Here is a simple, quick analysis. This game, like all others, comes down to the trenches. If Washington can keep Anderson, Williams, Payne, Tomlinson and Allen from living in the backfield, Washington will be able to move the ball and better control the game. The same goes for Alabama. If they can own the trenches on offense, they can better move the ball and control the clock and dictate what Washington has to do defensively and offensively. Simple
Totally agree!!! We? average a weight of 332 across the line, and they are ready to dominate the line of scrimmage. MacGeary, Tray Adams, Center, Ossai, Bulyca. These boys have an attitude and are ready to rumble!!!
Our offensive line is pretty stout too. They are strong and quick. The true indicator will be the speed of Washington's defensive line. Being big is good, but you need the speed to go along with it
Some light reading for you
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Serious question: From your perspective, what did USC do to dominate and control the game earlier this season?
Nothing. I 100% fully believe we handed them the game with terrible offensive playcalling. USC was playing well and have a lot of talent. They played a good game with good players but did not dominate. The defense held them to 24 points despite spending all day on the field. The issue was our offense was asked to only do the things they couldn't do.
We barely ran the ball, and when asked to they were lateral runs. USC, like Alabama, is too fast and athletic to run lateral on. After a few failed, bad run calls, the run game was abandoned.
We put ourselves behind early by trying to force trick plays and deep balls. USC was too athletic to get away with forcing trick plays. Like everyone other than our offensive coordinator knows you have to set those up through actually passing football first. He was told that teams with explosive plays win but he does not understand that is correlative, not casual, so he tries to manufacture them. Same thing goes for deep balls. Browning is not good at deep balls but he was asked to throw them early and often. John ross can run circles beneath an under thrown deep ball against Cal but not a team like USC or Bama. Deep balls were a constant play call the second half, getting increasingly desperate.
The key to beating USC for us was to stick to our strengths, take what was given, and only go for a big play once it was properly set up. We did nothing of the sort though.