Dots: dreaming big and stopping the run

Today is Monday.

But it isn’t any normal Monday. It is the Monday marking the first game week of UW’s 2018 season. The #6 Huskies open against the #9 Auburn Tigers in Atlanta on Saturday in the weekend’s only matchup between Top 10 teams.

Over the course of this week, you’ll get more analysis about the Chick-fil-A Kickoff game than any mere mortal can handle. For my part, I’m expecting a pure 50-50 kind of affair that could quite literally break in either direction.

The Tigers are a loaded SEC team heading into this season. QB Jarrett Stidham is a rising player who has “gunslinger” written all over him. The Baylor transfer was notoriously inaccurate on the deep ball a year ago, but not for a…