Thursday, June 12, 2008

Carpenter on Bleacher Report's "QB's that Teams Can't Afford to Lose" List


Ah yes. I guess I have to address football this week since I don't want to beat the dead horse about the epic ASU baseball meltdown anymore (for today at least). The Bleacher Report has compiled a list of QB's teams can't afford to lose. Rudy Carpenter is a name on that list.


One of the surprise teams of 2007 was the Arizona State Sun Devils. It was
a big joke around the college football world when former coach Dirk Koetter
listened to his players and named Rudy Carpenter the quarterback in 2006.
Koetter got fired after the season, but Carpenter continued to shine. In
2007, Rudy threw for 3,200 yards and 25 touchdowns for an Arizona State team
that went 10-3.
Look, Rudy is a great college QB, but I think we have enough veteran weapons at wide receiver and running back that Danny Sullivan or Samson Szakacsy could step in and produce. Rudy is a very valuable piece of the puzzle, but Danny Sullivan at 100% is just as good as a Rudy Carpenter at 70% as we saw in the Holiday Bowl (even though I'm pretty sure Sullivan was going against the 3rd string D). At the same time, if Rudy goes down and we're back to playing in a bowl game in Hawaii, it'll be a case of "be careful what you wish for."
Now Matt Stafford, that is a QB a team can't afford to lose.

3 comments:

Nick Saia said...

does anyone other than me think carpenter is a douchenozzle?

He is such a punk on the field that it embarrasses me. The Holiday Bowl was his chance to prove me wrong...

but no, he had to taunt the longhorns even though we had our asses handed to us. Which only fueled them up more to try and injure him.

He was a bitch in class too.

elway7

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