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Picture Pages: Blowing Up The Inverted Veer
Michigan couldn't get yard one with the veer against Nebraska, and most of them ended up with an unblocked Nebraska player blowing up Gardner. It is time to look at them. For some reason. Why didn't I start a blog about 1980s hairstyles? 1980s hairstyles never make you want to rub your face in gravel.
I digress. The first one comes on Michigan's first drive. A late blitz has just seen a power O slanted to and blown up for a one yard loss; it's second and eleven on the 24.
Michigan comes out with an H-back and two tailbacks in a twins formation, which necessarily means that the slot receiver is not an eligible receiver. Nebraska responds with 7.5 in the box, with the gray area defender just about splitting the difference between Funchess and the tackle.
On the snap Bosch pulls and the gray area guy sits and stares the backfield down.
Michigan shows veer action with Kerridge leading Toussaint to the outside; Michigan blocks the playside end, which would mean they're expecting to option the slot defender except 1) Kerridge is out there, so they're using one of their blockers on him anyway and 2) Gardner does not appear to be reading him but something further inside, if he's in fact reading anything. Gardner's awareness of this slot defender seems to start after the mesh point.
You can see that Gardner's helmet is not pointed at the slot defender as he starts making his decision:
What's he reading? Is he reading anything? I don't know. it doesn't seem like it. Watch the video in real time to get a feel for it. Toussaint does react like a guy who might get the ball, juking the blitzer, so I guess they're reading something. What is unclear.
Meanwhile, Kerridge is expecting the slot guy to contain upfield; instead he shoots upfield inside of him hard, too hard for him to adjust to.
Gardner pulls and seems to sense a disturbance in the force now; he goes straight upfield.
Toussaint dodges the blitzer, running into Gardner; Kerridge is prone, Gardner starts stumbling, and his momentum is taking him into the chest of an unblocked LB.
It's now third and nine, and Gardner's soul is now worn 1% more.
Items Of Interest
Optioning no one. We're back here, in year three. Michigan has a rudimentary read option game on which their QB doesn't know what to do too often and gets plays blown up, but here we're back to last year's Alabama game, where the defense made it so that Michigan's option plays didn't actually option off a defender, with similar results. No matter what happens on the edge here, the play still spends Kerridge and Toussaint on one defender and leaves an unblocked guy.
It would be one thing if I'd ever seen this fullback on the edge thing work. I have not. At best it's wasted him as he blocks a guy shooting up on the edge who is trying to contain Toussaint; at worst:
I'm about to get some comments about how this is Gardner's issue or Kerridge's issue and that Borges can't be held responsible for the results of this play. Sure. Any one play can be traced back to some execution error by the offense.
These posts are an effort to explain trends I'm seeing in the offense with particular plays, though, and this kind of half-ass option is par for the course. Michigan cannot get the fullback to be useful on these read option plays, and hasn't made him useful for three solid years.
This is the kind of stuff Denard papered over by being Denard. Even when Michigan was eviscerating Ohio State two years ago, they weren't really optioning anyone and it was left to Denard to make the magic happen against an unblocked dude at the LOS:
Michigan was fortunate that was a freshman Ryan Shazier on one leg. When you don't have Denard and you've turned your quarterback's ribs into a fine paste already, you no longer get 41 yard touchdowns and instead your unblocked dude gets a tackle for minimal gain, or more likely a loss.
They've had Kerridge for three years now and Gardner that long and Toussaint that long and they still can't get them to execute a real option. Either they're not trying or they're not coaching. And either way…
How is this supposed to work? It seems like the idea here is for the slot guy to run himself upfield outside of Kerridge to maintain a force back inside and then for Gardner to hit the gap between him and the rest of the defense. Nebraska beats that idea by using the slot guy super-aggressively.
How do you make this play work? Nebraska understood that Michigan's formation meant Funchess was not eligible; the gray area defender had no thought of a pass and ended up blowing up the play. But you can still make this work since Nebraska is sitting so deep with the safeties. Michigan has two options here: shooting Kerridge at the LOS, leaving Toussaint to his own devices, or using Kerridge to attack the slot defender and put Toussaint on the edge into acres of space.
This is the kind of thing you could come back to later with a tweak and bust a big gain. Clearly there were no big gains on this day. This design isn't necessarily bad; the inability to see what Nebraska is doing and get rock to their scissors at some point is. I mean, if you get this again and block the dude the defense has no force player, which means you get a lot of yards. This move by Nebraska violates a cardinal tenet of sound defense and works because they win on RPS, and if you probe at what they're doing here you can beat that. Instead Nebraska just kept chewing up Michigan's offense.
Hooray covered slot receiver. Hooray. I will never understand the point of that. If Michigan had some package where the ability of the H-back to get to the backside of the play meant something, okay. Instead you get nothing and if the D recognizes it, as they seem to here, you're playing 10 on 11. Temporary voluntary red card.
Again, maybe this is some sort of genius but since I've never seen it do anything productive it just seems dumb.
Picture Pages: Whoops, Nope, Totally Packaged
So yeah, I concluded yesterday that the quick fire throw to Gallon in the second quarter was a presnap read, not a true packaged play, and then about two plays into the remainder of the UFR, Michigan runs the same thing with the cornerback showing blitz presnap and M runs it after he backs out. Timing: I do not have it.
To the screenshots!
It's first and ten; Michigan's trying to respond to Indiana drawing to within one and has first and ten on their own 23. Same setup as the last play: 3 wide, Gallon alone to the boundary, IU in their nickel-ish package. This time the corner is indicating blitz.
On the snap, though, he backs out. Gardner's checking on Gallon, seeing if he's got the hitch.
When it become clear that the CB is not coming, he changes his plan. Taylor Lewan has the same idea, as his initial reaction was to pick up the corner. He's flared out to do so, and now has to frantically try to get back into the play and block someone who's trying to defend what's actually occurring.
Which is a handoff.
Now: Lewan's flare has borked a couple of things. See 98 below? He is being doubled and will end up three yards downfield, where it is ideal for him to go in the eyes of the offense.
