MILLER: Tuel gets a helmet sticker!

By my count, it's the first one all year for the fightin' Cougs. Baby steps, people. Baby steps.

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the kid definitely gives you some hope

now about the defense, special teams and excruciatingly slow starts….

by coug2828 on Oct 25, 2009 9:59 AM PDT reply actions

Is it just me.....

But I am not a big fan of Ted Miller’s blog, he is a total UW homer and writes up way to many articles about them, I stopped reading him long ago…..usually stick with this blog.

by spokanecougar on Oct 25, 2009 11:24 AM PDT reply actions

I love his blog

The one think that really irked me was when he made his “NW tour” and didn’t come to Pullman. Other than that I like his coverage.

Vote for Butch!

by spencer peaty on Oct 25, 2009 11:59 AM PDT up reply actions

Well, if we beat USC, we'd be written about, too

I honestly don’t think he skews that much toward UW. I think he generally does a pretty balanced job.

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by Jeff Nusser on Oct 25, 2009 5:45 PM PDT up reply actions

I woke up this morning with a strange thought

I literally sat straight up in bed and started thinking about the great cougar defenses of the ’90’s. I have been so down on the defense the past two years that I was starting to believe the a school like WSU could never get the speed and strength to be a dominating defensive force. But that is just stupid. WSU was near the top in the nation in defense from 92ish through 95ish.

I seem to remember that our linebackers were often oversized high school running backs that Doba liked to convert … Mark Fields for one. I don’t remember hearing about this sort of move any more. Is it outdated? Do players not want to be converted? Or is it just under-publicized because we suck at it? Rhetorical questions I’m sure, but couldn’t that be the key to a new success on defense?

I feel like Charlie Brown trying to kick the football. Ugh

by HitKing69 on Oct 25, 2009 11:35 AM PDT reply actions

Seems a lot like what the Cougs are trying to do right now ...

But it also seems like offenses are different now. A lot of those guys were fast downhill tacklers. Teams just didn’t spread you out 15 years ago the way they do now.

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by Jeff Nusser on Oct 25, 2009 5:44 PM PDT up reply actions