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One major counterpoint to the "17.2 ppg" argument, and I haven't researched it so it might just be the weakness of my memory, but weren't the ppg allowed inflated most of the last few years by like the 4th string defense giving up points in the last half of the fourth quarter of blowouts? And have we even gotten the fourth string D out there this year?
I agree the defense is much much better than the bored attitude about it. We've been absolutely spoiled the last four years.
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That's fucking right.MikeDamone said:
So could be a lot better if they had the best players from the last 20 years? Chinsightful.animate said:We could be sooooo much better.
Imagine this team with:
mason foster and Donald Butler
Plus a Dante Pettis type, John Ross type and two Reggie Williams as your receivers
A dangerous kick and punt returner in Pettis
Our secondary unit, matured with less mistakes and more physicality and sure tackling.
Plus our defensive line at the vita vea, tank Johnson plus talent level.
We wouldn't have to worry about Peterman fucking things up because he'd relax in the sidelines ... Jerk himself off and realize that talent is taking care of shit themselves.
And finally an alpha mentality ... Because all that fucking talent knows it.
If you haven't noticed we're levelling up big-time. It's just disjointed at the moment which is irritating. -
I used to get that same auto correct from hitting o instead of p. Drove me nuts.Peterman said:
You okay?RoadDawg55 said:The Molden okay was simply a good okay by USC.
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Caple poasted a story that backs up what I was saying in this thread. It's in the WAM in full but here are some pieces:
Through its first four games USC had targeted star receivers Michael Pittman and Tyler Vaughns about 45 times each, andAmon-Ra St. Brown about 20. So the Huskies frequently confronted Pittman and Vaughns with a defender in press coverage, plus another defensive back dropping over the top. The idea was to force Trojans quarterback Matt Fink to settle mostly for throws in front of the sticks, rather than a barrage of deep shots to some of the nation’s top receivers, and make it difficult for him to get much done on the outside.
The Huskies’ defensive backs watched Fink throw the ball up for grabs last week in USC’s win over Utah. UW knew it couldn’t allow the same Saturday.
Aside from Pittman’s touchdown, he caught only three passes for 20 yards on five targets. Vaughns caught four passes for 44 yards, with a long of 19, on six targets. Fink was 19-of-32 for 163 yards. Two of his three interceptions led to 15 UW points. His touchdown pass to Pittman late in the third quarter was his first completion that gained more than 9 yards, and Fink completed only three such passes the entire game.
“They had one long touchdown pass on something that shouldn’t have happened,” Molden said, “but other than that, I think we had a good scheme for them. We just took away the big plays.”
That wasn’t lost on Pittman, who last week caught 10 passes for 232 yards and a touchdown against Utah.
“They were stacking — they were bailing back and pressing up front,” Pittman said. "It’s generally not the best to throw a deep ball on."
“It didn’t throw us off, but I feel like we didn’t know they were going to come in and do that. I just wasn’t expecting them to come in and play it like that.”
“We had some different wrinkles that we had not put on tape, that we wanted them to kind of look up and go, ‘Whoa, what’s going on here?’ ” Lake said. “And just change the picture for the quarterback, change the picture for the wideouts, (and) don’t give them an easy look they’ve been game-planning for all week long. And it worked out.”
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Eh yalll are gonna win the pac it's all good