The other DT, though, is being single blocked by Glasgow and if he chooses can decide to go upfield of him to the outside, which he does. Glasgow locks him out and pushes him past the play; Toussaint has one lane straight up the middle. Bosch deals with a DE well, but there's no one for an ILB.
That's unfortunate, since a guy dealing with him is a big gain with the other LB on a pass drop he's convinced to take by Funchess releasing into the slot LB. Even if he doesn't take this the backwards direction of the other DT would make it difficult for him to get to the hole.
Lewan tries to recover; can't quite; Toussaint makes the guy miss, which gets him a decent gain before the shuffling backside end comes down from behind to tackle.
Five yards.
Items of Interest
Nope, totally packaged. Gardner's first option is the hitch in the event of a CB blitz, and he decides that it's not there, so he hands off. Post snap read determining run or pass is the Smart Football-approved definition of a packaged play. Packaged.
An old bugaboo. This harkens back to some oddities Michigan had in their plays like this a couple years ago. When they ran the inverted veer in 2011, Michigan would often block the guy they were supposedly optioning with the pulling guard, leaving Denard to beat a guy if Michigan was going to pick up anything. This happened not infrequently, but it seemed pretty weird that you'd run an option and not option anyone.
This is a version of that old problem: Lewan flares out to block the corner when Michigan has a plan to deal with that. They're optioning him and they still block him, or would if he didn't back out into pass coverage. That leaves one of the ILBs free.
The rest of the line blocks it like they should if the corner blitz was coming; seems like someone on the OL made an adjustment to the blitz IU ostentatiously showed and backed out of.
A minor place. I don't want to make any grand conclusions from these two plays. A number of programs from the Okie State/WVU Hologorsen tree will build large chunks of their offense around packaged plays; Michigan has only dabbled in this department under Borges. They're still dabbling. The OL blocks this goofy because they are not on the same page as the play concept. If the guy making the line check understands that the corner is never a threat, this is a nice gain that doesn't require Toussaint to get his Hart on.
This isn't the first time they've tried these things—I remember pointing out a package to Smart Football a couple years ago. That didn't work, and it seemed like it got put on the shelf because the coaches weren't enthused with Denard's ability to read post-snap. Devin executed both of these; could they have been a test run for Michigan State?
Probably not, but here's hoping they've got something up their sleeve.
Bosch check. This was about par for Bosch's day. He got decent to good movement on his guys, probably better than Magnuson on average. Hopes were consistently tempered by the guy next to him, as when Lewan latched onto a dude he all but threw the dude into his teammates, ninjas-attacking-hero style. Indiana's terrible. He'll get a trial by fire next Saturday.
An accidental RPS. The other ILB's pass drop here is an interesting offshoot. He's reading Funchess and sees him release, and so goes to cover, as Funchess blocks (or attempts to block) IU's hybrid space player. That leaves the OL five on five in the box, which should be a profitable situation.
Every time a DE shuffles like this I want Gardner to pull, which is probably irrational. I don't think he should, but I have this visceral thing where it's like GO GIT EM, because is anyone in that position really keeping up with Gardner on the corner? I say no, especially when you've got Funchess bothering the slot LB. All DEs are shuffling and Gardner has beat them all around the edge. Sometimes there's help out there; that is the only thing that keeps these plays down.
Triple option? On this play it's asking a lot of him to read the corner and then come across the field to read the end, so the pull here is almost certainly not something that he has in the toolbox anyway. So, no, just a single option I think. The read option nature of the play does let you sort of option off two guys, though, except "optioning off" the corner is really just nerfing the corner blitz.
Picture Pages: The Dumbest Play In The History Of Football
I don't think I'm exaggerating. It's second and eight after one of Michigan's most successful RB runs of the night. Michigan trails 21-10 with six minutes left in the second quarter. They put some dudes on the field and move them around. When we come back from Matt Millen saying something about something, this process has already started.
Houma and Chesson are switching spots. What this is supposed to do to the defense remains unknown, because it did not happen. Now… there's something odd about this play. Since we don't ever see the outside WR, I don't remember if that's Funchess or Williams or whoever, but Michigan puts him off the screen to the field. Also…
They have no left tackle. They have put their left tackle at super right tackle.
I think this is a run.
Penn State thinks this is a run. They have eight guys in the box against six blockers.
ESPN's camera man thinks this is a run, zooming almost to the box before they even snap the ball.
It's a run. Specifically, it is a zone stretch to the boundary. Because this is the only run it could possibly be, Penn State is prepared for this. Kalis gets driven back. Bryant and Glasgow don't scoop the backside tackle (not that it really matters since there is an unblocked guy in the cutback lane and another unblocked guy checking Gardner).
This looks familiar.
Kalis finally finishes losing his guy, who pushes Toussaint to the edge of the field, where a ninth Penn State defender—a safety lined up over a formation that cannot have a tight end emerge from it to threaten downfield—comes up to tackle for loss…
…if Kalis's guy doesn't do it first.
Third and ten.
Items of Interest
This is the stupidest play in the history of plays. You can't pass because you don't have a right tackle and refuse to throw perimeter screens no matter how blitheringly open they are…
all of these occurred in the first 20 minutes of the game
…and Penn State knows this, so they put eight in the box against six blockers and have a safety overhanging who knows 100% that he has no immediate pass threat to deal with.
I mean, you can see the entire PSU D on the field here:
There is a wide receiver outside of Gallon. Only the dumbest playcall in history could allow a D to align like this and be successful.
You really confused them, though. Having Chesson and Houma switch places is the cherry on top here. Yeah, you fooled 'em up real good right there. Now Penn State's eight in the box against 5 OL and a WR is eight in the box against 5 OL and a FB. Green fields ahead, boys.
They're setting them up for something! If you don't have an automatic check to whatever your clever business is when you see two DBs on 3 WRs, you fail.
Line didn't do well, but whatever. Kalis gets blown up here, but since Michigan just told Penn State the play they were running it's not really the focus.
The bigger picture. This was insane and far from isolated. Michigan kept running tackle over stuff against a defense that was stuffing it even after Taylor Lewan went out. They asked AJ Williams to play left tackle, and because of Borges's increasingly legendary stubbornness they allowed Penn State to align in formations that doomed their crammed-together paleolithic run game without either testing PSU's young and not very quick corners or taking the buckets of free yards these alignments provided.
