OaktownBear said:
Strykur said:
OaktownBear said:
ibhoagiesforlife said:
I was in the end zone behind the bears on the long bomb. When Bowers lauched it, the receiver has eyes on the ball and tried to stop his momentum and come back to it but slipped. The ball was a pop fly and hung long enough for anybody in the secondary to come and get it.
Watching the replay, Bowers just tried to do too much. There was a receiver underneath that was open and would've resulted in a first down.
Also seems to me that some judge the QB by whether he can get us to a conference championship. Well, lets get some reality here. We aren't getting to that level for at least a couple years. Aaron Rodgers wouldn't have made this team compete for a conference championship.
If Goff or Webb was playing QB last Saturday we have the Axe back. It's not like we need another Aaron Rodgers, although we have been squandering some pretty good talent at QB for several years now.
Yes, if Goff, the #1 draft pick, and Webb, a high draft pick played in a three point game instead of Bowers, we would have won that game. That is a pretty high bar you are setting. If Marshawn, or Arrington, or Best, or Forsett, or Vereen or a few others had played one play of that game - the one that Laird broke for a long run but couldn't out run the secondary, we would have won that game because they would have taken it to the house because they are flat out faster than Laird. Are you going to hold Laird to that standard?
None of Goff, or Webb, or Rodgers would have taken that team to a championship, nor would they next year. If the next Goff or Webb or Rodgers emerges next year, by all means they should play. That doesn't mean we can't have a winning conference record with Bowers next year, which is the next reasonable goal for this team as it is currently constructed whether Bowers or someone else starts at QB.
I'm far less sure than you are that 2004 Aaron Rodgers couldn't have taken this team to the Pac-12 championship game. Washington was the only game I think we still wouldn't have had a reasonable shot to win with Rodgers. USC, Arizona and Stanford I think are easy to flip. Oregon and Colorado are the wildcards because the defense got rung up so badly in both games. Even so, Bowers threw 93 times for 614 yards, 6 TDs and 1 INT in those two games. Imagine what Rodgers would have done to those defenses with 93 pass attempts.
Since two losses happened to be good enough to get to the title game this year, I don't see why there wouldn't have been at least a decent chance that we would have made it if you swap Bowers for one of the greatest of all time.