While I’m excited to wear my FIRE WILCOX t-shirt to the Cal game in couple Thursdays, I feel like my anger might be misplaced. Steve Sarkisian has completely lost the USC fanbase. The level of coaching ineptitude being discussed at my airport gate in Salt Lake City was staggering. Everybody I talked to had a different hateful take on a separate, awful Sark’s decision. The most egregious coaching mistake I’ve seen since the ASU debacle was the 3rd Down & 2 late in the game. Given the 25 mph headwind, kicking a 45 yard field goal was clearly out of the question. Anyone that doesn’t understand that doesn’t understand physics. Since we were clearly in 4 down territory, you have to run the ball on 3rd down, not only because you just should, but also because you have to make Utah use their last timeout. This is elementary school game/clock management, and Sarkisian clearly doesn’t have the brainpower to understand any of this. I’ve literally seen children understand the clock in Madden better than Sark. He’s fucking dumb. Instead, Utah was given the ball back with a timeout they never should’ve had, making it even more difficult on Wilcox’s gassed defense by not only needing to guard the sidelines. Don’t take this in any way as me giving Wilcox’s laughable prevent defense a pass. He’s so unbelievably in over his head, it’s truly hard to put into words.
The officiating was predictably terrible. The officials allowed the lateral on the
second play of the game to continue without a whistle, granting them a
touchdown that was unable to be overturned by a replay they didn't have. But to all of our great surprise, the
officials blew Adoree Jackson’s forced fumble and recovery dead instead of
watching his 2nd 100+ return TD of the game.
Funny how that works. Leonard
Williams and Scott Felix were tackled no less than 3 times each, but Utah did
not have a single solitary holding penalty versus USC’s stout defensive
line. How’s that possible you may
ask? It’s simple – Fuck USC and the
horse they rode in on. The
screengrab above of Utah’s final touchdown with 8 ticks left, and it was a carbon
copy of the play Notre Dame got flagged for last week. I wouldn’t have thrown a flag on either play, as these rub routes happen all the time. But it still needs to be pointed out that he is clearly illegally blocking before the ball is out.
And putting a GoPro on a bottle of Fireball at a wedding is genius. The fake swigs make me laugh.
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