The bubble screen stuff took on a life of its own over the course of the last year, and it's come up again—a screenshot of Michigan's first snap of the first overtime screaming for a bubble has made the rounds of every message board. To reiterate, the bubble is a constraint: it prevents the defense from lining up in certain ways and thus simplifies your life as an offense since defenses can't pack the box as much without getting free yards on their face. Borges's allergy to getting the ball to guys in a ton of space went from annoying to crippling in this game.
How can anyone have faith in a guy who looks at this when he needs a field goal to win…
…and doesn't throw a bubble because it's not what Vince Lombardi would do? It boggles the mind. A lot of things lost this game for Michigan. Al Borges is high up on that list.
Picture Pages: He Just Used Power, Part 2
Last time, Michigan grinds out six yards on their first snap by using POWER.
Michigan's second snap against Minnesota was more of the same, but a little lighter. Chesson replaced Butt, and Minnesota responded by covering him. They also shifted their line towards Lewan instead of away. The end result was much the same except Michigan didn't have an opportunity to block the last guy because Minnesota didn't have a linebacker bail.
Yes, Michigan can go nuts in the passing game against this kind of alignment, and would later; this drive—this game—is about establishing something even if it's not the most efficient way to go about doing things. After Akron and UConn you can understand this line of thinking.
With the line shifted to Lewan, he's going to kick the guy outside of him, leaving Schofield and Kalis to double the playside DT; Bryant and Kerridge will again lead through the hole.
On the snap, Bryant pulls out and heads around as the double is initiated; Bryant is out so quick that he's almost running into Devin Gardner:
This is a notable improvement from last year. Between the above frame in the next, Schofield blasts the playside DT such that he starts falling inside of Kalis. He'll end up moving to the second level, and picking up the WLB since that guy is not shooting a gap. Unfortunately, someone is shooting a gap: Hageman.
Hageman just about beats Glasgow clean. There is a little bit of delay here that prevents him from swallowing the play in the backfield; this is still pretty bad. But the gap is even more enormous this time at the handoff point. It stretches almost from the hashes to the numbers as Michigan pounds the two playside DL away from each other:
This time Minnesota has sufficient bodies in the hole to deal with it as all three linebackers demand a body. Hageman is threatening enough from behind to force Toussaint to alter his path a bit, but with Kerridge latched onto one linebacker, Bryant about to pop a second, and a cavern to operate in he doesn't slow down the fatal step.
That safety is unaccounted for, though, and waiting two yards downfield.
Toussaint pounds out some YAC.
Items Of Interest
Sometimes you can do everything right and get five yards. At the end of the day there's always one more defender than you have blockers. Here every block save Glasgow's gets executed and contact is still made two yards downfield.
This is both a reason not to get too worried about YPC in this game and wonder about the long-term viability of the tackle over buddy cop movie. When you can execute every block just right and get five yards the opponents is overplaying you like whoah and you are either so confident you are able to get these five yards on every play or locked in a 12-10 death struggle kind of game. Here it turns out to be the former, as Michigan scores touchdowns on 5 of 8 drives, albeit with a lot of help from third and long conversions to Funchess after their grind game clunked out.
However: as mentioned in the last post, tackle over was literally 90% run in this one and when they ran it was 83% run to the tackle side. Is this configuration powerful enough to grind these yards out against actual defenses? Can Michigan get enough play action off of this to keep defenses honest and get the big chunk plays they'll have to if a ton of their offense is grinding out four yards against a stacked front? Is this anything more than a get-healthy gimmick effective against a terrible defense?
I don't know.
This is what Bryant expected to see on the last play. He pulls around and whacks the MLB, like he did on the last play; this time the MLB is not already being blocked because a differently-aligned Minnesota defense scrapes the MLB past Schofield releasing downfield. This is one of those things that may come with experience: the ability to improvise profitably.
Meanwhile, Bryant gets there, hits a guy, woot. This is night and day from last year's guards.
Glasgow did get smoked. Hageman's pretty good, though, and he was very quiet in this one. Hageman's play didn't end up making a tackle but I think it did impact the outcome of this play because…
Toussaint puts his head down and takes what he can get. With all this room Toussaint can threaten both sides of Kerridge's block, and we've seen him dip inside to pop out before. This would be an excellent time to do that if he was not being chased by an angry 300 pound man. As it is he just runs directly upfield into the safety and runs him over for near first down yardage. That's the when-in-doubt solution, and it's the one Toussaint took consistently in this game.
Speaking of which. The bye week seems like it was spent telling Toussaint that if he does not go hard north and south he will be dipped in uncomfortably warm pudding for hours at a time. This is the kind of run where bounce-it hesitation gets you clubbed and there is a guy waiting that he can see; previously he might have tried the thing I mentioned above and gotten tackled at the line. Instead we're talking about the yards he gained after contact instead of trying to calculate how many he lost by trying to avoid it. Thumbs up.
This is now Lewan's day. This is play two. The rest of the game is basically this for Lewan, whether it's pass or run: hello, overmatched donkey about 60 pounds lighter than me. It is time to go out to the numbers. I gave him a ton of half-points that maybe should have been full ones.
Picture Pages: He Just Used Power, Part I
"He just used POWER"
–Kirk Herbstreit, every play, every edition of NCAA Football since 2003
Michigan spent half its day with Michael Schofield tucked just inside of a tight-end-ish Taylor Lewan, and ran ran ran ran ran ran ran out of this. Your "tackle over" breakdown:
- PASSES: 2, one incomplete to Chesson, one 30 yard post to Gallon.
- POWER: 11, one each for Green and Gardner, nine for Toussaint. 54 yards acquired, all but one on Toussaint's carries. [Includes playside G pulls.]
- ISO: 3, two for Toussaint, one for Green. Five yards total.
- STRETCH: 4, for 28 yards. Green picks up basically all of his yards on two of these.
- [Excluded are four goal line plays that were all runs; those were a pair of two-yard touchdowns, one successful play that got M from the 4 to the 2, and a zero-yard iso.]
