Beck isn't a defender either, so OBVIOUSLY he can't cover that part of the field, much less be in there. That's kinda my entire point to begin with, is he COULDN"T be everywhere,,,but I thought the hypocrisy of Yewt "fans" had already been pointed out in that regard. I guess not.

It's not his fault BYU's defense sucked rocks those years. It's also not his fault that Crowton played with his head and shattered his confidence with his abysmal handling of the QB situation while there.

All season long, Eric Weddle was the best defensive back on the field, thus the opposing offenses tended to avoid him.

However, passing plays would not be routed away from him every time. Sometimes when you are facing a star player, you go in his direction. NFL offenses would avoid Deion Sanders, but not every time. MLB pitchers sometimes intentionally walk Barry Bonds, but not every time.

In the final play of last year's Holy War, it was all or nothing. Utah saw Curtis Brown as the greatest offensive threat, and BYU saw Eric Weddle as the greatest defensive threat. Each team wanted to keep the ball away from those players.

And that's all there is to it.

In the bottom of the ninth, if the score is tied and the Giants have a man on, the pitcher will intentionally walk Barry. Maybe not in the fifth inning, but certainly when the game is on the line.

In Utah's next game, the Armed Forces Bowl, Tulsa did not choose to avoid Weddle on the final play of the game, and the result would have been a pick-6 except Weddle took a knee.

Except that BYU didn't avoid going after Weddle.

It looked more like Weddle avoided going after Harline. Who, by then, had to have been pretty apparently greater as an offensive threat than anybody else on BYU's team.

Not that I blame Weddle, of course. He got humiliated by the last "no-lose" situation he was placed in against Harline, after all.

Not only that but the play before the "Harline is still open" was mere freshman,,,, McKay Jacobsen hauling in a pass from Beck,,,,,right in front of Eric Weddle.

But that's okay, Weddle is still the Calvin Johnson stopper and Harline is just the poor ol' undrafted tight end and Jacobsen, the youthful kid from Texas is now just a missionary. ;)