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Sunday Article: Jonathan Smith is Becoming the Fall Guy, and that's not Right
DerekJohnson
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One thing you wonder with this team is who loves playing the game...one guy I know for a dact does is Cooper.
Maybe you're speaking about outsiders but on The boards this has been consistently refuted and even mocked. Owen 12 team didn't have Owen 12 talent.
Blaming Jonathan Smith is kind of mute imo, if Petermen thinks something needs to be done differently he'll fucking say so; he's 'the ultimate CEO'.
But on the overall I'm with you Derek, two of the main points we've stuck to is that Petersen is a great coach, and great coaching makes a huge difference. Didn't fucking look like it last night though.
FYFMFE
We knew before last night we weren't 'back'. We're a decent team that has a very good defense, but we're very inconsistent. That's not back, that's a decent team.
The crime this year is playing Miles lost us the Stanford game and I think it will lose us the ASU game if we do it again. With Black Power we are a 10 win team. With Dope Power, we're an 8 win team.
We run zone read with no QB keeps. No QB sweeps with lead blockers (a great play). No read option with a pitch option to the motion guy (Ross/Mickens). When we have run option it has been successful. I generally like our style of play to run the ball, no turnovers, John Ross, and lean on the defense, but the offensive scheme has problems.
Our RBs are pretty pedestrian and we don't have an effective bigger WR with KW not what he was last year before his injury.
Not having Riva hurts and IMHO, Charles isn't playing as well up at 315 lbs rather than 300-305 lbs that he was last year.
I fully understand that the back-up QB is usually the most popular player on many teams but Williams simply LOOKS like a QB to me and may have the "it" factor. To my eyes, Miles does not look like a natural QB and he doesn't appear to have that "it" factor. Miles probably has the highest floor of the QBs on the roster right now but Troy Williams likely has the highest ceiling.
But no matter who the QB is vs. ASU, they will still need more help from their OL to give them more time, the RBs to average more YPC, and a 3rd WR to emerge beyond Mickens and Ross. Is it time to give Pettis and Lenius more PT (Pettis had 3 catches yesterday and Lenius had 2)???
Pete will manage his staff. He always has.
Peterman is a very good coach who has a 1st year starting QB. Most teams fall off with a 1st year starting QB. Dub also lost a great RB and none of the receivers are consistent.
The folks that thought Peterman could just step in and continue 92-12 are aubsFS. He will do a good job at UW but in this league you have to have a QB and weapons on O.
OT I was at the 2000 UW OSU game in Husky stadium. One of the best if not best live games I've ever seen. I'll never forget Jonathan's one shoed semi hail Mary towards the end of the game. Paul Arnolds one handed snag was pretty impressive too.
Anyway Fyfmfe
That said, next year when Marriota's gone, we are at home, and we are in Peterman Year 2 we better look a hell of a lot better than we did yesterday. Like or not the Peterman hire (I admit I had some reservations), he seems to have set a good direction for the program. But its not the same methodology/direction as the previous staff, and that takes time.
As for the staff, I don't have a problem with the Smith criticism...he's one of the assistant coach hires that was a head-scratcher. Our offense as a whole looks awful. Our QBs look awful, and if the QB that started as the 3rd stringer at the beginning of the year ends up as the best of the bunch that's as big of an indictment as any against him. Our offensive game plans have looked bad in most games...as much forcing a system on players instead of adapting the system to the players. As an example, saying Miley Cyrus is a great runner and then never running him is stupid, esp since he gives up any passing game beyond 15 yards with his arm. Put it into your gameplan or start somebody different. Smith is a guy that's been given a huge promotion beyond what his resume says he should be at...he's the one that's got to (over)deliver or be moved out.