Peterman on Kaleb McGary

RoadDawg55

“He’s like a lot of these guys, they have tremendous ceilings. He looks a lot different than he did last week, which is kind of wild. That’s what we’re talking about. Guys will rapidly continue to improve and the more that can happen the better off we’ll be as a team.”

It's hard to buy into weightlifting and practice hype after hearing it for so many years, but quotes like this get me excited. Petersen has commented on the young OL quite a few times.

Tequilla

This is what should be expected with coaches that develop players

DeepSeaZ

I've been hurt to many times to trust again.

BabsGilbyTawdTy

DeepSeaZ said:

I've been hurt to many times to trust again.

Sadly, all of us who put our faith in Gilby, Ty Willy and Sarkdashian got exactly what we deserved.

Alexis

BabsGilbyTawdTy said:

DeepSeaZ said:

I've been hurt to many times to trust again.

Sadly, all of us who put our faith in Gilby, Ty Willy and Sarkdashian got exactly what we deserved.

Did anyone here ever really put any faith in any of those douches. It seems that anyone smart enough to be a HCH would have been smart enough to know these guys were dreck. I'll be honest, I was kind of intrigued by Seven the first year, but knew prior to game one the other two would have no chance.

#terriblecoachsuperiorityguy

HeretoBeatmyChest

McGary is one of the best physical specimens on the team. He was 270-280 during recruitment and was 302 according to the roster a few weeks ago. He is physically ready to play but has to learn the position. How quickly he can develop as an OL will tell us something about Strausser.

Adams is the opposite in the sense that he has the technical experience but is one year behind in S&C.

I know its a low chance now but if we could steal back Eletise and get Sarrell we'd have a substantial amount of blue chip OL talent in the pipeline.

Gladstone

bananasnblondes

One guy I wouldn't sleep on this year, as well, is Coleman Shelton. He looked like a high schooler last year playing against college kids at RT. I'm not sure how much he weighed, but he couldn't have been more than 270, if that. Despite all that, he wasn't horrible. Now that he's up near 300 pounds he may surprise some at LT.

Getting Matt James from 250 to 285 was super important with Charles out. His future position is on the inside, though, with McGary taking the RT spot

Doogles

Can we run out the tunnel to "Heeeeeeeey Youuuuuuuuuuuu Guyyyyyyyyyyyyyys!!!!!!!?

Pete's words on McGary have me majorly doogin'. If there is any chance Pete has this team above expectations, it starts with having a beast up front like McGary ready to play game 1.

Run, run, and run some more. Keep pass protection mistakes to a minimum and see if you can hit a play-action bomb at some point.

bananasnblondes

McGary also holds a page in the encyclopedia of Eklund lore for being the player that Eklund made wrong predictions 3 times in the span of about a week. In case anyone forgot:

Eklund says McGary to OSU - McGary eliminates OSU
Eklund then predicts McGary to Wiscy - McGary eliminates Wiscy
Eklund says McGary to Wazzu - McGary picks UW

HuskyJW

Will it be as good as the Cascade front of four years ago?

bananasnblondes

HuskyJW said:

Will it be as good as the Cascade front of four years ago?

Not quite. I don't see any Top 5 picks/ Olympic Gold Medalists in this group. Pretty solid though

HFNY

To be fair, Colin Porter looked like an NFL guy before he had to retire due to injury.

I still haven't fully gotten over that.

bananasnblondes said:

HuskyJW said:

Will it be as good as the Cascade front of four years ago?

Not quite. I don't see any Top 5 picks/ Olympic Gold Medalists in this group. Pretty solid though

Passion

McGary, Adams, Henry Roberts - 2017 is going to be special.

NeGgaPlEaSe

All this makes me think Browning will be handing the rock to Myles Gaskin and Washington 70% of the time, and throwing the quick drops to Perkins and Daniels on third downs.

UWerentThereMan

whatshouldicareabout

I'll wait to doog about McGary once I see him starting against Boise State or Cal or whenever.

Until then, I'm encouraged to hear the quote, but I'm in wait-and-see mode for just about everything for this season.

PostGameOrangeSlices

whatshouldicareabout said:

I'll wait to doog about McGary once I see him starting against Boise State or Cal or whenever.

Until then, I'm encouraged to hear the quote, but I'm in wait-and-see mode for just about everything for this season.

Haven't you heard? Dissly is the second coming of Stanley Amperman, and a strong contender for the Heisman, after a 4th quarter performance against Cal last year

RoadDawg55

whatshouldicareabout said:

I'll wait to doog about McGary once I see him starting against Boise State or Cal or whenever.

Until then, I'm encouraged to hear the quote, but I'm in wait-and-see mode for just about everything for this season.

He's probably not going to be that good this season, but the thought of the light coming on for a dude that big and strong is encouraging.

JaWarrenJaHooker

Our boys are ready to rumble

doogsohard

I am excited about this. Peterson doesn't spew out bullshit hype about players, which is a really nice change of pace.