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Beat writer Greg Woods talks about WSU's 4-0 start.

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00:00 Yeah, so the first four games they yeah, I mean they just had a role and I mean Kim Ward

00:07 looked awesome.

00:08 He was super accurate.

00:09 He had, you know, these new weapons to throw to between Josh Kelly and Kyle Williams.

00:15 And I mean, take it down Oregon State, Wisconsin, those are two ranked wins at the time.

00:19 And yeah, they just, you know, kind of were rolling on all cylinders and Ward, especially

00:25 to prove that his deep ball, I'm not sure what the exact numbers were, but the last

00:29 season he was like one of statistically like one of the worst deep ball throwers in all

00:32 of FPS.

00:33 And like I said, I don't know what the exact numbers are now, but I know he's like much,

00:37 much, much, much, much improved in that part of his game.

00:40 And so, and that, I mean, you saw that on the field.

00:43 I mean, he had a bunch of big throwers to Williams, to Kelly, to Lincoln Victor.

00:46 I mean, it was just kind of all over the field.

00:50 So he had that rowing and then on defense, they were just awesome too.

00:53 I mean, they were, they were getting turnovers, which is the biggest thing.

00:56 I mean, I mean, Wisconsin, they had two strip sacks, one that was for a touchdown and Oregon

01:03 state, they had a pick maybe two, if I'm not mistaken.

01:07 The team was like forever ago by this point.

01:10 And so, yeah, I think that was the biggest thing that the defense was doing is that like

01:15 they weren't perfect.

01:16 I mean, they give up, I mean, they, they, I think they, I think they give up, give up,

01:19 give up 35 to Oregon state, which at the time was an okay total because they were creating

01:26 turnovers, which would give the ball back to the offense and no one could stop the offense

01:30 at that point in the season.

01:31 So at that point it was a well oiled machine and there wasn't really much wrong they could

01:35 do.

01:36 And I mean, going forward, it was like, you know, they're going to win eight, nine games.

01:39 I mean, they might, they might not make the playoff, but yeah, top tier ball for sure.

01:43 It was kind of what I saw in the cards with them at that point.

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