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Vorel Bringing the Heat

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  • animateanimate Member Posts: 4,245

    We’ll really know next year when the incoming freshman WR’s are enrolled. My guess is the guys we are clamoring to get in (Osborne and Spiker) get passed up and all of this starts to make a little more sense.

    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.
    Until Peterman's system neuters him?
  • DoogWhispererDoogWhisperer Member Posts: 1,035
    FirePete said:

    @mikevorel next topic the issue of the ILB play. Horrible
    Manu's mustache, though...
  • YellowSnowYellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 36,918 Founders Club

    We’ll really know next year when the incoming freshman WR’s are enrolled. My guess is the guys we are clamoring to get in (Osborne and Spiker) get passed up and all of this starts to make a little more sense.

    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.
    @RoadDawg55 has been a voice of reason this week. Pete's probably earned a turd of a season, where things just don't gel the way you'd want. But still....fix this shit or tick, tick, tick...
  • FireCohenFireCohen Member Posts: 21,823

    @RoadDawg55 has been a voice of reason this week. Pete's probably earned a turd of a season, where things just don't gel the way you'd want. But still....fix this shit or tick, tick, tick...
    If we going to piss the season away, which I am ok with. Let’s invest in the future and let the young kids play and build skill. But to roll out with Manu, beef Wellington, clutchskins, opera singer. Why invest in those scrubs, this is their last year of playing football, let’s accelerate that end
  • FireCohenFireCohen Member Posts: 21,823

    We are a recruiting school

    Don’t say it race. Please don’t
  • PostGameOrangeSlicesPostGameOrangeSlices Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 26,990 Swaye's Wigwam

    We are a recruiting school

    *TBS
  • RoadDawg55RoadDawg55 Member Posts: 30,123
    FirePete said:

    If we going to piss the season away, which I am ok with. Let’s invest in the future and let the young kids play and build skill. But to roll out with Manu, beef Wellington, clutchskins, opera singer. Why invest in those scrubs, this is their last year of playing football, let’s accelerate that end
    We still aren’t there. A loss to Arizona this week and I agree that it’s time to punt the season and develop the younger guys we have.
  • FireCohenFireCohen Member Posts: 21,823

    We still aren’t there. A loss to Arizona this week and I agree that it’s time to punt the season and develop the younger guys we have.
    I don’t know roadie, I don’t see us beating Oregon. The DL play is good, but not at point where they can make up for deficiencies at LB. they are horrible. Honestly the drop off from beef Wellington and Manu to sirmon and tafisi is not that high, almost equally shitty
  • RoadDawg55RoadDawg55 Member Posts: 30,123




    Matt Calkins continuing to bring the heat with Vorel from the Times:



    “With Petersen at the helm, the Huskies have lost their past 10 games in which they were behind at the half, and 15 of their past 16. They also have blown four first-half leads in that span, and lost to Oregon last season when the game was tied at the break.”

    “These numbers should not detract from Petersen’s Huskies reaching a New Year’s Six game in each of their past three seasons while winning two of the past three Pac-12 title games. And they don’t reflect UW’s ability to hold or expand leads over that stretch, which has been impressive.”

    “But those post-half stats do call into question Petersen’s ability to adapt when facing adversity. And right now — the Huskies desperately need to adapt.”

    “With defeats against unranked California and Stanford in 2019, though, the Huskies (4-2, 1-2 Pac-12) are wounded with the meat of their schedule still in front of them. And if ever there was a time for the Pac-12’s highest-paid coach to earn his money — it’s now.”

    “In Pac-12 games not involving Washington, Cal and Stanford are a combined 1-4 this season. But both were able to batter the Huskies up front while taking advantage of a substandard passing game.”

    “Aside from the lightning-induced delay during the Cal game, there was nothing particularly fluky about either of these defeats. The Huskies just got beat — in remarkably similar fashion.”





    Calkins then brings up the young receivers not playing because they aren’t practicing as well as Petersen would like:


    “Think of someone such as former USC quarterback Sam Darnold, who transformed the Trojans as a redshirt freshman when he got a shot in Week 4. Or Jaguars quarterback Gardner Minshew, who went from second-stringer to NFL offensive rookie of the year candidate after his predecessor went down with an injury.”

    “These young receivers are practicing against a defense that knows the playbook. Is it crazy to think they might shine brighter in the play than the dress rehearsal?”




    So can Pete figure it out?:


    “Last year, after a stunning late-October loss to Cal, the Huskies won four in a row en route to capturing the Pac-12 title. This season, a shot at a conference title seems far more dubious.”

    “What’s clear is that this year’s Huskies need to change for the better. The question is whether Petersen can make that happen.”
    The point Calkins makes about our WR’s practicing against our DB’s is a good one. The defense knows what’s coming. It makes it hard.

    I remember that being the case playing high school basketball. At practice, everyone had a hard time scoring because we all knew the plays being ran. We weren’t going to fool anyone. In the games, that wasn’t the case and those same plays got us open shot after open shot.
  • DooglesDoogles Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 12,693 Founders Club

    We should be able to accept that Osborne and Spiker aren’t trusted to get in the game. Liking their hudl’s does not mean they are good players. These are highlight videos with only their best plays shown.

    Puka gets in. I wish he was more involved, but obviously they want to get him some playing time. I think that’s actually a goal of the coaches and I believe them. I would assume the coaches like him better than Osborne and Spiker. Ty Jones played a lot last year as a second year player.

    We don’t have an aversion to playing young guys. The frustrating part is that there are no standards and the starters continue to play despite poor production and in Fuller’s case, way too many drops.

    I don't mind Fuller being in because he catches more than he drops, but there is absolutely no reason Baccelia should see another snap in Pac 12 play. Seems like such an easy fix to give someone else a look.

    Chico at least has been an explosive player in the past, if we’re going to have one midget on the field it should be him. Baccelia has a career tape of being ineffective in pretty much every way.
  • FireCohenFireCohen Member Posts: 21,823
    Osborne is bigger so might have bigger catch radius. That might be helpful, compared to midgets with T-Rex arms
  • PostGameOrangeSlicesPostGameOrangeSlices Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 26,990 Swaye's Wigwam
    Some good context honestly
  • FireCohenFireCohen Member Posts: 21,823
    Wow mike is bringing straight fire. I am going to subscribe just to support a writer like that.
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