- All told, when Michigan lined up Lewan next to Schofield they acquired 4.8 yards a carry. One the one hand, woo-hoo BFD Minnesota is terrible and that's a mediocre YPC once sacks are put somewhere sensible. On the other hand, woo-hoo, only two TFLs and a screw-you performance against a team dropping eight or nine guys in the box. When Michigan did deign to pass from this, Gallon and Funchess were both open on deep posts and Gallon picked up 30 yards only because Gardner threw the ball behind him; an on target pass may have been a 60-yard touchdown.
- Let's delve. We'll cover three plays eventually, all of them relatively successful but not that successful: Michigan's first two snaps and the 12-yard touchdown that was like "oh, I guess that was easy."
- Michigan's first snap comes from the opponent 35 after a fumble. Michigan comes out in what I dubbed "tackle over I-Form Big H," a set with one WR, two TEs, and two RBs; Butt motions to the usual H-back spot:
Minnesota responds by singling up Gallon and putting everyone else within seven yards of the LOS. Could Michigan have bludgeoned this repeatedly with easy Gardner/Gallon hookups? Yes. They were intent on establishing the run, though.
Power rules, like zone rules, depend on how the defense lines up. Minnesota was mostly an over team in this game, so Lewan would kick and the hole would be between the two OTs. Here they're shifted under, so Lewan will block down, Butt will kick, and Michigan will shoot the pulling G and fullback into that gap between the two.
This all goes just fine. By the next frame you can see that both Schofield and Lewan have easy control of their end, Bryant is coming down the line, and a gap will develop.
By the time Toussaint gets the handoff, the gap is truly massive. The playside end has been clubbed inside to the hash, with Lewan popping off on a linebacker. Meanwhile the SAM is three yards upfield, 2/3rds of the way to the numbers.
Part of this is bad play. Ace pointed out in the Minnesota FFFF that Minnesota's ends tended to get way upfield, and that was the case in this one. (It's a SAM, but same thing. End man on the LOS.) The gaps the Gophers were trying to shut down were difficult for them to do so.
Also bad play: Minnesota's #9, who should be reading power all the way and attempts to shoot a gap upfield and to the inside of the POA. If it's third and one, okay maybe you make a play and boot the opponent off the field. On first and ten this is asking to get a huge play on your face.
So now Michigan has two guys plunging through a large gap with one linebacker showing because #9 is exiting the play on his own recognizance. That leaves an extra guy for the overhanging safety, right?
Note gap even larger now.
Uh… no. Bryant hits the guy Lewan has already blocked.
That guy tackles, but not before Toussaint picks up six yards.
Items of Interest
He used power just like he would have in any other situation. Over the last few days I've scoured the internet for anything it has to tell me about unbalanced lines, and found that when it's in use it's either 1) a package designed to futz with alignment keys as teams try to find a tight end and locate him in an unexpected position, or 2) Stanford HAM.
Naming your 7 OL package after notorious steroid case: Stanford football.
Stanford's stuff endeavors to screw with your brain by putting four guys to one side of the center, which conventional defenses don't have a great answer for. It's something you have to prepare for. There's not much to prepare for here, at least in terms of "we haven't seen this before."
Here Michigan was confronted with…
FACT: our tight ends can't block
FACT: our tackles are the only upperclass OL we have and they're both pretty sweet
FACT: manball
FACT: especially after inserting Chris Bryant
…so they just swapped Lewan and AJ Williams and ran normal power out of normal power sets. There is absolutely nothing about this play that would be any different if Michigan ran it from a normal line, except that AJ Williams is a lot less likely to execute his assignment with this authority.
Michael Schofield was a revelation in this game. Traditionally he has been the least-involved Michigan OL in the run game charting because that stuff doesn't bother with "hinge" blocks on the backside of power, which are executed literally 99% of the time by anyone—say, nice place to stash a TE—or blocks on the backside of stretch plays that are tough to evaluate without a cutback and often patently unfair to expect the backside T to execute. Schofield's gotten a lot of those because Michigan runs towards Lewan, a lot. Surprise.
That said, Schofield has always been regarded as more of a finesse player by everyone including his offensive line coach. He has never consistently moved guys off the ball. In this game, he did. Minnesota isn't good, sure. It's still going to be a record positive day for him.
The art of the kickout. Kickout blocks get relatively short shrift from me in UFR charting because they are by their nature a compromise between offense and defense. The defense says "I'll stay out here so the play turns back inside," and the offense says "I will push you a bit and make sure you stay out there."
Here Butt and the SAM compromise in a way very detrimental to Minnesota's chances, but that's mostly on the SAM. If he sets up better, Butt walls him off and the hole is narrower. He rarely has to actually deal with the guy trying to beat him, because if that guy succeeds he may have just given up the corner.
Minnesota saw this and was like NOOOOPE. This is almost the only under front the Gophers ran all game. After this play, Minnesota shifted their line towards Lewan, which meant that Lewan would kick the DE. This started a parade of plus-half-points for him as he shoved guys to create large holes, but did remove him from the kind of facecrushing blocks he executed on this play. This under front gives Lewan a hard-ish job he does really well; the over gives Lewan an easy job he does really well, shifting the hard-ish bits to other players.
Identifying guys to block: issue. Neither Kalis nor Bryant was particularly good at figuring out what they're supposed to do when they reach the hole. (This is at least better than the situation last year, which was "OL cannot reach hole.") Here Michigan has an opportunity to bust a big play because one of the Minnesota linebackers goes under a block and eliminates himself; Bryant can go all the way to the safety, whereupon Toussaint probably scores a touchdown. Instead he doubles a guy that Lewan is blocking, which… cumong man. Of all the people to block a second time you pick the one Taylor Lewan has.
As discussed previously, that's one error that costs Michigan 30 yards.
Picture Pages: Funchess On The Loose
A few weeks ago, Devin Gardner was the king of turnovers, baseball existed, and no one other than Jeremy Gallon was the target of passes. None of these things are true anymore—NONE—thanks in large part to Michigan exploring the idea of using Devin Funchess as a large and generally in charge wide receiver. Michigan's second touchdown was an excellent example of what happens when you focus too much one one guy and how Funchess can be effective even if he's not as fast as a really fast guy.
