Thank you for finally recognizing the D. This is hard working smart D. The stay in position and make offenses work. They aren’t flashy, and nobody on the D gets drafted in the first 3 rounds, but they are a winning D. A D that can do enough to take us a long way, and they’re getting better.
I wish we had a Deshaun Mallory on our D. The ASU DT was quick, powerful and violent. We don’t have one of those. He seemed to destroy or distort every other play we ran.
Thanks for that Christian. As an average fan squinting at this defense, seems like the overall idea is to funnel everything to the middle. Maybe that's what ZTF meant by "team defense." I can't really recall a play this season where UW failed to set an edge or some QB broke containment. (I'm sure there've been some, just can't recall.)
I love this semi-nerdy (aka "nuanced") look at the defense - thank you! After Saturday we will be two thirds through the regular season, enough time for an analysis like this to have real meaning. To me, what I look for is some alignment between the collection of statistics and what I've come to see on the field. I think the Stop Rate illustrates this pretty nicely. I've watched a lot of top 25 teams across the country this year, and if I used that as a rough approximation for the effectiveness of the Husky defense, the ranking of UW's D as 3rd in conference and 24th nationally maps well to what I've seen on the field. Not a dominating defense, but good.
My question: Do we have a feel yet for what the Inge/Morell defense looks like when it is fully installed and has the playmakers they want at every position? It's hard not to speculate, to dream, what this D might be like with a bigger, nastier group of D-linemen (can the young guys develop into that?). I remember when they arrived last year that they warned people that this defense would give up some big plays. It's interesting that the 2023 defense (so far) is NOT giving up many big plays.
There are just a handful of seniors on the defense who we know for certain will leave. A few, like ZTF, are nearly certain to go - maybe Muhammed is in that group. But this is not a defense that will be decimated by graduation, and probably won't lose much if anything by the portal. I'm really eager to find out what develops in the next year or two.
Thank you for finally recognizing the D. This is hard working smart D. The stay in position and make offenses work. They aren’t flashy, and nobody on the D gets drafted in the first 3 rounds, but they are a winning D. A D that can do enough to take us a long way, and they’re getting better.
If they can only start tackling better.
I wish we had a Deshaun Mallory on our D. The ASU DT was quick, powerful and violent. We don’t have one of those. He seemed to destroy or distort every other play we ran.
Thanks for that Christian. As an average fan squinting at this defense, seems like the overall idea is to funnel everything to the middle. Maybe that's what ZTF meant by "team defense." I can't really recall a play this season where UW failed to set an edge or some QB broke containment. (I'm sure there've been some, just can't recall.)
I love this semi-nerdy (aka "nuanced") look at the defense - thank you! After Saturday we will be two thirds through the regular season, enough time for an analysis like this to have real meaning. To me, what I look for is some alignment between the collection of statistics and what I've come to see on the field. I think the Stop Rate illustrates this pretty nicely. I've watched a lot of top 25 teams across the country this year, and if I used that as a rough approximation for the effectiveness of the Husky defense, the ranking of UW's D as 3rd in conference and 24th nationally maps well to what I've seen on the field. Not a dominating defense, but good.
My question: Do we have a feel yet for what the Inge/Morell defense looks like when it is fully installed and has the playmakers they want at every position? It's hard not to speculate, to dream, what this D might be like with a bigger, nastier group of D-linemen (can the young guys develop into that?). I remember when they arrived last year that they warned people that this defense would give up some big plays. It's interesting that the 2023 defense (so far) is NOT giving up many big plays.
There are just a handful of seniors on the defense who we know for certain will leave. A few, like ZTF, are nearly certain to go - maybe Muhammed is in that group. But this is not a defense that will be decimated by graduation, and probably won't lose much if anything by the portal. I'm really eager to find out what develops in the next year or two.