From: behzad@mdd.comm.mot.com (Behzad Khamneian)
Subject: Re: For U.W. Huskies
Organization: Motorola, Mobile Data Division - Seattle, WA
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1992 01:10:12 GMT

In article <1992Nov23.185254.16071@lmpsbbs.comm.mot.com> A10035@email.mot.com (Scott Lindsey) writes:
>
>I would like to get some feedback from some people who are reading Seattle
>and surround area newspapers about Napoleon Kaufman. OK, he's the first
>sophomore to break 1000 yards. Why is he only getting the ball about 12 times
>per game?? Fumbles???? He had 3 (i think) the week before. He had one late
>in the game Saturday, but after the game was over. 

  Kaufman had 3 fumbles against Arizona (1 on a punt return, one when he was
running, and another one on a kickoff return).   We lost 2 of those fumbles
(the punt return one and the one on the run).  Don James benched him against
Oregon State, but he did contribute a great deal (better than the starters),
coming off the bench.
  Against WSU, his speed was not helping the Huskies, due to the slippery 
ground.  Making cuts and juking are Kaufman's bread and butter and you can't
do that on slippery surfaces.  I am just surprised that Don James didn't 
hand off to Darius Turner (230-lbs running back) or Matt Jones (the other big
back) to start off the game with.

>I watched the WSU/UW game Saturday.
>I noticed that the quarterback (Brunell, Burnell, whatever) seemed to
>always run the ball on the options, even when it looked like the smart
>thing to do was to pitch it. What the story?? With the poor showing
>of UW, it seems as though you have to question why Kaufman was not
>given the ball more!!!

  If you paid any attention to the option plays, Brunell would take the ball
himself, because the Cougars had cornerback Torey Hunter (#24) going straight
at Kaufman on almost all of the option plays.  A gain of 2-3 is better than
a loss of 5 or a fumble.  Arizona also snuffed out the UW option game with 
a good defensive game plan.  They would have 2 linebackers of a linebacker 
and a DB go after BRUNELL and Kaufman.

>I say bench the quarter-back. He is over-rated. Stick Hobart orwhatever the
> other QB's called back in there!! Then they might win the Rose Bowl.
>And give Kaufman the ball 30 times!! He'll get over 200 yards!

  Mark Brunell is NOT over-rated.  He has made good decisions and played very
well all year.  He has the ability and speed to scramble, which HOBERT lacked.
Hobert would sit back there, stand tall, and get sacked.  Brunell has saved
his butt, as well as the team's by scrambling and throwing on the run.
  Unless you have totally missed all the hoopla and wasted band-width HOBERT
has been suspended indefinitely for taking an illegal $50,000 loan from a 
non-UW affiliated businessman friend.  He is gone!!  The second-string QB
is a redshirt freshman named Damon Huard from Puyallup HS, which produced
HOBERT.  Huard is a better QB than BRUNELL and HOBERT and has showed brilliance
as of late.  He has completed all of his passes as a Husky (10+) and tossed
a nice 68-yard TD strike to freshman WR Theron Hill against Oregon State.

  I am glad that almost everyone is underestimating the Huskies around the
nation.  I just hope that Michigan is doing the same thing.

-Behzad
GO HUSKIES
GO GATORS
GO COUGARS