No More Penalty Talk: Time To Play Football
The talk of the nation this week has been the over-celebration penalty that was called on Washington QB Jake Locker. We never gave our thoughts, so after everyone has, we will. Bad Rule. Correct Call. According to the rules, you can’t throw the ball high in the air. The ball Locker threw was in the air for 2.36 seconds. That qualifies as high. Should that rule be in the book? No. But it is and the official made the correct call. Besides, UW has to make the PAT, no matter how far it is. If you are truly a team trying to turn it around, you make that kick.
The Washington State game against Baylor has been moved to tomorrow night at 5:30. We were mildly excited because we were looking forward to relaxing after work and watching the game. Then it hit us, the game now won’t be on TV. Understandably, this is what’s best for the people of the Texas coast but, selfishly, we wish we could watch it.
We’ll find out this week if UCLA is the real deal. BYU sneanked out of Seattle with a win so they should be on high alert this week. The game is in Provo so it is going to be very important that the good Kevin Craft shows up for the Bruins.
USC-Ohio State is the game of the weekend. Everyone is focusing on Beanie Wells’ injured foot but we’re more interested in seeing how Mark Sanchez plays. OSU returns most of their defense, a defense that is considerably better that Virginia’s. Sanchez is going to need to play well, it doesn’t matter how many 5-star RBs the Trojans have.
Stanford has another tough game this week visiting TCU. The Horn Frogs are another one of those teams that it seems every year are looking to burst the BCS bubble. This game time has also been changed to an earlier start time on Saturday to avoid the hurricane. Stanford showed last week that they still have many holes to fill.
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