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5 plays that will haunt UW tonight

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  • WDWHA
    WDWHA Member Posts: 100

    AEB said:

    From my vantage the wheel route was under thrown. Couldn't tell if it was a straight drop.

    81% underthrow. Rest was a sun enhanced drop.
    It's hard to tell if you're being sarcastic or not. Hell, I don't even know about myself anymore. But this play still pisses me off 2 days later. It was a metaphor for the last 15 years of the program:

    1. You get something that at the start looks like it's going somewhere --> All of our Offseason National Championships

    2. Then the ball is thrown and you think it's a bit off but seems like it should be ok --> Above average OOC win percentage

    3. The ball just goes right past Washington --> The rest of the conference plungering us

    4. Yet when you go out, take a walk for perspective, talk to your two dads, pet the dog you kicked, you realize it was destined to failure before it started because who the hell calls that pass so the WR/RB had to catch it looking directly back into the sun? Is DWash the anti-Zoolander and can't go right to where the pass wouldn't be coming directly from the blinding sun? --> Realizing days/months/years later that we have had crap coaching hires which meant we have been doomed before we started

    FYFMFE
  • CFetters_Nacho_Lover
    CFetters_Nacho_Lover Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 32,950 Founders Club
    WDWHA said:

    AEB said:

    From my vantage the wheel route was under thrown. Couldn't tell if it was a straight drop.

    81% underthrow. Rest was a sun enhanced drop.
    It's hard to tell if you're being sarcastic or not. Hell, I don't even know about myself anymore. But this play still pisses me off 2 days later. It was a metaphor for the last 15 years of the program:

    1. You get something that at the start looks like it's going somewhere --> All of our Offseason National Championships

    2. Then the ball is thrown and you think it's a bit off but seems like it should be ok --> Above average OOC win percentage

    3. The ball just goes right past Washington --> The rest of the conference plungering us

    4. Yet when you go out, take a walk for perspective, talk to your two dads, pet the dog you kicked, you realize it was destined to failure before it started because who the hell calls that pass so the WR/RB had to catch it looking directly back into the sun? Is DWash the anti-Zoolander and can't go right to where the pass wouldn't be coming directly from the blinding sun? --> Realizing days/months/years later that we have had crap coaching hires which meant we have been doomed before we started

    FYFMFE
    I accidentally kicked my dog during the game on Saturday.
  • dnc
    dnc Member Posts: 56,855

    AEB said:

    From my vantage the wheel route was under thrown. Couldn't tell if it was a straight drop.

    Sun in eyes, it was a beautiful ball. The interception to Hall was under thrown, and the interception to MIckens he was MickensFS and didn't fight for the ball.
    It was a catchable ball, nowhere near beautiful. It was at least 3 yards too far inside, the poont of the wheel route is to go down the sidelines.

    And Mickens should have given better effort on that pick, but it was probably a pick regardless. Really poor decision on Cobra's part.
  • RoadDawg55
    RoadDawg55 Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 30,611 Swaye's Wigwam
    dnc said:

    AEB said:

    From my vantage the wheel route was under thrown. Couldn't tell if it was a straight drop.

    Sun in eyes, it was a beautiful ball. The interception to Hall was under thrown, and the interception to MIckens he was MickensFS and didn't fight for the ball.
    It was a catchable ball, nowhere near beautiful. It was at least 3 yards too far inside, the poont of the wheel route is to go down the sidelines.

    And Mickens should have given better effort on that pick, but it was probably a pick regardless. Really poor decision on Cobra's part.
    Everyone hates Mickens so much that they are looking to blame him for anything. There were 3 Cal defenders closer to that ball than Mickens.