Ten things I want to see happen during spring ball
Without further ado:
1. Easily the most important thing is a Jake injury. The Mark Brunell kind where he won't redshirt, but won't start the season so *insert player here* can Pipp him.
2. Tevis moved to MIK. It seems like this is a given, but I have been hoping for it for a while. Tevis isn't an edge rusher, I mean, who is? They are magic players not available to anything but elite programs like NC State, UTSA, Wisconsin, Utah, Rutgers, Toledo and Boston College.
3. Jomon Dotson in the rep line behind the red-headed kid and a cardboard cutout of Dominique Hampton, which on the back says 'Montana State needs you, brodie - Sincerely, Bryce Sterk, Darren Gardenhire, etc.' in Jimmy Lake's handwriting.
4. This list is hard to complete inside the constraint of 'no calls for death', but what is the correct fate for Kyler Manu? Not only did his roster spot prevent us from taking someone like Cade Beresford (hope springs anew!), but he failed to bring us Togiai and he is about as effective as Hondo in the Tug. However, he must have the IQ of @Sledog because for some reason he won't leave. I don't know why. Kyler, I like you as a person but once it gets to this point, I have to root for injury or I'm not a UW fan.
5. Bush Hamdan to install an offense that makes some semblance of sense based on our personnel. I know that with Pete this will literally never happen. I know that Kellen Moore and Kirby whatever his last name was and Ian Johnson etc aren't walking through that door just as much as the next person, but apparently Pete does not understand that offensive complexity is a detriment if you want to play young/talented players LIKE WE HAVE. The good news here is... actually nothing. We are fucked and we are going to end up playing Our 3-headed JAG (Baccelia, Fuller, Pounds) over a bunch of talented kids because it takes 17 years to learn an offense this shitty.
6. Henry Roberts finally show he is not just the Jeff Lindquist of the offensive line. Henry, I know you grew up in Bellevue and you're a rich white guy, but at least try to pretend you care. Or at least play long enough to let someone injure Jake.
7. DJ Beavers to play at WIL along-side Tevis at MIK. That's actually a great ILB combo for us.
8. Ikaika Malloe stop using English altogether. This one is coming at some point and I welcome it. Just slip into mumbling and pidgin full time and no more English. It will be good for our new kids and for our older kids it will be a cultural experience. I would love to see Jaylen coming in looking like Predator and going out looking like a dork, speaking like Shane Brostek.
9. Keith Bonapha accidentally tweet a DM that had been intended for Sean McGrew's girlfriend (or mother). This is the logical conclusion of KB's time here, "Let's blaze and watch the sunrise over LW from my office while I fuck you up against the window" seems like a fitting end.
10. Joe Tryon beat out Ryan Bowman. I see this as the key to the season on D. It's a throwaway season because of Brownsocks, but on D it doesn't have to be if somehow Tryon is good. PLEASE GOD FORGET HE WENT TO HAZEN!
Honorable Mention things I'd like to see:
- Josiah Bronson, Jared Pulu, Shane Bowman to form a walk-on Haka Club.
- Myles Bryant fall between two blades of fieldturf and be forgotten.
- BBK, Isaiah Gilchrist and Brandon Wellington to all have to wear shirts that say 'Size isn't everything, we are proof!'
- Jesse Sosebee to try to get ICE to deport Henry Bainivalu in an attempt to win the job at RG.
- Myles Gaskin to change his name to Myles Gaskin-Shoyinka.
- Jordan Chin's dad to replace him on the roster.
- I want to see Pete clapping along and grinning ear-to-ear as Austin Osborne, Colson Yankoff, Jackson and Jacob Sirmon form a barbershop quartet called the Four Freshmen and serenade the team after every practice.
- JoJo McIntosh to take one good angle. Just one.
- Joey Thomas to be arrested for masturbating in Pete's private shower to a picture of Paul Arnold.
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I think we know who the JoJo Mathis football players are people too comment was directed at.
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One thing I would like to see during spring ball:
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I doubt the overall offense is going to change. Unfortunately, the run pass ratio probably won’t either.
