You don't care about my observations, but I'll give them to you anyway.
by qrsouther on Sep 19, 2009 6:00 PM PDT
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- I'll get straight to the point here. We won this game in spite of Jeremiah Masoli. Everyone knows I'm a Masoli homer and entirely against seeing a backup QB this early - but Christ, get it together man. I think it is indeed time to drop the gloves and expect much more of him. It's not asking for a Civil War performance day in and day out. It's asking for him to get more accurate now. He's had his preparation games - and today there was no improvement as we'd hoped. His reads were sometimes questionable, and his passes were very inaccurate. The fumble was a bummer but I must say it's not the kind of thing that I think will turn out as a huge problem. The huge problem is his passing game, and it must be dealt with in the coming week.
As always, feel free to tell me exactly where I'm wrong. I'm aware that my judgment is impaired for the timebeing with frustration at a certain polynesian quarterback.
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Why that punch didn't get an flag, let alone an ejection
is inexcusable. A ref was 10 yards away, and running towards it. Good grief, PAC10 officials are pathetic.
And is it just me, or was there a ridiculous number of helmets being knocked off?
by grimc on Sep 19, 2009 7:09 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
Pac-10 refs go beyond pathetic
I don’t know if any of you saw this play in the Beaver game. Cincy receiver makes the catch, goes forward one yard, and is swarmed by three Beaver defenders. Then after a couple of seconds of driving their wide out back, the ball pops lose, the Beavers recover in great field position, and the Beavers are looking at upseting the Bearcats.
But the refs call the reciever’s forward progress stopped, when it was obvious that he was still fighting and was almost out of the scrum of Beaver defenders. The next play, Cincy converts on 3rd and 15, and scores a Touchdown a few plays later to go up 10 and all but end the game.
Now, I know that it sounds like I’m making excuses, I’m just pointing out more horrible officiating. The call wasn’t the reason we lost, but it was definitely part of the reason.
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by ConnorOSU on Sep 19, 2009 10:29 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
That play did seem weird … I remember thinking that his forward progress had been stopped and that the refs should blow their whistles, but they didn’t blow them until the Beavs recovered the fumble. Still though, his forward progress HAD been stopped.
by echo31 on Sep 19, 2009 10:33 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
His forward progress
Yes. But he was about to break away from the Beaver D it looked like to me. Maybe I’m just bitter.
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by ConnorOSU on Sep 20, 2009 7:26 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
On TV, it was a good 3 seconds that he had been stopped. I think it was right on the edge and could have gone either way. It was in the grey area, at least from what I could see. If they ruled fumble, I would have agreed with the call
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by dvieira on Sep 20, 2009 7:46 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
sorry, no
It's spelled "T-A-K-O-T-U-E-S-D-A-Y-S-!-!-!."
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by Takimoto on Sep 20, 2009 12:17 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
this is trumpetduck, on my computer
fucking matt signing in on my computer, not cool
It's spelled "T-A-K-O-T-U-E-S-D-A-Y-S-!-!-!."
I support inroywetrust in his support of The VD Special in his support of me supporting Roger Kieschnick in his quest to becoming the best Kieschnick ever to play professional baseball.
by Takimoto on Sep 20, 2009 12:18 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
We value your opinion Quinn
And that uni combo sucked. Why no carbon helmets? That would have made sense. Carbon or green helmets would have been better ideas than white. Meh, win’s a win.
Other things:
I was impressed by Cain’s deep throws, we just played really good defense on those deep throws and nothing came of it.
Playing the role of TJ Ward today was Javes Lewis. For a skinny kid, he can HIT!
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by Takimoto on Sep 19, 2009 7:17 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
Lewis could hit.
Though on Cain’s last TD pass, he had to get a hand on it, and he didn’t. That was not good.
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by qrsouther on Sep 19, 2009 7:24 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Your opinion is usually spot on
therefore i value it
Boo you Mike Stoops! Boo you!
by JBinO on Sep 19, 2009 7:49 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
Observations
Starting not to care too much about uni combo’s… getting more serious about what’s happening on the field this year. Although the gray pants looked like something used in practice. Always good to see a win, the guys played hard today and did what they needed to do. I will admit I was a bit jealous watching some other games today showing teams marching up and down the field with a good mix of run / pass. Going into the game I knew of the problems throwing slant in’s or post routes, but even 5 yard passes to the flat were not working. It looked like the protection was better today for Masoli and should have allowed more time to get throws off. That last 10 minutes was a bit tough to watch going up the middle on each carry. Again, good to see the win and Nick A did it again with great calls, exceptional execution by secondary and moments of briliance getting to their QB.
Again, a win for the guys. Need to get some balance for next week.
by WAduck on Sep 19, 2009 8:28 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
Aside from the one Eli Manning Super Bowl-esque escape by Cain for the TD
The defense was amazing today. Truly great. Allioti deserves a ton of credit for putting together a solid game plan. Brandon Bair was all over the place early in the game and the d-line really wrecked havoc all over their run game.
