DomeHawk":zkcurlkq said:
dutchcoug":zkcurlkq said:
DomeHawk":zkcurlkq said:
Yeah, and it shows but somehow you have managed to beat Oregon almost every year lately. CP clearly knows how to game plan you. Wish he could do that as well with other teams.
I would take going to a bowl and losing to the mutts vs missing a bowl and beating the mutts. You guys are just not that important.
Nor should we be. I root for the cougs in every game that we aren't playing each other.
I absolutely cannot bring myself to root for the ducks in ANY scenario.
Pretty much how I am, I root for the Dawgs in every non-Coug game. It's always a stunner when teams the Cougs handle wind up beating the Huskies. Like Cal last year, winning on the road. Or Oregon, who the Cougs beat like a drum, most years, just not this year, but Oregon causes the Huskies fits. Have no idea how CP and the Huskies manage to lose to the other Pac-12 teams, kind of a rock-paper-scissors thing.
Then the Apple Cup comes around, and whoever is coaching the Huskies just knows, "we have the superior athletes, superior strong large linemen, and we will gameplan on simply out-manning the Cougars." CP figured this out straight-away upon coming to UW.
Like Dutch said, after a while, Coug fans like me simply get numb to losing to the Huskies. Hell, I still remember the glory of the Ryan Leaf Apple Cup win in the snow back in the day, the Mike Price years. Last year I thought there was a chance with Gardner Minshew, but not in those field conditions that neutralized the Air Raid. This year I don't really think there's a chance for the Cougs; to win, the Cougs, IMO, would need to be at least +3 in turnover margin in that game. The Cougs D has been a huge liability all year, so it seems unlikely. I'm just hoping for a competitive, interesting game and for Anthony Gordon to survive and not get hit so hard and often that it makes him unable to play in a bowl game, and for him to NOT pull a Luke Falk and gift 10 turnovers to the Huskies.
