Cougars and Huskies Keep Rolling the Seahawks Are Next

The Washington State Cougars started Saturday rolling over Arizona 69-7. Before you could blink your eyes the Cougars had a 21-0 lead so rolling over is probably not the right word. Anyways it was not whether the Cougars were going to win it was by how much.  This certainly is having us lead to the Apple Cup on Black Friday that the winner will advance to the Pac-12 Championship game.

The Huskies on the other hand game was not decided until the second half. They had a slim lead in the first half 21-20 when they started stopping the California Bears and causing turnovers. In the end the Huskies won the game 66-27. The Bears could not keep up with the speed of John Ross and could not stop the catching of Pettis. Both had three touchdowns in the game. At least that is what I believe anyway. I stopped counting at some point.

Next week the Huskies will be taking on USC Trojans. This will be another challenge that the Huskies should be able to meet. Everything goes to plan we will be seeing the Huskies playing in the NCAA Championship series. Whether they win or not they do have a legitimate chance to do so. The offense shows no slowing down while the defense needs to shore things up. They need to work more at getting to the quarterback or at the very least making him rush his passes.  They do have the best cornerback in the nation along with pretty good safeties and can’t forget their defense line. I am sure they will be more ready to go next week.

The Seattle Seahawks play on Monday Night football this week after losing last week to New Orleans and tying the Arizona Cardinals the week before. The Seahawks take on the Buffalo Bills which will not be an easy task. The good thing is the Seahawks have the best record on Monday Night football and have won ten straight there. According to Coach Pete Carroll Russell Wilson is the healthiest he has been the whole season. We can only hope he is correct. Besides have a healthy Wilson the Seahawks need a healthy running game. Last week the Seahawks passed the ball thirty-four times compared to running the ball seventeen times. Not good for a team that is considered a running team. Not sure the problem is with the running backs or the offensive line or the combination of both. Whatever the case is the Seahawks need their running game be back in high gear.

Though the Seahawks have a good passing game they still have to rely on the running game. I believe the Seahawks are not confident in Christine Michael and Thomas Rawls won’t return for another week or longer. We are not sure how he will return when he does come back. The Seahawks defense needs to return to where they have been. Again they will be without Michael Bennett and Kam Chancellor. The important thing though is that they can’t be on the field as much as they have been the last two weeks. The offense has run so few plays the last two weeks especially in the first half. Not sure of the success however they need to start out running the ball mixing in passes here and there. They need to make the Bills defense be honest. They need to be able to make third downs on a regular basis. I see the Seahawks turning the season around since they about ready to play the second half of the season. The Seahawks always play better in the second half. Whatever the case we know Monday night’s game will be exciting. Go Seahawks!