TheHB
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I think it's accurate and a gripe that making everything about Lanning making bad calls there and not getting it is distracting from:
1. The Husky defense doing a great job in tough 3rd and 4th down situations. It's really fucking hard to get modern offenses off the field with losses of down.
2. The Husky offense and team as a whole making winners win plays
I remember damn well in 2019 and possibly 2018 Mario going for it in tough 4th downs and it really swinging the game by getting it
To me the Huskies having a scheme but also kind of having it be backyard our best players will beat your players instead of Oregon's kind of Petersen like dink and dunk ground control ball control shit which doesn't work in tight moments and when you just plain need to score. The Franklin TD and long pass down the field were set up by shit they had to run for 3 quarters.
I'm kind of tired about the bitching about the Nix sprint out passes. What? You thought he was going to drop back and get the conversions that way? They also tried to run on that third and short where Lanning got the timeout or shit in but the play ran and got fucking blown out. Their short yardage run game was slipping as the game went on. They were also struggling to pass pro.
Some of you might want to shield your eyes as I'm about to posit a hypothetical...
But if Oregon runs a draw play on that final fourth down they probably gain 7-15 yards.
There you go with the probablys again. UW did stop Oregon on a 3rd down run earlier in the drive but got saved by a late TO.
Also, for those bagging on the sprint out playcall, I’m pretty sure Oregon scored on that play earlier in the game. So there was some positive recent history with it.