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The Zetterberg Era
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Yeah that O-line isn't taking them many places. They can probably win games defensively at home but they just are having too many execution errors. Looks like both the teams in this state aren't very good this year. No way can MSU hang with tOSU this year.
So sad
Team just seems unprepared. It's kind of cliche but this isn't MSU football.
The Zetterberg Era
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Are you sure hes going to play a ranked team? They shouldnt be ranked after this week
If Michigan has any type of talent at all they should handle MSU easily. Not very confident at all with Sparty this year.
Not looking forward to going to OSU...
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We will see, they need to handle business until then. We will have to see where the offense grows the defense should be able to go toe to toe they looked to make some adjustments and really the biggest one they need is Scott back in the secondary which you hope has happened by the Penn State game.
Nobody has got much for tOSU, maybe Penn State or Wisconsin, we should know more about Penn State soon.
I think MSU will figure it out. In any event 19 of these starters already beat U of M. I think they have more talent across the board, I know you have some front-line guys on U of M but I don't think they fit within their systems and are utilized to the maximum. That is always were Dantonio has beat them, he puts his players in a position to be successful more often and they have been consistently the more physical team in the rivalry since he arrived there. Again until they play the game we won't know. But I have no reason to doubt they can beat a similar looking U of M team at home. They have the better coach and home field advantage. U of M would really have to do something they haven't done in a while. Regardless of ranking that would be a quality road win, what is Harbaugh's last quality road win?
I mean best you can argue is Purdue turned out to be okay, a win over a down 7-6 Penn State in 2015 a Minnesota team that wound up 6-7 in that year. I mean at the time maybe a the MSU win in 2016, but it turns out we know that team was falling off a cliff because of locker room problems and wound up 3-9. We will see, but it isn't really pretty when you look at the results thus far. I expect the Spartans to be a bowl eligible team with at least 8 or 9 wins, Harbaugh beat one of those in a long time on the road.
To me U of M is worse really across the board, they still don't really scare me. They got beat by 19 of the starters last year, if Scott is back MSU should be able to shut them down.
I was expecting significantly more out of Lewerke in the first two games though. Hopefully they get some things squared away during the buy week. One thing about Dantonio is his teams get better as the year goes along because his staff is consistently good at that, so I think they have more room for improvement.
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The Wings are really the only team that can take that title, which could be really sad or really positive depending on how the young Wings perform this upcoming season.
The Zetterberg Era
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I mean the Wings are an incredibly better franchise, the Lions have been in the Dead Things era comparable for almost their entire existence of Ford ownership. We will never be anything while that family owns the team.
Well yea, context was about this season. Despite how bad the Wings are, they'll never look as bad as the Lions did tonight.
WingedWheel1987
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I think a full season without Zetterberg will give them a very good chance at looking every bit as bad as the Lions.
Syckle78
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Worst thing about being a lion's fan is that this shit doesn't even hurt anymore. There's absolutely no expectations of anything better at this point. Nothing is exciting anymore.
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Yeah, but from some the comments, and savaging by the Freep, you'd think the team stepped back into Millen era Lions. There was like no positives in any facet of the team. At least the comments on reddit were funny.
Hell, even the Tigers didn't lay down across the street last night, and JV was probably more nervous then they were.
The sad reality of Michigan sports at the moment.
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i don't think it's been this bad in a long time. There isn't a single detroit pro sports team that even has a shot at going deep in the playoffs for the foreseable future. the glory days of the 2000's seem like a distant memory
Cyborg Yzerberg
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I mean it's definitely the Pistons. They're prolly a 7 or 8 seed team in the playoffs, as they get blown out by Toronto, Boston, or Philadelphia.
InjuredChoker
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i dunno man., 2016 produced one real good player (decker) and then 4 solid to decent to medicore players (robinson, Glasgow, killebrew, zettel). that's an above avg hit rate. bit early for 2017 but looks like about similar as '16, depending on how good davis ends up. golladay could develop into a upper tier #2 and maybin and agnew could develop into solid backups.
of course to win the super bowl you have to draft a lot better but it's not that bad.
i'd think quinn gets as much time as patricia. if he's like other pats assistant, quinn is gone. but we shouldn't underestimate the incompetence of the fords so maybe he can get another shot after that.
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