The defense was fine considering they were on the field most of the 2nd half. Roaddawg made a good observation where UW was subbing a lot on defense during that game which helped quite a bit in that regard. It was one of the few examples of good coaching during the game.
Norm Chow helped the most, that 3rd and 10 pass to the flats near the 50 late in the 4th was fucking stupid and probably destroyed any confidence the team had left. Not even going to mention the trick play they tried.
Lindquist had a lot of wide open receivers in the 2nd half he just plain missed. Hoping to see a different offense with Cyler next week (god damnit I'm going to waste another day watching a shitty scrimmage). We win rather easily, say 44-10?
Your post should be nominated for the fucktarded post of the week ...
The defense wasn't fine just in the 2nd half ... the young guys were picked on for the first drive then they basically kicked ass the rest of the game allowing 3 FGs. If you tell me the defense gives up 16 ppg for the season, I'm going to tell you that we'll have a damn good season.
You think that subbing on defense was one of the few signs of good coaching. Let me give you a few other examples of good coaching:
1) Using Coleman on the last drive when he was by far the most effective runner during the game and not punishing him or showing a lack of faith based on his prior fumble
2) Coaching up the young DBs during the game so that they learned and didn't make the same mistakes multiple times
3) Playing a field position game and trusting the strength of your team (defense) to win you the game instead of the offense (something that would have never happened under Seven Win Steve who would have forced the issue with the offense during the game)
4) The execution on the last 2 drives of the game to essentially bleed off 8 minutes of the 4th quarter and give Hawaii no margin for error in their attempt to win the game ... this included putting Lindy in position to make plays that he was capable of making (and keeping those plays in the back pocket until they were really needed)
Now, you criticize Norm Chow for a fucktarded 3rd down pass to the flats at midfield ... you act like he just decided that that was a good play call nominated by John Madden. Instead if you were paying any attention whatsoever, you'd have noticed in the 2nd half in particular that the Hawaii WRs were getting basically ZERO separation whatsoever from our DBs. Moreover, the QB was getting hit on just about every single play. The pass to the flats wasn't designed to get 10 yards ... it was designed to get them into 4th and manageable so that they could go for it. Instead, Peters made a great play (because that's what he does), Hawaii lost yardage, they knew that they had almost zero chance to make a play in that situation, so they decided to punt it, leverage their defense that was playing well, and play the timeout game (which they had 3 left).
And you do realize that they tried 3 trick plays in the first quarter plus of the game? Two of them worked? The third would have worked if he had another half second to get his shoulders squared up to his target.