I guess I am not too upset

Why are you ignoring or blowing off Marcus M as quarterback? Why go for a Juco? It seems to me the ONLY quarterback that has moved this team the last season and one-half is Marcus.
Am I missing some information? Why not let Marcus run the team?
It seems the OL has started to open some holes for,the RBs. The defense has started to step up their game.
The problem is the starting QB couldn't get the ball close enough consistently enough for the receivers to catch consistently. (And a couple of the receivers must practice well, but can't bring that to the game.)

Yes I completely agree.  I'm not counting MM out, or anyone out for that matter.  But MM completed 40% of his passes last year, and got passed up by a walk on freshman this year.  I don't know, maybe there is a reason for that. 

He had a great game against Oregon where our rushing attack was unstoppable.  He had a great quarter last week, or drive.  Other than that, there is nothing to talk about.

Coach said plainly today in the monday press conference that Marcus has the next 6 games as his opportunity.

So barring injury he's the man for rest of the season.

I think McM has the raw skill and potential. he has not had a fair shake in my opinion.

It remains to be seen if the coaches can call plays for him and his receivers can get open and catch the ball.
And, wouldn't you know... his first start this year is on the road at #5 Washington, that for the first time in my memory is actually living up to their preseason hype.

for McM, in my opinion, if it weren't for bad luck he'd have no luck at all...

Everybody but Garretson has struggled with the zone read. Collins was electric with the ball in his hands but it was boom or bust not consistent, because he often made the wrong read.

What I remember about Marcus last year was having the distinct impression that he made the right reads but struggled MIGHTILY with location of the ball in the short passing game when the bullets were live. Kind of early Jonathan Smith-esque, and while you might think that is a compliment, if I had a wayback machine so that you could read all of the posts about his atrocious accuracy on the old GoBeavs usernet mailing list, you would see that it's not. Fans were hollering for Terrence Bryant most of the season and even when Erickson showed up Niner had to battle for his job. Nine didn't lack for arm strength, either.

Sometimes the smart, heady QB's just don't pass the eyeball test and don't have the prettiest stat lines. Smitty finally won the job in 99 and then never let it go, but his first two seasons throwing the ball were up and down and he certainly wasn't the fan favorite until the latter half of 99.

I guess what I'm getting at is, I don't think it's over for McMaryion, he still has a shot.

I think we as fans need to be very ready to just forget this Saturday. I hate to say it.

Not only is UW pretty good on offense, but I would say their defense is a hands down top 5 national squad.

This may be "white flag" waving on my part, but lets judge him on a winnable game or two left on our schedule. I think every game left except this one is a game we have a puncher's chance in.