Baylor - Who are these guys?

I know the fans hate it, but blitzing this guy is a recipe for disaster. The best strategy, I think, is to focus on taking away the run and play bend-don’t-break in the back half with an eye towards limiting big plays. We increase the likelihood of turnovers when we make them a passing team and make them take 12 plays to score versus 3 plays. We also know that their effectiveness in the red zone was among the worst in the Big 12, indicating that they they struggle to score in tight quarters (and their FG kicker is barely 50%). Better to make them prove to us they can do something in the red zone as opposed to taking chances that might allow them to score without tripping inside the red zone.

This isn’t sexy, but it is a winning formula. I think our D-Line has a chance to win some one on one battles against a less than stellar Baylor line and, hopefully, we can create some pressure while avoiding the damage that RG3 can do when he breaks contain.

I’m from the Ft. Hood/Killeen, Copperas Cove are. He was a Copperas Cove Bulldog, same high school my nephews go to. He led the Bulldogs to a national ranking, although I don’t remember what it was. Lost in the 4-A championship game his senior season. A lot of the local coaches in Cove think he purposely lost the game, they say he ran out of bounds as the clock expired with nobody near him as they were driving for the win. I didn’t see it but I’m sure he was just young and made a mistake.

I’ve always been a huge fan of his. Interesting thing, Mack Brown (and several other school coaches) recruited him but told him he could not be a QB, that he would be an athlete. Big mistake huh? Have you seen UT’s QB play the last two seasons?

If we can slow down RGIII and our offense doesn’t choke, we have a shot. I’m very interested to see KP17 healthy and rested finally. He has been great even with two sprained knees and whatever other ailments dude has played with. I love Keith Price!

I will be attending the game, it is my first Husky game. I’m very excited, two more weeks! It sucks that I have to root against Baylor, which is the only Texas team I love. It’s awesome that I get to see RGIII the heisman winner though. I hope we give him a concussion.

Edge control. We got murdered around the corners this year, and with a great scrambling QB coming up in the bowl game it would be nice to see some wisdom and discipline instilled in Shirley and our other DEs.

It’s going to just take a lot of planning and work.

What the Huskies need to do is almost exactly what they did defensively against Oregon: stop big plays. Force Baylor to march down the field on methodical drives. Don’t give up anything more than 10 yards. Because Baylor is explosive, but they’re not methodical. They can get stalled and they can get a bit stircrazy if they don’t get something going fast. This means not going nuts with blitzing. Not going for the crazy pick and staying in coverage unless you have help. Making sure you wrap up instead of going for the fumble hit. Let them make the mistakes by having to do the same thing over and over; Baylor isn’t as disciplined and will expect to steamroll. The more they don’t, the more they’ll lose composure.

On offense, it’s a similar strategy: ball control. Assume that you must at least get 40 yards every single drive if not score. You can’t go deep all that often; it makes the game longer and is less likely to be successful. Instead, run. Run a lot. Throw possession passes with occasional 20-yard threats. Win first down. And take as much time as you can; the fewer possessions there are, the more it will favor a big event that will favor the Huskies.

Special teams are probably not a large factor. both teams can eat up yards in a hurry. as long as no huge plays (blocked punt/KR/PR return for TD) happen, giving up okay field position should be fine; there’s very little difference to Baylor starting at the 20 and the 30.

which is great. You have to think that Baylor will come in thinking UW will be a cake walk. Somewhat similar circumstances to last year’s Holiday Bowl. It’s probably a good thing there is so much hype with RGIII and no mention of the Huskies as if we are a non-opponent. Also RGIII is not all that consistent. That was Baylor’s problem last season. While this season is much better for him, it definitely works in our favor that he is spending a lot of time on the interview circuit. If our defense can just somehow put together a decent game like our last bowl game, we have a chance. Only downer is it will definitely be an Away Game environment.

When Price has time in the pocket, he has shown the ability to pick apart a defensive secondary. When he doesn’t, he either throws wild or is on his back. Sark will open up the playbook for the bowl game, but everything rests on the shoulders of the O line. We need a strong performance from this group to win.