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Speaking of tools; Crystal balls shadow/strength/stache guy is strutting the sidelines.
I call him Duck Holiday
Seeing this game, I actually feel better about our game. I think we can defend the UO run game better than UW has. Some of the misdirection plays could give us some issues, but not like they did in the past. Our O will have to show up and play a full game, but I've got more confidence defensively.
Being in Seattle is the only thing that concerns me about AC. I don't see UW doing anything on either side of the ball that I'm that worried about.
Being in Seattle is the only thing that concerns me about AC. I don't see UW doing anything on either side of the ball that I'm that worried about.
Dumb AF too. Two stupid penalties that take your team out of game icing FG range? How F’in stupid can you be. UW gonna have a chance to take it down and tie it here.
Oregon is very good up front. If we get behind early, it’ll be a long day. If we can jump on them and get them out of their rushing game, we’ll have a chance.
Well here we go our 8 OT game isn’t out of the question due to Oregons Rhodes Scholar players and coaches who just pissed away an easy 3 points. At this point I don’t really care who wins both these teams are train wrecks. We gonna finish 8-4. You heard it here first.
The coach of the "academic prowess" UW decides to punt the ball down 8 with under 2 minutes to go on 4th and 10 at his own 10. Bad snap out of the endzone results in a safety. Even if UW gets the punt off, UO likely to run out the clock. I'm sure Husky fans are super happy with their coach.
Glad Cougar
Glad Cougar
I feel better about both next week and the Apple Cup based on this game. If we had both these teams at home I would feel decently about our chances against Oregon and very good about our chances in the Apple Cup. On the road, it's tougher. Oregon isn't that good, but it's still hard to go into Autzen and beat those guys, and UW is a pretty tough out at home despite being horrible. I hate to say it, but UW has shown this year that it's pretty good at winning close games where it plays terribly (see Cal, Arizona, and Stanford), and I always feel that way against UW in the Apple Cup, especially in Seattle. UW is just a few plays away from being 1-7.
Oregon is a QB away from being playoff competitive. So many bad QBs in this conference. Hopefully there are some youngsters with talent waiting their turn or things will be ugly the next couple years.
There is no excuse to lose the AC this year. That UW team is bad
There is no excuse to lose the AC this year. That UW team is bad
This team seems to bring it on the road. Cal and ASU were both pretty thorough asskickings. Some teams get an extra edge with the us against the world mentality. I don’t think Oregon overlooks us by any stretch though, although that was a chippy game last night so maybe they come out a little flat? Either way, I think if we play our game we beat them. The D better snap it up though Oregon is going to need to run for 300 and take the air out of the ball and they know it.
I can't believe that I am moved to defend Jimmy the Fake Lake in any form or fashion.
However, in reviewing the film clip of Jimmy running into the group of players getting chippy and the official getting it under control, it seems pretty clear that:
- Jimmy started running toward the altercation just as it started;
- by the time he got there the official was getting it under control;
- Jimmy was clearly pissed at his player. There was more to it than just what we saw; I suspect this player has a history of this and Jimmy had probably told the whole team to avoid this crap;
- he did not punch anybody. He slapped a face mask, then after the kid turned him around, he shoved him out of the area. That does not rise to the level of Woody Hayes, and is frankly does not even rise to the level of being objectionable in my mind.
- IMHO Jimmy's worst infraction in this case was to not give a nod to the official before removing his player from the vicinity. Since I don't know what Jimmy heard coming out of his player's mouth as he arrived on the scene, it is quite possible that the words were bad enough that Jimmy's response was viewed as reasonable by the official, as well as other team members. That, to me, is the missing piece of the discussion. Jimmy's action may have saved an ejection, depending upon what the player was in the process of saying...or what Jimmy was concerned that he was about to say.
Long story short, though I have minimal respect for Lake, this is not an open and shut case of coaching misconduct. It just isn't. And depending upon what was coming out of his player's mouth as he arrived, it might have been the smartest course of action for Jimmy.
However, in reviewing the film clip of Jimmy running into the group of players getting chippy and the official getting it under control, it seems pretty clear that:
- Jimmy started running toward the altercation just as it started;
- by the time he got there the official was getting it under control;
- Jimmy was clearly pissed at his player. There was more to it than just what we saw; I suspect this player has a history of this and Jimmy had probably told the whole team to avoid this crap;
- he did not punch anybody. He slapped a face mask, then after the kid turned him around, he shoved him out of the area. That does not rise to the level of Woody Hayes, and is frankly does not even rise to the level of being objectionable in my mind.
- IMHO Jimmy's worst infraction in this case was to not give a nod to the official before removing his player from the vicinity. Since I don't know what Jimmy heard coming out of his player's mouth as he arrived on the scene, it is quite possible that the words were bad enough that Jimmy's response was viewed as reasonable by the official, as well as other team members. That, to me, is the missing piece of the discussion. Jimmy's action may have saved an ejection, depending upon what the player was in the process of saying...or what Jimmy was concerned that he was about to say.
Long story short, though I have minimal respect for Lake, this is not an open and shut case of coaching misconduct. It just isn't. And depending upon what was coming out of his player's mouth as he arrived, it might have been the smartest course of action for Jimmy.
The fact that the official didn’t immediately throw a flag for contact with him says something. They usually don’t tolerate that…and these were Pac-12 refs.
That said, the news is not about what may have been being said by the player. The news isn’t even about players getting chippy and needing to be separated. It’s about Lake slapping a player and then shoving him. It’s a bad visual, and it’s really hard to defend the immediate perception.
UW needs to be quick with their investigation and try to control the news before it balloons. It’s not going to go away or get better on its own. They also need to keep Lake from making any more dumbass statements denying that he struck him. It’s on video, idiot.
