Friday Dots: Budda Baker impresses in NFL debut

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Football Dots

• The Husky defensive coaches spent some time observing and learning from Bill Belichick and the New England Patriots’ staff this summer, writes Christian Caple.

• As always, Caple has his three takeaways from practice, including tall WR’s making good snags.

• Freshman DB Elijah Molden’s interception (see video below) and forced fumble highlighted another strong day for the defense. Here’s Adam Jude’s Day 4 practice report.

• Jude also talked to Chris Petersen. Check out the interview.

I’m sure Petersen is so pumped about this that he can hardly think about practice:

• Dawgman with lots of details in a nice Day 4 recap here.

Elijah Molden wins the tug-o-war with Michael Neal:

Youngsters grabbin’ INTs:

I think most of us are pretty confident Budda will be a great pro:

More numbers from Pro Football Focus that favor Dante Pettis:

Its a “No” on the high-tech helmets for 2017:

I like to see people making quality use of free time:

Non-Football Dots

• Pabail Sidhu, UW basketball’s analytics specialist, has landed a job with the Golden State Warriors.

Now Kelsey Plum has really arrived:

Another UW Football (Futbol) team with a nice preseason ranking:

Retro Dot

2010 first day of practice: The beginning of returning to Bowl games