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On Tuesday, it was time for the defense to stand up, take stock of their performance against Eastern Washington last weekend, and also look ahead to their next challenge, the California Golden Bears. The defense gave up 274 total yards to the Eagles in their convincing 47-14 win. It hasn't always been that easy against Eastern. In 2011, it took a Desmond Trufant pick in the end zone to preserve a...

Chris Petersen talked Monday about Washington's 47-14 win over Eastern Washington to open up the season, as well as their Week 2 opponent: the California Golden Bears. 

It's been 729 days since Jacob Eason last stepped out onto a football field to start a competitive game. It was September 2nd, and the Georgia Bulldogs were playing the Appalachian State Mountaineers. He started out a little slow, going 1-3 for 4 yards, but then suffered a knee sprain that would alter the trajectory of his college football career. In stepped Jake Fromm , who led the Bulldogs to th...

The Lineup:  Head Coach Chris Petersen Offensive Coordinator Bush Hamdan Defensive Coordinator Jimmy Lake Quarterback Jacob Eason Receiver Chico McClatcher Receiver Aaron Fuller Running Back Salvon Ahmed Linebacker Kyler Manu Defensive Back Elijah Molden

The Huskies got the 2019 football season started off in spectacular fashion on Saturday with a 47-14 drubbing of Eastern Washington at Husky Stadium in front of an announced crowd of 65,709. In one of the most impressive debuts for a Washington quarterback, Jacob Eason , a transfer from Georgia that had to sit out the 2018 football season due to NCAA rules, went 27 of 36 for 349 yards with four to...

The Washington Huskies kick off the 2019 season at noon against one of the top FCS programs in the country, Eastern Washington, a team which played in the FCS National Title game back in January. Heading into the game there are quite a few storylines that fans and the media have been talking about. How does Washington's offense transition after four seasons with quarterback Jake Browning and tailb...

With the season opener right around the corner, Intern Emeritus Luke Mounger brings Cascadia Preps' Micah Chen on to discuss Washington's upcoming tilt against the Eastern Washington Eagles. EWU made it all the way to the FCS title game last year, led by dual-threat quarterback Eric Barriere . The sophomore signal-caller will be accompanied by a veteran offensive line as they take on a relatively...

Thursday was the last day the media could meet with Washington Head Coach Chris Petersen before Saturday's season-opener against Eastern Washington, and Petersen was asked about the last time his team faced the Eagles, a 59-52 shootout where the Huskies eventually prevailed. Petersen was also asked about the quarterback room, life after Jake Haener , brining back and old face in Blake Gregory , an...

At Dawgman.com, we've been lucky to form strong relationships with people in the nation and regional media and one personality who has been gracious to us time and again is Yogi Roth, a renaissance man if you will, who recently sat down with Kim Grinolds to discuss myriad subjects as we prepare for the official start of the 2019 football season. First a little background on Roth. After playing wid...

The guys from Dawgman.com - Kim Grinolds, Chris Fetters, and Jack McCauley - spoke with players and coaches from the offensive side of the ball Wednesday to get a sense of how they are feeling ahead of Saturday's season-opener at Husky Stadium versus Eastern Washington. Chris talked with Bush Hamdan about the quarterback competition, the decision that the coaches made, and also the decision by Jak...

The first game of the season is this weekend and as the Huskies prepare to stop an explosive Eastern Washington attack, the defensive players and staff know they have their work cut out for them. We got the chance to catch up with defensive coordinator Jimmy Lake who talked about playing a lot of different players in the secondary including two new starters -- Kyler Gordon and true freshman Camero...

Apparently, it's springtime all over again. At the end of spring football, Washington was down to only three scholarship quarterbacks for 48 hours: Jacob Eason , Jake Haener , and Dylan Morris . Move forward nearly four months, and Washington is back to having only three scholarship quarterbacks for the 2019 season: Jacob Eason , Jacob Sirmon , and Dylan Morris . So what happened? What caused Jake...

It's that time. The coaches know it, the players know, the fans know it. A week from now, the Washington Huskies will be putting on pads for the first time since January, knowing they'll be hitting someone else for a change. That 'someone else' is the Eastern Washington Eagles, with the game starting at Noon at Husky Stadium next Saturday. The players have had productive camps in April and August,...

