Each coaching staff sells us a bill of goods. Each time, the Huskies are mediocre at best.
I hope Petersen proves us wrong. I hope he's the one who is not like Gilby, Ty, & Sark. Until the team stops leaving steaming piles on the field, they need to be rightfully criticized.
I get that ...
But at the same time, many thought we'd lose the game and it wouldn't be pretty. Vegas had us at 4 wins for the year. The expectations on this board were probably higher than that of anywhere else. Poll most people here and they probably would put us between 6-8 wins on the year. I probably was as optimistic as anybody here.
Looking at the schedule tells me that we will beat Sac St and Utah St. We should also have little trouble with Oregon State and Washington State. The performance of the defense encourages me into thinking that we have a real solid chance against Cal. Arizona IMO will be falling back to the pack this year and I do like our chances to beat them. If there was one thing we learned about Stanford and Utah this weekend is that as is they are going to struggle to move the football and when combined with our defense should keep us in a position to win those games. There's still room on this schedule for the 6-8 wins.
The reality is that this season IS a process and we really need to see the full season before completely judging this year. While we had every chance to win the game, the reality is that it's a lot to expect a freshman QB making his first road start against a quality opponent to win the game. The fact that he did what he did in that game is very encouraging IMO. I've long held the opinion that if you tell me that a QB is making his first career road start in conference at Husky Stadium, you can almost assuredly assume that UW will win the game.
Can't disagree with what you're saying. I've never been accused of being the most patient guy. Fifteen fucking years since the Huskies did anything. I don't want to wait another 15 fucking years for the athletic department and coaching staff(s) to figure this shit out.
I don't think you're going to have to wait another 15 years ...
Sometimes it is the hardest to stay patient when you are getting close to the tipping point and are in the process of trying to get over it.
I know a lot of Arkansas alums and the last couple of years were very difficult for them ... particularly when faced with a lot of well played, hard fought losses.
What the hell am I doing in the year 2010?
How did I get here?
Where was the total optimism under Seven? He's never had a track record to point back to to make you think that he knew what he was doing.
2009: 5-7 season with some questionable endings to some games. But given the OwenTwelve season before, just happy to see some somewhat competitive games.
2010: Got to a bowl game after a 3-6 start ... then redeemed the Nebraska debacle earlier in the year. While you could have some optimism after that game, the reality of breaking in a new QB probably mitigated the optimism. Probably the closest the program ever got in the Seven era to being at the tipping point.
2011: 5-1 start against a soft schedule while pissing away a winnable game at Nebraska with sloppy play and blown assignments. Lack of attention to detail. Then get shit pushed in at Stanford by over 40 points while going through the annual 3 game losing streak and then getting fucked in the ass against Baylor.
2012: A shit pushing in game at LSU more or less confirmed everything we all realized with Seven and then once he did get some momentum pissing it away at Wazzu and then losing to Boise in Vegas confirmed that Seven was who we all thought he was.
2013: Seven was leaving one way or another after proving he was the best at doing the least with the most
Good luck convincing yourself "we" are trending up when we drop 5 out of 6 games this year against USC, Stanford, Oregon, Arizona, Utah, ASU.
The offense is a complete dreckfest and is even worse than last year. No improvement. The only WR we play is a stone handed midget that runs laterally, the star running back has the vision of grandpa sankey, wtf is a TE, and the QB isn't allowed to throw more than 5 yards down the field. I have almost zero faith this is going to be fixed and it is 100% on Peenterman.
The fact that last year we stuck with a QB that had the arm of a drunken sorority slut and had the staying power of an Oregon QB's knee ligament had me worried. The fact that this years offense is the same if not worse with a much better QB has me terrified.
Last year Miley was ALWAYS under siege. That OL was a sieve. BSU had less pressures (assuming QBH = hurries) ZERO!! and only had two sacks. If you can't see improvement, maybe borrow some sight from @GrandpaSankey
"We played our hearts out," Mickens said. "We can't hold our heads down because of a loss like this. Everybody in that locker room fought back — coaching staff and players."
Fuck you, dude!
Compare that to Browning's quote. One person felt physically sick, the other seems just as happy as if they had won.
One is a Pete recruit ...
One is a Seven recruit ...
I rest my case
I thought the exact same thing when I read their quotes yesterday
The premise of the article is that UW is on its way on the up and up ... if you can't see that you're either using the eyes of @GrandpaSankey from 5 years ago OR you have been slapped upside the head so many times that you fail to be optimistic going forward.
As for GoeFS with some of the facts in his article ... consider the source of his readers.
"We played our hearts out," Mickens said. "We can't hold our heads down because of a loss like this. Everybody in that locker room fought back — coaching staff and players."
Fuck you, dude!
Compare that to Browning's quote. One person felt physically sick, the other seems just as happy as if they had won.
Get every fucking Sark guy off this team (maybe leave Victor and Feeney).
"We played our hearts out," Mickens said. "We can't hold our heads down because of a loss like this. Everybody in that locker room fought back — coaching staff and players."
Fuck you, dude!
Compare that to Browning's quote. One person felt physically sick, the other seems just as happy as if they had won.
One is a Pete recruit ...
One is a Seven recruit ...
