When a team is heavily out-manned, there are certain strategies it can employ in an effort to tilt the game in its favor. WSU sort of tried to do that on Saturday, but probably didn't go far enough.

As part of the ramp up to the football season, I've been previewing each of the Cougars' opponents this fall in Cougar Sports Weekly. After starting my newsletter off with an analysis of the quarterback situation, I moved on to the Ducks.

Here's a short excerpt from this morning's Cougar Sports Weekly, in which I spend about 1,200 words examining WSU's new defensive coordinator Mike Breske. I spent some time talking with the beat reporter who covers Montana football for the Missoulian to get some first-hand knowledge of Breske's tendencies, as well as dug into some of the advanced statistics from his time as defensive coordinator at Wyoming.

When Oregon fans are saying they had no reason to expect what happened last night, you should believe them -- this was as out of the blue for them as it was for us. Of course WSU did a lot of things wrong, but Oregon did something to the Cougars that they weren't able to even come close to doing against the three previous terrible opponents they played.

An excerpt from this morning's Cougar Sports Weekly, in which we break down one of the staples of Mike Leach's Airraid playbook, Blue Right 92, more commonly known as "mesh."

In addition to writing about Connor Halliday and his breakout performance, this week's newsletter also included a recap of the soccer team's victory in the NCAA tournament and my preview of Gonzaga-WSU.

In this week's Cougar Sports Weekly, we take a look at whether the results are matching up with the talent on the football team, and turn a critical eye toward Brock Motum's rebounding skills.

WSU will miss DeAngelo Casto, just probably not in the ways fans initially assume:

In the most recent Cougar Sports Weekly, we explored how WSU can potentially ramp up its effectiveness in the red zone after struggling -- again -- versus the Oregon Ducks.

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