Washington Head Coach Chris Petersen was supposed to meet up with the press anyway on Friday, but the gaggle just got a lot spicier when news broke the night before that junior transfer Jacob Eason had been handed the starting quarterback job for the Eastern Washington opener a week from Saturday. Petersen confirmed the news, talked about Jake Haener as well, and also talked about his 'Day in the...

It wasn't much of a surprise to those who have been keeping track of such things, but on Friday, Washington head coach Chris Petersen named junior signal-caller Jacob Eason the start for the Huskies as they continue to prepare for Eastern Washington.  Why did Petersen wind up naming him the starter? During his comments to the media following practice Friday, Petersen said sometimes it comes down a...

The guys from Dawgman.com - Chris Fetters and Scott Eklund - talked with Offensive Coordinator Bush Hamdan, Offensive Line Coach Scott Huff, Running Backs Coach Keith Bhonapha, Tight Ends Coach Scott Huff, as well as junior left guard Luke Wattenberg and junior running back Sean McGrew.  All the coaches and players gave their thoughts on fall camp, as well as progress that's been made and details...

Just because it is a dead period on the recruiting trail, that does not mean that things are not happening and in less than a week, the Washington Huskies have grabbed their third commitment of the month as three-star Lawndale (Calif.) Elijah Jackson became the 19th commitment for the 2020 recruiting class. Dawgman's Kim Grinolds and Scott Eklund got together for an Emergency Podcast to discuss wh...

It was a bit of a circuitous route for Josiah Bronson - from Kent to Philadelphia to Seattle - but the senior defensive tackle is back home and happy to be a Washington Husky.  On Monday, Dawgman.com's Chris Fetters talked to him about his journey back east to Temple out of high school, what brought him back, and his reaction when his running mate, senior John Clark, went down with a season-ending...

After a really busy Saturday scrimmage - one where UW Head Coach Chris Petersen said the Huskies ran 90 live scrimmage plays, plus another 50 productive turns after that - the media had one more chance to ask him if he was going to name a starting quarterback.  He didn't bite. And in fact, he went a step further, saying he'd play multiple quarterbacks if that gave the Huskies their best chance to...

One of the top defensive backs remaining on Washington's board, Lawndale (Ca.) DB Makell Esteen , committed to the Husky coaching staff on Sunday, making it three defensive back commitments for the 2020 recruiting class. What does Esteen bring to the table? He's a versatile athlete with a ton of upside. He's played almost exclusively at corner, so he has a lot of experience covering receivers, but...

The guys from Dawgman.com - Chris Fetters and Scott Eklund - dropped everything they were doing the minute Jacobe Covington verbally committed to Washington via his Twitter account so they could record this emergency podcast.  So what does Covington's commitment mean for the Huskies? The 6-foot-1, 193-pound defensive back from Saguaro High School in Scottsdale, Ariz. may not be as highly-rated and...

The Husky defense has some attrition to overcome from last season. Mainstays like Greg Gaines and Jaylen Johnson along the defensive line as well as the linebackers and the secondary, which lost five full-time starters between both groups, has seen plenty of turnover, but due to versatility and some talented underclassmen, the Huskies like where they're at as they are just two weeks from the kicko...

The guys from Dawgman.com - Kim Grinolds and Chris Fetters - spoke to a bunch of players from Washington's offense and special teams after Tuesday's Day 11 practice. The focus for Tuesday was the tight ends room, so we went in-depth with UW Tight Ends Coach Jordan Paopao and sophomore Cade Otton . They talked about the 'next man up' approach and 'carrying the flag' for Jacob Kizer . Kizer is curre...

The Washington Huskies added another gem to their 2020 recruiting class with the commitment of four-star wide receiver Rome Odunze from Bishop Gorman High School in Las Vegas, Nevada. Dawgman's Kim Grinolds and Scott Eklund sat down and gave their thoughts on this latest pledge and took a deep dive into what it means for the rest of the recruiting class, whether or not the Huskies are now done at...

Last season, Washington finished tied for 103 in the nation with just 24 sacks last season, it goes without saying that the Huskies want to improve that aspect of their defense this season. That's been a focus for the front seven all offseason and now that things are near the midway point of fall camp, the focus has turned toward who can get the job done coming off the edge and getting pressure on...