It's third and fourteen after Chris Bryant got smoked for a sack on second and five; Michigan comes out with a trips formation with Gallon the lone receiver to the bottom of the screen. Jake Butt, Drew Dileo, and Devin Funchess are bunched to the top of the screen. Minnesota responds with a 3-3-5 stack look and one deep safety:
Minnesota's coverage is going to end up super inane. They'll rush three, leave all three linebackers in no-mans land neither pressuring Gardner or covering anyone, and bracket Jeremy Gallon, leaving one on one coverage on all three guys to the trips side.
Below here is an approximation of what they do. Linebackers have been designated "blorp" in an attempt to get the reader thinking about the walrus defensive coordinator accidentally blowing bubbles with his own spit instead of whether he should have called this defense on third and fourteen.
Now, two of these guys seem to have obvious tasks. One is in man coverage on Toussaint. The other is spying Gardner. The third, the top-most blorp, seems to be in a robber zone type thing to the trips side of the field.
A moment after the snap, Michigan's plan is revealed:
Butt runs an out at the LOS; Dileo tries to get up the seam. He'll be held and thrown to the ground, drawing a flag. Funchess releases upfield, well past the blorp zone, and is one on one with Martez Shabazz, a senior JUCO transfer who hasn't started for Minnesota in his career.
Shabazz has already turned to run with Funchess at this point, when Funchess is five yards off of him:
That's because Funchess is angling for the corner of the endzone, selling fade.
This evaporates from the screen shortly after, but on replay you can see Funchess flip the defensive back entirely around as he breaks to the post.
You may remember "defensive back turns 360 degrees" from such things as the 2010 defense. More likely you made sure you do not remember that by liberal application of whiskey. Either way, your result is separation.
Gardner's throw is high and a little behind, but Funchess don't care, and the defensive back is trying to get a PBU on a guy who's 1) a half foot taller than him, 2) leaping, and 3) made of solid material.
It is now 14-7.
Slow not really necessary here. Here's a couple of replay angles, the first of which does a good job of showing Funchess selling fade and his quick transition to the post. That's a quality route even with the stumble.
Items Of Interest
This defensive call is ridiculous. It's third and fourteen and you don't give your crappy backup corner any help against Devin Funchess. I get bracketing Gallon, sure. But going straight man against three WRs without any help at all is asking for a facepunching. Here is a facepunching.
I also get spying Gardner, and covering Toussaint out of the backfield once you've scouted Michigan's wheel route predilection. It's that third linebacker hanging out nine yards downfield that really gets me.
Devin Funchess can turn around Minnesota defensive backs. This was far from an isolated occurrence. Here it seems like the CB is thinking "oh crap oh crap oh crap this giant robot thing is going to put a fade on my face," bails super early to the corner, and then gets turned around easy on the post. At that point it's all over even if Gardner's throw is less than perfect, as it is, because anything up high requires the DB to go through Funchess's butt (not that Butt) to even get a finger on his arms.
Can Funchess do this to better opposition? That's the question. It was interesting to watch Michigan State go up against 6'5" Admiral-spawn Corey Robinson in the Notre Dame game, as he presented a lot of the same issues. State had those safety things in the middle of the field, though, which limited Robinson to sideline routes on which he was fairly successful, catching 3 balls for 54 yards and drawing a couple of pass interference calls. Funchess is pretty much the same guy.
He'll have to prove it down the stretch here. I think his route running skills are quality enough to make him an option, and even when guys get over the top, the Hemingway Option always remains on the table.
Better behind and high than on target. What is the nature of "on target"? This not-perfect throw works out perfectly because of the nature of Devin Funchess. If it hits him in the hands in stride there are defensive backs other than this one who will be there to break it up. If you lay it up and let the guy get the rebound, nobody's defending this.
The nature of on target varies with the target. Gardner seemed a bit off with his timing in this one, resulting in a number of balls that forced receivers to reach behind them. Funchess has proven very good at this in his career, and his general enormousness moves throws that are definite incompletions to Gallon into big chunks of yards:
That's why Michigan's receiving corps is about to be land of the giants.
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Re: Intermittent spark at the points
I know it's repetitive but re-check your plug wire placement. Then all connections. If you have the timing close it should start. If all checks out and it still doesn't start you may need to try pull-starting it. An engine low on compression will often start this way when it won't fire off with the starter.
If you can't fix it with a hammer, you've got an electrical problem.
My wife says I don't listen to her. - - - - - - - - Or something like that!
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Bigdog, I will do that, and while I have your attention, I'm going to explain a suspicion I have from the beginning. I don't think I explained this, as I thought I was careful.
When I removed the wires, distributor and all that, fiddling with the gear, I thought I discovered,(it seems like I explained this once, maybe the phone rang or something and it didn't get posted, button problem), but anyway, at some point I noticed the firing order was correct but that the wires were one each over to the left. In other words, #1 wire was where 2 wire should be, #3 wire was where 1 wire should be, #4 wire was where 3 wire should be, and #2 wire was where 4 wire should be making each off one in the towers but in the correct order.
I then operated under the assumption that they were timed that way and needed to go back in the same way.
The obvious thing to try would be to move each wire one clockwise, so as to correct to the cap(1) tower labeled, and then maintaining the order.
I don't want to burn any thing out, will it hurt to move the wires in the dist cap all clockwise one and try it, the thought here is that I was not careful or mistaken which is really very likely seeings how this is a stretch for me? Thank you and others in advance!
Re: Intermittent spark at the points
It won't hurt anything to put the spark plug wires in the correct distributor plug tower.
Might I suggest down loading an Operator's manual for a Cub. Free. Top of page under manuals. Got pictures and instructions on timing an engine.
And you still need to find the timing notches. You must either have not cleaned hard enough or were looking in the wrong place. So back to the pictures in the Cub Operator's manual.
I have an excuse. CRS.
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Thank you Eugene, I'm studying or getting ready to.
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I believe we are looking at a 140 not a cub.
If you can't fix it with a hammer, you've got an electrical problem.
