Kyle Whittingham: Code Name Quarterback Killer
If kyle whittingham was in a spy movie his secrect identity would be quarterback killer.

Kyle Whittingham: Code Name Quarterback Killer
If kyle whittingham was in a spy movie his secrect identity would be quarterback killer.
Is it just me or does Kyle whittngham have an amazing ablitly to totally destroy the confidence and career of every quarterback he encounters, here lets look at a few examples
Ratlif: BJ goes down at the end of Kyle's first season, we've only won five games and byu is all thats left, there goes the season over right, WRONG Rat gets the start down in zooby land, and he plays an amazing imspired game, leading Utah to an Overtime victory in a game that we weren't supposed to win. Then Against #24 Georgia Tech Rat gets his 2nd start, and leads Utah underdogs to a victory in the Emerald Bowl, here comes 2005 and everyone is full of excitement we can't wait for the season to start, because we know were going to start where we left off last season, Rat makes his 3rd start against UCLA in the Rose Bowl. Rat get's pulled mid way threw the 2nd quarter and replaced by Tommy Grady, Granted Rat wasn't doing the greatest, but it was only his third start EVER and the first of the season, he like everyone else had rust he needed to work through, but Whit didn't let him he pulled him.
To me there are two distintive phases Of Ratlif, The Pre-UCLA and Post-UCLA Pre-UCLA Rat had confidence, he went out there and made plays made big throws down feild, took some chances and won games he was the kind of quarterback that anyone would want, Post-UCLA after he got pulled stupidly in the UCLA game it looked as if Rat had his confidence shattere, he wasn't making the plays he used to, he was overthrowing recievers all over the place, i believe this was because he was scared of throwing a int. because of the coaches, and he was always looking over his sholder, playing on egg shells scared to make a mistake, that is no way to play football and it was all because of stupid coaching. Kyle didn't help out the situation either he was quoted as saying in a press confrence when asked about the struggles utah faced last year that "were playing with our #2 guy" who in the hell goes out in public and calls his started, the Guy that saved his job the year before his #2 guy what the Hell, and to make matters worse before the season he didn't name rat the started until about a week before the game, how can you not give it to the guy who got you your two biggest wins as a coach??? anyone

Ok thats enough about Rat, now lets move on to this year he Puts in the Freshman quarterback in against UCLA and he makes some huge plays running for first downs tossing a TD pass, absolutly wonderful play for a Freshman,fast forward to UNLV Kyle puts him in again, and he fumbles the ball, he comes off the feild never to go back in, True fumbling is always bad but give the kid a break he's a freshman playing in just his 2nd game you got to put him back in.

Now Tommy Grady, We all know what tommy is capiable of we saw it against ucla, but after struggling through the first half against unlv whit, decideds to bench grady and bring in the injured johnson, true tommy wasn't playing great, but can you name a player on the Utes who was playing good, with the exception of kicker luois sakoda? so Whit takes grady out at half and puts in BJ risking getting him injured before he fully heals, and totally destroying Grady's confidence, if BJ gets injured again this season which is very likely and Grady has to come back in how do you think he's going to preform, most likely he won't be making the big plays, he'll take sacks rather than risk throwing the ball, he will settle for short passes and not throw the bomb for fear of being taken out again basically its the same thing as Post-UCLA Rat

It is definently time to get rid of whittingham, before utah becomes qb killer U