Best Of

1. Offensive line. They are a mid level Mountain West line at best. The fact that Fish and Carrol can scheme around this albatross to move the ball between the 20's as well as they do is pretty impressive. They will never be a good red zone offense this year because when things get tight and you really need to put a hat on a hat to create a hole to run through or a pocket to throw from they just can't do it. Juco kids, guys coming back from season ending injuries, RS freshman that don't look ready, Big Sky kids, Mountain West kids and a guy who played in a handful of games in four years at Ohio State. It's a mess and they're gonna need to build it from the floor up because they are too poor to afford ready made help. There is a reason they are trying to take up to six offensive lineman in the 2025 class. It's a shit as fuck room.
2. Special teams. Can't cover punts or kick offs, can't block for field goals, can't make field goals. I thought Gross would be the X factor in winning close games and it's been the opposite. He's mentally fucked. He can't even get height on his chip shot kicks. Everything is a low line drive. If he were kicking at last years level UW is probably 6-1. It's not all on him but his regression has been dramatic, unexpected and has cost a UW team that can't score in the red zone critical points in tight ball games. like the offensive line this likely won't improve this year. PaoPao won't magically figure it out. This is a Fish problem and will need to be overhauled in the offseason.

The defense, QB's, the WR corps, the RB's have all been good enough to win games. The two fatal flaws are why UW will be fighting for 6 wins this year.