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LANDSLIDE

Loyal, Flathead, Willy, ED, and the rest of you head in the sand libs I told you earlier this year it would be a landslide and many of you made the statement "I bet he doesn't comeback when Trump loses".

Well here I am to declare an enormous victory for the American people. The working class took back their Country last night.

No doubt you will make excuses, continue to call Trump and his supporters inflammatory names etc while upping you prescription for Xanax for the next 12 years....That's right 4 years of DJT and 8 years of JDV.

I love the smell of MAGA in the morning,

TC

Update: Dickert taking control over Schmedding for OSU and WYO...

This comes from a brief story taken from today's Seattle Times...

Dickert to take a bit more control over defense this weekend​

As WSU’s defense struggles, permitting 28 points to Utah State in a Nov. 9 win and 38 to New Mexico in a loss last weekend, Dickert is ready to insert himself more in the team’s defensive game-planning for the Cougs’ final two regular-season games, he said. He’s staying mindful of his role as head coach and letting defensive coordinator Jeff Schmedding call the defense, but Dickert said he’s “taking a little bit of a different approach” to end the regular season.

“I’ll probably watch a few more of the iPads on the sideline so I can see exactly what’s happening,” Dickert said, “so I can give my input, ideas, all that type of stuff.”

Dickert, who came to WSU as the team’s defensive coordinator in 2020, is a defensive-minded coach. He coached the 2020 and 2021 seasons as defensive coordinator until taking over as interim head coach in 2021, then accepting the full-time job after the season.

Late last season, as the Cougars’ defense struggled under Schmedding, Dickert shared that he was asserting himself more on that side of the ball. This year, as WSU tries to find ways to limit point production and slow mobile quarterbacks like UNM’s Devon Dampier, Dickert is doing something similar.

Seattle Times ~ As money floods college sports, WSU’s Cougar Collective trying to keep up..

The article was too big to copy and paste on a Reader format. You might be able to access for free, but it is a pay wall...

This article is great PR, and may inspire future big donors...

Anyone own a Tesla?

My wife is looking for a new car and we just test drove the 2025 Model Y.
Say what you want, but the Supervised FSD is a game changer We drove ourselves on about a 5 mile city test drive in Bellevue. Turned on the FSD and it drove us back by itself, didn’t intervene once. It even parked itself.

Very comfortable, even for a big guy, 6-4 #230. Had plenty of room.

Any thoughts?

What’s up with our secondary?

I can’t recall a worse combo of Lautima and Durant since maybe Chima Nwachuku and Casey Locker? Even Casey Locker would destroy people at times. Didn’t Dickert make his way up coaching secondaries? At this rate, it’d probably be better to let John walk, pay Emmet Brown 50k to come back or the UNM QB, or go to the back up, and pay Parker, plus some D lineman and secondary transfers. I don’t think our safeties would start 3/4 the MWC teams. Gushiken maybe 1/2 the teams at nickel, and our CBs are okay. We are basically Cal under Sonny Dykes. How Dickert can let this continue on defense is baffling, it’s his area of expertise. Drop the “CEO” coach tag and do something.

Mateer postgame

Buddy, you were absolutely not the problem here. 375 yards and 4 TDs, 65 rushing and a TD. Interesting comment from Dickert that Mateer didn't practice all week (foot).


As said elsewhere, our defense was horrible all game. Also agree that this defense bears no resemblance to the one that beat the mutts. Thornton appeared to be burned on anything that came his way. Score some Peyote down there before the game?

On a positive note, the sweet nectar commonly known as Coors Light doesn't give me a hangover (thankfully :)). And the sun came up today.

It just dawned on me about hard core bitching

Isnt this awesome to be bitching as we're probably going to be winning 10, 11, 12 games this year vs. the years of why the coach should be fired for losing to a sh*t squad... how the refs f'ed us against spoiled brats... what bowl games we won't be watching...

Myself included...

Wtf are we doing and can anyone name the last time we had positive posts for 3 or 4 days in a row?