However, I don’t think we’re stuck with the jag shitshow from last year. The coaches aren’t completely retarded: those guys only did anything against Utah and Colorado two talentless, worthless programs.
It’s going to be Jones, Bryant, and Osborne with Gaskin and Chico back. Ahmed too. That’s enough talent to bail out Browning. -
I would have settled for 5 things.
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Trigger warning @GrandpaSankey
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5. Bush Hamdan to install an offense that makes some semblance of sense based on our personnel. I know that with Pete this will literally never happen. I know that Kellen Moore and Kirby whatever his last name was and Ian Johnson etc aren't walking through that door just as much as the next person, but apparently Pete does not understand that offensive complexity is a detriment if you want to play young/talented players LIKE WE HAVE. The good news here is... actually nothing. We are fucked and we are going to end up playing Our 3-headed JAG (Baccelia, Fuller, Pounds) over a bunch of talented kids because it takes 17 years to learn an offense this shitty.
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I actually do expect the ratio to change based on having Gaskin and Ahmed in the backfield and an o-line that can push and pull better than pass protect. That ratio could be deceiving if there are a lot of screen passes to Gaskin and McClutchens though.haie said:I doubt the overall offense is going to change. Unfortunately, the run pass ratio probably won’t either.
However, I don’t think we’re stuck with the jag shitshow from last year. The coaches aren’t completely retarded: those guys only did anything against Utah and Colorado two talentless, worthless programs.
It’s going to be Jones, Bryant, and Osborne with Gaskin and Chico back. Ahmed too. That’s enough talent to bail out Browning. -
The ratio is not a good enough number here.Meek said:
I actually do expect the ratio to change based on having Gaskin and Ahmed in the backfield and an o-line that can push and pull better than pass protect. That ratio could be deceiving if there are a lot of screen passes to Gaskin and McClutchens though.haie said:I doubt the overall offense is going to change. Unfortunately, the run pass ratio probably won’t either.
However, I don’t think we’re stuck with the jag shitshow from last year. The coaches aren’t completely retarded: those guys only did anything against Utah and Colorado two talentless, worthless programs.
It’s going to be Jones, Bryant, and Osborne with Gaskin and Chico back. Ahmed too. That’s enough talent to bail out Browning.
IDGAF if we are up on Oregon State and run the ball 54 times in the second half.
I would really like to see us run the ball enough to become good at it. I’m not sure we ever really do that. We are all-in on the “Jag of all trades, master of none” offense that helps you when you have no talent, but hinders you when you have to actually be good at something.
Even though it’s not perfect, a better number is our r/p ratio at the end of the first half.
We are very fortunate to be killing most teams these days and so the second halves of 40% of our games don’t matter much.
What I would really like to see is Sosebee, Harris and Roberts start on the interior vs. Auburn and us pass every down. We’re never winning that game anyway and we can maximize the rest of our chances to win. -
PurpleBaze said:
I would have settled for 5
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Dennis_DeYoung said:
9. Keith Bonapha accidentally tweet a DM that had been intended for Sean McGrew's girlfriend (or mother). This is the logical conclusion of KB's time here, "Let's blaze and watch the sunrise over LW from my office while I fuck you up against the window" seems like a fitting end.
I have a feeling KP's home page is Brazzers.com
Honorable Mention things I'd like to see:
- Myles Bryant fall between two blades of fieldturf and be forgotten.
I know you're being sarcastic but Myles Bryant isn't small enough to do this. He's close but fieldturf blades are really really small.
- Jesse Sosebee to try to get ICE to deport Henry Bainivalu in an attempt to win the job at RG.
I'm now in support of defunding ICE.
- Joey Thomas to be arrested for masturbating in Pete's private shower to a picture of Paul Arnold.
