Wednesday Dots: Performance under Pressure

Great leaders inspire greatness in others (‘Star Wars: The Clone Wars’ Season 1 Episode 1)

By giving Coach DeBoer the game ball last weekend, it seems the players think that he is a great leader that helped the players and the team to some great results.

Football Dots

The Game Notes for this weekend’s game against Portland State include some notes from UW’s first game:

• 21 players made their UW college debut
• 2 true freshmen played: Jayvon Parker and Jayvion Green
• 10 different players caught passes in the game
• Before Michael Penix Jr. threw 4 TD’s against Kent State, the last time a UW QB had 4 or more TD passes in a game was when Jacob Eason had 4 against Utah on November 2, 2019. 4 TD passes in a game is tied for 7th in UW single game history.
• 8 players made their first career start for UW: Luciano, Kalepo, Rosengarten, Penix, Taulapapa, Bright, Tuputala, and Perryman

Michael Penix Jr. had the highest grade from PFF for his performance under pressure in the Kent State game.

Roger Rosengarten had a great debut as this PFF grading would indicate.

So did Corey Luciano.

Two of UW’s receivers also had high grades.

• Michael Penix Jr. and Asa Turner were nominated for offensive and defensive players of the week in the Pac-12.
• Michael Penix Jr. was also mentioned as one of the top Transfer Portal performances of the week in this article.
• The Seattle Times UW Notebook looks at Michael Penix Jr., Dominque Hampton’s NFL ceiling, and an update on Jordan Perryman’s injury.
• More on Dominique Hampton from Dan Raley.

Two Dawgs with birthdays yesterday.

• Kalen DeBoer mentioned among the top coaching performances of week 1.

Washington Athletics

• UW sophomore forward Ilijah Paul was the Pac-12 Player of the Week (men’s soccer) and is mentioned as part of College Soccer News’ Men’s Team of the Week.
• UW men’s soccer team beats South Florida 3-0

• Coach Clark recognized for 150 wins as UW men’s soccer coach.

• UW women’s volleyball is set to start tomorrow.