UW has a potential star quarterback, every skill guy is returning except for Giles (we will see if his replacement is any good in that role), the O Line should actually be good/experienced, not just serviceable, and our biggest question of D/DL we at least made an excellent hire in getting a big boy DC that we should actually expect to be able to answer those questions his first year.
And unlike last year, the conference around us has a bunch of teams that had to reload from having a bunch of senior-laden rosters.
I don't anticipate the run defense being good. It should at least be somewhat better though. Pepa and Thompson should be an upgrade over Valdez/Bandes + hopefully Davis is a year better and the Parkers get healthy. A healthy Durfee if it ever happens I think could help on the edge as last year we were playing really small guys there a lot against running teams.
Having an offense that can actually score points would do wonders for the run defense too. Last year we played a lot of crappy offenses with shitball QBs but our offense could never score enough to put any pressure on them to have to do anything but just run the ball.
The OL at the very least has going for it that I don't think it could be worse than last year. Hopefully a healthy McCree and having Willis can push Azzopardi out of the starting lineup. I never understood why he was supposedly a 4 star portal pickup but even if he wasn't he was a huge disappointment. Also hoping L Hatchett not coming back from injury will make a difference and not just be a doog narrative.
DC doesn’t suck until he does.
I think new guy should be able to scheme a d good enough to allow demond to cook. Stack the box and let your new and improved secondary figure it out.
Me thinks we? only have to sit through two ass blastings next year.
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Thanks Taft!
On softy today he had pretty high praise for true frosh OL’s Champ Toooeeeaaleaylay and Johnny Millz
“Our” DL iis gonna have a train run on them
I'm sure Big 10 refs will throw a flag
Until Jedd ditches the baby poop mustard hoodie, he’s just a poser.
It beats having low hopes
UW has a potential star quarterback, every skill guy is returning except for Giles (we will see if his replacement is any good in that role), the O Line should actually be good/experienced, not just serviceable, and our biggest question of D/DL we at least made an excellent hire in getting a big boy DC that we should actually expect to be able to answer those questions his first year.
And unlike last year, the conference around us has a bunch of teams that had to reload from having a bunch of senior-laden rosters.
I don't anticipate the run defense being good. It should at least be somewhat better though. Pepa and Thompson should be an upgrade over Valdez/Bandes + hopefully Davis is a year better and the Parkers get healthy. A healthy Durfee if it ever happens I think could help on the edge as last year we were playing really small guys there a lot against running teams.
Having an offense that can actually score points would do wonders for the run defense too. Last year we played a lot of crappy offenses with shitball QBs but our offense could never score enough to put any pressure on them to have to do anything but just run the ball.
DL health is the biggest X factor/question mark going into the year. I feel okay (not great, but okay) about the OL.
The OL at the very least has going for it that I don't think it could be worse than last year. Hopefully a healthy McCree and having Willis can push Azzopardi out of the starting lineup. I never understood why he was supposedly a 4 star portal pickup but even if he wasn't he was a huge disappointment. Also hoping L Hatchett not coming back from injury will make a difference and not just be a doog narrative.
DC doesn’t suck until he does.
I think new guy should be able to scheme a d good enough to allow demond to cook. Stack the box and let your new and improved secondary figure it out.
Me thinks we? only have to sit through two ass blastings next year.