Thinking Back To August

We were hoping for an above average offense. We ended up getting one of the best offenses in the country.

I read today that Gaskin is leading the PAC 12 in rushing. Browning has the best passer rating of all P-5 QB's. Coleman is leading the country in YPC for anyone with at least 50 carries.

Weak schedule or not, this offense is elite. We played dreck the past two years and the offense was terrible.

This is the best OL since at least 2000, if not '96 or '97. Ross and Pettis ball out every game. The other WR's, especially Chico have played well too.

Can anyone here honestly say they saw this coming?

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godawgst

The play of the wr's was the #1 question going into the season, and they have blown past even the most optimistic doog.

Pettis is a different player from last year, same for Ross two years ago. Chico has continued his upward trajectory, and Bachelli, Fuller have been more than solid for what they are being asked to do.

Ironically, for the first two years under JS/CP the only consistent production we got in the pass game was from the tight ends, yet if you would have told anyone here what the te's have as a group for catches (around 15 is my guess) after 7 games back in August, we would have thought the offense would have been screwed.

I would love to be a fly on the wall and hear what C.P. in private would say how much of it is Pease versus Hamden and his effect on the group and how much it's the maturity of Jake at qb.

Tequilla

In my wildest dreams, what we're seeing is what I thought was at the edge of being possible ...

Before Spring Practice, I was a little concerned about the WRs and the offense ... watching practice and seeing how dominant the defense was didn't help ...

After seeing about 3 drives against Rutgers and what John Ross brought to the table told me everything with the offense was going to be fine ..

The defense is really fucking good ...

The offense has raised their game practicing against that defense every single day ...

For those that didn't see Stanford and Oregon regressing, you weren't paying attention (although they have arguably regressed far more than one would have thought) ...

PostGameOrangeSlices

Let's slow the horses down until they beat Utah and USC, then we can say that they'll have actually beat "someone."

Winning at Cal is going to be a lot harder than beating SC at home

ApostleofGrief

Jesus Christ, what a load of doogs! Wait until the next few games before you rack up the natty trophy. They are all eminently losable, with or without those big lines ready to rumble. Playing on the road is still a huge question mark in my mind.

Ice_Holmvik

We were hoping for an above average offense. We ended up getting one of the best offenses in the country.

I read today that Gaskin is leading the PAC 12 in rushing. Browning has the best passer rating of all P-5 QB's. Coleman is leading the country in YPC for anyone with at least 50 carries.

Weak schedule or not, this offense is elite. We played dreck the past two years and the offense was terrible.

This is the best OL since at least 2000, if not '96 or '97. Ross and Pettis ball out every game. The other WR's, especially Chico have played well too.

Can anyone here honestly say they saw this coming?

Um, no. I expected what we've seen defensively. I did not expect to have the best WR corps and the best OL in the P12. And Coleman -- da fuq did this come from?
A little something called prayer warriors..

DerekJohnson

We don't know for sure if they are good, great, or ELITE yet. So LIPO.

13-0 or GTFO. Then we can find out how good they actually are in the playoffs.

So if they go 13-1 and lose the natty to Bama on a last second 52-yard field goal, you want Petersen to GTFO.

DugtheDoog

Yes, I expected this.

Petersen's player development has been unreal, and unlike last year, UW doesn't have true freshman at the 3 most important positions on offense. In addition, every other team in the Pac-12 lost a shit load of experience last year.

I lived in Boise for much of Petermen's tenure there. I knew quite a few former players and obviously a lot of fans who followed the program closely. And every time they'd lose a stud to graduation or the NFL, it would boggle my mind that none were concerned because some redshirt junior was going to replace him. Sure enough, some unathletic 4th year white kid from Mountain Home or Weiser with no other offers would step in without noticeable drop-off.

I didn't understand this foreign notion. You expect players to get better every year simply because they're a year older with more experience? Nonsense! I was used to John Timus, Ben Bandels, Greyson Gunheims, James Johnsons, ASJs, Jack Lockners and Nate Fellners being better as freshmen than as juniors. This whole concept was completely foreign to me and I was secretly jealous. Looking back, it really is pathetic that we've? gone 15? 20? 25? fucking years without a coaching staff that made kids significantly better over time on a consistent basis. Guys like Mason Foster who significantly improved (in spite of the coaching staff) were an anomaly.

TierbsHsotBoobs

Let's slow the horses down until they beat Utah and USC, then we can say that they'll have actually beat "someone."
Winning at Cal is going to be a lot harder than beating SC at home

If winning at Cal is hard, the season is over.