My wife says I don't listen to her. - - - - - - - - Or something like that!
Re: Intermittent spark at the points
That's a good point, the cub has lots of information about the distributor and all, but the 140 is different in areas where I'm trying to learn but can't really transfer the information in a practical way. I like the online cub manual and wish there was a 140 manual. I may ask the dealer to order one, they're expensive imo, but I'm going to have to do something. So is taking it to a mechanic.
I hate to give up on it, but I might take it in or talk the mechanic into timing it in my shelter/building.
Re: Intermittent spark at the points
Getting the plug wires is no big deal. You just need to find TDC on one of the cylinders - preferably #1 and check to see where the rotor button is pointing. If not pointing directly at the #1 tower you need to make it do that. If it's close, you can just turn the distributor. if it's not, then pull the distributor and turn the rotor until it points at #1 tower and re-install. Then place #1 wire on the #1 tower and follow with 3,4 and 2 in clockwise order.
If you can't fix it with a hammer, you've got an electrical problem.
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ok , I have a plan now, thanks for thinking I might be able to do it yet. I'm going to get the wires in the correct towers, correct order, and forget about whether I put them back correctly earlier in my work. Then try to start it. If that doesn't work, and it may not as I suspect that the rotor will be pointing at #2 tower due to a variety of errors. Next, I should pull the distributor and put it back with the rotor pointing at #1 tower like you said, and like it should be.
From there I'll make a separate plan to learn the timing. It seems somewhat complicated by the fact I can't find the marks. But I'll do the thumb test and get 1 up there.
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Here is a link to Binder Books that sells all the manuals for the 140: http://www.binderbooks.com/numbered.htm#Farmall_100. I don't know what your dealer is asking.
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Re: Intermittent spark at the points
The PM manuals on the server cover the 140 and have everything that you need to know to install and time the distributor.
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Thank you I'll be looking throughout the 140 sections. There is going to be a pause in the conversations due to some I'llnesses. I'll get back ASAP.
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Bigdog, Eugene, Jim and any one else following, I cleaned the pulley good enough with windex, to stick my finger in the #1,(sorry had to make sure I felt comfortable about that with all the hospital trips I'm making) anyway, the compression pushed my finger back so that when I checked the pulley, I saw what looked like a fine measuring area 2 inches with recessed hash marks with a slight indentation in the pulley in the middle.
So I pulled the distributor as instructed and put the rotor facing the #1 tower(after fixing the wire order as discussed, in the cap).
I'm getting ready to turn it over. Even if it doesn't start I wanted to thank you. I've never done this, and to find the area you have been talking about was great. I didn't think I could get this far with it and have it make sense to me. The compression trick with the finger or thumb, (it worked better with a finger as the 140 seems recessed a bit for my thumb) anyway, I'm going back after I throw some wood in the stove and warm up. Thank you I'll write later, any thing I'm forgetting to do or should do, please write and tell me so I can try it?
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Oh yes, it started up, I've pulled it out of the building, letting it warm up. It sounds pretty good. I think I will advance or retard by twisting the distributor a little to see if it will smooth out some.
I can't thank you all enough. I'm at the end of a road that doesn't get plowed during snow storms until last. I've pushed snow all the way to the county road to get out before if the main road is open. I will feel much better about making it to the hospital should another emergency occur with my family. My snow blower works ok but the 140 is great.
Please know that I really appreciated this. I have wood laying around to pick up and the 140 snakes through the woods so very fine.
special thanks to Bigdog, Eugene, and Jim.
Re: Intermittent spark at the points
Congratulations on your success!!!! We knew you could do it!!!
Timing by ear is not a real accurate way to go but it will get you by. At some time you may want to borrow a timing light and get it set correctly. If it seems to lack power while working try very small adjustments to the distributor position to see if it helps.
If you can't fix it with a hammer, you've got an electrical problem.
My wife says I don't listen to her. - - - - - - - - Or something like that!
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You are a great coach Bigdog!! Knowing I can jump on it and get some work done is a big plus! Big thank you, I'm glad farmall made some nice tractors!
Would you be so kind as to suggest a type of timing light and an easy reader to learn how to do it? I'm getting some confidence, thanks for you and your site for having faith that I could do it. I almost gave in.
I'm going to pull a trailer full of wood to test if it will struggle with a load or not.
Do you think anyone would be interested to know the cost of the parts for the ignition, to see if we pay too much for parts or in some cases, it might help someone who wants to replace the ignition pathway? I may post that as it would be the least I could do to try and help anyone on here that wants to get it done. I won't be able to help anyone with lots of experience with tractor engines.
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Cortlandt Manor, NY - (December 27, 2011) – Employees who work at Hudson Valley Hospital Center are among the happiest in the nation, according to a recent survey of more than 250,000 employees at 408 facilities nationwide.
The results released by Press Ganey this month show that employee satisfaction at Hudson Valley Hospital was rated in the 93th percentile or the top 7 percent when compared to other hospitals nationwide. The Hospital scored in the 99th percentile, placing them in the top 1 percent when compared to other hospitals in the New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania region. This is the sixth year that the Hospital has scored in the top rankings nationwide.
Press Ganey is a nationally recognized company that partners with health care facilities to measure the level of patient and employee satisfaction and improve their quality of health care delivery.
"The fact that our employees feel satisfaction in their work is not only important to the well being of this Hospital, but to the well being of our patients,'' said HVHC President John C. Federspiel. "High employee satisfaction makes everything else we try to accomplish possible. It is one of the reasons why our patient satisfaction scores are also consistently above the 90th percentile.''
This year 85 percent of the hospital's 1,176 employees took the Press Ganey survey. The survey looked at employee satisfaction as well as engagement or how involved employees are in their work. In addition to questions about pay and working conditions, employees were asked whether excellent performance is recognized at the Hospital, whether their opinion is valued and whether employees treat each other with dignity and respect, among other questions.
In 2006, Press Ganey awarded Hudson Valley Hospital Center a "Success Story Award" for a cultural sea change at the institution which drove employee satisfaction levels from the 28th percentile to the 97th percentile within six years. Since then the Hospital has maintained its high rating, remaining above the 92nd percentile in employee satisfaction each year.
