USC-ASU Report Card
We forgot to post this yesterday.
RESULT: No. 8 USC 28, Arizona State 0
RECORD: 4-1, 2-1
WEEK 5 GPA: C+
QUARTERBACK
Usually, you lose when the QB commits 4 turnovers.
D
RUNNING BACKS
Joe McKnight snapped out of his funk and didn't fumble.
B+
WIDE RECEIVERS
All that talk about improvement suffered a setback.
D+
OFFENSIVE LINE
No one escaped blame for the dreadful third quarter.
C-
DEFENSIVE LINE
Fili Moala blocked two field goals and recovered a fumble.
A-
LINEBACKERS
Brian Cushing played a strong game. Rey Maualuga started slowly.
B+
SECONDARY
Pete Carroll said Kevin Thomas played the best game of his career.
B+
SPECIAL TEAMS
No news is good news but fake FG backfired.
C
COACHING
The play-calling remains an issue and would matter against a real team.
C-
Sounds about right.
The defense was great the offense was... not.
Average it out and you have a "C," tack a "+" on it because they won.
Love Sanchez, but any QB who commits four turnovers deserves and F. I'll give him a D- for the win and the interception what Williams gave to the Sun Devils.
Blocked FGs are special teams plays. 2 Blocked FG's, no kickoff returns or punt returns of note, no fumbles on punt returns, and you add that up to a C?
Thank God your grades mean nothing.
Don't forget, however, that two of the turnovers (fumble due to the atrocious (non)block by McCoy and the INT off the hands of Williams were not Mark's fault.
Still, he played a horrible game. He'll be back, and he'll be better.