Today's our day to talk with UW offensive coordinator Tim Lappano.

Here are some highlights of what he had to say:

ON PREPARING FOR STANFORD THIS WEEK: "The scout team (defense) is going to be really, really key this week. I'm going to do something I've never done today, going to bring them in and had Trent Miles bring in a blitz tape against all of their formations and their blitzes and I want them to see it because it's going to be really hard to get the perfect look if we don't see what they do. They (Stanford) are an odd front, a fire zone, 54 percent blitz defense, odd meaning three down and four backers and they are coming from everywhere. They can make you look ugly at times. Think they are leading the Pac-10 in sacks and hits behind the line of scrimmage. They have gotten after a lot of people. Hit the kid from Arizona State 8-9 times, so we have to be sure we are solid in our protections. The biggest thing is getting our show team to give us that look. To do that they need to see it on film and then have a better feel for it. Not just something you can draw on a card and say 'here you go'. That's the number one thing we have to do is be really solid against all that pressure. 54 percent, that's big, that's a lot of pressure.

The other thing is they give up a lot of big plays. When you do that kind of stuff, when you get burned it's seven points, and when we get burned hopefully it's a four-yard loss or no gain, something like that. That's what we are facing with this group. They can make you look stupid for a while but they give up the big play to. But they play hard, a couple of good athletes on there. They do run to the football, swarm to the football and they play hard.

They are coming from everywhere and they try to create confusion and mess with your protection. They've messed up a lot of people. They gave Oregon some problems for a while. They were with them for three quarters, they obviously beat USC, so this is a good challenge for us.

ON UW HAVING SOME PROBLEMS WITH DROPPED PASSES AGAIN LAST WEEK: I don't know what to say. I think dropped passes are just looking the ball in, there's a saying to 'look the ball in the last two yards, never assume the routine catch.' Sometimes you have a tendency to pop on it, but we did drop a couple of balls Saturday. What that does is it takes you out of drives and we can't afford to do that right now. We can't drop balls, especially on third down, when you have stuff that's right there have to focus and concentrate and look it in. We just can't do that. Can't lay the ball on the ground. Dropping balls I've always thought is just being focused and looking it in all the way to the tuck position.

WAS THE ONE WHERE COREY WILLIAMS COULDN'T COME UP WITH IT A DROP? I would think we need to make that play. Maybe have to get out the distraction drill. That's what happened to him was a guy came underneath and distracted him a little bit and you really have to concentrate and look it in to the last second.

WHAT'S THE DISTRACTION DRILL?: That's when you throw a football and you've got guys' hands right in the guys' eyes and face and at the last second you pull your hand out. We had the machine gun drill where we had all those guys run down and catch the football and you can't hide in that drill because you are looking for two things there, the guy to catch the ball with his hands and not pin the ball to his body. Quarterbacks throw the ball rapid fire as they run down the line and you can't hide in that drill. Forces you to catch it with your hands and to look the ball in the whole way because it's coming here, now it's coming there as you're going down a straight line. Did that after the bye week and thought that helped a little bit.

I think Mike Gottlieb's got knocked out. He needed to just turn around and he kid of floated into a rolled up corner and the guy put a good hit on him. If he just turned around he would never have let the guy drive into him and knock it out.

IS JAKE STAYING IN THE POCKET ENOUGH?: He's got to set up in that. One thing I really liked that he did Saturday that he didn't do the week before when he got out of the pocket and was running in the red zone, we had a guy wide open a week ago against Oregon for a TD and he had his head down, this time he had his head up, boom, hit Rankin in the back of the end zone for a touchdown. That was growth because we showed him that on film, talked to him about how important that is because when he gets out there, he's a problem, either have to come up and tackle him or stay way back. If you stay back he's going to pull it down hurt you with his feet if you come up he's going to dump it. That was a third down play and that was huge. He's got to set up inside and let it go or pull it down and go.

ON HASTY'S RETURN: Coach Willingham made a decision to let him back on the team and I support that 100 percent, I do, I have nothing against J.R.

