially when you’ve already had two 10-win seasons. 

                                        I'm not "playing the Brady Hoke card". I said partial responsibility is held by both staffs. Without getting into all of the details, past recruiting failures by previous regimes made the more recent recruiting failures by current the current regime even worse. Lost redshirts, upperclassmen depth, a terrible transition class, etc. It all effects the current situation, it's just a fact. I'm not playing any card or putting this squarely on Hoke, but I follow the team very closely and have a pretty good understanding of its recent history.

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                                        @mld-woody said:

                                        I'm not "playing the Brady Hoke card". I said partial responsibility is held by both staffs. Without getting into all of the details, past recruiting failures by previous regimes made the more recent recruiting failures by current the current regime even worse. Lost redshirts, upperclassmen depth, a terrible transition class, etc. It all effects the current situation, it's just a fact. I'm not playing any card or putting this squarely on Hoke, but I follow the team very closely and have a pretty good understanding of its recent history.

                                        Yea, I don't think anyone is seeing it. Your recruiting failures (assuming that you are saying that they have had recruiting failures....not sure how to interpret what you are saying there), are partially due to a guy that has not been with your program in 4+ years.  ANY issues that affected that program by Hoke woulda/shoulda/coulda been rectified now 4 years later.

                                        Let's just compare:   Nick Saban, in his third year , won the National championship, after Bama had been like 5-7 the year before he got there.  (and he won the national title in his 4th year at LSU).

                                        Urban Meyer, in his third year at OSU won the National Championship, after the team had been 6-7 the year before he got there.  He also won the National Title in his second and 4th years at Florida,  

                                        Harbaugh's record, on the other hand, is going backward.   10-3 his first two years, 8-5 last year.  Not sure he can improve this year. He may be the anti-Saban.....a better NFL coach than he is a college coach.  Note, he has really only had one stellar year as a college HC, at Stanford, going 12-1 once.  

                                        YearSchoolGWLTPctSRSSOSAP PreAP HighAP PostBowlNotes

                                        2007Stanford12480.333-1.106.57

                                        2008Stanford12570.417-0.043.79

                                        2009Stanford13850.61510.883.4214Sun Bowl-L

                                        2010Stanford131210.92321.805.0344Orange Bowl-W

                                        2015Michigan131030.76916.344.571212Citrus Bowl-W

                                        2016Michigan131030.76917.564.797210Orange Bowl-L

                                        2017Michigan13850.61513.446.98117Outback Bowl-L

                                        2018Michigan1010.0000.007.0014148 YrsOverall9057330.6339.865.272-34

                                        YrsStanford5029210.5807.894.701-14 YrsMichigan4028120.70011.845.841-2

                                        Maybe, just maybe, he could end up the next HC of the Bengals, or the Bucs,   whose coaches I think are on the hot seat. (not the Browns)

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                                          That’s pretty much the definition of playing the Hoke card. Unless you wanna give a specific example, that doesn’t hold water for me (especially when Michigan signed a class ranked in the twenty-somethings last year).

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                                          MLD WoodyM MLD Woody wrote on last edited by
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                                          @wargograw said:

                                          That’s pretty much the definition of playing the Hoke card. Unless you wanna give a specific example, that doesn’t hold water for me (especially when Michigan signed a class ranked in the twenty-somethings last year).

                                          Again, no it isn't. It's not "playing a card". It is just stating facts.

                                          Going back to the tail end of the RRod era through the Hoke era, OL recruiting was pretty bad. This caused us to have to start a true freshman out of position at  LT, Mason Cole (who I believe is now starting as a rookie for the Cardinals at C). If there was normal depth, Cole would have been redshirted, as are most OL, allowing him to still be playing this season. 

                                          The following season was Hoke's great fall, and the recruiting class reflected that. We had one tackle destined for the NFL and he had a career ending injury. Harbaugh attempted to pick up the pieces in a 3 week transition class. 

                                          The next class, Harbaugh's first "full" class (though, the staff is still a little behind as most recruiting starts before a player's Sr year) has its own issues. Those are on Harbaugh. A late decommitment and passing on an OT. That would prove to be  disastrous after the career ending injury above. The following year was similar, though not as bad. They aimed high and couldn't walk away with any big names. We would eventually fire our OL coach...

                                          As for last year's class, that shouldn't matter. True freshman should very, very, very rarely ever start at OL, and when they do its usually out of desperation, not talent. Linemen usually need that year to bulk up. Even then, we might turn to one of the true freshmen to try and start this year (desperation). But last year's class being the worst of Harbuagh's main three so far doesn't really play into the situation we're in now. 

                                          Ja.brill Peppers - Cleveland Brown OldBrownsFan, on 02 Jun 2017 - 5:09PM said: "No you are not the work of the devil but you are deceived by the devil." Who's got it better than us? Nooooobody!
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