Husky Jacks open thread [2019]

GrundleStiltzkin said:

Our premium content partners have an update on Ty Jones.

Spoiler, it's not good.

After all the reports on Fuller/Baccellia/Pounds not getting any separation against our DB’s, I would have been ok with it being them. Not Ty.

But this is good news for Ozzy and Puka.

RealRhino said:

How could anybody get separation against our DBs? If Bush gets 3rd & 6 his answer seems to be to have all 3 receivers run in a straight line for 7 yards and turn around and hope for the ball. We run Mike McCarthy's offense, so of course we don't get separation. We aren't stressing the DBs enough to get separation.

According to reports, the young guys were clearly more explosive and getting open.

CallMeBigErn said:

GrundleStiltzkin said:

Our premium content partners have an update on Ty Jones.

Spoiler, it's not good.

Time to bust out the puka shell necklace I stopped wearing last year.

Continuing Caple's Depth Chart (Rest in the WAM):

It’s true that Washington must replace nine defensive players who could have been considered regular starters last season. But if our defensive depth projection holds, the Huskies’ lineup will include only three players who haven’t started a game before.

Two of those players are defensive backs — one a redshirt freshman, the other a true freshman. The other is a fifth-year senior linebacker. And while everyone else has started at least two games in a UW uniform, few have been asked to play as many snaps as they’ll be expected to play in 2019.

So let’s get to our projected 2019 depth chart for UW’s defense and specialists, with scholarship numbers in parentheses. We broke down the offense Friday.

Defensive Line (11 on scholarship)
Starters: Levi Onwuzurike (R-Jr.), Benning Potoa’e (R-Sr.)
Backups: Josiah Bronson (R-Sr.), Tuli Letuligasenoa (R-Fr.), Taki Taimani (R-Fr.), Draco Bynum (R-Fr.), Faatui Tuitele (Fr.), Jacob Bandes (Fr.), Sama Paama (Fr.), Noa Ngalu (Fr.), John Clark (R-Sr., out for season)

Overview: I see five players who should be in the regular rotation here, and that number would have been six if not for Clark’s season-ending knee injury. Expect this group to rotate quite a bit.

Onwuzurike has the potential to take over as the team’s most disruptive force up front. Potoa’e brings veteran expertise and deep knowledge of UW’s defensive system. At 6 feet 3 and 290 pounds after moving over from outside linebacker, he’ll be one of UW’s most important run stoppers. I’d expect those two to take the field for EWU’s first offensive snap, but you’ll see plenty of other bodies move through those two spots before the game is over.

Bronson, a former walk-on, is another veteran who will have a role. Letuligasenoa and Taimani could play their way into significant snaps, too, as big-bodied run-stuffers capable of eating up blockers and making plays in the backfield.

Bynum continues to compete for playing time. Tuitele and Bandes seem to have the best chance to play among the true freshmen, and if any more injuries occur, the Huskies might need at least one of them to contribute. Paama and Ngalu seem destined for redshirts.


Inside Linebackers (8)
Starters: Brandon Wellington (Sr.), Kyler Manu (R-Sr.)
Backups: MJ Tafisi (R-Fr.), Jackson Sirmon (R-Fr.), Edefuan Ulofoshio (R-Fr., walk-on), Alphonzo Tuputala (Fr.), Daniel Heimuli (Fr.), Miki Ah You (Fr.), Josh Calvert (Fr., out for season)

Overview: Check out those class listings: Behind Wellington and Manu, the Huskies don’t have a single inside linebacker on scholarship who is not a redshirt or true freshman. That’s an alarming lack of experience, no matter how well the Huskies recruited this position in the 2018 and ’19 classes.

Wellington begins this season as one of the team’s most important players, and the Huskies truly need Manu to step up in his final season. Tafisi and Sirmon should play a bunch, regardless, and I wouldn’t be surprised if either played his way into the starting lineup before the year is up.

Calvert’s season-ending knee injury thins the depth even further; he’s a true freshman, but he did enroll early and go through spring practices. His injury means one less body for position coach Bob Gregory.

Ulofoshio burst onto the scene last season with two forced fumbles on two kickoffs in his first college game, and he should have a big special-teams role again this season. But he could help out on defense, too, where he excelled as a senior at powerhouse Las Vegas Bishop Gorman, and made several nice plays during spring practices. I could even see the Huskies using him as a situational pass rusher, if they feel like they need it.

Does UW need to dip into its reserve of true freshmen here? Heimuli and Tuputala took a lot of reps with the No. 3 defense during the first week of camp, but it’s unclear at this point if coaches plan to play them. And Ah You, while participating in practice, seemed to still be recovering from the torn ACL that ended his senior season of high school.

A trio of walk-ons — redshirt freshman Ben Hines, and freshmen Drew Fowler and Ruperake Fuavai — round out the depth.

not sure if it has been said before, but watty looks like a big fat butch

FirePete said:

not sure if it has been said before, but watty looks like a big fat butch

He’s always looked like a lesbian who eats onions raw

That's his new HH Nick. Jyker