Comments on The Phanatic Magazine: Tick...tick...boom to bust

Not to rain on your Big 10 parade, but I think we ...

2007-02-27T01:07:00.000-05:00

Not to rain on your Big 10 parade, but I think we saw in the bowl games which conference was stronger. JRuss didn't lose the Auburn game, it was taken out of his hands by Jimbo Fisher who chose to run the ball that day. There were the 2 overruled P.I. calls in the endzone committed by Auburn, that you can clearly see that the replay official blew the call. I can also argue that at the end of the year Auburn was as good as Ohio St. and Michigan. I'm not saying that teams in the Big 10 are bad but I am saying that Ohio State and Michigan would have been 4th and 5th in our conference. Florida, LSU, Auburn, and Arkansas were in my opinion better. My personal feeling is that Wisconsin was the best team in the Big 10 this year. Hope this gives you pleasure to read, but I'm a homer, and LSU is where the heart is....GEAUX TIGERS.

Everybody keeps talking about Russel's arm strengt...

2007-02-26T22:10:00.000-05:00

Everybody keeps talking about Russel's arm strength; that he can throw the ball 80 yards down the field. When does a QB in the NFL have time to drop back, wait for his recievers to run 70 yards or so, and then throw the ball; except for the hail mary throw at the end of the game?...never! Quinn has a hell of an arm too, good enough to get the long throws where they have to go.

People keep forgetting that football is a team sport, and when you have a team with as much weaknesses as ND had, it's hard for a QB to win every big game he plays in. Quinn has nothing to do with a game when his defense gives up 40 points. In every big game they have scored at least 14 points if not more...and against top teams, that is pretty decent, in my mind.

So everybody can jump on the Russel bus, I don't even want Brady to go to the Raiders, they will make him look terrible (good luck Russel), I'm just asking for a little more respect given in the direction of Quinn

You just made my point, partially. Quinn is a muc...

2007-02-26T17:09:00.000-05:00

You just made my point, partially. Quinn is a much better quarterback. Russel was behind a good O-Line, Quinn was not. Russel had a good running game behind him. Quinn had an inconsistent one. Look who Quinn had his "bad" games against this year: 3 BCS teams. Against GT and MSU, he only strugled for one half. His recievers also dropped a ton of balls this year.

How did Russel do against Auburn this year? He lead his team to a 7-3 loss. His great games you listed were not against top programs like USC, Michigan, and Ohio State either

I keep reading about how one game should not deter...

2007-02-24T18:41:00.000-05:00

I keep reading about how one game should not determine whether B.Quinn or J.Russell should be the number one pick. But it is not just one game that proves J.Russ is a better QB than Quinn.

For Quinn, it's the Ohio State game in last year's Fiesta Bowl, it's the Michigan game this year, it's the USC game, and it's the LSU game. Quinn has struggled against good defenses, even when the ND had the superior talent: he struggled against Georgia Tech, he struggled against Mich State, he struggled against UCLA.

J.Russ on the other hand has consistently shown that when the game is on the line, he can win. In his first college game ever against Oregon State, he came into the game in the 3rd qtr with LSU down 9-0 and threw a TD on his 3rd possession and in the 4th qtr with LSU down 15-7 he threw a TD on the last possession of the game and rushed for the 2 pt conversion to tie the game and take it into OT. He did it again in the 4th qtr against Iowa in the 2004 Capital One Bowl, he did it against Arizona State after Hurrican Katrina, he did it against Alabama the 3rd ranked team in the NCAA, he did it this year against Tenn, against Ole Miss...

It's not about one game, it is about both players' body of work. And J.Russ's body of work is superior to Quinn's.