Petersen Pissed Away the Utah Game, but he won't Admit it

Who knows the reason(s) that Washington started over Gaskin ...

Personally, starting or not at the RB position doesn't matter to me. We needed both RBs to be productive last night. To me, there's some minor pressing in worrying about who is or isn't starting at that point since we don't rely on our lead RB to carry the ball 35 times in a game.

Also, I think that there's some stretching to say that Browning is struggling. He made a number of good throws last night, was very strong last weekend against Arizona, and had how many passes just flat out dropped last night? While running the ball on Utah is necessary, the reality is that the teams that have been successful on Utah this year have been able to get chunk plays in the passing game. With the single safety look that they were giving for most of the game, I don't have a general problem with Browning being asked to throw the ball.

Couple other points:

1) It never struck me as a monsoon out on the field. It was most definitely raining ... but it never looked to me like it was raining to the point that you couldn't throw the ball.

2) When you cited what Washington did to end the first half and then noting that Utah fucked up the opportunity that they had, you could/should have also noted that there were about 20 seconds left on the clock for Washington on the 37 with 2 timeouts. There was a very decent wind swirling towards the open end that 2 reasonable intermediate throws would have given Van Winkle a shot at picking up 3 to end the half. The fact that we took a knee there was a massive mangina play in my mind.