The Washington Huskies could be an instructional video on what a terrible football team looks like. This is simply a bad football team in every way. Their would be so much to choose from.
The offensive line had their worst game of the year Saturday against Oregon State. The brutal tackling on Bernard’s 3rd and 17 run was the epitome of terrible. Punter Sean Douglas, dropping the punt snap and giving up points. Craig Chambers dropping a would be 74 yard touchdown pass. The Huskies just make every bad play imaginable in a football game.
We saw Johnny DuRocher for the first time in competitive action. He was not good. His final numbers were 11 for 31. The disturbing thing was how slow he looked in the pocket and how slow he seemed to be reading plays. His arm looked solid, but the conditions were so poor that it was really very hard to evaluate.
What the coaching staff decides from here will be interesting. I can’t imagine that it is fair to put DuRocher back on the bench considering the weather circumstances made it impossible to evaluate his performance. In addition, if the hook of Stanback was solely for his play this week, then it was unfair. However, it was for his conglomerate lack of development then that should hold into next week as well.
Bottom line, none of it matters, because this is a terrible football team.
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I can't see how you would think DuRocher is good for this team in anyway right now. He isn't fast enough to elude the rush that this offensive line will give up in the next two contests, his decision making is poor. As for the Chambers ball, he should have caught it, but I think that was part of the football gods for the great pick thrown to spring him free.
If you don't want to play IS, which is understandable as his record dictates, why not play Bonnell, just to see what he has? I don't know if his injury has cleared up or not. The problems with this team do not lie at the feet of the QB, our offensive line is offensive.
Has anyone else seen a guy get 17 tackles and look worse doing it? I like Benjiman as a person, and as a student, he is great. As a football player, he is a liability to the largest degree. His "tackle" on the 3rd and 17 run is not the first nor the tenth play he has missed that has sprung a player. The piggyback ride Hass gave him for an extra six yards was great as well, and maybe his only solo tackle of the night. Like I said, I love Benjiman as a human and a student, but he seems like he has never played football before in his life.
Matt Fountaine needs to find a new position, as he is going to be beaten out by all of the JC's who commit and make it into school, hell Moss beat him out and had a trial by fire that he didn't fair that badly in playing against Jarrett and Hagan. I like Fountaine as a person, but he isn't good as a CB.
In closing, starting Stanback makes more sense if you want to win, because he has the arm to make throws that DuRocher can't (that corner route to Shackleford in the first quarter) and can elude the rush. Granted he makes poor decisions now and then, but DuRocher hasn't shown the greatest decision making abilities in his games. We need a win in one of these last two wins, but I fear we won't find one out there for us without a UCLA type performance. Too many injuries and too much undisciplined football (you can't take a false start on 2nd and Goal from the 4, bad teams make that play) leads to this road. It will take a few years to remove the chaff and start all over...
I say that because I watched Johnny D make poor throws yesterday time and time again. DuRocher had a lower completion percentage, less yards per attempt, and lead the team to a TD when the Beavers packed it in.
You did see the throw that IS made in the corner, right? You did see that after his admittedly boneheaded play (If you were sitting within three sections of the student section, the wacko who was throwing his hat on the slanted wood at the back of section 25 was the Dawgfan, and after that play I did call him every name in the book, admittedly), he completes a pass into the wind to Chambers to erase that mistake.
I watched our O-Line give up three sacks in the second half, and they were responsible for a grounding call. Why do I say play IS? How many games have you seen IS see the rush coming up the middle and escape out of it by busting containment. My only knock on IS after he makes the great play to bust containment is that he starts trying to be what we all wanted him to be at the start of the year, a throwing QB. He needs to tuck it and run for the sure five. Johnny D can not escape the rush, and with our vaunted O-Line, we need someone to escape the rush.
Has DuRocher had a fair shake? In my opinion, yes, because every week after Idaho, it has been an open competition. If Johnny D did something to impress you against OSU, please tell me, because maybe I missed it, but he looked no better than IS, and IS has the capability and athletic ability to, with this current group (especially on the O-Line) to get a win. DuRocher will be blitzed, and we can't pick up blitzes up the middle, unfortunatly.
And, how many games does he need? How many games would you like to lay at his feet this year? He kept us in UCLA, Air Force, ASU was his worst game, and we are a Sims fumble away from stealing that game. The problem with this team isn't at QB, it is the lack of production from seniors up and down the field and the lack of play on the lines. IF we had an offensive line, then maybe DuRocher can be entertained, but it is hard to make accurate (which didn't look so accurate in the weather, but we'll blame the weather, the same weather IS played in) when you are staring at sky on your back.
It is moot though, because if IS starts, he is on a short leash, if Johnny D starts, he is on a short leash. I would rather play with one and let the other sit, unless they are throwing picks like they are color blind.
MYK,
You whine like little girl!!!!
BLACK DO YOU LIKE THAT AD FOR THE UW bASKETBALL TOURNAMENT IN THE PAPER WITH MIKE JENSEN'S PICTURE IN IT? HE AIN'T EVEN READY UNTIL LATE DECEMBER YET HIS PICTURE IS ON IT. WHY NOT bRANDON, BOBBY OR EVEN jAMAL? i THINK THAT IS A SLAP IN THE FACE FOR US BROTHERS.
Myk,
I think we both can agree that even if we started Matt Lineart for this team, it wouldn't make much of a difference. Our lines are horrible, we can't stop anyone, and can't block to save ourselves. If we started IS, DuRocher, Bonnell, Paus or Sweetman even, it wouldn't matter. I just said that with our OL as bad as it is, IS gives us the best chance to keep plays alive. Sacks are drive killing plays, Incompletions aren't.
As for Willingham, (this isn't directed at Myk, but everyone who is a detractor) our talent is BAD. There is zero talent on this team, save maybe Chambers and Wallace, and that is marginal talent. Out of 22 starters, that is 2 that are marginal starters. In the Pac-10 we ranked in the preseason polls of scouts as 10th on Offense and 10th on Defense. What did you want Willingham to do? I think moves he could have made (burning Hasty's redshirt year, etc.) were the right moves. The one true frosh that has played well (Chris Stevens) has been a pleasant suprise. What did you want Willingham to do though, honestly?
The future of the program hinges on the massive shoulders of one Steve Schilling. If he commits here (which I don't think he will) it signals that big recruits will still come here from the area, and next year he will play. You will see Hasty start at RB barring a major catastrophe. Also, remember UW is on their 4th running back right now. What did you really expect from this team anyway?
Oh and as for the comment that if Paus was 1-8 we would be clammoring for change? Well, yeah, because Paus showed ZERO ability to make any throw or any plays. I think he is on Punt coverage as a secretive way to get himself removed for the season. Paus was horrible. JK Scott horrible.
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