MGoBlog-2017 QB Competition Thank God-Brandon Peters

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All of those Speight lovers need to read what the fella from MGoBlog is hearing. he seems to know a thing or two.



Brian,

There never seemed to be much insider chatter floating around this year about how Peters was performing in practice. Obviously last year the big chatter was that, O'Korn was out performing Rudock. Question 1.) Do we know anything about how he performed this fall in practice?

Secondly, I for one was pleasantly surprised with Speight's performance this year and I believe exceeded what many's expectations were for him.

That being said -

Question 2.) Do you anticipate any serious competition next year between a Redshirt Peters and Speight for the starting gig?

Go Blue,
Brewandbluesaturdays

After a productive spring, Peters chatter went to zero in fall camp. You shouldn't read anything into that, though. O'Korn got talked up last year because Rudock was so bad early and there was nobody else to talk about except Shane Morris, who was not a viable target for chatter after last year's Minnesota game.

Michigan had determined it was going to redshirt Peters, he got put on the scout team, and Speight played well enough that backup talk was restricted to a few off weeks. O'Korn's existence, meanwhile, kept what backup chatter existed focused on him until Indiana.

I do expect a serious QB competition this offseason. By "serious" I mean "there is at least a 20% chance someone not named Speight is the starting QB." Brandon Peters is extremely good and should eat up ground quickly since he was not one of those QB guru guys. Speight had a good sophomore season but remains someone else's QB that Harbaugh is making do with, and we saw him switch horses midstream in San Francisco. Speight's weak performance against Iowa and turnovers against OSU leave the door open for a challenger.

I'd be surprised if Peters passed Speight. I would not be shocked.

[After the JUMP: blueshirting, sartorial discussion, why do anything really I mean seriously]

 

[detroitjohn]

All of those Speight lovers need to read what the fella from MGoBlog is hearing. he seems to know a thing or two.



Brian,

There never seemed to be much insider chatter floating around this year about how Peters was performing in practice. Obviously last year the big chatter was that, O'Korn was out performing Rudock. Question 1.) Do we know anything about how he performed this fall in practice?

Secondly, I for one was pleasantly surprised with Speight's performance this year and I believe exceeded what many's expectations were for him.

That being said -

Question 2.) Do you anticipate any serious competition next year between a Redshirt Peters and Speight for the starting gig?

Go Blue,
Brewandbluesaturdays

After a productive spring, Peters chatter went to zero in fall camp. You shouldn't read anything into that, though. O'Korn got talked up last year because Rudock was so bad early and there was nobody else to talk about except Shane Morris, who was not a viable target for chatter after last year's Minnesota game.

Michigan had determined it was going to redshirt Peters, he got put on the scout team, and Speight played well enough that backup talk was restricted to a few off weeks. O'Korn's existence, meanwhile, kept what backup chatter existed focused on him until Indiana.

I do expect a serious QB competition this offseason. By "serious" I mean "there is at least a 20% chance someone not named Speight is the starting QB." Brandon Peters is extremely good and should eat up ground quickly since he was not one of those QB guru guys. Speight had a good sophomore season but remains someone else's QB that Harbaugh is making do with, and we saw him switch horses midstream in San Francisco. Speight's weak performance against Iowa and turnovers against OSU leave the door open for a challenger.

I'd be surprised if Peters passed Speight. I would not be shocked.

[After the JUMP: blueshirting, sartorial discussion, why do anything really I mean seriously]

Cook is sharp, but there's nothing above that persuades me that Peters or McCaffry are next up. I'd put the chances of a redshirt frosh or true frosh supplanting a rising junior at less than 10%, like I've said elsewhere, there's a long history of UM fans just begging for the next guy on the bench (do you really now believe that O'Korn was just tearing it up in practice?). I'd give Speight a break, he's started 12 games, struggled at Iowa and did what he needed to win at Columbus. Otherwise he was sterling, that's far better that I can recall than his first year dropback predecessors.

I did notice you ignored my observation about the struggles of the best QBs at UM during their first year (I think you'd agree it's an accurate observation) to raise a hypothetical that really doesn't fit, whether a different QB like Bama's would start over Speight. Maybe, I haven't seen him play, but I doubt he'd do anything close to what he's done this year without the all-star line he plays behind.

I'll say it again, Speight has the best feet of any dropback QB UM has had, this side of Brady, aside from obviously mobile QBs like Robinson (Henson doesn't count, he's not human). He moves extremely well versus pressure and gets into a throwing position remarkably quickly. He's not a runner, but he maneuvers in the pocket and seldom is seen ducking under pressure to hide from a sack.

 

[Sleeping Storm]

Speight isn't that good. He can be a winner but his team needs to be good

And that's with harbaugh coaching him who can make the worst quarterbacks. Good

But the big ten doesn't have that many good quarterbacks. So that's good. Mcsorely and blough are good

 

[alfadriver]

We don't need a better quarterback- we need a better offensive line.

I'm ok if we have better QB next year, no question about that. But nobody will be as effective has he really needs to be if the offensive line can't step up and control the line of scrimmage better. Once we get to the point that they can dominate a drive where we run between the tackles for the entire drive (like Stanford did)- then whoever is running the show will be great.

That's when the offense is less taking what the defense give them, and taking it from the D, regardless of how they are playing. We should not be relying on the QB's talent, we should be taking advantage of it.

 

[detroitjohn]

To be clear I'm not saying Speight is all-world, just that he had a really nice first year as a starter and I think he'll keep improving. What we all love about Harbaugh's meritocracy is that the best QB will start not just the most experienced. Give us a better line that produces A serious running game in big games and we will be just fine at QB

 

[BHWolverine]

Speight had his ups and downs but the problem is the offensive line. Stop the run and iowa and Ohio State did which exposed the fact that Speight can't beat you by himself.