OdontoBear66 said:
mbBear said:
tim94501 said:
So I like Robo a lot for his toughness and courage, i appreciate what he's done this year with a very depleted offense. I don't think we can be a successful football team next year if he's our quarterback. He's handcuffed Baldwin's ability to stretch the defense with his inability to throw any semblance of a decent deep ball. I've heard excuses about the lack of wr all year but the interception he threw tonight was 100% because he lacks talent. He will never be a player that can make that throw. That was a td with a c+ arm qb. If he starts next year we're going to waste the weapons we have because he can't put the ball where it needs to be. We also don't even know how good Baldwin is because he has 15 yards downfield to work with right now. Harsh reality of our qb situation.
Plenty of blame to go around...putting it all on Bowers is the easy way out. Why are they throwing deep in the first place? Laird is running well, and some shorter passes are working. Second, if you can show me a WR making a worse play on a ball than that, I will gladly watch. Granted that Hawkins is 5-8 and a true frosh, but that ball is knocked down by an average receiver.
Agreed to an extent, but rather than "putting it all on Bowers" I think people are talking about what they see as needs. For example, the offensive line was much improved this year, is young, and for next year has been recruited well. The same feeling is not there at QB. Many posters feel that QB is a gritty, tough young man who is just limited in his abilities to up his game much more. Myself, I have some of the same fears with the defensive line next year with what we have on the table. Not so at DB or LB, or even WR & RB (assuming the injured return). It is just a talent eval. Now if you are his roommate, or his mom, etc. I can see you taking it as "putting it on Bowers". The young man is good, just not foreseen as the one to up the program in the Wilcox era.
"The putting it all on Bowers" was simply in terms of the Int. Bigger picture-how does he respond with a year under his belt, an off-season in the weight room, improved WR's, a solid RB group coming into the season, and a better O-line? Don't know, and if he can be beat out, then so be it. I don't think its as automatic as some, like somehow Joe Roth is sitting on the bench, but we will see.
I think they need depth at D-line, no question, but Palmer has come out of nowhere, and I am of the belief that Cal isn't losing guys that are all that terrific. Depending on how he measures out at the combine, Looney is maybe a late round draft pick, and what, HM all Pac-12? But I agree, as a group, its the biggest question mark for next season.