Washington head football coach Jedd Fisch spoke at his Monday press conference about playing nine of 18 true freshmen in the 35-3 victory over Weber State and what improvements he would like to see against Eastern Michigan.
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00:00I didn't want to put many guys in that weren't practicing with the on the didn't practice the game plan
00:07Probably the other nine that didn't go in we're running the scout team
00:10So during that week they they were getting all the reps of what you would say Weber's offense was
00:17So I didn't think it would be right to throw them in there and put them in a possibility of a situation where they're a
00:23Little embarrassed of one way or the other so
00:25We'll see what happens
00:27Each week as they continue to develop we'll see who can play and we're not afraid to play freshmen
00:34That's been proven at our last place and at this place that we are going to play freshmen. We're gonna play young guys
00:43We don't really talk too much about redshirting. That's really not part of our program
00:48Our program is about playing the best players right now and see if we can develop them
00:53You talked about continuous improvement, what would improvement from week one to week two look like to you
00:58Um, I would say, you know starting fast would be good
01:05Defensively if we go out there to see if we could get a three and out or one first down and out and
01:10They had about a six minute drive or five and a half minute drive which resulted in a missed field goal
01:15But it was still a drive longer than coach Belichick wanted
01:19offensively
01:21Not get a holding penalty to call back a touchdown
01:24Be able to make sure that we put ourselves in position that we could get some points the opening drive would be great
01:32But again, it's a tough opponent
01:34These guys are a good team very well coached
01:37I know they have a long history with coach tabor and coach grub and there's and they're high and coach Creighton over there
01:43And they all know one another and we're very well aware of that. So
01:48It's a well coached program they've been there ten years together
01:52Eastern Michigan has been and their coaching staff and we got a great challenge ahead of us