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I guess one thing we'll learn this year about Pete is whether he gives Browning a retirement tour like he's Kobe or whether Pete acknowledges Browning's last year here means there is nothing more to offer him than just to hand the damn ball off and wait for Eason.Dennis_DeYoung said:
The ratio is not a good enough number here.Meek said:
I actually do expect the ratio to change based on having Gaskin and Ahmed in the backfield and an o-line that can push and pull better than pass protect. That ratio could be deceiving if there are a lot of screen passes to Gaskin and McClutchens though.haie said:I doubt the overall offense is going to change. Unfortunately, the run pass ratio probably won’t either.
However, I don’t think we’re stuck with the jag shitshow from last year. The coaches aren’t completely retarded: those guys only did anything against Utah and Colorado two talentless, worthless programs.
It’s going to be Jones, Bryant, and Osborne with Gaskin and Chico back. Ahmed too. That’s enough talent to bail out Browning.
IDGAF if we are up on Oregon State and run the ball 54 times in the second half.
I would really like to see us run the ball enough to become good at it. I’m not sure we ever really do that. We are all-in on the “Jag of all trades, master of none” offense that helps you when you have no talent, but hinders you when you have to actually be good at something.
Even though it’s not perfect, a better number is our r/p ratio at the end of the first half.
We are very fortunate to be killing most teams these days and so the second halves of 40% of our games don’t matter much.
What I would really like to see is Sosebee, Harris and Roberts start on the interior vs. Auburn and us pass every down. We’re never winning that game anyway and we can maximize the rest of our chances to win. -
Bush recruited Bynum, Jones and Cook so hopefully that will help
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Good poont.KevininTacoma said:Bush recruited Bynum, Jones and Cook so hopefully that will help
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Lacerated Spleen has been working harder than ever and deserves to see the field early.Dennis_DeYoung said:
What I would really like to see is Sosebee, Harris and Roberts start on the interior vs. Auburn and us pass every down. We’re never winning that game anyway and we can maximize the rest of our chances to win. -
Disagree on Dotson. I want him to learn how to play. He is the best pure athlete on the team. Getting unkown rare athletes and turning them into football players is suppose to be what Petersen is good at.
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Wow never thought that someone would used Hondo and effective in the same sentence, but it worked. Bravo DDY
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Hondo and Sledog are both effective at making me realize how fucking dumb people can beWeakarmCobra said:Wow never thought that someone would used Hondo and effective in the same sentence, but it worked. Bravo DDY
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so was mr. caught more than he dropped...we need warriors not guys who can go sideline to sideline the fastest.Bread said:Disagree on Dotson. I want him to learn how to play. He is the best pure athlete on the team. Getting unkown rare athletes and turning them into football players is suppose to be what Petersen is good at.
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Mickens was a mediocre athlete compared to Dotson.Meek said:
so was mr. caught more than he dropped...we need warriors not guys who can go sideline to sideline the fastest.Bread said:Disagree on Dotson. I want him to learn how to play. He is the best pure athlete on the team. Getting unkown rare athletes and turning them into football players is suppose to be what Petersen is good at.
4.51 40, 35 1/2 inch vert, 10 foot 1 inch broad. He excelled at the lateral movement drills, but otherwise nothing special. -
So wait / you think being a good athlete makes you able to be a good football player and it’s just coaching that is the difference?Bread said:Disagree on Dotson. I want him to learn how to play. He is the best pure athlete on the team. Getting unkown rare athletes and turning them into football players is suppose to be what Petersen is good at.
What the actual fuck?
Talent in football is having the ability to do the intuitive parts of football. Making people miss, getting people off balance, etc.
Sure you can teach a method to that, but if you don’t have an intuitive feel for how to play CB you aren’t talented just because you have a good 40 time.
That’s the difference between “track speed” and “football speed”.
Contrary to what morons who love the underwear olympics think - track shit does not predict being a good football player.
Yes - if you are ALREADY a good football player, verifying that stuff is useful. But it doesn’t mean you can BECOME a good football player.
Jomon isn’t a good football player. He doesn’t get football. He never makes anything happen.
Great players show flashes early because they get it, they just aren’t consistently producing the conditions that catalyze greatness. Jomon has never done one fucking thing that says he’s good at football. Not one.
