The Good, The Bad, and The Future

PostGameOrangeSlices · October 2014

DerekJohnson said:
No one has answered why Peters didn't play on defense in the first quarter.

the crud

RoadDawg55 · October 2014

DerekJohnson said:
No one has answered why Peters didn't play on defense in the first quarter.

Petersen said he needed to clean up some details. I'd assume he broke a rule. He's not Petersen's favorite guy. I'm just hoping he makes it through the season because we are screwed without him. He is a really good player and as good of a corner I can remember playing at UW. I think he's better than Trufant, although Tru was really good his senior year.

Doogles · October 2014

RoadDawg55 said:

DerekJohnson said:
No one has answered why Peters didn't play on defense in the first quarter.
Petersen said he needed to clean up some details. I'd assume he broke a rule. He's not Petersen's favorite guy. I'm just hoping he makes it through the season because we are screwed without him. He is a really good player and as good of a corner I can remember playing at UW. I think he's better than Trufant, although Tru was really good his senior year.

The dude is a straight gangster and we need him like Ty needed the NAACP and Shaun Alexander. He's really fun to watch.

CFetters_Nacho_Lover · October 2014

DerekJohnson said:

RoadDawg55 said:
Nice job pointing out that Stanford played a lot of two deep. Some have commented that Stanford stacked the box and dared UW to throw, but that wasn't accurate. They didn't do anything fancy. They just beat us up front.
We often had six guys blocking four in pass protection and couldn't get the job done.

The UW offensive line needs to take a walk on the fucking beach and get some much need perspective. If you get beat that bad, you have to seriously question what you're doing in life.

If only UW had a offensive line coach at some point who would get in their faces and scream at them.

CokeGreaterThanPepsi · October 2014

DerekJohnson said:
No one has answered why Peters didn't play on defense in the first quarter.

School just started the week of the Stanford game..... I would guess it had something to do with school, like skipping class.

HFNY · October 2014

Actually, the Cover 2 D was developed in the early 80's to stop / slow down Bill Walsh's West Coast offense which was predicated on the short and medium passing game.

The best ways to beat a Cover 2 D are:

1. Running them out of a Cover 2 and forcing them to put an extra guy towards the LOS

2. Hitting pass-catchers (typically TEs or taller slot WRs) on seam routes, skinny posts, or whatever route they use to get behind the ILB but in front of the two deep safeties since ILB's don't run as well as OLBs and corners.

3. Flooding a particular area of a Cover 2 zone so that 1 or 2 defenders have to cover 3 receivers.

4. Clearing out zone defenders with 1 receiver and then having a 2nd sit in that zone soon after.

5. Using that sort of "Z" route that the "Greatest Show On Turf" used where a WR would do a type of in to enter one zone and get into the zone defenders' line of sight and then reversing course and drift towards the sideline.

6. Call a delayed QB run where the QB / OL give the pass-defenders enough time to drop deeper into their zones while also letting the DEs get far upfield. An OT can push his DE upfield and then go on to the second level to block an LB (two for one!!!!1!!@!!!!).

7. When all else fails, try the fumblerooski.

doogsinparadise said:
Cover 2 can be attacked with out routes and short passes, neither of which Cyler wss able to complete for lack of arm strength and accurracy respectively. Of course he'll face more of it until he shows he can complete the 15 yard out and seam routes.