Hudson Valley Hospital Center works hard to keep employees engaged by including them in the decision making process, by encouraging civility and teamwork and by recognizing and rewarding excellence. The Hospital each year adds professional portraits of exemplary employees to its lobby "Wall of Heroes" to recognize outstanding work.
The Hospital has also been cited by Westchester Magazine - as one of the top places to work in Westchester, and the nation, alongside corporate giants like MasterCard, New York Life and Morgan Stanley.
Hudson Valley Hospital Center is dedicated to serving the health care needs of the community and to providing quality, comprehensive medical care in a compassionate, professional, respectful manner, without regard to race, religion, national origin or disease category. Offering state-of-the-art diagnostic treatment, education and preventive services, the Hospital is committed to improving the quality of life in the community. In fulfilling this mission, the Hospital will strive to continuously improve the care provided and develop and offer programs, facilities, systems and alliances that most effectively respond to community health care needs. Hudson Valley Hospital Center is located on Route 202 (1980 Crompond Road) in Cortlandt Manor, New York. Call 914-737-9000 or visit hvhc.npgdev.com


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04 February 2011
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Through generous funding from the Universal Foundation, the Orlando Science Center has been able to create new programming designed to highlight the importance of water conservation and environmental stewardship. The Big Drip, the first of the three programs funded by the Universal Foundation, premiered on January 22 in Dr. Dare's Laboratory.
Guests began the workshop by competing in a water trivia game using Qwizdom paddles. Next, guests examined the effects of pollution by using simulated contaminants to make a mess. Finally, guests were challenged to create their own water filters using everyday materials to see how clean they could get the water.
Check out our website for a schedule of events to see the next time you can experience The Big Drip and other new programs!


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-Shanghai, China
-Cruise the East China Sea
-Hiroshima, Japan
-Kyoto (Kobe), Japan
-Cruise the Pacific Ocean
-Seoul (Incheon), South Korea
-Dalian, China
-Beijing (Tianjin), China
Inchon, located on the west coast of South Korea, is regarded as part of the greater Seoul metropolitan area due to its close proximity to the city. During the Korean War, Inchon was the site of the Battle of Inchon, when United States troops landed to relieve pressure on the Pusan Perimeter and to launch a United Nations offensive northward. The city was also the site of a Japanese POW camp during World War II.
The following Shore Excursions are available for this port on this cruise, and may be reserved beginning 240 days before the cruise begins for guests receiving Concierge amenities, and 180 days before the cruise begins for all other guests. Guests receiving Concierge amenities will receive a 5% discount off of the prices shown below for Regent Choice tours.
Enjoy this panoramic introduction to Incheon, a major seaport and the location where U.N. troops landed in 1950, outflanking the invading North Korean troops.
Visit the Incheon Landing Memorial Hall, built in honor of the successful landing operation led by U.N. Commander in Chief, General Douglas MacArthur. The museum contains military armaments used by the South and North Korean military, as well as photos showing what life was like in Korea at that time.
You will also enjoy stops at the Yeonan Pier Fish Market, one of Korea's largest fresh fish markets where you can see all types of seafood, including blue crabs and mussels and Jayu Park (Freedom Park), the first Western-style park in Korea. The park contains numerous sculptures and monuments, including the famous General MacArthur statue, his right hand grasping a pair of binoculars and gazing confidently out to sea.
A final stop is made at the Sinpo conventional market, which offers a wide variety of goods for purchase. Return to the ship after enjoying some free time to explore on your own.
Please note: This tour includes a moderate amount of walking including approximately 40 steps at Jayu Park. The tour is not available to wheelchair guests and those with mobility concerns are cautioned to evaluate their personal level of stamina and ability. Light-weight clothing; flat, comfortable walking shoes; sun caps and sun glasses are suggested.
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May 17 - Modesto Road RaceSun, 05/17/2009 - 5:21pm | by Racing
Rene Palileo
May 16 - Modesto CriteriumSat, 05/16/2009 - 6:57pm | by Racing
Rene Palileo
May 16 - CCCX #7, Fort OrdSat, 05/16/2009 - 5:34pm | by Racing
Results and photo highlights (crashes galore)
a few from the 11:00 wave, Steven Woo, SugarCRM/Los Gatos Bicycle Racing Club
Rick Rasmussen
May 13 - Hellyer Wednesday Night RacingThu, 05/14/2009 - 11:23am | by Michiko Kawamoto
May 12 - Tuesday Night Twilight in Santa RosaWed, 05/13/2009 - 9:39am | by Racing
2009 European Trip of Lindsay Myers - Part 1Mon, 05/11/2009 - 10:51pm | by Racing
Photo by Garrett Lau
In her words:
I've been in Limoux, France for over a month, and I still am SO stoked to be here and have a hard time believing I'm actually racing my bike in Europe. I got the chance to come here through a USA Cycling Women's development program. It is a program set up to give women who show potential, and are relatively new to racing, a taste of racing in Europe. NCNCA was able to help me with some of the costs of the trip. I really appreciate those of you who support the development side of cycling, athletes who show potential. Six women from the US were sent here, and not so surprisingly, three of us are from NorCal.
We're based in Limoux, France. It's a small town in Southern France, whose population consists of mostly old people and cyclists. The latter of the two groups being fairly small, leaving most of those in Limoux with white hair. There's not much going on here, but the riding is phenomenal. We've been doing everything from local races, French Cup races, and UCI races. Most of what I've been learning here, I don't think I could have learned in the US…or it would have taken much more racing and experience. The race I learned the most from was Ronde Van Gelderland, a UCI race in Holland that I got time cut out of within an hour and a half of racing. There were over 200 starters and some of the roads we were to be racing on would be considered bike paths in the US. No matter how good or bad a race goes, you cannot leave the race without learning from it. I had a 16 hour drive to think about the race in Holland. I think part of being a good bike racer is learning from the race, but knowing how to leave it in the past, look forward to the next weekend.
Going into the race, I knew on a basic level what I needed to do. Stay close to the front during the neutral to avoid crashes and the cluster of the big field. The roads were narrow; be up front. The road becomes one lane, even more narrow, crosswinds. If you're not in the front thirty, you're probably going to get gapped and be in a chase group. I knew where I needed to be. But "knowing" doesn't get you very far.