ON THE GROWTH OF THE OFFENSE, IS THE BULK OF THAT THE GROWTH BECAUSE OF JAKE --- Not fair to say it's just Jake. I think our young linemen are getting better. You're seeing Cody Habben improving, Frisbee improving, Ryan Tolar improving and seeing a much more consistent Marcel Reece and Anthony Russo, a much more confident Marcel Reece and Anthony Russo who are calling for the football, saying coach, I want the football. I love that. Those two guys are playing with much more confidence than they were a year ago. It's a combination of our young linemen getting better, obviously Jake is really improving every week and the growth of Marcel and Anthony, those two receivers are playing extremely well right now. And Rankin, I think he's running pretty hard right now. Not always perfect form but he's being consistent and giving us some big play potential and doing some good things. There's some growth in those areas. It just can't be Jake. We all know he's pretty scary but some guys are helping him, too. Somebody's catching those balls.

IS THERE A CONCERN THAT THE OFFENSE STARTS PRESSING THAT IT FEELS IT HAS TO SCORE EVERY DRIVE --- Not going to say that, no, our goal is that we want to score every time we get the ball. We want to score every time. Right now they've got some swagger, got some confidence. Having fun in the meeting.

ON THIRD DOWNS --- We were 75 percent on third down, we are right in the middlem coming up in the league in third downs, third in red zone offense which I like, in the middle of scoring, when it's all sasid and done we will be up there in total offense. Anytime it's a breakdown on third down you have to punt the ball. Had to punt twice in the third quarter and that's critical

ON WHETHER LOSING IS HURTING RECRUITING --- Bottom line is got to win. That's the best recruiting tool, to win. It's critical that we take care of our state and if we do that we could be a top 20 year. We've got to take care of our state. Just win, we've got to win. Winning cures a lot of things. This business is funny, can be on top of the world one week, then in a couple of weeks it comes crumbling down. But just have to ride through that stuff.

ON HOW THE TEAM IS RESPONDING MENTALLY --- We're still the same team that was on top of the world after the Ohio State game, the UCLA game. It's mental., It's a mental game. Got to ride through the storm. Got to ride through the storm during a football game. Tell those guys on offense all the time, down there on the field, we fumble the football, we are moving on to the next snap. It's mental. We are still the same players, still the same coaches doing all those good things early in the year, so we've got to fight through this mental funk right now. Got to fight through it, battle through it. All you can do right now is be tough. We've got to bunker down and believe in one another and fight through this. You've just got to support each other. I've got my own problems. Got a team going to come after you 54 percent of the time, have to make sure we are ready for this.

ON HOW MUCH JAKE'S ATTITUDE AFFECTS THE DEFENSE --- I don't know. I don't really know what he does after practice and all that kind of stuff, who he runs with, I'm not really sure. But the way he plays the game is contagious. That's what the great ones do, Michael Jordan, Tiger Woods, you elevate your game when you watch them play.

ON THE OFFENSIVE LINE --- Think those young guys are getting better and that there is some good competition there and that there is more depth. Good that there is some depth there now and we can wear some people down in the fourth quarter and you don't lose much when you exchange some guys. Think there's some growth there and that's good. Be interesting to watch practice this week because there is some competition going on there. Just in general on the O-line.

ON THE TIGHT END SITUATION AND WHY JOHNIE KIRTON STILL ISN'T MORE INVOLVED CATCHING --- Michael seems to be more at the point of attack sometimes when Johnie is on the backside and Michael is on the front side a little bit more. Johnie probably had his best performance in terms of blocking last week. Make sure want to give him some love for that because he really stepped up a little bit better last week and we thought he blocked pretty well. We're utilizing the tight end a little bit more and you'll keep seeing that that we are utilizing the tight end a little bit more. Not by design to stay away from Johnie or anything like that. A lot of this offense is based on the tight end first and that's what they were giving us last week a lot and we were taking advantage of it. Then they were adjusting to that and we were going to where they were leaving the void area, so it's good stuff.

IS JAKE HAVING MORE LATITUDE TO CHANGE PLAYS? --- A little bit. I don't want to get into an audibilizing contest out there but his job is to get us out of a potentially bad situation and if he knows we've got a call on right now that could potentially be a sack or a run right into an overhang then he can get us out of that but that's really as far as I want to go with that, especially on the road, I don't want to get into an audibilizing contest.