Oregon is known entirely for their offense, but like QRS said, we won this game despite our offense. The corners were great in coverage, knocking several balls away at the last second that I thought were for sure going to be caught and the front 7 did a great job containing Cain (who I think will be a solid QB btw) and limiting their ground game.
This win gives me hope for conference play. If the D can play like this, and the offense can pull it together to even 75% of last season, I really like our chances against Cal next week, who were 1-4 on the road last year.
Go Ducks!
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by diehardoaklandfan22 on Sep 19, 2009 9:08 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
Brandon Bair was all over the place early in the game
Not to mention Will Tukuafu!
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by qrsouther on Sep 19, 2009 9:19 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Our defense gave up 7 points
Basically, and dug in on several situations where they were put in trouble by stupid mistakes.
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by skywaker9 on Sep 19, 2009 9:21 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Both of you are exactly right
I singled out Bair because I hadn’t heard a lot about him and it was nice to see an under-the-radar player step up and have a huge day.
Tukuafo deserves a lot of credit for his senior leadership for the Ducks mostly inexperienced defense. And the only reason the D gave up those 24 points was because of the position the offense put them in, ie: masoli’s fumble, thurmonds dropped punt, and 4th down conversion fails.
Very impressive day for the D and Allioti.
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by diehardoaklandfan22 on Sep 19, 2009 9:29 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
And Paysinger was money
And with Ward back next week, should be good.
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by skywaker9 on Sep 19, 2009 9:34 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Simi had his name called a few times.
some excellent special times play, doncha think? #’s 20 and 17 stand out
by DONALDUCK on Sep 19, 2009 9:43 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Those would be Boyett and Glasper, respectively.
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by qrsouther on Sep 19, 2009 9:57 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Good rundown. I can't see anything I dissagree with.
Some minor things to add.
Why numbers don’t tell the whole story… To look at the box score, the D gave up nearly 300 yards and all 24 points. But there were only two drives of more than 40yds, and only one that resulted in points. The group came up with key stops when they mattered most, none more so than the dying seconds of the first half.
I read earlier in the week that the Ducks would not be able to run effectively against Utah’s front seven…busted.
As I said in the game thread, something needs to clear Masoli’s wheelhouse. We know he can play, he knows he can play, Chip knows he can play. But overcoming the Yips is a difficult task. Talk to a sports psychologist, see a hypnotist, play as Oregon QB#8 on rookie difficulty, do something to get out of your own head, Man! We’re looking forward to seeing you at Dual Threat Level Midnight again.
"It amazes me that you understand (...) the number one play of what their offense is and what they do best, AND you still can't stop it!" - Craig James
by AcadianTraverse on Sep 19, 2009 11:05 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
He's just a touch off
He’s not missing by much on a lot of those passes and just needs a few easier ones.
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by skywaker9 on Sep 20, 2009 1:12 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Which is exactly why I know he'll be back.
Hopefully Chip can put together a gameplan this week that gets him some simple throws early on so that he can regain his touch. That’s what it looked like Texas did with Colt to start the second half last night, and it worked out well!
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by AcadianTraverse on Sep 20, 2009 7:30 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
looks like a confidence issue to me
which is so odd, given that last year when he had no time to learn the offense, leading up to the booing at stanford… which is exactly when he responded and put mostly consistent games together afterward.
maybe we need to boo him or shout obscenities and make him mad.
yesterday he almost looked scared, though, which concerns me a lot, just looked like he was questioning himself. then chip questions him and the play calling goes conservative.
like AcadT and MarineCD and others have said, vicious cycle.
just odd, he was such a gamer last year, like “oh yeah, you don’t think i can do it? watch this”.
hoping that’s his perspective for game 4.
and no more robo-check for the receiver reads.
by Bill Musgrave on Sep 20, 2009 8:13 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
also, something about the robo-check
makes me think that helfrich and/or kelly have fed him some bad instruction, or he’s taking the info the wrong way. like they’re telling him to really concentrate on each read but check them off, and he’s very, very deliberately checking off the reads.
dunno, just can’t imagine that the robo-check would happen as much as it’s happening if it wasn’t encouraged in some way.
by Bill Musgrave on Sep 20, 2009 8:17 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Last year,
Donovan McNabb was benched for a half, and it turned out being the best thing that could have happened to him. I am not advocating benching Masoli, the coaching staff just needs to find a way to push him and make him play like we know he can
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by CaDuck on Sep 20, 2009 8:38 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs
Let's all give a warm ATQ welcome to new user Costa#7!
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by qrsouther on Sep 20, 2009 9:23 AM PDT up reply actions 2 recs
hahaha, rec!
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by dvieira on Sep 20, 2009 9:29 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
Can you change your name to Best#4 so he has a shitty game this week?
It's spelled "T-A-K-O-T-U-E-S-D-A-Y-S-!-!-!."
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by Takimoto on Sep 20, 2009 5:07 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs
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