TopDown-A Retrospect on a Decade of UM: pt 2

Only one person touches the ball every play of every game. This person is usually dubbed as the leader of the team. As go his success so goes the success of the team. Shouldering the losses, glorified in the win, a quarterback is the face of the program. The quarter back was the face of UM football.

The decade has been kind to Michigan from a QB standpoint. Not really gamebreakers but exceptional game managers. They came and went, they went onto the NFL 100% of the time. Michigan arguably snatched QB U from Da U, during this power decade. Still reflecting on the National Title season, the Griese lead offense put up numbers that woul dbe laughed at in the face of the modern game, but it was a game that allowed for 10-7 wins and the like. Where you could throw for 160 yards and 1 TD and still have a great chance to win the game. His senior LEADERSHIP was instrumental in our pursuit of the Holy Grail, and in that pursuit he played beautifully, managed the team, guided the team. The Brady-Henson years were marred with high expectations, less than stellar results. Brady led an exceptiona comeback vs Bama in that classic rosebowl game in 2000, but outside of that, he was in fact a marginal college QB. Once again a Michigan QB just manages a game, we all know how the Brady saga turned out. One QB that Michigan got little out of was Drew Henson. His 2000 campaign was a solid B10 C0-Champ leading effort, but his tenure was cut so very short. His mind wasnt in football, his mind was somewhere in Center-Left catching pop flies being bored as hell for the rest of his life. Forewent his Senior year in hopes the Yankees would give him a shot, when Frankly the Yankees only give chances to players who actually play in the bigs. Wasted talent, failed hope....member of the Lions(LoL). In his departure came Navarre, a qb who was as mobile as he was a great decision maker. You ask he set B10 records at Michigan, and my screenname is a variant of his name(NayVar.....Navarre), how could he be a bad QB? HE HAD HELP! He did brilliant, however, against tUOS. This is a commodity that has escaped the Michigan mantra lately. Matt Guttierrez....sorry you never got to add mobility to our offense. After Guttierrez tore his vagina getting out of the car, in which the keys were just handed to him(the car was the Michigan Offense) ushered in the birth of Tacopants. Chad Henne, was a good quarterback, solid skills, but had lapses in skill 30% of the time.

• Tacopants Career Stats
• Thrown to 45 times
• 39 Catches(some were to high)
• 7 TDs

Tacopants is a mythical Michigan wide reciever who is 8+ feet tall, as many of Henne's passes sailed over the heads of our 6'4" WR's as they were obviously intended for Tacopants. I remember him throwing the ball away on 4th down on the goalline in a loss to Notre Dame a few years back(it was so laughable NCAA 09 made it one of their achievements). However, after analising the video, the pass was to Tacopants, he caught it out of bounds. The memories of the 2006 Ohio State game. The only thing I want to remember is Manningham having just punked Malcom Jenkins is wide open, Henne overthrows him. I cry. A video is dedicated to Cahd Henne on youtube. He quietly leaves Michigan 0-4 vs tUOS.

After all of this, this year we are left with 3 Freshman who cant rekindle any of the magic that Joh Navarre or Chad Henne had. The magic being ability to throw the ball with any degree of consistency. Well we haven't actually gotten a look at Feagin yet, but RR tells us he's injured and he sucks. Well so does Sheridan.....and so ends 10 years of id say ABOVE Average quarterback play.



Mmmmmmm, Feagin Leading The PACK!!!!!!!!