Jimmy Lake

Last nights game looked like a bunch of other games we had during the Pete era, especially openers. This looked exactly like the Cal games, the ASU game,, the Rutgers BSU,and Hawaii openers, and especially the Zona game where that little qb and RB gashed us for like 300
The question is... will Jimmy say "I'm glad we won but we have a ton of shit to clean up so we start working on that tomorrow." or does he say, "well, we won the game and thats the goal so we'll just keep plugging along. This season doesn't really count anyways."
If he takes the first route, then Jackson Sirmon, Ty Jones, and Josiah Bronson's positions should immediately be open competition, this JV taking turns at RB thing needs to be nixed, and they need to start figuring out the pass game. You can beat Oregon State by runningbthe ball 55 times but not many other teams. I do think a part of yesterday's offensive plan was due to them thinking Thomson was going to be the starter and then having to switch to someone else right before, at least I'm hopeful that was the case.
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I agree that Lake has a lot of arrogance that could be his downfall. But the one thing he’s been willing to do is pull players when they aren’t getting it done. Last year Cam was replaced by Asa and Kyler was replaced by McDuffie after the first 2 or 3 games.

So I’m holding hope he will be willing to objectively look at Sirmon and Jones and do the needful.

As for the DL, Tuli and Latu being hurt really made Taki and Bronson play a lot. Not sure if they were trying to protect the freshman, but you need to get Bandes and Tuitele and Ngalu in there.

Lastly, in concur that I think Thomson was supposed to be the starter and then his injury made it between Morris and Sirmon. And Lake after the game mentioned Morris won’t make the mistakes to hurt the team. I think the game plan was to manage the game and don’t make mistakes in a freshman’s first game. Sirmon has all the tools but he must have been making a lot of bad decisions in camp for him not to get a shot.
 
First games are often mirages. Last year I thought Eason was going to big dick the nation after throwing the first on target bomb since the 1990s...

Week two will tell you much more.

Also, it's about talent. They weren 't giving Cam Davis touches in crunch time instead they went with Newton (who I'm pretty much over) but in the future they will refine the RB rotation and that is the obvious strength of the program.

Myles didn't get cooking until the USC game his freshman year and after that he was POY every year.

The front 7 sucks worse than anything on offense.
 
What I'm telling myself to try and feel a little bit better is a couple plays here or there for us and this game is more like 35-14. Hopefully shit gets worked out.

This year is all practice and Huard 3.0 is on his way
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What I'm telling myself to try and feel a little bit better is a couple plays here or there for us and this game is more like 35-14. Hopefully shit gets worked out.

This year is all practice and Huard 3.0 is on his way
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Or, we lose if the Pac-12 refs don't shaft OSU with a shitty spot on 4th and inches from the UW 5. It was as close to a loss as it was to a 35-14 game.
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UW's first scoring drive was after getting bailed out with a bogus PI call on an uncatchable ball to Nacua. UW's third touchdown came after Nacua failed to control a red zone pass, dropped it, picked it back up, and it was incorrectly called a fumble instead of an incomplete pass. Later, OSU was denied a TD on two straight ridiculously bad spots. Not a single bad call went for OSU.

That's between a 14 and 21 point swing in a six point game. The narrative playing out in my head is that the Huskies lost the game but got bailed out. There's nothing hopeful about that.
 
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We all bitched about all the motion and overcomplicated bullshit of Petes offense and not playing young talent now we are running a simple offensive scheme and running the ball 5,000 tims and everyone is bitching...wtf....We needed to put more wrinkles in it last night(play action, WTE, etc..)

DLine needs Latu and to nut up..that's it....LIFPO

 
We all bitched about all the motion and overcomplicated bullshit of Petes offense and not playing young talent now we are running a simple offensive scheme and running the ball 5,000 tims and everyone is bitching...wtf....We needed to put more wrinkles in it last night(play action, WTE, etc..)

DLine needs Latu and to nut up..that's it....LIFPO
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Being simple is fine if you’re use a fucking modern offense but sitting in I-Formation running FB dives to a walk-on is FS
 
What I'm telling myself to try and feel a little bit better is a couple plays here or there for us and this game is more like 35-14. Hopefully shit gets worked out.

This year is all practice and Huard 3.0 is on his way
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What I'm telling myself to try and feel a little bit better is a couple plays here or there for us and this game is more like 35-14. Hopefully shit gets worked out.

This year is all practice and Huard 3.0 is on his way
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Or, we lose if the Pac-12 refs don't shaft OSU with a shitty spot on 4th and inches from the UW 5. It was as close to a loss as it was to a 35-14 game.
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UW's first scoring drive was after getting bailed out with a bogus PI call on an uncatchable ball to Nacua. UW's third touchdown came after Nacua failed to control a red zone pass, dropped it, picked it back up, and it was incorrectly called a fumble instead of an incomplete pass. Later, OSU was denied a TD on two straight ridiculously bad spots. Not a single bad call went for OSU.

That's between a 14 and 21 point swing in a six point game. The narrative playing out in my head is that the Huskies lost the game but got bailed out. There's nothing hopeful about that.
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Not to nitpick but the delay of game called on us after the refs screwed OSU on the fourth down spot was not a delay of game. That was a horrible call and they blew the whistle early - which helped Oregon State.

