This truly is a Chris Petersen team

This Husky team isn't flashy (other than Ross) but it is efficient. We are disciplined. We make you beat us. We are hard to score on. And our offense is good enough. In other words, a good old fashioned well coached football team

Scoring defense: 21 pts per game. 2nd in PAC-12. Take away the EWU game and we are only giving up 15 per game.

We have only given up 4 plays from scrimmage longer than 30 yards, tied for 1st with Stanford. Only given up 1 run longer than 20 yards, first in the league. We make teams drive the field against us.

We have only given up 11 sacks. Third in the league.

280 rushing attempts, most in the league. 158 pass attempts, second fewest in the league. We run the ball 65% of the time

Turnover margin: +14, best in the nation.

The offense is conservative, yet we are scoring 35 points per game, and every once in awhile we get creative and explosive.

Somewhere Don James is smiling.

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Meek

boing

PostGameOrangeSlices

Your best effort, ever

Informative

dhdawg

Improvement. Every. Single. Week.
Things are promising going forward

Dennis_DeYoung

I agree with all this, but I also love the fact that Pete doesn't seem satisfied in the least. He was talking after the game about how we can run it better than that and how we need to be more efficient on offense.

It's a refreshing change from Sark who took every opportunity to pat himself on the back for anything good that happened, ignoring the multitude of things that were substandard.

Now, more than ever, I feel like we had a homerun hiring Pete.

bananasnblondes

Sark after a loss: "We did some good things and had a good game plan. I'm proud of how our guys fought"

Peterman after a win: "Good win but we still have a lot of room for improvement and we're not yet where we want to be"

Big diference

MikeDamone

I appreciate the analysis but we need to look deeper. Against the only decent defense they have played they scored 6 points. The 35 point per game includes defensive scores. Cal might be the worst defensive UW will see all year and they were able to score 24 points.

I think the defensive is playing well and the DBs are getting better. The team as a whole is getting better and I think we can all see Petersen is setting things up for long term success.

dhdawg

With the team we have around him cyler doesn't need to throw for 500 yards every week, but our passing game needs to be efficient.
If we continue to perform as well as we have on 3rd down 8-9 wins tops, if we start converting 3rd down on a consistent basis, big if, we will be right there for the north title.
I also wish we'd use Cyler's legs a bit more, get him outside the pocket. It worked reasonably well on saturday

dhdawg

A big part of the improvement on 3rd down would be getting Kasen more involved. I really hope this isn't a lost season for him

chuck

The offense is a concern. Nothing against the OP here but don't deny the concerns about the offense by referring to it as conservative. It really isn't conservative at all. The big shots and trick plays just aren't working, and the more generic stuff usually doesn't either.

The inept offense will cost a couple more games this season.

RoadDawg55

I appreciate the analysis but we need to look deeper. Against the only decent defense they have played they scored 6 points. The 35 point per game includes defensive scores. Cal might be the worst defensive UW will see all year and they were able to score 24 points.

I think the defensive is playing well and the DBs are getting better. The team as a whole is getting better and I think we can all see Petersen is setting things up for long term success.

Take your own advice, dig a little deeper, and take a peek at UW's schedule. Then go look at how those teams have been playing on defense. If we keep playing good defense and take care of the ball we will win a lot of games.

TommySQC

Disciplined? Lots of penalties and mistakes. Muffing a punt inside the 10 only to get lucky Cal bounced it out of thee endzone. Confusion coming out of the half. Trying to run out the clock then snapping it waaay to soon. Throwing a deep post on first down up 31-7 with Cyler's arm.

Disagree.

HeretoBeatmyChest

I appreciate the analysis but we need to look deeper. Against the only decent defense they have played they scored 6 points. The 35 point per game includes defensive scores. Cal might be the worst defensive UW will see all year and they were able to score 24 points.

I think the defensive is playing well and the DBs are getting better. The team as a whole is getting better and I think we can all see Petersen is setting things up for long term success.

Hopefully by the end of the season the offense can score 35 or 38 in that type of game as they had opportunities to do so but failed. If the defense is controlling the game as it was, Petersen will be content to go conservative on offense and shorten the game. The offense needs to be a bit better to compete against the best teams in the league. If the offense can improve a bit then UW should be favored in all of its last 5 games. As it is now, UCLA, ASU & UA games are pick-ems basically.

Tequilla

I appreciate the analysis but we need to look deeper. Against the only decent defense they have played they scored 6 points. The 35 point per game includes defensive scores. Cal might be the worst defensive UW will see all year and they were able to score 24 points.

I think the defensive is playing well and the DBs are getting better. The team as a whole is getting better and I think we can all see Petersen is setting things up for long term success.

Why do you hate Colorado, the Arizona schools, and Washington State?

dhdawg

Disciplined? Lots of penalties and mistakes. Muffing a punt inside the 10 only to get lucky Cal bounced it out of thee endzone. Confusion coming out of the half. Trying to run out the clock then snapping it waaay to soon. Throwing a deep post on first down up 31-7 with Cyler's arm.

