Day Seven
by John Berkowitz on Apr 11, 2009 7:09 PM PDT
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PrintFirst official scrimmage of the year today at Husky Stadium in front of around 2000 people which is a pretty amazing number for an 0-12 team during spring practice.
Overall was a pretty even performance between the offense and defense but the defense dominated in the early going. The one's faced off against the one's and the two's played against the two's.
The offense scored four touchdowns on the day. The first TD was a 10 yard catch by fade Kearse from Locker. The second TD was an 80 or so yard yard kickoff return by Jordan Polk. The last touchdowns were 1-yard runs by freshman Demitrius Bronson in short yardage situations. Anthony Boyles had 4 receptions for around 70 yards. Erik Folk was 3-for-3 on his field goal attempts.
The defense had 3-4 sacks on the day but early whistles make that a little tougher to evaluate. Magnum and Tuiasosopo both picked up interceptions.
Chris Polk, Brandon Johnson, and D'Andre Goodwin all sat out with minor injuries.
Bob Condotta of the Seattle Times kept some unofficial stats on the scrimmage.
Jake Locker 10-18, 142 yards, 1 TD, O ints.
Ronnie Fouch 11-21, 146 yards, 0 TDs, 1 int.
Taylor Bean 1-2, 11, 1 int.
“Obviously we’ve got a lot of things to clean up on both sides of the ball, but we were able to get a lot of areas and special situations done like in special teams, two-minute situations, goal line stuff, some short yardage stuff so we got a lot accomplished and now we can go back to the film and clean stuff up.”
Jerry Brewer from the Seattle Times
The education of Locker continues to be the most pressing issue in the program. During his four months on the job, Sarkisian has tried not to make the Huskies so Jake-centric, hoping to relieve some of the quarterback's pressure and eliminate the false notion that Montlake Jake can carry the team to competitiveness by himself. Still, the coaches understand the importance of maximizing the talents of such a rare athlete.
Defensive coordinator Nick Holt put in the pressure packages for the defensive line, and Sarkisian was impressed with how well the starters, notably Daniel Te'o-Nesheim, who played the entire scrimmage at end, carried it out. "Daniel again created havoc today," Sarkisian said. "Our front, I thought, was really impressive."
Coach Sarks Top Five
1. Players of the Day: On Offense Demitrius Bronson and on Defense Nate Williams.
2. Play of the Day: Offense’s 2 min. drive at the end of the first period.
3. Coach of the Day: Jimmie Dougherty "Got to have the ‘eye of the tiger!’"
4. Thought of the Day: You’ve got to find a way, to find a way.
5. Team Competition Winner: Special Teams
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Lockers Numbers look good
Bronson is really setting himself apart from the RB group. I cant wait to hear Lear’s write up to see how the O-Line played.
I thought he was better than the numbers indicate
There were a few drops, and many plays where he was under pressure and was just trying to get rid of the ball. I only recall one pass that wasn’t caught that could be blamed solely on Jake.
"Bow Down to Washington"
"Kick the tires and light the fires!"
Athleticism
The one thing you are not going to see from Locker in a controlled scrimmage is his ability to run and create on the fly.
Job number one is to transform him into a classic drop bak QB first…..big job but I think they will bet it done. He alreasy posseses all the other intangibles. You straighten out his delivery/accuracy and you have a major league improved dual threat weapon.
Notice that everything they are doing this spring is taking away his running ability to rely on his passing. The running is a given…get him up close to 60% and some miracles will begin to happen.
His WR’s also need to hang onto the ball a lot better….way too many drops still happening.
Jake is a project right now but he has the tools and the assets in coaching to get it done.
by John Berkowitz on Apr 11, 2009 9:40 PM PDT up reply actions
There were many plays today where normally Jake would tuck and run, but he was trying hard to give the passing play as much time as possible. It’s good experience for him – it’ll give him a better idea of what kind of passing options he’ll have when the pocket breaks down and he escapes pressure, and he’ll have a better sense of when it really is better to just tuck the ball and run or whether someone is likely to get open.
I have no worries about Jake’s running skills not being utilized under Sark – he’ll have his opportunities. The great thing is, with Sark and Nussmeier guiding him he should also become a better passer and a better NFL QB prospect.
I agree
I think they are really trying to get him more comfortable in the pocket. I have seen enough to convince me that Sark is planning on using Jake’s feet when necessary, but why waste time practicing what he is already SOOOO good at.
"Bow Down to Washington"
"Kick the tires and light the fires!"
