Larry Birdine
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``I feel like they're, I'd say, a one-and-a-half-man team,'' Birdine said. ``I want to respect them just because I have to play them, but then I watch them on tape and everything, and I realize that they're an average team.''
``Besides Reggie Bush _ he's a great athlete, he's a fast back, he makes plays or whatever _ but nobody else stands out to me,'' Birdine said.
``We feel like if we take Reggie out of the game, we're gonna win.''
``If anybody should have won it from USC, it should have been Reggie Bush,'' Birdine said. ``I don't think that (Leinart) was the best quarterback. (Utah's) Alex Smith _ he was better than Matt Leinart. I don't think Matt Leinart should have won.''
Birdine later added: ``He's definitely overrated. Like I said, he's a good quarterback, but he's not a Heisman-winning quarterback.''