Disagree.

I thought the team has been fairly disciplined.
They have taken care of the ball, as emphasized by Peterman.
As for the penalties, how many have been presnap/lack of focus.
Not many. And 45 of the 75 yards of penalties last week were that ticky tack kick ball, the peelback on Perkins which was total garbage. And the chop block which was also a bad call.
I don't buy that they've lacked discipline.

RoadDawg55

I appreciate the analysis but we need to look deeper. Against the only decent defense they have played they scored 6 points. The 35 point per game includes defensive scores. Cal might be the worst defensive UW will see all year and they were able to score 24 points.

I think the defensive is playing well and the DBs are getting better. The team as a whole is getting better and I think we can all see Petersen is setting things up for long term success.
Why do you hate Colorado, the Arizona schools, and Washington State?

You omitted UCLA. Over 600 yards to ASU, Utah running over them all day, and Oregon scoring 42 by the opening drive of the 4th quarter. They have like 6 sacks all season.

haie

This is a Peternorth team because the huskies play physical as hell. They are looking for the kill shot every time and guys are congratulating each other after every one. The Dissly stop on 4th down in garbage time was a great example of the difference in mentality between this team and a Sark team. Even in that OSU blowout we gave up 27 points in the 4th quarter while everyone was doing the lawnmower.

TommySQC

Disciplined? Lots of penalties and mistakes. Muffing a punt inside the 10 only to get lucky Cal bounced it out of thee endzone. Confusion coming out of the half. Trying to run out the clock then snapping it waaay to soon. Throwing a deep post on first down up 31-7 with Cyler's arm.

Disagree.
I thought the team has been fairly disciplined.
They have taken care of the ball, as emphasized by Peterman.
As for the penalties, how many have been presnap/lack of focus.
Not many. And 45 of the 75 yards of penalties last week were that ticky tack kick ball, the peelback on Perkins which was total garbage. And the chop block which was also a bad call.
I don't buy that they've lacked discipline.

Penalties are not the only factor. Also on Cal's lone TD drive, the defense gave up a couple plays because they were waiting for the call from the sideline. One was a first down on 3rd and 8. Then the illegal sub as well. I didn't keep track of everything but I have been disappointed.

dhdawg

Another 15 yards was a PI on Peters that was also very questionable.
We're 5th in the pac in penalties so while it isn't great, it's better than what we were under sark

haie

Disciplined? Lots of penalties and mistakes. Muffing a punt inside the 10 only to get lucky Cal bounced it out of thee endzone. Confusion coming out of the half. Trying to run out the clock then snapping it waaay to soon. Throwing a deep post on first down up 31-7 with Cyler's arm.

Disagree.
I thought the team has been fairly disciplined.
They have taken care of the ball, as emphasized by Peterman.
As for the penalties, how many have been presnap/lack of focus.
Not many. And 45 of the 75 yards of penalties last week were that ticky tack kick ball, the peelback on Perkins which was total garbage. And the chop block which was also a bad call.
I don't buy that they've lacked discipline.

Penalties are not the only factor. Also on Cal's lone TD drive, the defense gave up a couple plays because they were waiting for the call from the sideline. One was a first down on 3rd and 8. Then the illegal sub as well. I didn't keep track of everything but I have been disappointed.

I'm dooging it up anyways so may as well keep going. The first long drive they had was absolute bullshit with the 30 yards and 2 first downs they were gifted. Complete garbage. The drive they actually scored, I wouldn't tell Peters to play that any other way when they stopped them around midfield. The confusion I'll give you, Sidney Jones/coaches fucked that up which should be a red flag to the coaches for this week. Can't do that shit against Oregon. Kevin King also needs to be better or Shaq and Baker need to take the 2 deeps with Bierria subbing in for Shaq. I get what they're doing though, King is long and athletic, great for redzone fades. All of our deficiencies can be corrected, unless Tony Washington gets on Miles and he can't deal with the pressure, which would be the back breaker this upcoming game.

And Timu has been playing this for way too long to get sucked up like he did a couple of times.

MikeDamone

I appreciate the analysis but we need to look deeper. Against the only decent defense they have played they scored 6 points. The 35 point per game includes defensive scores. Cal might be the worst defensive UW will see all year and they were able to score 24 points.

I think the defensive is playing well and the DBs are getting better. The team as a whole is getting better and I think we can all see Petersen is setting things up for long term success.
Why do you hate Colorado, the Arizona schools, and Washington State?

Yes, it would be good to beat the worst teams in the conference.

My point is the UW offense is not good by any measure. Saying they average 35 points a game isn't an honest analysis. Outside of stanford, Oregon, UCLA, Arizona, and Oregon state are better than the defenses they have played so far.

I'm not unhappy with things, but an honest analysis says the offense has a long way to go.