TierbsHsotBoobs

We don't know for sure if they are good, great, or ELITE yet. So LIPO.

13-0 or GTFO. Then we can find out how good they actually are in the playoffs.
So if they go 13-1 and lose the natty to Bama on a last second 52-yard field goal, you want Petersen to GTFO.

Hi.

UW would have already been 14-0 in that scenario.

Doogs hate math.

CFetters_Nacho_Lover

We don't know for sure if they are good, great, or ELITE yet. So LIPO.

13-0 or GTFO. Then we can find out how good they actually are in the playoffs.
So if they go 13-1 and lose the natty to Bama on a last second 52-yard field goal, you want Petersen to GTFO.
Hi.

UW would have already been 14-0 in that scenario.

Doogs hate math.

If you can't tell that @DerekJohnson doesn't deal with hypotheticals around here and didn't know UW would be 14-1 in his scenario then I can't help you.

doogie

Let's slow the horses down until they beat Utah and USC, then we can say that they'll have actually beat "someone."

Fuck that.

Bring in more horses. She can handle it

BearsWiin

Since I saw firsthand what Tedford did in his third year at Cal (and the improvement in the second half of his second year(and I think there were signs that things were really starting to come together late last season)) I expected something similar from Petersen because I think he's a better HC than Tedford ever was. I think I cautiously predicted 10 wins, because I figured that furd and Oregon would still be tough and UW would lose one of those two, and they'd have a random letdown game somewhere else along the way (Cal!). Fortunately for Dawg fans, Petersen's playing by HIS script, and not YOUR* script.

chuck

Good question Roadie. I saw that it could be coming because I think Petersen develops players and perhaps coaches better than just about anyone out there. I still thought this much improvement was unlikely though.

And some of the wet blankets are correct...do it against someone good then I'll start doing backflips.

PurpleJ

We don't know for sure if they are good, great, or ELITE yet. So LIPO.

13-0 or GTFO. Then we can find out how good they actually are in the playoffs.
So if they go 13-1 and lose the natty to Bama on a last second 52-yard field goal, you want Petersen to GTFO.

I wan't us to go 13-0 and make the playoffs. I'm smart enough to realize that we probably can't compete with the other playoff teams this year, but we are plenty good enough to win out in a weak Pac-12. I would love to be proven wrong and see my DAWGS shock the nation and win the natty.

GrundleStiltzkin

We don't know for sure if they are good, great, or ELITE yet. So LIPO.

13-0 or GTFO. Then we can find out how good they actually are in the playoffs.
So if they go 13-1 and lose the natty to Bama on a last second 52-yard field goal, you want Petersen to GTFO.
I wan't us to go 13-0 and make the playoffs. I'm smart enough to realize that we probably can't compete with the other playoff teams this year, but we are plenty good enough to win out in a weak Pac-12. I would love to be proven wrong and see my DAWGS shock the nation and win the natty.

Pumpy's not letting you back on.

CuntWaffle

Jesus Christ, what a load of doogs! Wait until the next few games before you rack up the natty trophy. They are all eminently losable, with or without those big lines ready to rumble. Playing on the road is still a huge question mark in my mind.

OK!

LoneStarDawg

Since we're all jinxing this weekend (realize a browning,adams,victor,or JR3 injury would fuck everything up).

I don't think the speculated playoff teams are that far above us, and I bet that any sober minded coach wants nothing to do with a mysterious washington team lead by a coach thats proven to scheme the shit out of big games.

Like McGary has said, we'll go as far as we decide to go, as any loss we have will be 90% self inflicted.

Doogles

I called for 11 wins minimum and a P12 championship in my declaration of doogdom.

I'm not letting any of you that didn't Chincredible it back on the wagon.

http://forum.hardcorehusky.com/discussion/31520/im-going-full-doog-one-last-time/p1

Gladstone

I called for 11 wins minimum and a P12 championship in my declaration of doogdom.

I'm not letting any of you that didn't Chincredible it back on the wagon.

http://forum.hardcorehusky.com/discussion/31520/im-going-full-doog-one-last-time/p1

Looks like @Mad_Son is shit out of luck

Mad_Son

I called for 11 wins minimum and a P12 championship in my declaration of doogdom.

I'm not letting any of you that didn't Chincredible it back on the wagon.

http://forum.hardcorehusky.com/discussion/31520/im-going-full-doog-one-last-time/p1
Looks like @Mad_Son is shit out of luck

I don't get it...