UW rushing defense

Passion

"2. No. 4 Washington gave up 163 yards on the ground to Utah on Saturday, which is fewer than Oregon State (177) or Oregon (230) or Arizona (308!) gained against the Huskies. The reason might be in part philosophical. Huskies head coach Chris Petersen seems content with not putting his safeties in the box, letting his front seven do the work against the run. But Washington is 55th in rushing defense (153.9-yard average). Six of the last 10 national champions have finished in the top 10 against the run, none lower than 34th (Ohio State in 2014). Three finished first: Alabama in 2015, 2011 and 2012. This year, the Tide are ... first (70.1-yard average)."

Some of this I discount because Kwiatkowki has emphasized strong play on the back end of the defense, and not giving up big plays. The Huskies have excelled at keeping everything in front of the DBs. Also, UW has usually held teams underneath their average points per game, so clearly Pete's crew is doing something right.

Still, it's worth noting that our? two closest games (arizona and utah) were against teams that had a lot of success running against us. Something that I'm sure they're addressing.

http://espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/17932422/alabama-crimson-tide-coach-nick-saban-turns-65-matt-rhule-turns-temple-owls

CuntWaffle

College football is a passing game

PurpleJ

CuntWaffle said:

College football is a passing game

Not if you like to win.

doogsinparadise

CuntWaffle said:

College football is a passing game

Wrong my dude. College is about running, pro is about passing.

PurpleReign

I think he is whooshing?

Dennis_DeYoung

I think fundamentally we try to minimize big plays. Our second objective is to shut down the run.

Then I think beyond that, we care about pressuring the QB, etc.

It's been very successful here on average because our interior DL has been really damn good (if not always spectacular).

Right now if we had two stud BUCK types (2 Kikaha's), we would be a lot better than with Psalm the Useless and Potatoes. Getting guys in those roles that are 250+ will take us from being really good, but a bit inconsistent, to being dominant.

The good news is that I see those players coming along and being good eventually. Our player development is spectacular on D and we've got the body types.

I am optimistic. And with what we have in the back end on the bench, I have no worries there either.

doogsinparadise

When you say potatoes are you talking about Potoae or Potatoes OBrien?

Dennis_DeYoung

doogsinparadise said:

When you say potatoes are you talking about Potoae or Potatoes OBrien?

Potatoe is Potatoe, but Potatoes is the pasty Irishman.

doogsinparadise

Well that really clears everything up.

Dennis_DeYoung

doogsinparadise said:

Well that really clears everything up.

Sorry, autocorrect Fucked me for a second. It makes more sense now.

Gladstone

AEB

Jaylen Johnson could've really helped here. He's having a fine year as a player getting his first sustained action, but he's not making an impact. Hopefully, he keeps developing...it'd take a lot of pressure off of the D for having to rely on our current DEs

Passion

AEB said:

Jaylen Johnson could've really helped here. He's having a fine year as a player getting his first sustained action, but he's not making an impact. Hopefully, he keeps developing...it'd take a lot of pressure off of the D for having to rely on our current DEs

JJ was better toward the end of last year. Surprised at how ineffective he's been thus far.

PurpleReign

Psalm..

TTJ

Need. Mathis. Back. Soon.

Next year, a nation turns its lonely eyes to you, Baked Potato, Big Levi, and Amandre.

AIRWOLF

Dennis_DeYoung said:

I think fundamentally we try to minimize big plays. Our second objective is to shut down the run.

It's a pretty good formula. In fact, it is the exact same big picture philosophy that Saban's defense is based on: don't give them anything easy, force them to methodically march down the field--which they aren't going to do very fucking often.

It has worked great for the Husky defense, as it is the best in the country at limiting scoring through explosive passing plays and explosive plays overall.

ToddTurnerLIVES

I just got done watching the Utah game and we ran that idiotic 2 down D-lineman front for roughly half the snaps. Why would you take out Qualls or Vea to get another stand up end on the field? O'Brien is solid but unspectacular and Psalm can go die in a fire.... not sure what's so appealing about taking a stud D-lineman off the field for one of those two fucks especially when you are playing a team with a RB that is gashing you up the middle all fucking day and a QB who is doing everything in his power to throw the ball to our DBs.

CFetters_Nacho_Lover

ToddTurnerLIVES said:

I just got done watching the Utah game and we ran that idiotic 2 down d-lineman front for roughly half the snaps. Why would you take out Qualls or Vea to get another stand up end on the field? O'Brien is solid but unspectacular and Psalm can go die in a fire.... not sure what's so appealing about taking a stud d-lineman off the field for one of those two fucks.

I just watched parts of the game and during Utah's first or second possession, they faced 3rd & 9. Troy takes off running despite P-Salm being there as a spy and by spy I mean someone who lunges in the general direction and area of where the QB was standing.

backthepack

Dennis_DeYoung said:

I think fundamentally we try to minimize big plays. Our second objective is to shut down the run.

Then I think beyond that, we care about pressuring the QB, etc.

It's been very successful here on average because our interior DL has been really damn good (if not always spectacular).

Right now if we had two stud BUCK types (2 Kikaha's), we would be a lot better than with Psalm the Useless and Potatoes. Getting guys in those roles that are 250+ will take us from being really good, but a bit inconsistent, to being dominant.

The good news is that I see those players coming along and being good eventually. Our player development is spectacular on D and we've got the body types.

I am optimistic. And with what we have in the back end on the bench, I have no worries there either.

Reminds me of the Seahawks but with shit DE play.

backthepack

TTJ said:

Need. Mathis. Back. Soon.

Next year, a nation turns its lonely eyes to you, Baked Potato, Big Levi, and Amandre.

Levi is a fucking stud holy shit

DeepSeaZ

Seems to me our D is built to defend against spread offenses. It's hard...doing both at the same time.