Week 1 over reaction thread

Kingdome_Urinals said:
The blocking scheme and run game were better executed than last year.
It's a bit sobering how much a drop off there is after Coleman leaves the game. Mohammed was not impressive and is basically who many thought Richard Newton was.
Boston is a legit 1-2 round NFL talent and Williams is a great distributor of the ball.
The McLaughlin Group! New name for defense.
Linebackers don't seem that talented but I think the d line does some decent run plugging.
This defense will really need big plays to stay alive against decent teams.
Corners are huge and often well-positioned.
Overall, this defense will get dragged by several teams on the schedule.
This is looking like a 5-6 loss team with upside to be a 4 loss team.
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I thought Mohammed looked pretty good. Sure he averaged 3.6 ypc but he did have a short TD and also had 2 catches for 38 yards (including a 33 yarder).
Is Omari Evans banged up? Rashid Williams is pretty good as a RS-Soph but I didn't expect to see Roebuck ahead of Evans.
I'm not as down on the defense as some others, at least yet. Sure Anterio Thompson and Uiagaleilei really do much but Lane looked great and Pepa had a few tackles. Durfee was around the ball some but didn't register any stats. Overall there were 6 TFLs, which is a big improvement over last year's D.
Against Ohio State, we'll probably see more 5 man fronts:
SDE: Durfee
DT: Thompson
NT: Butler or Davis
DT: Uiagaleilei
WDE: Lane
I'd rather see Uiagalelei as a SDE in 4 man fronts because he's not big / strong enough to hold up as a true DT against more powerful teams.
But I'm glad UW gets Ohio State early at home with a RS-Frosh QB and a somewhat rebuilt offense (with Chip Kelly no longer calling plays).
 
Play that game 100 times and UW wins by more than 17 in most of them. They had some anti clutch moments and CSU had some clutch moments, but otherwise it was domination. I don't think the final score was indicative of the gap between the two teams. /shrug
 
CSU looked like they put a lot into winning this game. They’re probably a 7 win MWC team but really wanted to get this win for no reason really. It doesn’t matter in their conference play and only matters when the check cashes. Boise looks like ass so maybe I’m wrong
 
HFNY said:
Kingdome_Urinals said:
The blocking scheme and run game were better executed than last year.
It's a bit sobering how much a drop off there is after Coleman leaves the game. Mohammed was not impressive and is basically who many thought Richard Newton was.
Boston is a legit 1-2 round NFL talent and Williams is a great distributor of the ball.
The McLaughlin Group! New name for defense.
Linebackers don't seem that talented but I think the d line does some decent run plugging.
This defense will really need big plays to stay alive against decent teams.
Corners are huge and often well-positioned.
Overall, this defense will get dragged by several teams on the schedule.
This is looking like a 5-6 loss team with upside to be a 4 loss team.
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I thought Mohammed looked pretty good. Sure he averaged 3.6 ypc but he did have a short TD and also had 2 catches for 38 yards (including a 33 yarder).
Is Omari Evans banged up? Rashid Williams is pretty good as a RS-Soph but I didn't expect to see Roebuck ahead of Evans.
I'm not as down on the defense as some others, at least yet. Sure Anterio Thompson and Uiagaleilei really do much but Lane looked great and Pepa had a few tackles. Durfee was around the ball some but didn't register any stats. Overall there were 6 TFLs, which is a big improvement over last year's D.
Against Ohio State, we'll probably see more 5 man fronts:
SDE: Durfee
DT: Thompson
NT: Butler or Davis
DT: Uiagaleilei
WDE: Lane
I'd rather see Uiagalelei as a SDE in 4 man fronts because he's not big / strong enough to hold up as a true DT against more powerful teams.
But I'm glad UW gets Ohio State early at home with a RS-Frosh QB and a somewhat rebuilt offense (with Chip Kelly no longer calling plays).
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In the theme of overreaction the defense got a lot better when #11 stopped playing. When the run defense was melting down the DEs were getting sucked up inside a lot.
Sports are odd. This game statistically has a lot of similarities to the opener against Kent State in 2022 but that game felt like so much more of a domination. The Deboer UW teams just seemed to have such a better rhythm than Fusch.
 
Reading that Azzopardi and Willis were two of the highest rated tackles in CFB this past week.

It seemed like the Hatchett brothers are who struggled.
 
Jay Norvell and Ryan Walters coached together at Oklahomo and Norvell had an offseason to cook up that game plan. My hope is that’s why the D got so worked and RW will make the adjustments. He has lauded the talent depth he has.

Probably just cope☝️ but who knows.🤷‍♂️
 
Quietcowskee said:
Jay Norvell and Ryan Walters coached together at Oklahomo and Norvell had an offseason to cook up that game plan. My hope is that’s why the D got so worked and RW will make the adjustments. He has lauded the talent depth he has.

Probably just cope☝️ but who knows.🤷‍♂️
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Norvell is a good coach so it's not just a cope. RW also made adjustments at intermission and the D was better in the 2nd half.
A cope would would be extrapolating Devin Hyde looking pretty good in limited snaps against CSU to then abusing Ohio State's OTs in 3 1/2 weeks.
 
One loss Bammer getting in over Florida State was an injustice and travesty.

Saturday's gayme doesn't make up for it, but the SEC can't cheat anymore so yes, it might be curtains. It was nothing special before the late 2000s. It was basically Saban and Rural Meyer.
 
Have zero expectations against Ohio State. Could try to talk myself into maybe if their QB situation is a meltdown we can make it like the 2007 USC game or 2012 Stanford game or something, but I don't know why they wouldn't just be able to run the ball all they want.
 
What if half that sell out is Ohio State fans? I guess there have been decent environments with a shit ton of Michigan Oregon and Coug fans in recent years.
Speaking of 2007, the 2007 game against Ohio State might not be a bad comparison. They were limited at QB - we had a second year QB who could run and it and we kept it a game for a while. Wouldn't be shocked if the offensive plan is the same to tell Demond to just run to the edge if something isn't there quickly.
 
  1. Williams/Coleman/Boston is a nice three headed monster but I’m not sure what’s there for complimentary pieces. Williams has to stay healthy obviously and Mohammed needs touches. Lines are very suspect.
  2. This is probably Oregon’s most talented team top to bottom in Lanning’s 4 years. Lots of dudes to keep happy with touches/targets.
  3. Coog and Beev are awful
  4. Penn St and tOSU are good but not overwhelming like last year, at least the latter.
  5. SEC is down. Bama looked slow and soft. LSU is meh. Maybe Georgia is waiting in the tall grass as a title contender. I don’t trust Auburn or Ole Miss. I guess we’ll see.
  6. Iowa offense is still Iowa offense and I’m also not in on Illinois.
  7. Utah and BYU might be the class of the Big12 with ASU

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For the 200th Tim, we are not losing to OSU!
They are playing with fire coming up here. If they F’ up a possession or two early in the game and allow us to take any kind of a lead, the NS upper deck will reign down thunder seldom seen or heard
 
dannarc said:
For the 200th Tim, we are not losing to OSU!
They are playing with fire coming up here. If they F’ up a possession or two early in the game and allow us to take any kind of a lead, the NS upper deck will reign down thunder seldom seen or heard
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sayin and OSU didnt look great
 
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