What's GBW's story? Two conference looses now catching fire at the right time?
I concur with Silver but will point out that in the first quarter of the first loss against LT, we lost our captain stud running back for the year. The next offensive play after watching our workhorse carted off, our all-state candidate LB went down with an ugly but ultimately not-year-ending injury. For LT and HC, the team seemed to be waiting for someone to step up and make the big plays.
Whatever happened after that game, you see a completely different team on the field now. LB back now, but defense had 4-5 guys step up and produce big plays and leadership. The H-F film will show a clinic of LBs flying all over the field making plays. D line has steadily improved at stopping the inside run which leaves folks the option of throwing the ball 30 times. That is 30 opportunities for blitzing LBs to pressure QB into bad throws (3 picks vs HF) or flush the QB out if not getting the sack. Precision QBs might eat up some yards between the 20's, but in the red zone everything tightens up and it is really tough sledding.
GW plays in WSS and all top tier teams run the spread option with 4-5 receivers. Generally speaking the ones that have been toughest to stop have really good olines that know how to pick up blitzes and a viable running threat at QB.
On offense, I know it sounds trite, but Hetlet takes what you give him. GW will throw for 240 yds and 3 TDs (NV round 1) or throw for 15 yards like we did against HF. Notice in the films how GW will run the same play 5, 6 or 7 times in a row if a defense fails to adjust to a weakness GW finds. And I am not just talking about opening drive stuff. Last two years against OPRF GW ran essentially the same play in putting up 80+ points. The word for is relentless. Hetlet is relentless.