Also, we spot Oregon State ten points off the bat with the world’s worst long snapper and missed chip shot FG. Can’t cherrypick bad luck only for one team without also considering how it went the other way.
 
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4th and 6 from OSU 40? Go for it! Not impressed with Lake. I hope he gets his shit together. I'm worried that Jimmy's biggest fan is Jimmy.
 
What I'm telling myself to try and feel a little bit better is a couple plays here or there for us and this game is more like 35-14. Hopefully shit gets worked out.

This year is all practice and Huard 3.0 is on his way
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What I'm telling myself to try and feel a little bit better is a couple plays here or there for us and this game is more like 35-14. Hopefully shit gets worked out.

This year is all practice and Huard 3.0 is on his way
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Or, we lose if the Pac-12 refs don't shaft OSU with a shitty spot on 4th and inches from the UW 5. It was as close to a loss as it was to a 35-14 game.
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UW's first scoring drive was after getting bailed out with a bogus PI call on an uncatchable ball to Nacua. UW's third touchdown came after Nacua failed to control a red zone pass, dropped it, picked it back up, and it was incorrectly called a fumble instead of an incomplete pass. Later, OSU was denied a TD on two straight ridiculously bad spots. Not a single bad call went for OSU.

That's between a 14 and 21 point swing in a six point game. The narrative playing out in my head is that the Huskies lost the game but got bailed out. There's nothing hopeful about that.
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Not to nitpick but the delay of game called on us after the refs screwed OSU on the fourth down spot was not a delay of game. That was a horrible call and they blew the whistle early - which helped Oregon State.

Also, we spot Oregon State ten points off the bat with the world’s worst long snapper and missed chip shot FG. Can’t cherrypick bad luck only for one team without also considering how it went the other way.
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Bad snaps, missed field goals, dropped passes were mistakes made by people wearing purple jerseys. That's not luck, that's talent. "If our players didn't make mistakes, we'd win" is shallow. Gifts from the wefs, on the other hand, are out of either team's control and therefore unfairly impact an outcome.
 
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I didn't like the game plan at all and think the play calling was pretty awful at times. but I think the overreaction here is a little over the top, even for us? It's the first game, it was raining, the receivers apparently cannot catch, your QB is playing for the first time ever and your O-line has a significant advantage over OSU. How much differently would be we talking about this game if Jones and Rome made relatively easy TD catches? I thought the most egregious coaching decisions were apparently forgetting that Sean McGrew existed, not going for it on 4th and 5 from the 40 on the first drive, and getting that delay of game when they did actually want to go for it.

other than that LIPO
 
4th and 6 from OSU 40? Go for it! Not impressed with Lake. I hope he gets his shit together. I'm worried that Jimmy's biggest fan is Jimmy.
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If the defense wasn't getting run and your special teams didn't blow goats, then punting was the right call. I know everyone here wants to go for it every fucking 4th down.
 
Lot of lifpo that needs to happen
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Tons of lifpo. There will be some growing pains, as expected. Lets watch more than one game with a backup QB before dropping the radio in our bath water. I should have known better than to read this trash.
 
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When he got took the job, I was nervous. Anyone who knows Jimmy knows he's cocky and stubborn, that's a trait that could be good or bad depending on the coach. But then he had his press conference and I got excited. He talked about being aggressive on the field and on the recruiting trail and I thought his energy was needed to get this program back on track and get them back to competition with Oregon. But then he made his staff hires which made me scratch my head. Keeping KB and Bob, two guys who are worthless on the recruiting trail and are average coaches at best didn't seem aggressive. Then he promoted Will Harris to DB coach, brought back Terrence, and promoted Cato from within, all safe moves. Then came the OC hire, after failing to bring in Kellen Moore, he hired an OC that had a laughable resume and someone who basically left for dead in the NFL. But I thought, maybe he knows something I don't so give it time and see it play out.

Then recruiting came and it went like I expected which is why I started saying I was concerned about recruiting in April when all the so-called recruiting insiders kept making excuses and kept saying let it play out. All the holes I thought they had with this recruiting staff showed up and what was most disconcerting was the lack of a plan with recruiting. We missed on almost every DB, got dominated by Oregon, and struggled to recruit instate. But I thought, hey maybe the product on the field will be good enough to mask those flaws but nope. The offense ran tonight isn't a pro-style offense because no team in the NFL is dumb enough to run this. This offensive style is outdated and easy to defend. Stacking the box, running the same play over and over, not stretching the field might work against Oregon State but it won't work again for the good teams. I thought Jimmy could compete with Mario and Oregon but I was wrong. Even if he did have an epiphany and realize his mistakes, the budget wouldn't allow him to fix it but sadly I don't think he realizes his mistakes. What I saw tonight is a coach who will be competing with Stanford for third place. Hopefully, I'm wrong and overreacting but sadly I feel we are back in the 7-8 win level like under Steve Sarkisian while Oregon is back to competing for Championships under Mario as they did with Chip Kelly[/b].
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Time will tell if you're wrong. But you are definitely overreacting.
 
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