I rest my case
Oh I totally agree on that, but nothing in the actual offensive play gave me reason for optimism that the team with Smith at OC could be any better than mediocre.
It's hard - I wasn't impressed by the job Smith did last night ... was way too vanilla with the play calling.
At the same time, I fully expect that this is a team that gets better during the course of the year and my hope is that the play calling expands with it.
If it doesn't, hard to see anyway that Smith survives to next year.
You have a true frosh at QB. Him finding the film room is about as impressive as his mental game is going to get this year. The play calling will remain vanilla. The schedule only gets tougher from here on out.
"We played our hearts out," Mickens said. "We can't hold our heads down because of a loss like this. Everybody in that locker room fought back — coaching staff and players."
Fuck you, dude!
Compare that to Browning's quote. One person felt physically sick, the other seems just as happy as if they had won.
One is a Pete recruit ...
One is a Seven recruit ...
I rest my case
Oh I totally agree on that, but nothing in the actual offensive play gave me reason for optimism that the team with Smith at OC could be any better than mediocre.
It's hard - I wasn't impressed by the job Smith did last night ... was way too vanilla with the play calling.
At the same time, I fully expect that this is a team that gets better during the course of the year and my hope is that the play calling expands with it.
If it doesn't, hard to see anyway that Smith survives to next year.
You have a true frosh at QB. Him finding the film room is about as impressive as his mental game is going to get this year. The play calling will remain vanilla. The schedule only gets tougher from here on out.
Last year Miley was ALWAYS under siege. That OL was a sieve. BSU had less pressures (assuming QBH = hurries) ZERO!! and only had two sacks. If you can't see improvement, maybe borrow some sight from @GrandpaSankey
Run blocking needs help
Pretty hard to get hurries when bubble screens are thrown 75% of the game.
Last year Miley was ALWAYS under siege. That OL was a sieve. BSU had less pressures (assuming QBH = hurries) ZERO!! and only had two sacks. If you can't see improvement, maybe borrow some sight from @GrandpaSankey
Run blocking needs help
Colorado allowed the second fewest sacks in the league last year, so you know they've got a good OL.
"We played our hearts out," Mickens said. "We can't hold our heads down because of a loss like this. Everybody in that locker room fought back — coaching staff and players."
Fuck you, dude!
Compare that to Browning's quote. One person felt physically sick, the other seems just as happy as if they had won.
One is a Pete recruit ...
One is a Seven recruit ...
I rest my case
Oh I totally agree on that, but nothing in the actual offensive play gave me reason for optimism that the team with Smith at OC could be any better than mediocre.
It's hard - I wasn't impressed by the job Smith did last night ... was way too vanilla with the play calling.
At the same time, I fully expect that this is a team that gets better during the course of the year and my hope is that the play calling expands with it.
If it doesn't, hard to see anyway that Smith survives to next year.
You have a true frosh at QB. Him finding the film room is about as impressive as his mental game is going to get this year. The play calling will remain vanilla. The schedule only gets tougher from here on out.
I take it you didn't watch UCLA yesterday?
Jim L recruiting shouldn't be compared to the MWAC guy. He got a once in a generation talent, you guys got a regular ass frosh QB.
"We played our hearts out," Mickens said. "We can't hold our heads down because of a loss like this. Everybody in that locker room fought back — coaching staff and players."
Fuck you, dude!
Compare that to Browning's quote. One person felt physically sick, the other seems just as happy as if they had won.
One is a Pete recruit ...
One is a Seven recruit ...
I rest my case
Oh I totally agree on that, but nothing in the actual offensive play gave me reason for optimism that the team with Smith at OC could be any better than mediocre.
It's hard - I wasn't impressed by the job Smith did last night ... was way too vanilla with the play calling.
At the same time, I fully expect that this is a team that gets better during the course of the year and my hope is that the play calling expands with it.
If it doesn't, hard to see anyway that Smith survives to next year.
You have a true frosh at QB. Him finding the film room is about as impressive as his mental game is going to get this year. The play calling will remain vanilla. The schedule only gets tougher from here on out.
I take it you didn't watch UCLA yesterday?
Jim L recruiting shouldn't be compared to the MWAC guy. He got a once in a generation talent, you guys got a regular ass frosh QB.
Most TD passes thrown in High School football history = regular. Got it.
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The offense is a complete dreckfest and is even worse than last year. No improvement. The only WR we play is a stone handed midget that runs laterally, the star running back has the vision of grandpa sankey, wtf is a TE, and the QB isn't allowed to throw more than 5 yards down the field. I have almost zero faith this is going to be fixed and it is 100% on Peenterman.
The fact that last year we stuck with a QB that had the arm of a drunken sorority slut and had the staying power of an Oregon QB's knee ligament had me worried. The fact that this years offense is the same if not worse with a much better QB has me terrified.
Run blocking needs help
You have a true frosh at QB. Him finding the film room is about as impressive as his mental game is going to get this year. The play calling will remain vanilla. The schedule only gets tougher from here on out.
Jim L recruiting shouldn't be compared to the MWAC guy. He got a once in a generation talent, you guys got a regular ass frosh QB.
I need you to step out of the car, sir.