Playing not to lose...

SkipBoyd

BroadcastingDawg said:

Even though the announcers were total morons in this game, one of them made an interesting point.

He said that he thought UW was playing the game to not "show all their cards."

It's a very "let's just get out of here with a win, who cares how" mentality...

I mean look at the Arizona game... what sort of a team goes up 14 w. basically a full quarter to play and pulls every defensive starter in favor 3rd and 4th stringers?

Today... they go for run plays on 1st and 2nd down in basically every new set against a defense who can't cover the pass and an offense who Furd can't stop... They refuse to bring any extra pressure on defense against a QB who took every check down available to him after sitting there clean in the pocket for 10 seconds.

If this announcer isn't correct, what explains the lack of adjustments at all through out a game?

It felt like they started passing more when they knew they had to rather than it being the identity of their offense... who does that?

It felt like they were comfortable rushing 3 and 4 all game... what sort of team in today's CFB landscape doesn't want to bring pressure?

It's so fucking weird.

8D chess. I love that theory. Get back to me on this after they go 0-4.

Fire_Marshall_Bill

TheHB said:

I don’t buy it. You’re 8 games into the season. You’re not risking losing to cellar rats to save something for USC.

Yeah, not showing your cards is something Peterson did against Rutgers and SW Idaho Tech or whatever. I didn't have a huge problem with it. It's pretty late in the season to be holding back, and Stanford, while bad, has enough talent to stay with UW as seen earlier.