We need more Physicality

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I used to snicker when Sark would insist we were a physical football team. Ummm no a Mora led UCLA is a physical football team, the Don James teams were physical football teams, what Pete Carroll has in Seattle is a physical football team.

Your bullshit is the opposite of physical. I can't remember a big game where the opposing team said UW was more physical than them. UW would win games due to talent but never because of being more physical.

I look forward to week in and week out being the more physical team just like the Seahawks are under Carroll the past three seasons.

RaccoonHarry

As I recall Idaho State said the Huskies were more physical than them. I think I remember that.

Global

Thanks, DawgDaze. I love it when we can redshirt all the best 3-5 immediate contributors.

Over time, the value of a redshirt senior is typically vastly greater than the value of a true freshman. The difference between a player at 18 and at 22-23 is huge. When we play true freshmen, we lose that huge advantage, I have seen so many seniors leave in recent years that would have been fabulous as RS seniors but we'd burned their redshirts. Never mind a lot of your OL and DL players whose careers were damaged or destroyed because of injury, demoralization or otherwise by being thrown against the PAC-12 s typical RS junior or senior lineman and getting schooled and beaten as Husky true freshmen linemen. I am dying for us to reverse that tendency.

I agree with Roaddawg that I would prefer to rely for another year on the young guys like Qualls, Farria and Mathis to contribute, and RS this crop of newbies. They might have height and weight out of HS, but almost never strength necessary. Give a year in the weight room, then set them loose. I think we might be able to do the same with the new young LBs.

But I know a few DBs and WRs will need to lose redshirts. For the rest, I want to see them as RS seniors playing in the 2018 season than as true freshmen playing in 2014.

RoadDawg55

DawgDaze71 said:

McGary on Defense doesn't sound too bad if we clean house in-state next year with Henry Roberts, Trey Adams (commit) and Calvin Throckmorton. I'd say it's potentially a better OL class than the famed Garnett/Banner debacle.

It almost surely is better, especially considering those 3 guys all have the ability to play tackle. The only problem is I don't think it would be wise to count on one of those guys starting as a true freshman. I would hope McGary as a redshirt freshman would be better than those guys. Obviously, it is a long way away, but here is a possible OL line up for 2015.

LT- Eldenkamp
LG- Charles
C- Crane/ Fuivai (heard he sucks though)
RG- Brostek/Coleman Shelton (I think Shelton will be pretty good)
RT- McGary/ Coleman Shelton

Petersen raved about James the tackle from Idaho too. I bet we add at least one JC guy to the mix too.

haie

For the record, the announcers during the Stanford game said they were surprised how well/physical the Husky defense was playing.

HeretoBeatmyChest

Global said:

Thanks, DawgDaze. I love it when we can redshirt all the best 3-5 immediate contributors.

Over time, the value of a redshirt senior is typically vastly greater than the value of a true freshman. The difference between a player at 18 and at 22-23 is huge. When we play true freshmen, we lose that huge advantage, I have seen so many seniors leave in recent years that would have been fabulous as RS seniors but we'd burned their redshirts. Never mind a lot of your OL and DL players whose careers were damaged or destroyed because of injury, demoralization or otherwise by being thrown against the PAC-12 s typical RS junior or senior lineman and getting schooled and beaten as Husky true freshmen linemen. I am dying for us to reverse that tendency.

I agree with Roaddawg that I would prefer to rely for another year on the young guys like Qualls, Farria and Mathis to contribute, and RS this crop of newbies. They might have height and weight out of HS, but almost never strength necessary. Give a year in the weight room, then set them loose. I think we might be able to do the same with the new young LBs.

But I know a few DBs and WRs will need to lose redshirts. For the rest, I want to see them as RS seniors playing in the 2018 season than as true freshmen playing in 2014.

How good would the defense be if Sean Parker, Greg Ducre & Fuiamaono were redshirted in 2010?

Probably the best in the conference and our best since 1992.

Guys like Jermaine Kelly, Budda Baker, Elijah Qualls, Marcus Farria, Jojo Mathis, Andrew Hudson, Conor O Brien, Sean Constantine and Patrick Enwally would be backups.

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Would have loved to have had Kevin Smith for another year at WR as well. So many to name that Sark burned. Perhaps Porter and maybe even Kohler could still be playing if Sark had redshirted them.

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haie said:

For the record, the announcers during the Stanford game said they were surprised how well/physical the Husky defense was playing.

That was probably the best game in the Sark era on the road and it was a loss.

However that game UW actually looked like a real program and matched Stanford's physicality which I was shocked at.

I don't know what happened that day and why we never saw that team before or after but that game sure was nice.

If only Sark didn't completely neglect special teams for five straight years UW could have won.

Oh wait I forgot about the Van Winkle injury nevermind.

dnc

He_Needs_More_Time said:

haie said:

For the record, the announcers during the Stanford game said they were surprised how well/physical the Husky defense was playing.

That was probably the best game in the Sark era on the road and it was a loss.

However that game UW actually looked like a real program and matched Stanford's physicality which I was shocked at.

I don't know what happened that day and why we never saw that team before or after but that game sure was nice.

If only Sark didn't completely neglect special teams for five straight years UW could have won.

Oh wait I forgot about the Van Winkle injury nevermind.

That game made a lot more sense once I found out Van Winkle was hurt.

DawgDaze71

I have no words for Stanford the last two years. Couldn't believe we won a couple of seasons ago and figured we would be lucky to keep things close last season. Stanford was such an enigma...losing to Utah but crushing ASU twice (they seriously had their number) and beating the Ducks up again.

@He_Needs_More_Time I snickered as well. Knowing that Sark was at USC during the Glory Years I figured he was pissing on our legs and telling us to grab our umbrellas. The Defense was speedy last season but like many speedy defenses they get uncomfortable when teams aren't running away from them but rather right at them.