WTKA Roundtable 9/9/2021: You Weren't Kidding
Seth
September 9th, 2021 at 10:27 AM
Things discussed:
- Understand run-run-run when Zinter is in there.
- Sam: They didn’t think he would play much.
- Vastardis! We were both down at him, but he had a game, was reading Ralph Holley well. The Henning TD was mostly Vastardis—Sam noted they also bluffed the DE with a feint from Vastardis. Graham Glasgow-esque job vs Holley.
- Filiaga didn’t miss assignments. Good matchup for him.
- Ronnie Bell on his way to a Heisman before we lost him. We talk about That Catch!
- John O’Neill crew: Seth says it’s seriously time to do something. Keep the woman, let her build her own crew. Every single down these guys are screwing something up.
- Breaktalk: Ron Hefley is playing for Kevin Kelly, the coach who doesn’t punt.
- Washington talk: John Donovan sucks. He’s got a 6’3” guy playing RT and a 6’8” guy playing G.
- Michigan defense: they’re putting a LOT on their plates. Safeties look well-coached. Green can’t plan zone. Vincent Gray can’t play man, except he did well against WMU’s fast guy.
- Seth pronounces UW names.
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mp2
September 9th, 2021 at 10:49 AM ^
Did you pick this frame for the video?
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Seth
September 9th, 2021 at 11:13 AM ^
I didn't but DANGER ARM
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Don
September 9th, 2021 at 12:15 PM ^
Somebody call the exorcist.
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CRISPed in the DIAG
September 9th, 2021 at 2:15 PM ^
This image needs a t-shirt.
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GoBlue96
September 9th, 2021 at 12:48 PM ^
Michigan needs to come out of the tunnel looking like this every game.
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BLUEinRockford
September 9th, 2021 at 11:01 AM ^
John O'Neil has a personal vendetta against Harbaugh. It appears there are multiple refs who hate him, ie. the phantom holding call on Hidgon against Northwestern a couple years ago. O'Neil is the worst.....
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Seth
September 9th, 2021 at 11:13 AM ^
Every fanbase thinks this. Penn State fans (of course) started a petition when he screwed them out of a win vs OSU.
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bronxblue
September 9th, 2021 at 11:31 AM ^
Yeah, it's sort of crazy how disliked he is by every fanbase. Sort of like TV Teddy in basketball wherein even if you benefitted from a bad call it felt wrong.
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HollywoodHokeHogan
September 9th, 2021 at 12:11 PM ^
Yeah, when you’ve fucked so many calls that multiple fanbases are convinced you have a vendetta, it’s probably time to hang it up. Let me guess, OSU is not one of the many fanbases that hate him.
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MGoBlue96
September 9th, 2021 at 1:46 PM ^
I mean his point about some crews just not liking Harbaugh and it possibly impacting calls is true though, one of the officials from the OSU game in 2016 admitted as much. As far as the O'Neil crew I have no idea if they are one of them but one thing is for sure they are god awful. They are the same crew that threw a starting LB, Bolden, out against MSU in 2015 for targeting when he was literally thrown on the QB by a o-line. It's definitely a disgrace that the Big Ten allows such an awful crew to stick around regardless.
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dragonchild
September 9th, 2021 at 2:21 PM ^
Correct. The 2016 The Game Crew (the ones that called Harbaugh for a basketball penalty) were all OSU homers, publicly known as such, admitted as such, and had been previously banned due to their extremely obvious impropriety. They're gone now, but they and the B1G got away with brazenly stealing that game.
O'Neill is not that. His crew is more like a live hand grenade. Lacking any malice (and intelligence), nonetheless highly destructive. After the Bolden ejection, they screwed MSU out of their until-then perfect record the very next week (IIRC Nebraska). They do not have a vendetta against anyone. They're merely what you'd expect when you let something dumb and explosive officiate a football game.
It takes corruption on the order of the B1G to allow OSU fans to officiate a Michigan-OSU game. It takes incompetence on the order of the B1G to hire a munition and put it in a position with responsibility.
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Double-D
September 9th, 2021 at 3:09 PM ^
OSU is only pissed she the favoritism isn’t blatant.
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The Geek
September 9th, 2021 at 4:31 PM ^
OSU fans hate him as well. One thing we can agree on.
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I_Like_Robots
September 9th, 2021 at 12:55 PM ^
Seth, you say your covers are not cursed and yet you photoshop cracks onto the team's MVP's knees...
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ShadowStorm33
September 9th, 2021 at 1:03 PM ^
Can't listen at work, so can anyone summarize why Green can't play zone?
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ShadowStorm33
September 9th, 2021 at 1:03 PM ^
Can't listen at work, so can anyone summarize why Green can't play zone?
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UofM Die Hard …
September 9th, 2021 at 2:51 PM ^
Sounds like the zone schemes are harder for him to pick up , even though its pretty basic at this point.
Going to take reps on reps to get him comfy there. STRONG man cover guy though.
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Lambeau Schembechler
September 9th, 2021 at 1:38 PM ^
Seth -
Great work on the podcast, as per usual!
Please note that it is Filiaga, not Filianga. Drives me nuts.
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Gondolin
September 9th, 2021 at 2:08 PM ^
There's no n in the spelling, but it is properly pronounced as if there is one.
Source: https://soundcloud.com/umichathletics/sets/2021-michigan-football-pronunciations
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SanDiegoWolverine
September 9th, 2021 at 2:58 PM ^
Maybe a little more humility before calling someone out Lambeau. Seth isn't the type to wing in on a pronunciation unless he is telling you he is winging it.
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The Geek
September 9th, 2021 at 4:30 PM ^
And my man nailed a bunch of difficult Washington pronunciations at the end of the broadcast.