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TheHB
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... after re-watching the Stanford game, I am more convinced than ever that UW is going to get butt abused tomorrow.
When Stanford wanted to move the ball down the field, it did. UW's defense is not all that, yet. And we know how shitty the Huskies defend Oregon.
I love Price, but his receivers don't help him at critical times. And Sankey can't score eight TDs.
UW's special teams are a mess. Against Oregon, that's probably all the Ducks need to win.
The definition of insanity applies here to anyone who thinks Washington will win tomorrow.
And fuck you, I am not going to LIFPO.
When Stanford wanted to move the ball down the field, it did. UW's defense is not all that, yet. And we know how shitty the Huskies defend Oregon.
I love Price, but his receivers don't help him at critical times. And Sankey can't score eight TDs.
UW's special teams are a mess. Against Oregon, that's probably all the Ducks need to win.
The definition of insanity applies here to anyone who thinks Washington will win tomorrow.
And fuck you, I am not going to LIFPO.
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The defense may not yet be great but it's very good.
Stanford's play-calling changed every time UW got within 3 points vs. what they did when they were up by 10. It was a cat playing with a mouse.
Stanford was playing it extremely close to the vest. They knew UW would Sark all over themselves eventually. And that almost screwed them, which would have made Shaw look very Sark-like ... but in the end, Shaw is a better coach. Game over.
The defense is OK, but not as good as everyone seems to think. And that's certainly not going to fly against Oregon.
It isn't doogish to admit that Shelton, Shaq, Timu, Peters, etc. are pretty damn good.
Just watch the game again. When Stanford wanted to go downfield, it had little trouble doing so. When it was more worried about running clock, it just ran the ball and didn't seem too concerned with getting first downs. Of course, a first down would have been nice and crisp, but until the last drive, Stanford wasn't in danger ... and of course, we know how that ended.
UW's defense stepped up, I get being negative but some of you guys are a bit over the top when it comes to this defense so far.
Stanford wasn't throwing because they couldn't throw.
hth
Stanford/UW wasn't that. If losing your #5 ranking doesn't get you focused during a game that was never out of either team's reach, then you aren't able to focus.
But, to at least help your point a little, it wasn't just UW's D. It was a combination of improvement on the D side of the ball PLUS Stanford's terribly predictable play calling. You know what's fucking coming all the time. Or at least you know it's going to be one of, at most, three things. How Washington does defending Oregon has little to do with how Washington did defending Stanford. Hell, they defended Stanford last year, albeit with Nunes, with a much shittier version of their D, and still got plungered by Oregon.
I think that's what you mean to write/??
And that is the problem with "smash mouth/old school" football everyone wants. you gotta have the horses to do it, because everyone knows what's coming. you have to be able to out-execute and out-athlete the other guy, which is fucking hard to do. Jimmy Johnson ran his offenses just like this. Awesome O lines with a solid running game and a sure handed, strong receiver and an accurate quarterback. You knew what Dallas was going to do, it just didn't matter because they did anyway. But even Jimmy used to say in interviews, "everyone wants to play this way. it's just that not everyone has the personnel to do it." that is the deal with Furd, and when their personnel aren't that much better than yours, you'll play with them.