UW was 2 plays away from possibly winning a national title
The Nixon drop, and the questionable at best holding call on Rosengarten negating the 50 yard Rome bomb into Red Zone territory, down 7 halfway through the fourth.
Those plays were the game.
Damn, this forum got fucking close to the goal. We? almost did it.
Onward we march.
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I for one, am ready to doog again.
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This is one of your better posts
On one hand, being present vs Michigan highlighted some of the roster flaws that were present
On the other hand, we also saw what was possible when you have a Day 1 QB with EXPERIENCE and 3 WRs that will all play in the league with 1 a Top 10 pickIf you compare the feelings after 2016 and “how close” to what 2023 was … it’s night and day different
A lot went right in 2023 … there were some sizable gaps that we need to learn from going forward
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Plus DeBitch was thinking about the Bama job instead of giving 100% attention to the game.
We should just claim the Natty.
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When you go 14-0 and win 3 games over top 6 teams and whatever that number was over top 10/16 teams, your roster wasn't the problem.
TCU lost to fucking KANSAS STATE in their conference title.
Washington played their worst game of the year, maybe 1a/1b to Arizona State where rain was a major factor. A bunch of turnovers and dropped passes that Michigan didn't force.
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rhetoric
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Michigan was 2-3 plays away from plunger raping us in front of the whole nation. No, I can't count to the specific plays because I was drunk but this is probably true.
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@HelmsFoundation
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It felt like that during the 1st quarter onslaught and then it felt like they did nothing after that but just benefit, Chris Petersen style, from us shitting ourselves on offense.
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The defense shit their pants and then played out of their minds for 40 minutes of clock straight.
Another missed opportunity - Penix to McMillan on 3rd down that forced us to settle for a field goal instead of tying the game. Not an accurate throw
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I hope all the buttholes that ruined college football are happy with themselves. Let's have a school be a few plays away from having a shot at a Natty (or not) to being 6-6 the following year. Great way to keep the fans invested.
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I might have a to actually rewatch that game some time because of you fuckers🤔🤔
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I will never watch a replay of that game. Too much of a gut punch walking out of the stadium.
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I've spent too much time griping about this game on here but will still take any open door to do so. I know I'm watching replays with Doog (albeit negadoog) colored glasses, but it really feels like there were 10-15 (if not more) what if? plays for UW that almost happened where Michigan hit like 10/15 of their what if? plays. I can bitch again about new shit I've seen like Muhammad committing to do a dramatic rejection slap of a McCarthy duck instead of going for a pick six , but I still think with how limited our defense was and a broken RB we needed Penix to be damn near perfect to beat a Texas or Michigan and he wasn't, and was actually pretty bad. Every rewatch I'm reminded more how well Odunze and the WRs and TEs were doing.
Michigan had a deeper roster, especially on defense, even though they didn't have as much top end talent and the way the game played out really played into that. Michigan's offense legit did nothing for what almost three full quarters and only did something late when they got away with a hold which prevented a likely massive sack by ZTF. Fuck the wefs forever.
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It truly sucked watching this game knowing it was an off day for Worshington. It's a shame and I honestly felt bad for you fuckers.
Kept waiting for Penix to start dropping dimes all over those Big 10 sloths but it just wasn't the day for it. Banged up RB hurt too.
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Ty Willingham and his three plays will change the game is enjoying this
TBF Ty usually lost by 50 which is what made it funny
I have not watched a replay and probably won't. Lot of what ifs that added up to a loss
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I will never watch a replay. We skimmed by on a talented roster and talented coaching staff, our luck ran out at the most inopportune time. We had a golden opportunity to hang a REAL banner and blew it. It was an amazing season. When it comes to winning championships a little luck comes into play unless you are flat out 10x better than everyone else which we weren't.