Dickert should RIP a hole into OC, DC, as players played well, hard, etc, between some to most of time.

This loss was on Arbuckle, and Schmedding, Not on the players.

Yes if the players had not done things like over pursue, miscommunicate, take bad angles, not stay in lanes at home, not blown a coverage assignment, not overthrown WIDE OPEN WR, not dropped balls, etc, then yes, if not for those things, beyond coaches control, then WSU would have won.


But the reason it's the DC'S, OC's fault for losing the game.

1. Dampier was doing SHIT in the air. In fact Dampier had about a 35% completion percentage, and only had 1,2 big pass plays all game long. Meanwhile Dampier was GASHING on the ground. Schmedding SHOULD HAVE PUT 7,8 in the Box, about 97% of time, to STOP DAMPIER FROM RUNNING AND TO FORCE DAMPIER TO THROW, and have had 3,4 DB's, 1 LB play a man to man matchup zone, or man coverage on 2nd and 17, 3rd and 13 type downs, and blitz, rush 4,5, have 1,2,3 spy, stay at home, in case Dampier scrambles, runs, and drop back 3,4,5 into coverage.

Schmedding's FAILURE to do that is 1/3 of why WSU lost. Dickert should have forced Schmedding. Dickert's failure to force Schmedding to do that is 1/2 of the 1/3 why WSU lost.

2. In the 2nd half Arbuckle was too predictable, and didn't adjust in his play calling. The TV announcers said LOTS of times that the New Mexico defense was dropping 6,7,8 back into coverage, and rushing, blitzing 3,4,5 combined together on 2nd, 3rd downs.

What NM did was to put 6,7 in box to stuff run on first down, hold WSU to 3.5 rushing yards on 1st down, and in pass coverage play sideline passes, screen passes, bubble passes, shovel passes, short slants, short crosses, short curls, etc, very tight, so as to not give up more then 3.5 yards, pass or run on average, in order to force 2nd and long, 3rd and long in order to drop 5,6,7,8, and rush, blitz, 3,4,5,6, which shut mateer, WSU offense down, because Arbuckle, offense PLAYED RIGHT INTO NEW MEXICO'S DEFENSIVE HANDS.

On 1st down Arbuckle should have called, mixed in a few, some play action pass, RPO option spread, to set up the run, loosen up defense. Also Arbuckle should have at least had some midrange 17+ yard routes, passes on 1st down, to loosen up the short, tight coverage of NM. And Arbuckle should have called at least 1 reverse sweep run, 1 Wildcat WR run, and 2,3 runs by either RB, QB between Guard and Tackle, semi outside that breaks to semi outside, both right, and left, to wide side of field, instead of always predictably running the ball between center and guard, up the gut.

And on 2nd and 5,6,7,8, instead of passing almost all the time into drop 6,7,8, rush, blitz 3,4,5, Arbuckle should have run the ball about 39% to 43% to 46% of time, which would have stopped NM from dropping 6,7,8, rush, blitzing 3,4,5.

Basically Arbuckle needs to use every blade of grass on the football field, short, mid, deep, left, right, sideline to sideline, with both passes, and runs, and needs to take whatever the defense gives. If the defense is loading the box with 7 players, then FCKING pass. If defense only has 4,5 in Box, then FCKING run. If defense is playing the short passing zones extremely tight, then throw midrange or deep. If defense is covering, playing the mid to deep passing zones tight, then pass underneath.


Arbuckle was doing that, those things most of time in first half, which is why the offense was good in 1st half.

But in the 2nd half, it's like, as if Arbuckle forgot how to react, adjust, call effective play calls, and was too lazy, predictable, bad, ineffective.

Both Schmedding, Arbuckle, the coaching staff, was totally OUTCOACHED, OUT ADJUSTED, by Bronco Mendenhall, and his coaching staff. Because of that, THIS LOSS IN ON BRONCO AND HIS STAFF TO GIVE THEM CREDIT, AND ON SCHMEDDING, ARBUCKLE AND THUS ON DICKERT.
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