Narduzzi Talks Depth Chart Movers

Money down.. i love it.. could Aug 31st just come on already... I get on this website everyday to get my fix and it just makes me more depressed when all i see on TV is baseball, and i live in Texas so its not the Tigers... #spartandawgs

Yea, it's a bit different since the other 3 spots are locked up. May just be a motivational tool for Drummond, but football starved people (ahem, like me) will hang on every word this time of year .

16 days until kick-off. Gotta say, best thing about the Friday night game is that we have all day Saturday to watch football with our feet up on the couch (or barstool). Planning on a marathon football session, from ND-Navy through till Alabama - Michigan.

I especially appreciate the Saturday off to catch all the games as opposed to sneaking a glimpse at the tiny TVs in the Spartan Stadium press box Saturday afternoons.

And Narduzzi is a master motivator as well as an expert in coach speak. But he's usually genuine and will tell us when a certain player isn't getting the job done. No such statements regarding Drummond this fall.

Narduzzi is also hilariously old school when it comes to injuries. Obviously he doesn't want players practicing with concussion or serious injury, but guys in yellow jerseys are pretty much worthless in his eyes.

When asked what he was most upset about in fall camp thus far:

"Least happy with the guys who are sitting in yellow jerseys. They gotta push through it and toughen up and all that. We preach toughness. You wish a guy would push through it. Wish we didn't have any yellow jerseys on. ... It's (the players' choice) and the trainer's choice. But if someone gave me a yellow jersey I'd take it off and say, 'I can go. I'm good enough to go.' But you gotta tough through it and some guys can't and some guys we don't want to. ... Sometimes trainers don't know how kids feel. you want to take those things off. I'm not saying we have 6,000 of them either, we don't have that many, but I wish we had none. you can't get better sitting on the sideline."

Yes, he and Isaiah Lewis were very close at SS last spring prior to Jones' injury. But Williamson was so good on scout team as a true freshman that I think, all things being equal, he would win out over Jones based on the fact that he's a younger player.

Does Reynolds always look like he's about to hurt somebody?

2 reasons:

1) Drummond played the full year healthy last year at NB. We saw what that type of experience could yield when Lewis moved from NB to SS last year. Jones, OTOH, injured his Achilles and only made it back for the Iowa game. Drummond has more playing time under his belt overall.

2) Drummond has been repping at FS when not at NB last year and was Robinson's back-up. Jones, meanwhile, was working at the SS spot. This spring, Drummond was at FS the whole time, and now into fall camp, while JJ worked at SS and NB. That gives Drummond more experience at the FS position than Jones.

Talk is that Jones is going to be the SS on 3rd downs and Lewis is going to slide to nickel. The top 3 safeties get a fair amount of PT in the MSU D, especially with the Delta package being such a big part of the D.

IIRC, he's the strongest player on the team. That's impressive, considering ARW was a state power-lifting champ out of HS.

See, I'm always more interested in who is the slowest player on the team. You guys never talk about that stuff. Currently I'm guessing its a tie between Burbridge and Treadwell

I mentioned Lyles as a possible contributor at DE there yesterday, Darien Harris could also be used in a variety of ways. Will be interesting to see where MSU goes considering there are so many options with the depth.

Keshawn probably wasn't the fastest guy on the team but he sure was the quickest.

You tease.