Reply To: Just watched the last play of USC game

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And yet Longstreet isn’t the starter. As you said he’d be by now.  Wrong again

 

I think last night‘s horrible performance was a combination of 3 things

 

the first and most obvious is that he made no fewer than about six putrid awful unbelievably bad throws. if he doesn’t he’s got another 60 to 90 yards and a decent game and USC probably wins by two touchdowns

the second is that Jacobi  Lane play like he was drunk and dropped passes and would not fight for the ball on several other targets in the holiday bowl against Louisville. He would go up in the air. He would fight for balls and we have seen that in 2024 also. But in 25 he doesn’t fight for the ball anymore. I honestly don’t know why. I’m not sure if this is a Chad Savage thing or what. But  Lane this year has been awful. And it wasn’t just him they had a couple of other wide receiver and tight end miscues  I would say this would be another five or six passes that Maiava finally delivered accurately, and his receivers screwed up on the other end

so at this point, we are up to 10 or 12 passes but in a normal setting are completions and USC has now lost 100 to 150 yards and several drives.  I don’t know the explanation or the answer

the third thing I would say is that they said Nebraska’s defense was very sophisticated. Shifted looks a lot pre-snap and confused offenses. That it was a very NFL oriented defense. The statistics nationally indicated I think they were a top five or top 10 defense  and they were playing at home on turf in cold weather so perhaps you added it all together and that affected things as well

 

one thing that was clearly true was that the USC passing game last night was as bad as I have seen it in several years. The fact that they won the game on the road with the passing game being that horrible was very impressive. But I am concerned because on the heels of the Notre Dame game that is a big problem and I think you can almost write it in that they are going to get destroyed when they play at Oregon