Arizona Wildcats vs Washington Huskies10/10/2009

I am unintelligent, brainless, dense, dim, dull, foolish, gullible, half-witted, idiotic, mindless, moronic, naive, senseless, simpleminded, slow and witless. I still understand enough about football to know that Washington would eventually become desperate enough to jump that bubble screen route. I was pretty sure it would happen on the drive they needed to stop us the most. If anything the Stanford game two years ago in Tucson taught me that other teams like to defend the play you have been showing them all game long when the have nothing to lose. I seem to recall a similar situation with the inability to score touchdowns on the goal line in that Stanford game too! I think we just kept running up the middle with an immobile quarterback a lot that game. I am pretty sure our coaches wouldn't dare try that again or at least try it once and move on if it didn't work.

The strangest part of it all wasn't the weird bounce the ball took off the foot (ground) into the hands of the Washington defender. The strangest part of the game was the reaction of quarterback Nick Foles when he noticed the Washington defender had jumped the bubble screen lane. Smarter people like to refer to that reaction as surprised. Was the possibility of the defender jumping into the passing lane discussed before the drive took place? Was an emergency course of action not contemplated before the offense took the field? Was Washington expected to allow simple short passes to be completed and give us the game without a fight?

I may be unintelligent, brainless, dense, dim, dull, foolish, gullible, half-witted, idiotic, mindless, moronic, naive, senseless, simpleminded, slow and witless but I am not a buffoon. This means I am not every going to be hired on Mike Stoop's coaching staff. So if you really like unimaginative red zone play calling, unnecessary personal fouls, the coach yelling at the refs instead of his team and assistants, cornerbacks playing zone with no safeties behind them, thousands of excuses by low expectation having fans and the word "potential" then stick around the season isn't even half way over.