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There was a lot of celebrating inside Stanford Stadium after USC’s 13-10 victory, which also the magnitude of a victory over Stanford at home. What happens next? The Trojans are in a good position today.
The key might be whether they can avoid those trap games that seem to curse so many Pac-12 teams. That trip to Arizona looks bigger today. The way the schedule is set up the next two games (Boston College, Oregon State), USC should be able to incorporate those freshmen back into the offense. Because I don’t expect the Trojans to enjoy many more games against good teams where the opponent messes up as much as Stanford.
Here’s my recap of yesterday’s wild game.
Choke jobs r coming that is what Snark does …let this gift win in a game won despite him go to his fat empty head Lardy is fully capable if losing to any team
Good. Let the hate flow through you.
It’s called red zone defense putz. SC led the conference in it last season and looks like it will this. Good teams take what they are given and find a way to win tuff road games. Posers struggle with average teams at home and find a way to lose away from home in big games. It’s to early to be sure right now but there is a pattern emerging.
And I don’t expect the Trojans to have many more games with Leonard Williams playing at 70%, Kessler recovering from a staph infection (right, Scottie? ) and Townsend out with the chicken pox……and without Tre Madden and Josh Shaw……
Are you curious for more details about why very few passes went to anyone but Agholor?
Do you agree that the more than 50% of the outcome resulted from Stanford “losing” the gamre, rather than USC “winning” the game?
To me, it’s not that Scott has zero insights or worthwhile questions, it’s the tone that he chooses to express/ask them.
It was because Stanford played so much zone and Agholor thrives against the zone. If your #1 option is open in the progressions, you throw to him. Add to it that Sark knew Stanford would be tough at home so you stick with your most consistent horses, Agholor and Allen.
It’s called taking what the defense gives you. …
Scott is lazy….he occasionally asks valid questions, but refuses to provide much in the way of meaningful insight. …and yes, I am curious about the uneven distribution of passes, but I trust Sarks play calling and Kesslers decision making, than I do Wolfs cryptic and open ended questions. …
More craptastic “analysis” from one of the worst bloggers in all of sports. No discussion of George Farmer’s huge comeback from an ACL tear, making 4 big catches yesterday. No discussion of how we were able to impose the running game on Stanford in spite of an offensive line where 3 of the starters were starting only their second college game, and in spite of a knee injury to Mama earlier in the week. No discussion of Leonard Williams’s great performance in spite of a high ankle sprain after he suckered the Farm by only doing one rep during warmups and pulling up lame. No owning up to the fact that Wolf asserted that Agholor “acknowledged” he was no longer the team’s number one receiver, only to pull in 9 catches, including some clutch grabs during crunch time. No discussion of how our young corners performed against Stanford’s receivers. No discussion of Sark’s risk/reward decisions with respect to kicking the tying field goal on 4th and 1 instead of going for it, or how he backed off of going for it on 4th and 5 and chose instead to let Heidari go for a career long field goal.
Also no discussion of how Stanford failed to drag us into a war of attrition for the second year in a row, in spite of SC only dressing something like 53 scholarship players yesterday.
Stanford linemen took plenty of cheap shots against our players, despite the questionable chop block that took away their touchdown. ..
Sorry Bleauz….but that WAS not a chop block. SC still had to take advantage of that break and win the game. But objectively, SC got a huge break on that call.
However, Stanford had several opportunities to take control of the game and did not get the job done. SC made the plays they needed to make.
My Bruins…on the other hand…are looking extremely bad. Need a quick turnaround or Tempe will be as ugly for us as it was for you last year.
I’m not sure. Herbstreit was adamant that every high/low block is a chop block. It didn’t look like one but it might well have been a chop block based on the letter of the rule
Face it. We’re stuck with Wolfie, lame as he is. Thanks for posting aspects of the game Wolfie doesn’t see. I’ve always said, this blog is about the info USC posters bring to light, in spite of Wolfie and his Troll following, neither of whom can stand that USC simply looks a lot better than the all show, no go little gutties, who will be completely out of the top 20 once they start losing to Pac 12 teams.
I do not believe we are stuck with Scott Wolf. The hotel chain comp’d five suites in San Francisco and spoke about changes to their upcoming ad spending. It’s your right, so write what you wish, but don’t expect the Trojan family to standstill, remain silent or continue to support your advertisers. What you can expect is some very significant push-back. When companies receive complaint letters, they become aware of reverse revenue advertising.
ad buyers pay based on formula tied in to the number of Blog visitors. Do you think the Daily News is going to remove its CASH COW because of a few kook homers???
HAWR-HAWR!! Sally Snarls CONTINUES to make a fool out of herself!!
#FoolsErrand
Eat Mor Chiken!
Ad buyers pay based on the bottom line results. The number of viewers is irrelevant because (i) Trojan fans won’t choose a Scott Wolf advertiser like Delta Airlines, at least not as a first choice, and (ii) Trolls can’t fly – they don’t have significant financial resources. Airlines depend in great part on business travel for their financial success. These are reasonable, smart people. I see that a hotel chain wised up. Delta won’t get business from successful UCLA fans because they don’t visit this blog, You lack the ability to think through a situation from start to finish. The hot chick is a very clever woman. She took your manhood and now you’re like all HAWR-HAWR.
Keep trying Sally.
#StillBoring
Charlie shows himself!!!!
Notes on the game: What happened on Stanford’s touchdown where there was not an SC boy in sight?…If that td was not called back it was probably game-over Stanford…thought SC stuck to the run too much…Stanford QB and Montgomery were on fire until the final fumble…nice to see Buck looking as fast as he is strong…Kessler said that was the most difficult game of his college career (albeit only 16 games)…it’s not the yards, dummy, it’s the points…Trojans look to have a pretty easy schedule for next few games at least…But the end will be tough because ND has its QB back, looking better than ever, and say what you will about SUCLA, it still has Hundley.
Same fix would work for both teams. SC has to find a way to contain mobile QB’s and get pressure with 5.
GAAAAWD! will the trOXans EVER act like they’ve Been There Before??
if they had any Crystal, maybe they would have a bit more dignity…
#TheyHaven’tBeenThere
Has UCLA ever been there before?
UCLA hasn’t won anything of significance since before Bill Buckner’s infamous error in the 1986 World Series. Or put another way, they haven’t won anything of significance since Moses Malone was guarding the paint for the Sixers.
You always make a fool out of yourself Charlie. Look in the mirror.
I post under MY REAL NAME. You post under a character from the Willie Wonka movie. And you even tried a second time with Veronica.
El Rey, i am well-known in my field, and as i have said, i do business with Southern Cal….therefore i cannot reveal my true indentity which IS KNOWN to a handful of trOXans.
Too bad USC doesn’t play Oregon this year, because if the Trojans lost to the Ducks, they would move up in the rankings, like Michigan State did in Scott Wolf’s AP Top 25.
Editor’s Note: We at the LA Daily News know that Scott Wolf is an absolute idiot, but we can’t fire him because of what happened between him and the publisher’s . . . uh-hem. As I was saying, as much as we would like to hire someone capable of logic and reasoning, Mr. Wolf currently has our Sports Staff by the balls.
GREAT WIN… I do not understand the Game Plan this week.. USC has a TON of offensive weapons and none of them were used or even targeted? I understand USC wanted to RUN, but not using the weapons you have just astonishes me.. Again no TE targets!