Hugh on with Softy today – watching 2nd practice.

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Also confirmed how dominant the defense today was. A couple of troubling things I also heard from him in his analysis.

In listening to his breakdown of the qb’s (all 3) as of right now I think he believes they are all jag’s at best. Obviously not fair to Huard, but both him and Cam Cleeland both have major concerns about any of the 3’s ability to avoid pressure and extend plays which I 1000% agree with. It’s those 3 +/- empty possessions a game that keeps your team scoring in the low/mid 20’s which puts a ceiling on what you can do unless you make up for it (++ results) in other areas like turnovers.

Then in his breakdown of the wr’s I got the impression as a group that so far what he’s seen is not even at the qb’s level. Saying they get no separation, no yac, not explosive, too many possession type guys, etc.

Also said the defense was and should be ahead of the offense, and defense was bringing blitzes which on day 2 might be a little unusual, and we all get how good Mcduffie is at cb, but he seems underwhelmed with that group right now.

If you heard the interview, anyone else pick up on anything both good or bad?

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So Hugh can tell the QB’s don’t have good pocket presence from one practice after Morris and O’Brien have already proven they have great pocket presence in college games and Huard has at the high school level? Sure, O’Brien is a statue who steps up in the pocket and fearlessly keeps his eyes down the field, but Morris and Huard are plenty athletic enough to scramble.

Hugh Millen is a salty bitch because neither of his JAG sons are good enough to be on UW’s roster. He has no credibility when talking about our QBs. He couldn’t coach his own sons to be better than the QBs we got.

Jalen McMillan looked plenty explosive when he was blowing past DBs at will IN GAMES last season and getting wide open deep. Rome is just as fast. Bynum has been the most reliable deep threat in the group the last couple of years and has 4.4 speed as well. I haven’t heard the interview. It’s likely you’re putting words into his mouth. Just because they didn’t get separation that one day in practice, doesn’t mean they don’t get separation in general, against other secondaries, who don’t know what routes are coming.

It’s fucking practice. I can’t stand people who take practice reports too seriously. The team is practicing against themselves. No matter what, one side of the ball is going to look bad on any given day and defenses usually dominate in practice. You can’t tell jack shit until they play games.

Ballz wrote:

So Hugh can tell the QB’s don’t have good pocket presence from one practice after Morris and O’Brien have already proven they have great pocket presence in college games and Huard has at the high school level? Sure, O’Brien is a statue who steps up in the pocket and fearlessly keeps his eyes down the field, but Morris and Huard are plenty athletic enough to scramble.

Hugh Millen is a salty bitch because neither of his JAG sons are good enough to be on UW’s roster. He has no credibility when talking about our QBs. He couldn’t coach his own sons to be better than the QBs we got.

Jalen McMillan looked plenty explosive when he was blowing past DBs at will IN GAMES last season and getting wide open deep. Rome is just as fast. Bynum has been the most reliable deep threat in the group the last couple of years and has 4.4 speed as well. I haven’t heard the interview. It’s likely you’re putting words into his mouth. Just because they didn’t get separation that one day in practice, doesn’t mean they don’t get separation in general, against other secondaries, who don’t know what routes are coming.

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I am going to go out on a limb and say that Millen has seen all three qb’s via tape in game. and his observation is just not from yesterdays practice.

Your right one of the biggest honks for the program the last 20 years now has a major axe to grind with UW over his sons not getting offered. Okay.

But you are correct in that I took what he did AND didn’t say and extrapolated that out in my comments.

That’s why I asked if others heard and had any thoughts on it.

godawgst wrote:

Ballz (Da Real Pac-12 Champs) wrote:

So Hugh can tell the QB’s don’t have good pocket presence from one practice after Morris and O’Brien have already proven they have great pocket presence in college games and Huard has at the high school level? Sure, O’Brien is a statue who steps up in the pocket and fearlessly keeps his eyes down the field, but Morris and Huard are plenty athletic enough to scramble.

Hugh Millen is a salty bitch because neither of his JAG sons are good enough to be on UW’s roster. He has no credibility when talking about our QBs. He couldn’t coach his own sons to be better than the QBs we got.

Jalen McMillan looked plenty explosive when he was blowing past DBs at will IN GAMES last season and getting wide open deep. Rome is just as fast. Bynum has been the most reliable deep threat in the group the last couple of years and has 4.4 speed as well. I haven’t heard the interview. It’s likely you’re putting words into his mouth. Just because they didn’t get separation that one day in practice, doesn’t mean they don’t get separation in general, against other secondaries, who don’t know what routes are coming.

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I am going to go out on a limb and say that Millen has seen all three qb’s via tape in game. and his observation is just not from yesterdays practice.

Your right one of the biggest honks for the program the last 20 years now has a major axe to grind with UW over his sons not getting offered. Okay.

But you are correct in that I took what he did AND didn’t say and extrapolated that out in my comments.

That’s why I asked if others heard and had any thoughts on it.

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It was just from yesterday’s practice. Morris showed fantastic pocket awareness and movement last season. He has the natural instincts for the position. Hugh’s eyes are no better than mine or anybody else’s. He has no reason to question Morris’ pocket presence from last season’s tape.

He absolutely has an axe to grind. Most parents think their kids are better than they are. Hugh is salty bitch. Softy was the same way for a while in regards to Morris being chosen over Cale Millen and bitched about it on-air for two years straight. Hugh quit the Honks after 20 years when his son became a Duck. Not a coincidence. Petersen was right to take Morris instead.

This is the best Defense in the Pac-12 and it may not be that close.

Day three reports. ZTF continues to prove he’s not a fluke. He’s beating
Guys like Rosengarten and even Curne in practice. If he stays health this
Year he may have 15 sacks or more.

Dom Hampton is popping people, McDuffie is McDuffie but Gordon is also showing
That you can’t throw easily against him either.

Good Stuff but there’s a reality check here.

The QB are playing against a Defense that understands what the offense wants to do and
That puts them at a disadvantage when they cannot match the experience of the defense

I want these QB to struggle and find a way to grind out the yards because if this team
Is as good as we think they can be ..it’ll make games actually easier than practice.

We know Morris has good pocket presence from watching him as a freshman last year so I’m not that worried about the QBs.

I listened to Millen’a interview and heard the exact opposite. I don’t understand how your major takeaway was that all three QBs are JAGs.

Fear_Boner wrote:

I listened to Millen’a interview and heard the exact opposite. I don’t understand how your major takeaway was that all three QBs are JAGs.

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In today’s cfb his (along with Cam C who was co-hosting w/ Softy) concerns about any of the qb’s being able to extend plays limits their ceilings and I agree with that, and said above that those possessions we can’t convert b/c of that is the difference between being in the mid 20’s and low 30’s ppg

I used to think if a qb in college could side step or slide away from pressure that was enough. Not anymore.

I also don’t think Hugh was basing his analysis of the qb’s and wr’s off just Friday’s practice.

Morris’ play last year debunked much of what Hugh said.

True @chest, not to mention that Huard has only had a couple practices and should still be in HS.