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How we suddenly became average.
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1. Poor edge pass rush. In this conference particularly, you need to bring heat. For much of this year our interior defensive linemen and some creative blitzes were able to mask or poor edge pass rushers. It’s now been figured out.
2. Injuries. Particularly the secondary, but also Hunter Bryant and Trey Adams. A poor edge pass rush plus injuries has produced back to back 30 point games by our opponents. Myles Bryant should be playing nickel, not CB.
3. Browning. Nine-win-Jake Is good at blowing out average to poor teams. But teams that come in with a good game plan expose his many weaknesses.
4. Babushka. Similarly, like his quarterback our offensive coordinator simply cannot adjust during games. His play calling at key moments makes you want to put your foot through the television.
2. Injuries. Particularly the secondary, but also Hunter Bryant and Trey Adams. A poor edge pass rush plus injuries has produced back to back 30 point games by our opponents. Myles Bryant should be playing nickel, not CB.
3. Browning. Nine-win-Jake Is good at blowing out average to poor teams. But teams that come in with a good game plan expose his many weaknesses.
4. Babushka. Similarly, like his quarterback our offensive coordinator simply cannot adjust during games. His play calling at key moments makes you want to put your foot through the television.
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SEC wins..
5) Terrible WR recruiting leaving us mostly retards to work with.
Saban was .500 at Bama before he got his guys in there. Pete was .500 at USC before he got his guys in there, then fell off at the end because they weren't an NFL team anymore.
College football is talent, lifting, and discipline. You guys will always have two of those with Peterman.
Give me Kasen or Reggie.
What a crock of shit.
According to his list, has of now, Oregon only has one of the three required necessities. (Of his stupid list)
Also, Washington was pretty mediocre last year. Hence the two year campaign to keep them out of the playoffs by the entire college football world outside of Seattle. They were just a little more mediocre this year.
PC won/tied the conf, the orange bowl and the Heisman in his second season.
Smfh
1) We didn't have much of an edge rush last year either (unless you think PSALM was a huge loss) ... depending on the source that you look at we have 32 or 33 sacks so far this year in 11 games. On a per game basis, that's tied for 14th in the country (on 32 sacks) ... a strong game against the Cougs likely gets us to Top 10. As a point of reference, we had 39 sacks last year in 14 games. So yeah, we're right on the same pace as last year.
2) Injuries haven't helped ... but at the same time, pinning injuries on the opposition getting to 30 points isn't accurate. In both of our losses, the undercurrent of those losses resided in failures on the offense ... particularly true with Stanford. The Murphy injury hasn't helped the secondary out, but I'd say the bigger problem is that teams have identified that Myles Bryant is this year's PSALM and attack wherever he is on the field religiously. And when you look at the games that we've lost (or been close to), the common theme is that the defense has been on the field for 70+ plays ... I'd argue that there's a bigger theme here in that teams are starting to figure out what they can do successfully against our defense and there's a blueprint (albeit a difficult one) for how to beat us.
3) It's not about having a game plan to expose Browning ... it's having the athletes in the secondary to force him to have to make throws into tight windows (which he doesn't want to do) and therefore he holds the ball too long. Given that Babushka doesn't do a tremendous job in scheming in those situations it causes Browning to look terrible. Browning's got his own issues ... but the key to beating UW is not by necessarily outscoring us ... it's forcing Browning into pressing and keeping him off the field so that he feels an unneeded sense of urgency.
4) Babushka is the definition of a guy without a plan ... you have to have some kind of identity. My answer to anything in this regard is that you should aspire to have the kind of identity that is similar to Kevin McHale's post moves. By that I mean that you have a handful of go to moves (plays) that you are going to utilize ... but then when your opponent starts cheating to stop those moves you start using their aggressiveness against them by throwing a what you see isn't what you get into their life. This is Babushka's primary failure to me.
5) Because you need 5 (massive fail by you here) ... the kicking game has been a significant issue this year. When you compete at the highest levels, the smallest details really matter. Against ASU, we lost by 6 and missed 2 FGs in the red zone ... those have to be made. Against Stanford, kicking a chip shot FG on 4th and 1 (yes, I realize that many would still say go for it and that Gaskin likely didn't play tremendous situational football here) ... but you also have to know your opponent and momentum. Getting points there to go to a 2 score game put all the pressure on Stanford to respond ... get a stop and another TD heading into half completely changes the game and what Stanford would have been able to do going forward with their offense (i.e. ground and pound starts to vanish).
The defense while been consistent, doesn't really feel like they make those game swinging plays like they did last year.
If there's one thing in general with the defense that has not been where you want it this year it's in creating turnovers ... other than that the defensive stats are largely comparable or better to last year.
Even the FS announcers said during asu and stanford that UW did a poor job of consistently pressuring the pocket during those games. Wracking up sacks against oregon state or montana might bolster your season totals, but it doesn't do shit against the 3 tough games you have to win to go from the Sun Bowl to the college football playoff. Our edge pass rush against good teams has SUCKED.
And blaming the defense's poor performance against stanford on the offense? Come on. All of those third down conversions is the fault of the offense? Those pathetic plays where we got NO pass rush and stanford's WRs came down with the ball on third down is the fault of the offense? Jesus you're a DOOG (yes, with a capital D).
And the difference between the edge pass rush this year and last year has nothing to do with psalm. It has to do with a better secondary last year (which is where my injuries comment has relevance).
Regarding the offense, your defense of browning is pretty sad at this point. Yes, our poor WRs and offensive coordinator doesn't help him (which I also mentioned), but he doesn't have to run around like a confused freshman and take huge sacks. That's on him. Throw the damn ball away if nothing is there. And I said that babushka can't adjust during games and that our WRs are slow and average.
Yes, the kickers stink. Best point you made.
List of 5? Whatever, next time I'll list 5.