His best play as a Husky is running in a straight line vs Oregon. That’s it.
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Dotson has shown a great ability to run in to backs of blockers when there is a fucking massive hole in front of himDennis_DeYoung said:
So wait / you think being a good athlete makes you able to be a good football player and it’s just coaching that is the difference?Bread said:Disagree on Dotson. I want him to learn how to play. He is the best pure athlete on the team. Getting unkown rare athletes and turning them into football players is suppose to be what Petersen is good at.
What the actual fuck?
Talent in football is having the ability to do the intuitive parts of football. Making people miss, getting people off balance, etc.
Sure you can teach a method to that, but if you don’t have an intuitive feel for how to play CB you aren’t talented just because you have a good 40 time.
That’s the difference between “track speed” and “football speed”.
Contrary to what morons who love the underwear olympics think - track shit does not predict being a good football player.
Yes - if you are ALREADY a good football player, verifying that stuff is useful. But it doesn’t mean you can BECOME a good football player.
Jomon isn’t a good football player. He doesn’t get football. He never makes anything happen.
Great players show flashes early because they get it, they just aren’t consistently producing the conditions that catalyze greatness. Jomon has never done one fucking thing that says he’s good at football. Not one.
His best play as a Husky is running in a straight line vs Oregon. That’s it.
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For me, the modern (i.e., post JaWarren Hooker) archetype of a guy with blazing fast-twitch speed and no skills* was Greg Ducre. When Ducre was here, I had this daydream that the coaches would remove him from the CB depth chart and just transform him into a fulltime designated kick- and punt-blocking specialist. In this role, he wouldn't have to catch, block, tackle, or make decisions. All he'd have to do is line up opposite every FG, PAT, and punt attempt, avoid jumping offside, run an unimpeded 15-yard dash, and try not to murder the kicker. If he succeeded even 10% of the time, it would have a huge net positive impact on the Huskies' season.Dennis_DeYoung said:After the majorly depressing Husky Combine (mostly depressing because Jomon Dotson dominated), I started thinking about what kind of testicle drubbing we are in for during spring ball. Drinking about it for a second, I realized there are basically 10 things (more or less) I would like to see happen during this spring (without calls for death) that would improve our program as much as is possible given that the worst offensive mind in the universe is our HC.
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3. Jomon Dotson in the rep line behind the red-headed kid and a cardboard cutout of Dominique Hampton, which on the back says 'Montana State needs you, brodie - Sincerely, Bryce Sterk, Darren Gardenhire, etc.' in Jimmy Lake's handwriting.* * *
9. Keith Bonapha accidentally tweet a DM that had been intended for Sean McGrew's girlfriend (or mother). This is the logical conclusion of KB's time here, "Let's blaze and watch the sunrise over LW from my office while I fuck you up against the window" seems like a fitting end.* * *
- Jordan Chin's dad to replace him on the roster.
This is basically what I'd like to see UW do with Dotson, McGrew and Chin. Hell, try out all three in the role, and cut loose the two least effective. (Though I haven't quite yet abandoned all hope that McGrew could eventually contribute in other roles.)
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Just crisp it to the final paragraphDennis_DeYoung said:
The ratio is not a good enough number here.Meek said:
I actually do expect the ratio to change based on having Gaskin and Ahmed in the backfield and an o-line that can push and pull better than pass protect. That ratio could be deceiving if there are a lot of screen passes to Gaskin and McClutchens though.haie said:I doubt the overall offense is going to change. Unfortunately, the run pass ratio probably won’t either.
However, I don’t think we’re stuck with the jag shitshow from last year. The coaches aren’t completely retarded: those guys only did anything against Utah and Colorado two talentless, worthless programs.
It’s going to be Jones, Bryant, and Osborne with Gaskin and Chico back. Ahmed too. That’s enough talent to bail out Browning.
IDGAF if we are up on Oregon State and run the ball 54 times in the second half.
