Good coach with x's and o's. But his stupid decisions made this game much closer than it should have been.
1st mistake...kick the field goal in the first half. Those 3 pts would have taken the 4th quarter drama away.
2nd mistake...Why score with 1:30 to go before halftime. You give the ball right back to Texas to tie it (Texas did). Knowing that UW starts the third quarter with the ball, UW could have easily of ran down the clock more and then scored a TD or a FG with 15 seconds left. Either way, the Huskies hold the lead at halftime instead of a tie. CLR has done this before halftime as well. Scores too early just to have his defense give up a TD before halftime.
3rd mistake....after the Texas butt fumble, UW ran like only 30 seconds off the clock. Penix could have ran for an easy 8 yards on first down (eating 40 seconds). The low percentage deep throws were not needed. UW should have taken another 1:40 off the clock before punting. Not the biggest mistake but I don't see the point of a knock-out punch by going deep when the UW offense is in almost full control of the game. Just continue to throw shorter passes/run the ball and eat up clock.
4th mistake....UW saved Texas a timeout by throwing it on 3rd down before the field goal. Stupid...Stupid....Stupid....Run the ball and force Texas to burn their 2nd Timeout....Kick the field goal...play prevent D....recover the onside kick and take knees to run out the clock. Texas would never gotten the ball back after the onside kick.
5th mistake...bringing in an already injured running back to run the ball. Now Dillon might be out next week and that injury saved Texas 35 seconds. I didn't mind UW running it to eat up clock and perhaps get a first down. But using an injured Dillon was dumb.
It's almost like DeBoer wanted to Coug It
Ducks without Nix would have been 6-6. You have Oklahoma's backuyp next year. We hav SEC's 2nd all time leading passer. Ducks go down again.
All that may be true. But this year's success is due to Penix. Without him they are 8-4.
You sound like the critic who said all Rembrandt could do was paint. The only thing that counts is the final score. I believe Washington had more points than Texas and unless they were playing golf more points beats less points
No new cares brah ... they got the W