2026 UW Roster - Offense

houseofpain247 said:
And that's what I'm worried about. Basically, our improvement comes down to whether or not some true freshman are ready to play? But, we've spent the last two years saying, "But this team is young! Just wait until they get older!" Now the team is older and we're banking on the fact that the true freshman will help us!

It just doesn't make sense any more as a roster construction strategy. Get talented true freshman, patiently wait to develop them, watch them succeed for another team, hope for more talented true freshman to show up.
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I think UW has enough cash to pay for starters they really want to keep. Mohammed, from all I’ve gleaned, didnt like UW. Cool, that’s what the portal is for. They kept Coleman, Boston, they brought in Taco and kept Loadsock. On top of that they paid to bring back their junior QB even though he eventually wanted to back out on the deal. What’s important is they paid market value for him. The only freshman they lost that made an impact was RVB. If he wanted a big bag and it was between him and Roebuck then I like the decision they made. Mills and RDA are back, huge deal there. Butler really is the only upper class guy they lost where I wonder how much more he got from Texas Tech to be a rotational DL. He’s not some pocket collapsing, game wrecker. Just a nice piece. I’d like to see the financials. Henning and Paki were depth at UW, not starters. They’re transferring to start next year. Does UW pay starter money for their back ups? Again, that’s what the portal is for. If the Seahawks have a sixth O lineman they like who’s up for free agency and Detroit offers him a starting spot and more money are the Hawks expected to pay him what a starter makes because they like him? No. You go young and move on. That’s what the Huskies are doing for Oline depth. Not starters, depth.
 
Bob_C said:
Blaming play calling is for simpletons.
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Yeah, only simpletons can criticize short side options with Will Rogers with the game on the line.

Petersen's offense also sucked at play calling and everyone here criticized it. So I guess everyone here is a simpleton.

Both offenses did not run the ball enough and abandoned it too soon in games. Both offenses had a lot of pieces to do better than they did and were typically well coached in many other aspects.

Thus far, Fisch needs to be a CEO hc and stop calling plays. But he isnt going to relinquish that so we better hope he figures it out.
 
TSIO.

Bad playcaller.

Midget QB who just lost his only big target that was actually good and does not have quite enough top end speed to get away from the teams with high-end talent on defense.

DL will suck and we? will be watching a defense that tries to play bend but don't break all year long.
 
Jedd watches plays on tv and sees them work and puts them in the playbook not understanding why what he saw actually worked or being capable to teach his team on how to make it work. And he has renowned offensive genius Jimmy Dougherty backing him up. That’s the problem, not the play calling.
 
I think at this point anyone who praises Fisch’s playcalling is a retarded turnip. That said, the issues don’t begin to stop/start there.

It’s just a symptom of a lot of systemic retardation among many turnips.
 
theknowledge said:
I think UW has enough cash to pay for starters they really want to keep. Mohammed, from all I’ve gleaned, didnt like UW. Cool, that’s what the portal is for. They kept Coleman, Boston, they brought in Taco and kept Loadsock. On top of that they paid to bring back their junior QB even though he eventually wanted to back out on the deal. What’s important is they paid market value for him. The only freshman they lost that made an impact was RVB. If he wanted a big bag and it was between him and Roebuck then I like the decision they made. Mills and RDA are back, huge deal there. Butler really is the only upper class guy they lost where I wonder how much more he got from Texas Tech to be a rotational DL. He’s not some pocket collapsing, game wrecker. Just a nice piece. I’d like to see the financials. Henning and Paki were depth at UW, not starters. They’re transferring to start next year. Does UW pay starter money for their back ups? Again, that’s what the portal is for. If the Seahawks have a sixth O lineman they like who’s up for free agency and Detroit offers him a starting spot and more money are the Hawks expected to pay him what a starter makes because they like him? No. You go young and move on. That’s what the Huskies are doing for Oline depth. Not starters, depth.
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Your argument centers mostly on the OL, the OL is the one position group I'm actually not too worried about. I hate that we live in a world that you can't keep quality depth. We're constantly teetering on the edge of an injury tanking a group. It's the rest of the skills positions that worry me.

