still can’t stand USC, Peter Carroll, or any of them….

i’m sick of hearing “the best team we play all year is during practice”…i think Washington would disagree…

I think all the doom and gloom about our secondary and the coaching was understandable, but in retrospect probably exagerated. We’re not used to getting beat like that, and in PSU’s history we’ve faced some of the most legendary QB’s in NFL history only to beat most of them. Detmer, Marino, Brees, Testaverde, Flutie, have all fell victim to a PSU defense.

But once in a long while you’re going to face an NFL-caliber QB on a good day, and if that’s the case all the man-coverage in the world isn’t going to slow them down.

So for me, after watching him in the NFL, I think I over-reacted about our performance in the secondary.

Regarding the Patriots (a) they aren’t the Patriots of 2 years ago and (b) he didn’t exactly beat them himself. He managed the game and didn’t look ungodly. He threw for 163 and TD, not the Madden numbers he dropped against us in the Rose Bowl.

The problem I have with the loss is that we KNEW they had a great passing game. We knew it all season, had a million weeks to gameplan leading up to the Rose Bowl, and we still looked completely lost on the coverages. We had an NFL-caliber defense (well, front seven), so we should’ve put up more resistance than what we did. The fact that Sanchez is performing well two weeks into his pro career doesn’t alleviate any of my issues with that loss, whatsoever.

We complain about Ohio State crapping out on the big stage continuously so I think it’s only fair when we recognize when our team embarrasses the conference.

Good PS teams have taken care of “great” college QB’s…Marino, Flutie (he got us once I think), Vinnie T., Brees, Brady, etc. We just didn’t have the horses last year.

Is Sanchez really that good OR is he surrounded by good players. Place him on the Browns and I guarantee he’d be 0-2.

as much as Pete Carroll plays the fun loving friend card as coach (at least that is how it appears) he certainly appeared douchea through the comments directed at Sanchez after his NFL draft announcement. “Mark Sanchez is amking a mistake entering the NFL”. He pretty sold Sanchez out as an NFL failure. A high draft choice and early success is proving otherwise.

Reading some USC board comments questioning the ability of Aaron Corps and the readiness of Barkley make me think that Carroll wanted Sanchez to stay at USC because USC QB depth chart was a mess rather than Sanchez not being ready to move on.

Amid all that drama, Sanchez’s success does not make a PSU loss to USC any more palatable.

always came off as an arrogant, egotistical, doucheabag to me, along with the rest of the team, but I’m not being bitter, it’s just how he presented himself. I loved how after they lost to OrSU, they had the camera on him at the end of the game walking through the tunnel and he throws a little hissy fit and throws his chin strap against the wall. I hated him ever since I saw maturity like that.

but one of the things I felt bad about was that Sanchez didn’t look all that spectacular during the season, just looked surrounded by good players, and I felt that against us he looked like a superstar. At least he looks good in the NFL so far (though 2 games is hardly an adequate sample size, the fact that he’s a rookie and doing fairly well speaks at least somewhat to his talent).

I wish we could have shut him down, and the loss still sucks, but now instead of thinking “we got raped by a so-so QB who got hot” I can now think “well, we got raped by a pretty good QB”.

the Rose Bowl was a giant FAIL