12-18-2018, 05:34 PM
FOCUS ON 2019
Right -- Shaw & Co have painfully learned about injuries and healing time, A LOT the past two seasons.
I agree the holdouts are Shaw looking ahead to 2019, when the home Schedule is SO MUCH more favorable, plus the second bye week now.
He's got KJ running on all cylinders, and a load of targets, 7 or 8 deep. We come out throwing next year.
The RBs are decent, not McCaffrey, Gerhart or Love, but decent. Let's see if "the next Bryce", Austin Jones, gets any playing time (?).
Jones did not finish his senior season at B.O'Dowd with eye-popping numbers, but he rates real high, and his H.S. won the Div. II NorCal title.
This continues a trend started in this Golden Era of not only getting 4-star+ talent, but getting guys who played on H.S. State Finalist teams.
WASH loses Browning and Gaskin both. Minshew at WAST graduates also. RB Laird returns but Kal does not have a QB.
Does Herbert at Oregon declare for NFL by Jan. 14 deadline? Or return to play one season with his incoming brother?
Scouts have him going in the first round as the top QB. Without Herbert, the Ducks will be good, but not great.
U$C and UCLA are both still sputtering.
I think Shaw smells another Pac12 crown in his sights with a lot of experience back and solid talent coming up at key positions.
So he will use the Sun Bowl to give the "next up" guys some reps. GOOD PLAN.
A 12-1 Pac12 Champ makes the Playoff is the bet, if that includes a win on NDAM.
(but the whole league needs to win some bowl games. 1W-8L hurts us)
Right -- Shaw & Co have painfully learned about injuries and healing time, A LOT the past two seasons.
I agree the holdouts are Shaw looking ahead to 2019, when the home Schedule is SO MUCH more favorable, plus the second bye week now.
He's got KJ running on all cylinders, and a load of targets, 7 or 8 deep. We come out throwing next year.
The RBs are decent, not McCaffrey, Gerhart or Love, but decent. Let's see if "the next Bryce", Austin Jones, gets any playing time (?).
Jones did not finish his senior season at B.O'Dowd with eye-popping numbers, but he rates real high, and his H.S. won the Div. II NorCal title.
This continues a trend started in this Golden Era of not only getting 4-star+ talent, but getting guys who played on H.S. State Finalist teams.
WASH loses Browning and Gaskin both. Minshew at WAST graduates also. RB Laird returns but Kal does not have a QB.
Does Herbert at Oregon declare for NFL by Jan. 14 deadline? Or return to play one season with his incoming brother?
Scouts have him going in the first round as the top QB. Without Herbert, the Ducks will be good, but not great.
U$C and UCLA are both still sputtering.
I think Shaw smells another Pac12 crown in his sights with a lot of experience back and solid talent coming up at key positions.
So he will use the Sun Bowl to give the "next up" guys some reps. GOOD PLAN.
A 12-1 Pac12 Champ makes the Playoff is the bet, if that includes a win on NDAM.
(but the whole league needs to win some bowl games. 1W-8L hurts us)