For being 2 years into the project, both of the years we've been told, "THIS TEAM IS SO YOUNG," I'm looking at the skills positions and thinking....where is the payoff?

RB: dependent on a transfer buried on Oregon's depth chart, a true freshman, and a soph that barely played
TE: Dependent on a JR who regressed last year and can't block and ....hopefully a freshman in Naone?
WR: A true soph who is GOOD in Roebuck, another Sophomore who played sparingly in Lawson, and a promising guy in Rashid Williams that is all potential but he's been hurt half the time he's been here!

In the 3rd year of a rebuild, I'd just expect to see a lot more JR's or at least redshirt sophomores starting to pay dividends but it feels like we're just depending on freshman again to hopefully show up or injured guys to hopefully recover. It's all based on potential and best case scenarios.

I'm not saying we'll be bad or regress, I just don't know how this offense will be BETTER.
 
I agree playcalling and OCs are too much of a whipping boy across the board. One of my big concerns with it and Judd though is the team is atrocious on opening/early drives with him, which is when your scripted plays should soar (shoutout Sark).

I simply don't see "It" with Demond. That wouldn't be that big of a deal if he was surrounded by good pieces and was 6'3. That's not the case though.
 
He’s not surrounded by anything because he is being paid top of the market and we aren’t a top of the market overall spend program. It’s totally fair to criticize Judd for the allocation of resources here.
 
theknowledge said:
I think the success of the offense will come down to if Midget Williams takes a step forward. Will he throw the ball away instead of taking needless sacks? Will he take the check down instead of taking the deep shot? Too many times a 7-10 yard completion was right there to be had and he chucked the ball out of bounds or 10 yards too far, deep down the field. If the 20 year old, second year starter can take what is given instead of getting greedy then even with Judds play calling the offense can take a step.
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It all comes down to Demond being the QB Fisch thinks he is. Everyone else will develop to some extent and should be better.

There were three games that were winnable last year if Demond played better. He flat out lost the game vs Wisconsin, Michigan is a close two, and while Oregon was the better team, the early misfires by Demond in that game were a huge part of us falling behind early.

Great QB play has always been the great equalizer at UW in the modern era. We need Demond to be Tui and Penix. Both had their clunkers, but were clutch. Demond was anti-clutch last year and folded when it really mattered.
 
Bob_C said:
On paper this offense is worse than last years. Lots of projecting needed to get it to be even a wash.
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No, it’s not. The only spot where that is true on paper is WR. Maybe RB. Last year we had one really good WR in Boston and a good one in Roebuck. This year, I think we will have one really good one in Roebuck and 3-4 other good ones and it will be a better, more balanced attack.

I think the run game will be better overall as well. We will have a better OL and someone will step up at RB, and we will also be more explosive with more chunk play runs with the faster RB’s.
 
RoadDawg55 said:
No, it’s not. The only spot where that is true on paper is WR. Maybe RB. Last year we had one really good WR in Boston and a good one in Roebuck. This year, I think we will have one really good one in Roebuck and 3-4 other good ones and it will be a better, more balanced attack.

I think the run game will be better overall as well. We will have a better OL and someone will step up at RB, and we will also be more explosive with more chunk play runs with the faster RB’s.
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I hope you are right. Seems like wish-casting though. Without Boston we are going to have an even harder time moving the ball against good teams in my opinion.
 
Yep, given how much things now are talent management, Demond needs to be much more of a difference maker to justify the amount he takes up on the payroll at a progrum like Washington.
 
Will UW fans still be booing Demond by the time the B1G season starts?

It seems like most of you are cucks anyway, so I assume everyone will be " all is well" on the first snap of week 1. No?

Or will the real, old-school WASHINGTON fans haze the fuck out of this chump for at least a few weeks?
 
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