‘Our guys are pretty locked in’: Jedd Fisch discusses Washington Huskies’ road issues

Four games away from Husky Stadium back home in Seattle. Four games that Jedd Fisch and the Washington Huskies have lost in some way or another. And now, the Huskies are going to be returning home this coming weekend to host the USC Trojans.

But before we get too far ahead of ourselves, why on earth can the Huskies not find a way to win in some other venue other than Alaska Airlines Field at Husky Stadium? How on earth is Washington winless in neutral site and away games this year? 

What’s going on with that? 

Well, in some cases, you could probably just simply explain it away with my line of logic of “it’s hard to play football at 9 a.m. against a team that has a robust defensive line and a good rushing attack.” Because that would be a fair explanation for what’s happened both in this past Saturday against Indiana and also a couple weeks ago with Iowa.

But, what does Jedd Fisch think about the matter? How does he view this? 

Jedd Fisch weighs in on Washington Huskies’ road struggles, including frustrating loss to Indiana Hoosiers

In his postgame press conference following the loss to the Indiana Hoosiers, Fisch was asked about this. It’s become a bit of a storyline within this first season of Washington Husky football in both the Jedd Fisch era and the Big Ten era. 

And when given the chance to talk about it, Fisch said he didn’t notice any sort of meaningful difference between how the Huskies were approaching road games versus playing back home on Montlake, 

“There’s always, people play well at home,” Fisch noted. “I don’t know, that’s kind of a well-known thing that teams are playing well at home right now. But, I don’t feel like our team was much different when it was 17-14, with whatever it was, 11 minutes, 12 minutes left in the third quarter.” 

The head coach of the Huskies continued, pointing out that the game did get a bit eccentric in a few different moments. It wasn’t quite like the good old fashioned “Pac-12 after dark” sort of shenanigans or anything like that. But, one of the big game-changing plays was really weird, to be completely frank about it. 

“I felt like it was a really good football game. I do think that, you know, some of the things are a little bit wacky,” Fisch explained. “I’ve never seen a pick six off of a ‘now route.’ That was one of the weirder plays that I’ve ever seen on the second drive of the game. But no, I feel like our guys are pretty locked in.” 

The Huskies may have been “locked in,” but they clearly were not better than Indiana. Whether or not this is an anomaly of some sort, I don’t know. It’s possible Fisch doesn’t know. But the Huskies absolutely need to play better down the stretch if they want to get to bowl eligibility this season.

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