Dump arbuckle
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“Fire 🔥 The Coaches”, screams old man from his couch while watching his team on the field win their 9th game of the season.
“WIN GOODER”, he rants.
“WIN GOODER”, he rants.
9th? Let’s be real, Arbuckle should be gone tomorrow. He’s been atrocious at play calling in the second half of several games.
Where is this 9th win that you are speaking of?
I watched a team lose to a 2-9 team at home with a tight end playing quarterback. That is 3 straight losses to 3 bad teams.Reality sucks.
And going where after us Couging it 3 games in a row to shit opponents? Yes we Couged it - textbook definition - 3 games in a row.
And I'll ordain Williams as the Goat of the last 2 games. He fumbles last week, then bobbles the pass at the end that would have gotten us one pass away from FG range.
And yeah F Arbuckle. Did we ever run the ball anywhere other than up the gut?
I'm never going to understand a failing front 4 on defense when you know the other team is comfortable and attacking.
I swear...
I think every other team minus fuw did something good against us to which we should have learned from.
Instead...
We go boring, bland, soft, and stupid
This is almost the weirdest season ever!
I've got to say that I'm Team Biggs at this point. Dickert needs to fire Arbuckle and Schmedding and if we aren't better soon....he's got to be next. The sad truth is that we needed a lucky stop to beat UW, a pick six to beat Fresno State and a pick against SDSU to keep that game from getting out of hand late. We are three plays away from a 10 game road losing streak and being 6-13 in our last 19 games.
Our 8-4 record is a mirage and we are a bad football with incompetent coaches that are incapable of making adjustments in-game.
Our 8-4 record is a mirage and we are a bad football with incompetent coaches that are incapable of making adjustments in-game.
I totally agree. I also will give credit where credit is due and think Flat and Suddy’s critical comments lately have been spot on.
This is a 3-9 team at best in a regular P12 conference this season.
I've forced myself to watch about 60 total minutes of Cougar football this season and there's been zero (and I repeat, zero) enjoyment. Bad coaching, bad athletes, bad entertainment.
I've watched almost every miserable minute of this debacle but I get why you would want to skip it.
Genuine kudos to you. You're braver than myself, lol.
Since about 2019 it's become less of a priority for me, and I think it's been long term apathy that's slowly set in. As college athletics has changed, it's been easier to quit caring. And I haven't missed having more free weekends and less frustrations. I want to care a lot more, but it's clear the university president and entire AD has mailed it in.
WSU is not a legit bowl team. I fear this team will get its doors blown off by a team with a good running game and a decent defense. 8-4 is a mirage at this point in the season.
Same could be said for Erickson , Walden, Price and Leach . How were Leach's adjustments in the 2013 Apple Cup? Price I couldn't tell you how crappy he was in the second half.
If Arbuckle leaves and gets a better gig, what does that tell you?
Leach learned what didn't work? Jimmy Lake laughed and said he just used the previous years game plan ....
It has ti do with the oline. Hard to make adjustments when they cant block. We have had two good years of running the ball. 1988 and 2005.
Other than that we have struggled....and it is because of the Mountajn West players we have always have had to play up front.
Nope simply pointing out Leach never solved the 3 rush 8 drop dilemma. Maybe a TE posting up on a hook zone would help things out
So having a slower athlete running a route would help with an 8 man drop?
As Longtime said running the ball and mixing up your runs is a good start. How about taking a F’ing deep shot too to loosen up the back. I don’t recall one ball over the top when you have the fastest guy on the field by far. Mateer doesn’t throw the greatest deep ball but Kyle Williams racing by you early in the game will make you turn your hips a lot earlier if you’re a DB the rest of the game. Never happened once.
So many examples of coaching malpractice on the offensive side of the ball last night and the same shit we’ve seen game after game.
That’s what an OC that can’t play call says. Seem to remember plenty of times Parker had a good seam to run through. A shit play caller is an OLines worst nightmare. The front 7 has a jump on everything that you’re trying to do and makes it much easier for them to kick your ass.
Stats for the season. More rush attempts than pass attempts, even if you adjust for sacks.
2024 Football Cumulative Statistics - Washington State University Athletics
The official 2024 Football cumulative statistics for the Washington State University Cougars
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Pretty wild for a team that can’t run block.Stats for the season. More rush attempts than pass attempts, even if you adjust for sacks.
2024 Football Cumulative Statistics - Washington State University Athletics
The official 2024 Football cumulative statistics for the Washington State University Cougars
The issue is that we can no longer get yards when we need them. We'll bust off a nice run and feeling good but when we need two yards....nope.
Not enough production from routine plays would be my one sentence summary of the offense.
One sequence in particular stands out to me. Up 2 scores and getting the ball to start the third against New Mexico. Did whatever you wanted to in the first half offensively.
Pretty effortless 12 yard run from Parker to start. Then you go drop back pass, drop back pass, drop back pass. No play action, no RPO, just three straight drop backs. Why.
I think Arbuckle has a bit of the Leach Kryptonite of “all we have to do is execute and it doesn’t matter what the defense does, we can’t be stopped”. Which may be true in theory except it requires your QB to fit balls through pea sized windows and in game adjustments to create more space goes out the window.
Yeah that was dumb. Open up the half running until they stop you.
Well, one reason was that Mateer was on fire in the first half. If we got stuffed on three running plays, plenty of people would be complaining about going away from the hot hand. In other words, there is a certainly a trend for posters to complain about plays that don't work.
And for God's sake... it's better to roll outward and run wide when the house is clogged.
Bust the gut when the line is split.
I swear we were going the rush attempts back-asswards
