The husky offense looks to have a higher floor than last season but is struggling to put up points. What’s going on? Let’s look at a host of statistics. First, let’s look at explosive plays. These are per conference game figures starting with 2016, 2017 and 2018 in bold. +10 yard runs- 7.3, 6.9, 5.0
We looked at the stats for in-conference games during Petersen’s tenure to quantify where UW needs improvement in 2018. The numbers are for 2014, 2016, 2017, 2017. The number in parenthesees is the rank in conference. We bolded 2016 and 2017. Let’s start with the offense… Sack Yards Allowed- 160, 180, 79, 127 Explosive Plays-
In the summer we discussed Jake Browning’s potential improvement in the context of ESPN’s QBR rating for quarterbacks. See that here. ESPN’s proprietary indicator has a ceiling of 100. Against Stanford Browning’s QBR was 97.4 and an adjusted 98.2. He was 15 for 21 for 210 yards and 3 TDs. After 5 games, Browning has
ESPN a few years ago came up with “QBR” which is a better statistic for evaluating quarterbacks than passer rating. It takes into account far more things (fumbles, sacks, running, quality of defense) than passer rating. ESPN’s QBR stats only go back about 10 years but we can use these stats to evaluate Browning’s first
In order to figure out how bad WR play was in 2015, we need to look at the entirety of the offense. The data shows that QB play was better in 2015, the run game was better, the OL was the same but WR play was much worse. Can you believe that? No other component of the offense
6’1 207 lb true sophomore wide receiver Isaiah Renfro has yet to be at practice. Judging from his Twitter profile he does not seem to be as invested in UW Football as the other players. He could be gone, or not. Either way it will be interesting. Renfro caught 13 passes for 178 yards last
