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Vorel Bringing the Heat
Doogles
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Finally someone putting them to task. What the fuck does "detailed" even mean. Whatever it is, it's more important than getting separation and catching the ball.
https://www.seattletimes.com/sports/uw-husky-football/when-it-comes-to-uws-wideouts-the-best-players-will-play-but-who-will-that-be-against-arizona/#comments
https://www.seattletimes.com/sports/uw-husky-football/when-it-comes-to-uws-wideouts-the-best-players-will-play-but-who-will-that-be-against-arizona/#comments
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Pete is very risk averse 99% of the time, but then does some whacky trick play shit every now and then he thinks breaks the mold. Call it Boise State Fiesta Bowl PTSD.
Starting younger talented players is risky and could upset the supplanted upperclassmen. Pete doesnt like to rock the boat and thinks his system is more complicated than it really is.
All our star recruits besides Eason are underclasman so maybe this issue will be alleviated soon.
Vorel is fucking money and a hell of a journalist. Maybe he can be the OC?
TL;DR - the players all know who’s the best - play them.
However, the fact people are making millions from "just a game" warrants criticism when fans are being fleeced a lot of money and herded like sheep to buy "exclusive" apparel only to be purchased by bots to be flipped for cash. I guess that is the three-stripe life.
Should coaches be paid millions of dollars to be "molders of men?"
Pete is paid millions of dollars to win games which he has done. However, he has beaten a lot dreck over the years. I do applaud Pete for being a stand-up guy and supposedly not offering coffee cups. Reading about him paying respects to a former player passing away is a gesture of thoughtfulness and kindness. It is a trait we all admired in Don James. Don James a great football coach and a great human being.
Young adults that have chosen to enter a billion-dollar industry know that it comes with the media scrutiny, and fan criticism.
Vorel is doing an excellent job of poking holes in this offense, and it's beautiful. Nice to see the willingness to call a spade a spade.
Pete's process sucks. His process includes this so-called practice hard during the week means you play.
What do you mean by contemporary offense? They run a bunch of contemporary shit. They just ask nonphysical players to make physical plays on the outside. If you are going to run bubble screens and tunnel screens, you need good blockers and physical skill players to break arm tackles and shit. We run stupid shit that doesn't fit the starting Wr's. There is no identity to the offense. The empty set scheme is truly an embarrassment.
“Now, maybe do we need to rotate some more guys in there? Actually we’ve been trying to do that with certain personnel groups. But (those personnel groups) haven’t been getting called maybe as much as we thought they were. So we’ll take a better look at that and maybe rotate a few more guys in there.”
“They need to, one, be more detailed to what we’re doing out there,” Petersen said. “They’re making progress. They really are. They are practicing and they are getting a lot of reps out there. They just aren’t where the other guys are right now. But they are growing and they’re getting better all the time.
“You (reporters) don’t cover practice. You don’t see what’s going on out there. That’s no knock on those guys. They’re getting better. They’re young players. That’s what it is.”
“There’s no timetable. It’s when a guy picks it up,” Petersen said. “We’ve played freshmen out there: Dante Pettis, John Ross played as a true (freshman), all those types of things. As long as they can pick it up, they can play.
“When a guy is playing, you’d love to get him more involved. Puka (Nacua’s) playing and we’d like to get him more involved just being out there on the field. We do pay attention to that. But that’s not the issue. That wasn’t the issue on Saturday. The guys that we were going to, we need to be more detailed there. Those guys are our most detailed guys right now.”
“Obviously we’re looking to give those guys an opportunity,” offensive coordinator Bush Hamdan said of the young receivers. “We need some guys to step up and make plays on the outside. The evaluation process is not just a one-week thing during the year. This is going back to spring ball through fall camp through the season.
“As you guys know, the best players will play. This is big-time ball. So whoever those guys end up being, they’ll be playing on Saturday.”
“We want to go up and snatch the football,” Adams said of his players’ mentality this week. “We want to study the crosshairs. We want to get off the ground. We want to rotate our shoulders. We want to make a triangle with our hands and we want to snatch the football.
“We emphasize being a frisbee-snatching dog. When the ball’s in the air, it’s ours. That’s what we preach. We say that every day.”
“I think some of the young guys are progressing as the season has gone on,” Adams said. “I think Spiker’s progressing. I think Terrell Bynum, his snap count has gone up. Puka’s snap count has gone up. We’re just going to keep getting better each week, and these guys’ roles are going to keep increasing with the way they practice.”
He mentions playing Pettis and Ross as freshman, showing he’s not against playing freshman. What it says is he truly believes that the young kids on this roster haven’t picked up the playbook, not that they aren’t talented enough.
Which again proves your fucking offense sucks and you need to change your system so freshman can pick it up. WR is supposed to be the position young kids can play right away at.
Nobody gets open, nobody catches, nobody blocks, nobody makes anyone miss.
The backups can't be worse if they tried.
I bet Puka's got some regrets...
What he doesn't really address is the inequity of such a process. Especially in today's talent meta.
The kids see it.
Now that the talent is far greater than what he's accustomed to at Boise he's got to adjust accordingly.
If he can hold all these very talented kids in thrall with this built for life stuff then great.
Given that he's shown weaknesses in gameplanning and gameday adjustments that's still very concerting.
Get the younger guys some reps in games. We rotate a lot on defense, why not on offense? The might even become more “detailed” and practice better if they felt involved.
I don’t know, it all seems strange. At this point it feels like Pete is doubling down. You know he hates being questioned by dumbass fans and the media, but it comes with the territory.
Another part of me feels like the back up WR’s aren’t any good and that’s why they don’t play. We make fun of Pete and how much he loves practice, but they really do see these players every day. I have a hard time believing a good player would be kept off the field.
Pete deserves to be questioned. He’s talked a lot about improving the offense, but it hasn’t improved. The WR’s have not played well for the third year in a row.
I have no sympathy for Pete. His process for developing his players is awesome. He’s paid huge money. Over a 162 game season, he’d probably win out. In a small sample like a football season, you have to sell out every game. There’s only 12 games. Every game matters. I do not think he still has that sense of urgency.
What's worrisome is that Pete's personnel choices have rarely been wrong in the past. It might be entirely possible that everyone behind Fuller and Opera really are that bad. In which case we have a much bigger issue with the offense and WR development. With as much young talent as we have, and as relatively easy as it is for young WRs to get on the field early in their careers in the college game, there's no excuse for not a single one of these guys emerging as a play maker.
no, bush, you're not looking to give 'those guys' an opportunity.
you play them for a meaningful number of plays or you don't.
no 'try,' only 'do.'
Side note, after seeing how soft our WR’s are, I’m getting more excited for Raccanelli. Underrated recruit. I doubt he will be soft and will add something we need.