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by Andrew Long | September 12, 2010 · 1:34 pm

Huskies Post Game: Syracuse

The Huskies got their first win of the year last night at Husky Stadium against Syracuse, 41-20. The Dawgs’ struggled early on; there wasn’t any offensive rhythm and special team’s mistakes led to an early 10-0 lead for the Orange. But, then the Huskies found it. They played like the team we had planned on seeing this year. They outscored Syracuse 41-10 through the rest of the game and it wasn’t much of a contest after the first couple plays in the second half.

Jermaine Kearse had a monster day (9 receptions for 179 yards), as the offense used big plays to dominate. The defense was solid too. They gave up two or three big plays but the two touchdowns Syracuse scored were because of a special teams penalty and a turnover.

I’ll review this one by taking a look at each position. I haven’t been able to find a replay anywhere yet, FSN decided to show a replay of Wyoming and Texas instead, so I won’t be as thorough as I’d like to be but these were my first impressions from being there. Continue reading →

Glaring Numbers–Game 1

O: Husky points in the 2nd half

-39: Will Mahan’s rushing yards total

131: The passing yards total by both Jake Heaps and Riley Nelson. Neither were exceptional, but both QB’s were effective for different reasons, and the combination kept UW on it’s heels.

25:53: Time of Posession for UW. In comparison, BYU had the ball for 34:07. That’s half a quarter more, and in a tight game, those 8+ minutes are valuable.

14: The average yard line UW began it’s drive on. On 11 drives, the yard line UW started on was their own…27, 2, 20, 12, 1, 20, 7, 16, 14, 20, 25.
Conversely, BYU’s 12 drives began on…22, 21, 30, UW 47, 29, 43, 31, UW 48, 20, 23, 20, 27.

So that’s 6 drives Washington started inside it’s 20. Field position is an underrated aspect of a game, and probably the biggest culprit for Washington never finding it’s offensive rhythm was it’s horrible starting position. The playbook is very restricted inside your own 10.

36: Combined tackles by Mason Foster (14), Nate Williams (12), and Victor Aiyewa (10). Good performance by those 3 guys.

13: Consecutive road losses. The last road win came at Stanford on 11/3/07. If the Huskies do not win at USC or at Arizona, the road skid will hit 15 games, spanning 3+ years. Ouch.

2: Rating on my 1-10 “Memorable Game Scale.” This game was not very exciting, and like many 1st games, it was just weird. There was no rhythm from the Huskies offense (thanks to horrible field position), and there were a ton of 1st game mistakes. A lot of the special teams miscues we saw Saturday probably won’t happen again all year. I also wouldn’t be surprised if this ends up being the only game that the Huskies don’t score a point in the 2nd half. 2 years from now, I won’t remember much from this game.

-Dan

Huskies Post-Game

Well, I guess it’s time one of us do this. We’ve had over 24 hours to digest a disappointing loss and now I am a little more rational than I was a night ago.

Let me start off by saying that this wasn’t the team we planned on seeing. This wasn’t the team that had taken a step above last year’s. Sure, there were some aspects of the team that improved (more on that later) but as a whole this wasn’t the team we expected to see. This was the Husky team that lost to Arizona State and UCLA on the road last year. That team wasn’t terrible, but wasn’t good either. We saw moments where the Huskies looked like a team that was about to take it to the next level but those moments didn’t last. Will the Huskies become that team? There is no reason to give up hope on that after the first game.

The game started off the way it was supposed to. The Dawgs were clearly the better team. They were faster. They had more weapons. They looked like they wanted it more. Then everything bounced BYU’s way. A couple of stupid penalties led to a field position switch and the good bounces for BYU became evident with every punt. Seriously, think about the game (assuming you watched it) and try to remember a bounce that went the Huskies way. It was unbelievable.

With that being said, you have to put yourself in position to get good bounces and credit BYU for doing that. The Cougars were better than any of the good guys thought and will go on to win 9 or 10 games this season. They were a very physical football team and extremely well coached.

Also, the Huskies did put themselves in a position to win the game. The defense made stops to get the offense the ball. The offense drove far enough to give us hope. Who knows? If the last pass of the game wasn’t tipped we could be talking about a comeback win that will start a season of magic. Instead, we’re stuck thinking, “Here we go again.”

It’s not all doom and gloom though. We’ll take a look at that after the jump.

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