I was really nervous going into the race. Maybe because of the field size, some of the best teams in the world were there, the course, the speed...
Here is a mindset that is not recommended: My last couple races in US and racing in Europe, I've been going into races doubting my ability to finish or do well. In some ways, I guess it provides an incentive to prove myself wrong.
I was talking with the director of the national team before the race. He said this is the deep end of the pool; this is the deepest field you'll be in. I lined up on the front line.
My legs felt fine, my head was out of the game. After we were through town and into the narrow roads, there was a bad crash in front of me. It was a Cervelo girl who we had talked to a dinner the night before. When I went by, I really looked at her, crumpled underneath a couple bikes. And I could hear her moaning. That's the scary sh#t that you don't think about. It happens, it's bike racing...but I kept the picture of her on the ground in my mind. I wasn't mentally in the game in the first place, but was really out of it after that.
I don't mean any of that as an excuse for not finishing a race or not doing well. It's not. I might not have the finished the race had everything been going right for me. But sometimes, no matter how good your legs are, how much you've trained, prepared, if your head isn't in the right place, you're out.
After the race, I didn't know what to think. I needed to take something from it, but I didn't know what. Still don't have a really good idea. I kind of excused myself from the race, thinking that it was OK, because some of the best riders in the world were there. Because the course didn't really suit me. Because I should be satisfied with just being there.
None of those are valid reasons to excuse myself from a race and I have yet to come up with one.
Bad days on the bike happen, bad races happen, or maybe a bad season. But if you take something out of it, learn something, it was worth it.
May 10 - Berkeley Hills Road RaceMon, 05/11/2009 - 11:02am | by Racing
Bo Hebenstreit, Webcor/Alto Velo
Mike Nachtwey
Veronika Lenzi, Through My Eyes Photography
May 9 - Joseph Mendes/EBC CriteriumSun, 05/10/2009 - 8:01pm | by Racing
Paul Doran
F.J. Jasinski
Shane Huntoon
May 8 - Friday Night Racing at HellyerSat, 05/09/2009 - 5:07pm | by Racing
Sam Parker, Team Roaring Mouse
Garrett Lau, SugarCRM/Los Gatos Bicycle Racing Club
one of four (didn't see a way to link to all four with one link...)cat 3/4 Racing video, Steven Woo, SugarCRM/Los Gatos Bicycle Racing Club
May 6 - Davis Biweekly Low Key TTFri, 05/08/2009 - 6:55am | by Michiko Kawamoto
Mark A. Adkison, Ph.D, Hors Categorie Photography


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Joe Falls was born and raised a New Yorker. He grew up in Long Island and went to school in lower Manhattan where his father was a police officer. He was a self-professed sports junkie whose grades suffered. He needed bookkeeping and typing classes for extra credit to graduate.
He entered the working world in the mailroom of an insurance company but found his calling when his friends starting getting free hockey tickets working for United Press. He answered a help-wanted ad and joined The Associated Press as a mail boy. When he finally had a chance to deliver to the newsroom, he was so taken he asked for a transfer.
After making an impression on the copy desk, the AP created the title of Sports Clerk so he could edit and write regularly without angering the office union.
He never wandered outside New York until 1953, when AP transferred him from the low end of its 17-man sports staff to become its lead man in Detroit, where he could learn his trade faster. "I did a dirty trick to my boss," Falls said. "I loved it so much in Detroit that I never came back."
Falls covered all sports in Detroit and through much of Michigan for AP until he took on the Tigers full-time for the Detroit Times in the 1956. He spent five years on the Tigers beat for the Times and five more for the Free Press before becoming a Free Press columnist and later sports editor. He joined the Detroit News in 1978. He also served as a baseball columnist for The Sporting News.
Technically, he entered the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1962 -- as a scorekeeper. He scored a 22-inning, seven-hour game between the Tigers and Yankees that set a short-lived record for longest game in Major League history.
Though Falls wrote some of his best columns at such events as the Olympics, Boston Marathon, Kentucky Derby, Indy 500 and golf tournaments, he wrote more often on baseball and always held a special fondness. He covered World Championship Tiger teams in 1968 and 1984. He has authored three books on the Tigers as well as biographies on Bo Schembechler and Chuck Daly.
Falls, 74, lives on the outskirts of Detroit and frequently makes his way to Comerica Park to cover his Tigers.
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This week's column discusses a pizza that is near and dear to the hearts of all Italians. And, being the history buff that I am, I decided to look into the origin of the name of this simple pizza, which is made of fresh mozzarella cheese, tomatoes and basil. It prominently displays the colors of the Italian flag, and it is delicious.
The pizza is named after Margherita Maria Teresa Giovanna di Savoia. She married her first cousin, Umberto, who became king of Italy in 1868. I guess when you become the queen, you can have things named after you, including food.
For this to be a legit Margherita pizza, it has to be cooked in a wood-burning stove. It can also be cooked on a gas grill or a charcoal grill, in my opinion. You will definitely need a pizza stone, which is inexpensive and a great addition to the kitchen in general. It cooks all sorts of pizzas evenly with radiant heat, and keeps the pizza warm when you pull the pizza off the grill or out of the oven.
And if you make this pizza in your kitchen oven, I won't tell anyone.
We made homemade whole wheat crust. This turned out delicious. Even though Queen Margherita was politically a fascist, I thank her for inspiring this delicious pizza.
- 2 1/2 cups whole wheat flour, plus more for dusting
- 2 1/4 tsp active dry yeast
- 3/4 tsp salt
- 1 cup warm water
- 1 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
- 1 tbsp sugar
Place the water, yeast and sugar in a bowl. Stir and allow to stand for five minutes.
In a mixing bowl, place the remaining ingredients. Make a trough in the middle of the dry ingredients and pour in the liquid. Mix and work into a dough. Or better yet, use an electric dough maker if you have one. Place the dough in a large bowl that has been rubbed down with olive oil. Cover with a towel and place in a fairly warm environment and allow to rise for a couple hours.