If the defender had turned around, he would have intercepted that ball in the corner. Also, right before Arch came in to run for that TD, Quinn threw into triple coverage and the ball was dropped. Had he caught it, it might have been a 98 yard race to our end zone. Quinn got lucky both times. We got lucky.
Quinn made a few good throws, but Manning coulda made the same throws, plus he has the ability to turn it up the field for twenty or fifty yards. Quinn's luck is gonna run out against a really good team.
How would you like to see us struggle like this all the way to the National Title game? For argument sakes, in each win, it's the D that pulls it out. Ewers continues to make major errors, but we make it and we get to play Oregon. Then Quinn's luck runs out. When we could have Arch in there piling on points, we have Ewers taking points away. Maybe it turns out that with Arch we would have won by three TDs. (Had we gotten that deep into the playoffs with a steadily improving Arch, we likely would have found ourselves with an offense that is unstoppable, and we would kick Oregon's ass.) Nice scenario. We get to live through one of the most magical seasons any team has ever had...
But instead, Quinn turns the ball over four times and we end up getting our butts kicked. He can't run. He chokes. He turns the ball over. Sark has to take the RPO out of his game plan. This team deserves better.