Bronson
He has one thing none of the other RB’s have and that is size.
I reserve judgement on a lot of these guys till I see them in the opener against LSU.
Don’t mean to be a downer but we have an 0-12 team playing against an 0-12 team right now.
These guys are going to be tremendously improved this fall but not exactly sure what that will reap immediately in the area of wins and losses.
True.
But its nice to see that he is shaping up to be the best of our 0-12 team.
He's looking good
He did a great job of getting yards in the redzone when the defense knew a run was coming.
"Bow Down to Washington"
"Kick the tires and light the fires!"
WAY off topic but thought this was interesting
I was looking through the recruiting website over at Rivals and saw Texas a lot so i checked out their recruits that have verballed for 2010. They have 21…21 recruits already and 17 are rated 4 stars. Just thought i would pass that along. That is amazing to me. Oh and they are all from Texas…all of them. Wow Texas is a high school hot bed. Washington may not even have 17 guys go Div 1 let alone ranked 4 stars…nutz.
Texas also has...
4 metropolitian areas with at least 1 million people (Houston, Dallas, San Antonio, Austin) and alot of areas have clusters of cities with 200-300k people. The last census says that Texax has 23,904,380 people with a total US population of 301,621,157 (meaning 8% of the entire population lives in Texas), compare that with 6,468,424 for Washington (or 2.1%).
On top of that the culture of Texas HS football is far different than that of WA’s. If you’re out of reach of a good college program or NFL team, the local HS is the hottest ticket in town. Coaches down there don’t even teach and make a solid living. Mark Stewart teaches PE and Yoga classes at Meadowdale HS in Lynnwood as well as coaching the football team, I asked one of the BB coaches there how much it paid and they said about 8K a season (and MHS is a Basketball School).
Texas
Every red blooded Texas boy dreams of being a Longhorn. When Texas offers in state the kids accept immediately because if they don’t another kid is right there to take their place. Texas like California, and Florida has a ton of talent.
You really can’t compare what goes on with UT recruiting to any other program in the country.
Exactly...
I have a friend who went to school in TX and he can’t stand football now because it’s all anyone cared about.
Rivals? You have GOT to be kidding me.
Rivals is BS. Scout.com is more accurate if you have to pick one of the numerous bogus recruiting sites.
Not like the Utah Jazz... it's about REAL jazz. Go Dawgs, Go Blazers!
Scout isn't really more accurate...
just less slanted towards the South/Southeast. Rivals, I would argue is more acurate towards the bulk of CFB prospects, just not those that we will ever land.
Heaps is no doubt one of the top 3 QB propects in this class, it’s just a shame Rivals doesn’t care to look up here to find out about him. I do think he will pop up in there top 10 by the time his HS season is done, but the West isn’t rated by Rivals until the last minute.
Well if it makes you feel better
Scout has them with 2 5 star recruits and 11 4 star. ESPN has all of their commits as potential top 150 except 6. If that helps you feel better. Their class is loaded already.
I understand what everyone is talking about and I wasnt trying to compare WA to TX. Obviously TX, CA, and Florida are football hot beds. But doesnt anyone else think that is amazing that they have that much talent on their team. WOW. That was my point, nothing more nothing less. Didnt mean to get people upset just thought it was interesting. Either way…
I don't mean to sound like a jerk...
and I know that you get it Dave. But alot of people don’t, and it still shocks them to see stats like that. Texas has been doing as long as I’ve been watching football and with Mack B in town I don’t think it’ll stop. I’ve heard Austin is nice, but it’s still Texas, and who wants to spend their formative years there!
Plus it makes me feel really smart to drop some census stats on a football blog.
I’ve heard Austin is nice, but it’s still Texas, and who wants to spend their formative years there!
Austin really is quite nice. Not a bad place at all to live.
Austin
One of the better places on the planet to live.
Houston not so much.
by John Berkowitz on Apr 11, 2009 9:41 PM PDT up reply actions
Have a couple of friends who live in Austin and are in a band with a pretty decent following.
They absolutely love it there. Everyone who goes out there says that same things you guys are. Sounds like a great place with an Awesome music scene.
Geographically slanted
Also they can be Notre Dame slighted.
by John Berkowitz on Apr 11, 2009 6:06 PM PDT up reply actions
Good point
they do hold a pretty big bias with the Michigan/Ohio/Minn./Wisc. kids as well. The NE and West get there do in the end with Rivals, but it comes way late and the South/Midwest is often over rated (in comparison to the rest) because of there system.
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