I mean how they lost Mike Williams, or Winston Justice, losing your premier QB or RB IS a big hit, but Call didn't lose Aaron Rogers or J.J. Arrington, if Aaron Rogers is a top 10 pick, he should be able to make the players around him better. Who is Brandon Stokley or Reggie Wayne without Peyton Manning? Marvin Harrison never got more than 900 yards receiving until Peyton Manning's 2nd season. Marshall Faulk wasn't a superstar till Peyton's 1st season, until then, he was just a running back with great potential, and he was #1 overall in 1994, for 4 years he never played his potential. The Steelers were mature enough to lose Duce Staley and still win, everyone said Bettis didn't have anything left, and with Ben Roethlisberger as their QB? Thats saying something about their maturity, especially Big Ben's.
well I'm trying to understand your logic....you keep saying maturity, but it is depth and yes, they lost Chase Lyman and Mckeenon and Macarthur was in and out all year....it doesn't matter that they were not a Willaims, they were as important to the Cal offense as Bush is to the USC offense...I"m really not making this up.......Lyman had most of the TD's and something like a 26 yards per catch average and fastest receiver we had.....so in that aspect he was as important to Rogers and Cal....hey, I never made excuses during the season......I told my friends, what you said...youpractive evey week, you have to perform. But receiving is alot more timing.......I mean Rogers numbers up to the USC game were better than Leinerts even and he has a stronger arm.....i'm not saying he is better but then all of a sudden he got lame or something......it was a big hit for us..........that is all i'm saying..we were almost 50%50 running passing and after that we had to become unbalanced which was not our strength.......what about that doyou disagree with...again, no excuses but those are factual and we didn't ahve the depth (not maturity) to overcome that