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Clones could be the 2nd team this season while playing some defense

Not at all. It's just that you posted about Dillon, immediately in the post after I posted about Dillon.

That was on purpose. You posted about Dillon and UW and I posted about Dillon and Michigan to emphasize the shared experience.

Devil’s advocate post here.  McNair isn’t an all time great NFL QB.  He was a good, solid QB.  He wasn’t an all-timer in either stats or accomplishments.  Could he have pushed UF to a national title?  Sure, I mean, who the hell knows?  It’s not a crazy argument but not rock solid either.  Would have been fun to see though.

McNair is only the best D-1AA/FCS college football player ever and he was the #3 overall pick in the 1995  NFL draft. He was much better than a good, solid QB. He was a great NFL QB for several years. His first two years in Houston were wasted years on the bench, but that was because he was playing for that idiot Jeff Fisher. McNair was among the elite of the elite QB's in the NFL for a good 5-6 year stretch. He basically carried a mediocre Tennessee team on his back to the Super Bowl in '99 and got them literally a yard away from taking the greatest show on turf to OT in the Super Bowl. He won the leauge MVP in 2003- he probably should've won it the year before in 2002 as well. He made multiple Pro Bowls and really was held back from being an all-time great NFL QB by two things: 1) his body broke down bc of all the injuries and 2) Jeff Fisher's dumbass. Jeff Fisher is one of the worst head coaches of all-time. Blows my mind how he kept NFL head coaching jobs for so long. It's astounding really.

You're underestimating just how good Steve McNair really was. The guy was unreal. Absolutely phenomenal. He was a bigger, stronger, more athletic version of Steve Young- except he had an absolute cannon. I'd have loved to see what McNair could've done working under an absolute maestro and offensive genius like Bill Walsh instead of a friggin moron like Jeff Fisher. I have a feeling you'd be talking about him as an all-time great.

UW wanted him at tailback, but got "stuck" with Taylor.


Who is the tailback at Michigan this year? Another 4* kid? I'll reserve judgement until I see production (and a depth chart, or not).

UW got "stuck" with the right guy.

True frosh Zach Charbonnet should be the RB. If he isn't, I'll be flabbergasted. The RB depth chart sucks, and Charbonnet is CLEARLY the most talented. 

And yes, he was a 4* but he probably should've been a 5*. He's the first RB that Michigan has recruited in a long time that I am legitimately excited about. Basically ever RB recruit since 5* RB Kevin Grady back in 2005 class has had some kind of hole or something you could nitpick about. Charbonnet is the best RB on paper at least- by a coutnry mile they've landed in like 15 years.

Kevin Grady - overweight, not that fast, played very weak HS compeition.
Carlos Brown - explosive athlete, very fast. never even played RB in HS however.
Derrick Green - see Kevin Grady. He was just a bigger, stronger version of Grady.
Kareem Walker - got ranked as an early 5* off of his monster frosh and soph. seasons, fell off in his junior and senior seasons and saw his recruit rankings free fall off cliff. Might've been a case of a guy peaking early and then regressing.

Antonio Bass, Jabrill Peppers, or Brian Cole would've been the best RB's that Michigan had in ages- except they didn't play any of those guys at RB. Bass was moved to WR and blew out his knee in a freak accident in practice. Peppers was moved to defense and was a 1st round NFL draft pick. Cole was moved to defense as well and he also got himself kicked out of school. Any one of them could've been a great RB- they were certainly explosive athletes with great physical builds, change of direction, burst, and speed. Michigan has been sorely lacking RB's with those kind of traits. For years.

Zach Charbonnet displays those kinds of physical traits and more and shows great burst and speed and power on film playing against the very best compeition in the state of California- was a dominant HS player who got better every year and oh yeah he's 6'1+ and 215+ as a true freshman. Honestly think he should've been a 5*. He looks way better than Kevin Grady or Derrick Green ever did. And he's bigger and faster and plays way better HS competition than those guys did.

I remember hearing about Grady and purposely looking for him in UM games and was like "uhhhh, he's fat."  And slow.  And didn't run people over.  And wasn't shifty.  
Odd.

Jeff Fisher is one of the worst head coaches of all-time. Blows my mind how he kept NFL head coaching jobs for so long. It's astounding really.

Ya maybe because he looked good with his stache & shades or played the camera right.He got the Titans to the Big Dance once but not sure how much of that talent he drafted. HC for 24 seasons I think,screw up move up,he kept getting contracts.For as bad as many of his teams were he should have compiled better talent all those years.The type of coach the Browns seemed continually intersted in,surprised they never hooked up

Ask Jared Goff how much of a dumbass Jeff Fisher was