Love it. For me...though I try to stay away from thinking about "next year" this early...IF the coaching staff really has figured out how to get the team playing like it was 2013 all over again...and IF the strength and conditioning staff can get us back to pre-2018 injury levels...then next season could be awesome. Assuming those two things happen, we'd have a deep and experienced team at virtually every position. On offense, only Colby Parkinson doesn't seem easily replaceable. But, with all the wide receivers, we may simply not emphasize the tight end as a receiver as much next year nor need to. As for the defense, we may not have a pass rusher as good as Toohill, but with everyone else returning in the front seven, damn, we should (in theory) have a good pass rush. Adebo is likely gone but Kelly looks like a star in the making and apparently the staff is high on Zahran Manley and I know they're high on Bonner. Really need the latter to get healthy - if he gets experience this year, he and Kelly could be quite a pair next year.
Anyway, this is my form of dreaming - one can envision one of our dominant teams next year if the two massive variables I noted work out in our favor.
Our chances seem to depend on (a) going 5-0 in our remaining conference games; and (b) Oregon going 5-2 (with two North losses) or 4-3. (The two-loss scenario presumes a three-way tie with Oregon and UW, in which all teams would be 1-1 against each other and the tie-breaker would be our better North Division record - quite unlikely.)
Basically, we want Huskies wins and Ducks losses the rest of the way - so that's what I'll be watching this weekend as Stanford takes its bye. Oregon does not strike me as such a great or dominant team that a loss to any team on their remaining schedule would be totally inconceivable. In fact, I was much more surprised when they lost at Arizona in late-November back in 2013, catapulting us to the CCG and the Rose Bowl, than I'd be if this year's team lost two games. I think the biggest problem is that we have no margin for error, and we're not all that great (or healthy) ourselves.
Thank you for permitting me my daily delusion. Now back to the real world.
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Anyway, this is my form of dreaming - one can envision one of our dominant teams next year if the two massive variables I noted work out in our favor.
Our chances seem to depend on (a) going 5-0 in our remaining conference games; and (b) Oregon going 5-2 (with two North losses) or 4-3. (The two-loss scenario presumes a three-way tie with Oregon and UW, in which all teams would be 1-1 against each other and the tie-breaker would be our better North Division record - quite unlikely.)
Basically, we want Huskies wins and Ducks losses the rest of the way - so that's what I'll be watching this weekend as Stanford takes its bye. Oregon does not strike me as such a great or dominant team that a loss to any team on their remaining schedule would be totally inconceivable. In fact, I was much more surprised when they lost at Arizona in late-November back in 2013, catapulting us to the CCG and the Rose Bowl, than I'd be if this year's team lost two games. I think the biggest problem is that we have no margin for error, and we're not all that great (or healthy) ourselves.
Thank you for permitting me my daily delusion. Now back to the real world.
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