[Mahhvinn]

Late on this but That game was horrible, play wise. Haha. Hopefully Washington can pick up a few more win so that USC's loss won't looks so bad. Haha

[Mahhvinn]

Originally Posted by sokdo

Quarterbacks do play a HUGE HUGE role in the overall performance of your team. I played high school ball and once your starting QB is hurt or out of the game, well you better pray to hell the rest of your team can pull through ( which in my personal experience, almost never happened ). Not to mention that second string qb's just can't command the field as much as the main QB. There is a reason that Barkley was the starting QB. Speaking from an unbiased point of view, if your starting players aren't on the field, teams who shouldn't lose will lose to teams they shouldn't. I will also admit that USC didn't step up this game either and probably underestimated wash but would there have been a different outcome had barkley played? definately.

Agreed. It makes a big difference if your starter qb is out. The team just doesn't feel all there.

[UncleWede]

If we'd just quit playing Pac-10 games on the road, we'd be fine

Corp should have been using the strength of the VERY DEEP running team he's got, but McKnight got hurt (AGAIN) and they didn't seem to hand it to anyone else, so he kept throwing it away.

Sark knew EXACTLY what it would take to beat them, and he did it. "I Bark for Sark" shirts were classic!

I feel sorry for Washington St. next weekend, I detect some serious run-up on the score. Then with that, the Cal game will be a real battle.

[Aurora Bearialis]

[bluespeed117]

Who cares if the quarter back sucked in this game. If your offense is sucking badly, shouldn't your defense take command? Look at the Bears in the NFL. Rex was a terrible QB yet they still won games cause their defense was impenetrable. Blaming the lose on one guy is just people pointing the fingers at other people cause they cant accept that they lost fair and square.
Isn't every major sport a team sport? You guys lose, its not one guy that loses, its the whole team.
You could also blame this on Mark Sanchez and call him a sellout, otherwise USC would still have him and they probably would've done much better in this game.

[StrifeM3]

Originally Posted by bluespeed117

Who cares if the quarter back sucked in this game. If your offense is sucking badly, shouldn't your defense take command? Look at the Bears in the NFL. Rex was a terrible QB yet they still won games cause their defense was impenetrable. Blaming the lose on one guy is just people pointing the fingers at other people cause they cant accept that they lost fair and square.
Isn't every major sport a team sport? You guys lose, its not one guy that loses, its the whole team.
You could also blame this on Mark Sanchez and call him a sellout, otherwise USC would still have him and they probably would've done much better in this game.

Again not blaming on one guy but you need a qb to at least win a game last time I checked regardless of how good your defense is. Barkley is no Tebow but if florida qb got hurt you wouldnt think that is key?? More of a chance of Florida losing without there key QB. Sometimes that one guy is key to a victory. Please dont compare the NFL to college football either, 2 different ways of playing. I believe you can only understand this point of view if you actually play college ball. Watching from the sideline its easy to judge if you never played but if you have played then good.

[just4kickz]

+1 college ball and prof football are very different.

& for the record, you can't get to the bcs champ with just a good defense... and being one dimensional on offense is a major drawback, even for teams with great depth like USC. just look at how gtech lost to miami

[bluespeed117]

i know that defense wont win you a BCS champ on its own but in this scenario, it should've help win the game. USC defense has always been pretty good so what happened in this game?

[StrifeM3]

Originally Posted by bluespeed117

i know that defense wont win you a BCS champ on its own but in this scenario, it should've help win the game. USC defense has always been pretty good so what happened in this game?

In this game USC defense didnt play that bad but when you have your quarterback throwing into double coverage and not converting on 3rd downs the defense spends more time on the field which leads to fatigue which then leads to mistakes. In college football a little bit of offense and good defense wins games. No offense and just defense doesnt win games if you dont put points on the board in college football.