Fuck you guys, every tim I try to forget about how close we? Were I just get pissed, and especially that asshat DeBoer. I'm actually glad he is gone, and feel like we had a pretend mercenary, now we got the real fuckin thing. A whole coaching staff of win at all cost mercs
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You'd be better suited to be an Oregon fan with your pond scum social skills
I never said a single thing about TCU in my initial post … why you are referencing them here just highlights how much of a bitch you are
If you can't understand where UW had weaknesses in its roster last year and how it impacted their ability to win that last game then you're just further proving the idiot that you are
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If Sugar Bowl Penix showed up in Houston, then there would be a decent chance that UW won a Natty … but he didn't
IF that is the margin of error that you're comfortable with then that's fine … I would suggest that there's some lessons to learn from it
The T's were good enough the entire season but Roger struggled a bit at times against Michigan. The interior G's were probably above average overall but struggled against some of Michigan's interior DL rotation. Your run game largely comes from the interior OL and against Texas and Michigan the ability to run the ball wasn't really there.
Dillon's injury issues and the lack of (trusted) depth behind him was a critical gap in providing a balanced offense … that really shouldn't happen at a place like UW
The interior of the DL was largely full of JAGs and that got exposed against both Texas and Michigan … depth was also an issue and Michigan's ability to rotate guys in/out that will all largely be rotational players (at worse) in the NFL takes its toll after a while
LB play on the whole was probably better than expected last season but I'd argue that UW's LBs were more specialist in nature instead of having any real 3 down difference makers … there were enough games where the D struggled with the run to say that it was an elite group
Yes, in the game vs Michigan the D did a good job of adjusting and getting stops for 2+ quarters … I think it's also important to keep in mind though that with the way the game was going that Michigan didn't need to step out of its shell and try to do too much. In a similar sense of UW playing Alabama, it became fairly clear with the way the game was unfolding that UW was going to need an easy score to be able to get over the hump and the opposition managed the game that way
I could go into a couple of other points but this will suffice for now
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Two 11 point plays away!
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I haven't decided if I will ever watch it.
But I will forever believe our travel scheduling and cheapness was a partial cause of the team playing so off.
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Rosengarten had a rough game. I wanted to say he never really got tested against great edge players in the Pac-12 (not playing Latu & the Murphy twins this year) but I look at a decent amount of 7 round mocks and the Coug and Utah have edge guys going before any Michigan guys and he practiced against Trice and ZTF (same as Ute/WSU guys) so who fucking knows.
Those 7 round mocks also show Michigan, is just loaded with guys who are gonna go rounds 4-7 instead of relying on playing walk ons a ton of reps at DE and having no running back. I blame Jimmy for not recruiting for two years and DeBoer for not doing more/better in recruiting/portal the last two. They easily could have had a more full roster the way Michigan did.
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It's one of the things about way football and sports can play out they somehow lost to Michigan by more than they lost to Alabama in that game but it really seemed with UW's O against Bama's D it was simply hopeless and they were gonna need a completely broken/lucky play or a defensive score to make a play after the first drive. I never felt that way against Michigan. Felt like they had plays there and just couldn't connect the dots. I also felt that if UW could have even just tied it up and put an ounce of pressure on Michigan's offense that UW easily could have taken control of the game and loosened things up. Basically once guys stopped running in the wrong direction Michigan's offense could do almost nothing and I think they were trying.
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If UW ties it up then JJ has to live up to his bullshit draft position and he probably shits himself. We? actually took advantage of Michigan's one major weakness after the first quarter.
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You mean like "what if our coach hadn't ben interviewiing for another job in the days leading up to the game?"
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Michigan never needed to open it up … when they did in the 4th they completely shifted the field and ended the game
It’s a chicken and egg argument
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This is accurate and why what ifs are what they are
Nobody has more what ifs than Oregon against UW
Scoreboard baby
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Jesus christ, can we just make a new sub forum where Hypnofag can just write novellas and respond to them himself over and over? Because he clearly can't follow anything when someone other than himself is posting. Vanilla? Devs?
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2 plays is kind of silly. Our DL wasn't NC caliber and neither were the LBs. Dillon Johnson getting a high ankle sprain on the 1st play of the game didn't help either.
On the other hand, Michigan was a complete team and those two plays would have helped but UW would have lost anyway….just in a closer game.
