It's almost as if playing young players means you have to put up with the ups and downs of their development in real time … shocking.
Go back to 2014 and the DBs that we were throwing out there were all young guys with Sidney and Budda true freshman … we played Nate Dogg Jr out there … it was a mess at times (go back and watch the UCLA game and a long TD that they had where the WR was open by 30 yards because of assignment errors). Many of those DBs turned out to be part of the best DB grouping that we've ever had at this school.
I suspect that our OL will get better throughout the year.
For better or worse, many of our more difficult games are at the start of the season this year … baptism by fire.
Utah has always been the second toughest game on our schedule this year. This holds true even if they do their typical November collapse. It was a good win. I think people are placing undue emphasis on the typical Browning ineptitude with overall team performanceand confidence. We physically beat the shit out of them, in a hyped road night game, Gaskin carried us as usual, and we forced turnovers. As you mentioned, there's plenty of precedent for the team improving significantly throughout the course of the season.
Yes, the conference sucks but every other team would have lost that game save for maybe Stanford. Although Utah and those types of games on the road are when Shaw sometimes vomits all over himself.
I don't disagree with any of this, but the sad fact is that every team UW will play this year, as we even saw against North Fucking Dakota, knows they can bring pressure because Jake will routinely and reliably shit his pants. And because we never throw to TEs over the middle, we'll see more interceptions, intentional grounding flags, and 14 to 28 points per game left off the scoreboard because Brownsox actually sucks that badly, costs UW that many points in every game, and the offense has no answer for basic blitzes and pressure up the middle.
We could have lined up in power sets all day yesterday and that team wouldn't have stopped us.
I actually don't agree with this. When we had Dissly, Shelton, and Eldenkamp in 2016 we could. And t also helped having Ross and Pettis.
Now we have young TE's who aren't great blockers and a ravaged OL that isn't very good.
Here's where I have a grudging respect for Mike Leach: He'll have his QB get destroyed and brain damaged before he'll stop throwing the ball down the field, trying to attack the defense. UW doesn't attack the defense. Instead they try to avoid and circumvent it with complicated blocking schemes and lateral plays that get stuffed or lose yardage. A 4 year Senior starting QB should be able to hit the TE in the spot the blitzing LB just vacated with his eyes closed. Browning and the OC don't even try, and it's infuriating given the talent UW has at TE.
I don't care if they have an explosive offense that puts up 40 points a game or a ball control, run first offense that puts up 24 points a game. Just score more points than the other team. That's all that matters.
We could have lined up in power sets all day yesterday and that team wouldn't have stopped us.
I actually don't agree with this. When we had Dissly, Shelton, and Eldenkamp in 2016 we could. And t also helped having Ross and Pettis.
Now we have young TE's who aren't great blockers and a ravaged OL that isn't very good.
Here's where I have a grudging respect for Mike Leach: He'll have his QB get destroyed and brain damaged before he'll stop throwing the ball down the field, trying to attack the defense. UW doesn't attack the defense. Instead they try to avoid and circumvent it with complicated blocking schemes and lateral plays that get stuffed or lose yardage. A 4 year Senior starting QB should be able to hit the TE in the spot the blitzing LB just vacated with his eyes closed. Browning and the OC don't even try, and it's infuriating given the talent UW has at TE.
We could have lined up in power sets all day yesterday and that team wouldn't have stopped us.
I actually don't agree with this. When we had Dissly, Shelton, and Eldenkamp in 2016 we could. And t also helped having Ross and Pettis.
Now we have young TE's who aren't great blockers and a ravaged OL that isn't very good.
Here's where I have a grudging respect for Mike Leach: He'll have his QB get destroyed and brain damaged before he'll stop throwing the ball down the field, trying to attack the defense. UW doesn't attack the defense. Instead they try to avoid and circumvent it with complicated blocking schemes and lateral plays that get stuffed or lose yardage. A 4 year Senior starting QB should be able to hit the TE in the spot the blitzing LB just vacated with his eyes closed. Browning and the OC don't even try, and it's infuriating given the talent UW has at TE.
Even Tyler Huntley did this against us at least once. The fact that our so-called "game manager pre-snap genius" can't do it is a joke.
We could have lined up in power sets all day yesterday and that team wouldn't have stopped us.
I actually don't agree with this. When we had Dissly, Shelton, and Eldenkamp in 2016 we could. And t also helped having Ross and Pettis.
Now we have young TE's who aren't great blockers and a ravaged OL that isn't very good.
Here's where I have a grudging respect for Mike Leach: He'll have his QB get destroyed and brain damaged before he'll stop throwing the ball down the field, trying to attack the defense. UW doesn't attack the defense. Instead they try to avoid and circumvent it with complicated blocking schemes and lateral plays that get stuffed or lose yardage. A 4 year Senior starting QB should be able to hit the TE in the spot the blitzing LB just vacated with his eyes closed. Browning and the OC don't even try, and it's infuriating given the talent UW has at TE.
Even Tyler Huntley did this against us at least once. The fact that our so-called "game manager pre-snap genius" can't do it is a joke.
Several replays from behind the pocket shown on the TV Broadcast showed Sample wide open down the middle, but Browning never threw at him. I don't know if he's the #3 read in that situation or what, but the question is: If the blitz is on, why doesn't the TE in the middle automatically become the #1 target?
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Right now Pete’s offense and Duke Energy can eat dicks.