BurntOrangeNation.com: First look at No. 2 Washington
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I also think they are simply better than the stats indicate. For example, the pass protection and run blocking seen in @GrundleStiltzkin 's gifs. "Everyone" thought Oregon was going to out physical UW. Bullshit. The Huskies have better players who are more physical and better coached than the ducks. The same thing happened last year in the Alamo Bowl. The Huskies had better more physical players, despite the media narrative leading up to the game. At this stage of the season, the Huskies have the best OL, QB, WR, RB, and maybe TEs in the PAC 12. On defense, they have some nasty's on the edge and in the middle. Tackling has been a problem and the secondary is a question mark, but getting key players back is helping, especially with adjustments made at the LOS. Anything can happen, but I would be surprised if they lost to Texas.theknowledge said:A team with the third most All P12 players in 2023 has done something no P12 team has ever done, 10-0 in league and 13-0 overall. This group of kids and their coaches keep proving that this team is greater than the sum of its parts. Iciness, belief, clutch, brotherhood. Whatever you want to call it they make 2-3 plays more than their opponents and most importantly they always make the critical one at the penultimate moment. Winners win because that’s what winners do.
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Riley got his shit pushed in by the soft pac12 while he dominated big12.
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The big plays are the difference, I haven't see the updated stats but even after struggling with key guys hurt for a long stretch of the season ~ including Penix, I'm guessing that they lead the nation or are top 2-3 in plays over 20 - 30 yards [whatever the metric for big plays is]. As everyone knows, with McMillan back and a chance for everyone to get healthier, this team is lethal and a real struggle for defenses to try to figure out how to adjust to. As they like to say in Texas, "we fucked" is what the Longhorn defensive coaches are thinking.
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Logic would lead one to believe that the iciness would have an inverse effect on the ballsiness.Mad_Son said:The problem with that article is that while all the facts are accurate (I assume) it misses the whole point about why Washington has won all year. There is no iciness metric and Washington leads the country in that.
In UW’s case ice in the veins and balls the size of basketballs go together. -
We were almost always up in every game, so teams passed more to catch up. Our D defends an average of 41 passes per game, 3rd most in the country.CFetters_Nacho_Lover said:- I didn’t realize the pass yards per game got worse at least in terms of rankings. I’m too lazy to go find what we? gave up last year vs this year but it doesn’t feel like we? got worse.
