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Anyone Up For Bashing the Kids? DL Version
RoadDawg55
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I’ll start. The DL has been almost as bad as our OL.
Taki is treading into Talia Crichton territory. He’s not that bad, but damn, I’ve seen very few players do less that have gotten as many starts and as much playing time as him.
Tuli has flashed, but seems no better than he was in 2019. If anything, he’s worse.
Tuitele - Tuitele coming in with a torn pec that I still don’t think is fixed is on him. He had a redshirt year and a covid year to get it fixed. Maybe he isn’t any good, I was never a huge fan, but still. It’s never good when a guy is considered a can’t miss, elite prospect early in his high school career and steadily falls in the rankings.
Bandes - There was a play last year against Utah where Asa Turner purposely played patty cake and weakly dove for the running back instead of putting his head in there. A side note on that play was Bandes got drove back maybe 20 yards by a Utah OL. He dominated camps, but now I’m thinking there was a reason the blue bloods really didn’t want him.
By the third year in the program, a player is no longer young. These guys should be better. Rowan is in his first year on a broken coaching staff, but he’s still the one to blame when the DL sucks. Malloe deserves blame too. Qualls, Gaines, Vea, Levi, and even Jaylen Johnson were all way better than these guys by their third year in the program.
Taki is treading into Talia Crichton territory. He’s not that bad, but damn, I’ve seen very few players do less that have gotten as many starts and as much playing time as him.
Tuli has flashed, but seems no better than he was in 2019. If anything, he’s worse.
Tuitele - Tuitele coming in with a torn pec that I still don’t think is fixed is on him. He had a redshirt year and a covid year to get it fixed. Maybe he isn’t any good, I was never a huge fan, but still. It’s never good when a guy is considered a can’t miss, elite prospect early in his high school career and steadily falls in the rankings.
Bandes - There was a play last year against Utah where Asa Turner purposely played patty cake and weakly dove for the running back instead of putting his head in there. A side note on that play was Bandes got drove back maybe 20 yards by a Utah OL. He dominated camps, but now I’m thinking there was a reason the blue bloods really didn’t want him.
By the third year in the program, a player is no longer young. These guys should be better. Rowan is in his first year on a broken coaching staff, but he’s still the one to blame when the DL sucks. Malloe deserves blame too. Qualls, Gaines, Vea, Levi, and even Jaylen Johnson were all way better than these guys by their third year in the program.
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At some point you have to sacrifice some of your pass coverage safety net for more help against the run, but this isn't a new problem. Any good team that commits to the run has controlled the game against us for years. Most of our opponents have just been too dumb (USC 2019 for example) to do it.
Two down lineman in a base defense is rare, but the guys at Buck/Sam aren’t small. Bowman is 280. We are soft, which is my #1 fireable thing for firing a coach because of what it says about the entire program.
The problem is we always play a nickel and line up with two deep safeties (that are also all bad) 95% of the time.
Those two deserve a 1-11 season more than about any other 2 UW fans out there.