I would really like to see us run the ball enough to become good at it. I’m not sure we ever really do that. We are all-in on the “Jag of all trades, master of none” offense that helps you when you have no talent, but hinders you when you have to actually be good at something.
Even though it’s not perfect, a better number is our r/p ratio at the end of the first half.
We are very fortunate to be killing most teams these days and so the second halves of 40% of our games don’t matter much.
What I would really like to see is Sosebee, Harris and Roberts start on the interior vs. Auburn and us pass every down. We’re never winning that game anyway and we can maximize the rest of our chances to win. -
Pup just wants to see Browning build off his play late in fiesta bowl. First Time I've ever seen him step up in the pocket and throw with authority down field trying to bring his team back. I would suspect that none of you bozos noticed, but that was a huge step for Browning I've never seen it from him. If he can maintain that confidence in the pocket, keep his eyes down field and throw with velocity like he did late in that game, we will be a way better football team
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Nope...didn't notice that. Was too busy throwing shit around my living room about Browning's first 57 minutes.puppylove_sugarsteel said:Pup just wants to see Browning build off his play late in fiesta bowl. First Time I've ever seen him step up in the pocket and throw with authority down field trying to bring his team back. I would suspect that none of you bozos noticed, but that was a huge step for Browning I've never seen it from him. If he can maintain that confidence in the pocket, keep his eyes down field and throw with velocity like he did late in that game, we will be a way better football team
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Harsh but fair.Dennis_DeYoung said:
So wait / you think being a good athlete makes you able to be a good football player and it’s just coaching that is the difference?Bread said:Disagree on Dotson. I want him to learn how to play. He is the best pure athlete on the team. Getting unkown rare athletes and turning them into football players is suppose to be what Petersen is good at.
What the actual fuck?
Talent in football is having the ability to do the intuitive parts of football. Making people miss, getting people off balance, etc.
Sure you can teach a method to that, but if you don’t have an intuitive feel for how to play CB you aren’t talented just because you have a good 40 time.
That’s the difference between “track speed” and “football speed”.
Contrary to what morons who love the underwear olympics think - track shit does not predict being a good football player.
Yes - if you are ALREADY a good football player, verifying that stuff is useful. But it doesn’t mean you can BECOME a good football player.
Jomon isn’t a good football player. He doesn’t get football. He never makes anything happen.
Great players show flashes early because they get it, they just aren’t consistently producing the conditions that catalyze greatness. Jomon has never done one fucking thing that says he’s good at football. Not one.
His best play as a Husky is running in a straight line vs Oregon. That’s it.
He sucks. -
So was I Meeks. Without Pennis, Chicosan and Bryant id be running for my life too vs those athlete's on DMeek said:
Nope...didn't notice that. Was too busy throwing shit around my living room about Browning's first 57 minutes.puppylove_sugarsteel said:Pup just wants to see Browning build off his play late in fiesta bowl. First Time I've ever seen him step up in the pocket and throw with authority down field trying to bring his team back. I would suspect that none of you bozos noticed, but that was a huge step for Browning I've never seen it from him. If he can maintain that confidence in the pocket, keep his eyes down field and throw with velocity like he did late in that game, we will be a way better football team
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keep dreaming you delusional old kookpuppylove_sugarsteel said:Pup just wants to see Browning build off his play late in fiesta bowl. First Time I've ever seen him step up in the pocket and throw with authority down field trying to bring his team back. I would suspect that none of you bozos noticed, but that was a huge step for Browning I've never seen it from him. If he can maintain that confidence in the pocket, keep his eyes down field and throw with velocity like he did late in that game, we will be a way better football team
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DDY, you have a gift for killing any real optimism I ever have about UW’s offense. I am not entirely sure I appreciate it either.
So essentially UW’s young WRs suck because the offense is too complicated?
All I want to see is UW being physical. Ever since Azeem got injured, it’s like the front seven started regressing back to the weak ass shit we saw before Pete got here. -
Doog.puppylove_sugarsteel said:So was I Meeks. Without Pennis, Chicosan and Bryant id be running for my life too vs those athlete's on D
