Shaq at Running Back, and Winning Ugly

Hardcore_Husky · November 2014

Shaq at Running Back, and Winning Ugly

Instead of complaining about Shaq not playing defense, CokeGreaterThanPepsi urges everyone to appreciate getting to watch a truly special player play football.

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Tequilla · November 2014

For those that need a reminder every once in a while, there's only one stat that matters at the end of the game ... SCOREBOARD BABY!!!

H_D · November 2014

Why do you hate moral victories?

Alexis · November 2014

Shaq looks like Eric Dickerson when he runs, only with a better mullet

DerekJohnson · November 2014

Alexis said:
Shaq looks like Eric Dickerson when he runs, only with a better mullet

that's a great comparison

RoadDawg55 · November 2014

I am fully on the Shaq at RB bandwagon, but keep in mind that it was Colorado. These next two weeks will be interesting. It's impressive because he has only been a full time RB for two weeks, but Colorado is terrible and has the worst rush defense in the Pac 12. I was looking at their past games, and they haven't held a RB under 100 yards in conference play. Everyone has torn them up.

Meek · November 2014

agree with you, except instead of looking at Shaq's overall yardage gained on the ground against Colorado I was noticing the big difference between all our other RBs and that moment when Shaq's vision and first step picks a gap and you see him surge forward with power. Against Colorado most of those go through for huge yardage, but with Shaq I see him being a positive yardage gainer and that's one of the things that frustrates me the most so far with our stable of backs - we never get those 3-4 yard gains on 1st or 2nd down. This is what I hope becomes a bit more of a trend for the O.

Gladstone · November 2014

Great read, really starting to look forward to these articles.

WilburHooksHands · November 2014

Meek said:
agree with you, except instead of looking at Shaq's overall yardage gained on the ground against Colorado I was noticing the big difference between all our other RBs and that moment when Shaq's vision and first step picks a gap and you see him surge forward with power. Against Colorado most of those go through for huge yardage, but with Shaq I see him being a positive yardage gainer and that's one of the things that frustrates me the most so far with our stable of backs - we never get those 3-4 yard gains on 1st or 2nd down. This is what I hope becomes a bit more of a trend for the O.

From what I've seen Cooper actually hits the hole harder, but Shaqs power mitigates that. I would not want to tackle him.

GrundleStiltzkin · November 2014

WilburHooksHands said:

Meek said:
agree with you, except instead of looking at Shaq's overall yardage gained on the ground against Colorado I was noticing the big difference between all our other RBs and that moment when Shaq's vision and first step picks a gap and you see him surge forward with power. Against Colorado most of those go through for huge yardage, but with Shaq I see him being a positive yardage gainer and that's one of the things that frustrates me the most so far with our stable of backs - we never get those 3-4 yard gains on 1st or 2nd down. This is what I hope becomes a bit more of a trend for the O.
From what I've seen Cooper actually hits the hole harder, but Shaqs power mitigates that. I would not want to tackle him.

Harder and more decisively. I think that's just a matter of reps for Shaq.

dnc · November 2014

I like the article, and noticed a lot of the same things you did regarding the big pass plays almost all coming after Shaq established his dominance and we ran play action of some sort with him. Shaq is going to really help open the field up for Miles I believe.

My only real issue is with the prediction. I don't know if UW will beat UCLA but we're going to keep it a lot closer than 25-11 and score more than 11 poonts. Not sure I'd feel that way with without Shaq at RB, but given the focus of the article I was surprised to see such a gloomy expectation from our offense.

CokeGreaterThanPepsi · November 2014

dnc said:
I like the article, and noticed a lot of the same things you did regarding the big pass plays almost all coming after Shaq established his dominance and we ran play action of some sort with him. Shaq is going to really help open the field up for Miles I believe.

My only real issue is with the prediction. I don't know if UW will beat UCLA but we're going to keep it a lot closer than 25 and score more than 11 poonts. Not sure I'd feel that with without Shaq at RB, but given the focus of the article I was surprised to see such a gloomy expectation from our offense.

I like to set my expectations really low every week. If you noticed I predicted UW to lose 77-4 to Cal before the game. It's what I like to do (IWILTD), so don't take my predictions seriously. Once we have a good team I will start making serious predictions!

dnc · November 2014

CokeGreaterThanPepsi said:

dnc said:
I like the article, and noticed a lot of the same things you did regarding the big pass plays almost all coming after Shaq established his dominance and we ran play action of some sort with him. Shaq is going to really help open the field up for Miles I believe.

My only real issue is with the prediction. I don't know if UW will beat UCLA but we're going to keep it a lot closer than 25 and score more than 11 poonts. Not sure I'd feel that with without Shaq at RB, but given the focus of the article I was surprised to see such a gloomy expectation from our offense.
I like to set my expectations really low every week. If you noticed I predicted UW to lose 77-4 to Cal before the game. It's what I like to do (IWILTD), so don't take my predictions seriously. Once we have a good team I will start making serious predictions!

In that case, I love your prediction. Keep up the good work.

doogsinparadise · November 2014

Who the fuck scores 11 points?

pro-football-reference.com/boxscores/game_scores_find.cgi?pts_win=24&pts_lose=11
pro-football-reference.com/boxscores/game_scores_find.cgi?pts_win=25&pts_lose=11

whatshouldicareabout · November 2014

doogsinparadise said:
Who the fuck scores 11 points?

pro-football-reference.com/boxscores/game_scores_find.cgi?pts_win=24&pts_lose=11
pro-football-reference.com/boxscores/game_scores_find.cgi?pts_win=25&pts_lose=11

We'll make history on 11/8.

By winning 11 to 8.

http://www.pro-football-reference.com/boxscores/game_scores_find.cgi?pts_win=11&pts_lose=8

DerekJohnson · November 2014

doogsinparadise said:
Who the fuck scores 11 points?

pro-football-reference.com/boxscores/game_scores_find.cgi?pts_win=24&pts_lose=11
pro-football-reference.com/boxscores/game_scores_find.cgi?pts_win=25&pts_lose=11

The Huskies beat #2 Michigan 20-11 in 1984

BHAMSTER · November 2014

maybe CGTP can be the 2nd coming of ariz123 ! Go Dawgs.

DerekJohnson · November 2014

DerekJohnson said:

doogsinparadise said:
Who the fuck scores 11 points?

pro-football-reference.com/boxscores/game_scores_find.cgi?pts_win=24&pts_lose=11
pro-football-reference.com/boxscores/game_scores_find.cgi?pts_win=25&pts_lose=11
The Huskies beat #2 Michigan 20-11 in 1984

and to illustrate how much things have changed since then, I was upset that our defense allowed a 2-point conversion with no time left.

LoneStarDawg · November 2014

DerekJohnson said:

DerekJohnson said:

doogsinparadise said:
Who the fuck scores 11 points?

pro-football-reference.com/boxscores/game_scores_find.cgi?pts_win=24&pts_lose=11
pro-football-reference.com/boxscores/game_scores_find.cgi?pts_win=25&pts_lose=11
The Huskies beat #2 Michigan 20-11 in 1984
and to illustrate how much things have changed since then, I was upset that our defense allowed a 2-point conversion with no time left.

and you were probably pretty content with our offense scoring 20

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