Time To Put This Night Behind Us ...

they played so well and came up with big plays

just can’t grasp that

The defense played great again (I guess for eight straight quarters at least.) But the offense is as bad as anything I have seen in my many decades of watching Bruin football. What are our coaches going to do? Nothing works. We get a wide open guy on a long pass and Kraft throws a perfect ball which gets dropped. Of course, every perfect ball he throws to the other side gets caught and returned for a TD.

So we have no chance at all next week against justsc. As I recall, that is what was said when we lost all our quarterbacks and were down to some fifth year senior who was a former tight end for some Oregon school — what was his name again? Oh, yeah. John Barnes. No one could possibly beat justsc with a guy named John Barnes at QB.

Yes, he is a warrior. Yes, he has no O-line and running game. HOWEVER, in his 11th game as a starter he has (1) shown no ability to check off his primary receiver and (2) continues to force balls into coverage. Both of these inadequacies lost the game tonite. D-backs are sitting back, reading his eyes which are locked in to the primary receiver. It is easy pickings and has been all year. The pick in the endzone wasn’t so much a result of either of the aforementioned problems… just a terrible pass at a pivotal point in the game.

I implicitly trust the coaching staff and I shudder to thing KC is the best of the lot.

God help us next week.

But Craft bears some of the blame—as much as any college kid can rightfully bear.

Yes the O-line sucks, but I really didn’t see his protection breaking-down too badly in the second half. Sure, they can’t run-block for shit, but hey, let them get one year, older, smarter, quicker, better, and they will be alright. Craft on the other hand throws into coverage, makes lame throws, and has the uncanny ability to string bouts of passing efficiency and brilliance with drive-ending mistakes. He could get better too but letting him know “he’s the guy” is not working this season.

It’s not Craft’s fault completely. I am very disappointed with whatever force is keeping him in. He needs to be benched for a game(s) and then re-inserted at some later date to see if the benching clears his head. As it stands now, he starts every game and stinks it up bad enough so that when he is replaced, there is nothing anyone can do. If C-force ran the offense this entire game, I doubt the defense would have scored four times.

Our defense has a shot against SUC’s offense. Our offense has NO CHANCE IN HELL against their defense. You want any sort of chance, we need to play TURNOVER free football.

(1) Lack of running game really hurt: 2 first and goals at the 6 yard line – settled for field goal and then the 100 yard interception return. Most teams would have run for a score both times, lack of running game teased us to pass on 1st down.
(2) we have an incredible receiver corps – Embree, Everett and Moya were solid again.

Craft cannot play anymore. He’s just a terrible, terrible quarterback. I mean, wow, he might be the worst Division One quarterback I’ve ever seen.

The line is bad, and the running game is non-existent…We know this. But the kid has a bad arm, no mobility, and a terrible decision making process.

He’s terrible. Beyond Ryan Fien terrible.Beyond all terribleness I’ve ever seen.

At least Forcier has the good sense to be terrified and run around a little bit.

Enough of Neuheisel berating the kid on the sideline. Just banish him to the scout team where he OBVIOUSLY belongs. The kid didn’t sign up to be the starting QB.

Enough. Enough of this. Play anybody…Play my shoe at QB. No more Craft.

but I thought he was done for the night after he hurt his shoulder last night.

I was just hoping Forcier can hang in there if Craft didnt come back, otherwise we’d have Rasshan next week.

why KC should start next week. With KC we’ll get at least 2-3 ints and the points that come with it. I’s like we spot the opposition freebie points just to make it interesting. With Forcier we just don’t know. I’d rather go with we just don’t know. At least it will be an unknown to SUC as well. We do know Forcier will bring mobility to the position, a talent PC exploited in 13-9.

I don’t know. I remember some excellent drives and some really bad throws. I remember a lot of sacks, drops, bad routes, and an amazing amount of physical courage. But I do believe that if Neuheisel and Chow thought someone else could do consistently better under the same conditions, that somebody would be out there. And he’d be taking the same beating and producing about the same results. It’s a team thing, people. A TEAM thing. I’ll be there next Saturday in my season seats, and all around me will be those unspeakable USC fans, in seats that ought to be occupied by Bruin fans. And that is the one and only thing that I’ll piss and moan about, NOT Kevin Craft, let me assure you. Go Bruins, dammit! Win or lose.

Does anybody know how many Pick-6s K-Craft has thrown this year. He has to have the NCAA Div. 1 record. For whatever reason Norm and Rick continue to keep him in the starter position. This week is different because it’s SC and we have to have C-Force or Osaar Rasshan running around to distract their defense. Enough of the experimenting with Crafty. Even Big Ben in a cameo appearance would be better.