LaMichael James breaks Oregon's single-game rushing record in 56-31 victory at Arizona
by jtlight on Sep 24, 2011 11:08 PM PDT
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Oregon went to Tucson, came out with a victory, and there were no significant injuries. That alone is reason enough to celebrate. But on top of that, LaMichael James broke the Oregon single game records for rushing and all-purpose yards. He racked up 288 yards on 23 carries, breaking Onterrio Smith's 2001 record of 285 yards on 26 carries set against WSU in 2001. James also added another 15 yards receiving and 60 yards in punt returns.
From the beginning James, Darron Thomas, and Kenjon Barner ran wild. As a team, the Ducks piled up 415 yards rushing on 47 carries. Thomas had a few nice passes and missed a few, but only had to attempt 20 on the night. The Wildcats simply had no answer for Oregon's offense. The Ducks took a 35-3 lead in the first half, before putting it away late.
Unfortunately, the defense did not play like the offense. Nick Foles threw for 398 yards, and it would have been a lot more if his receivers had been able to catch during the first half. The Ducks did a decent job against Arizona's pathetic rushing attack, but Wildcat receivers were open again and again. The Ducks never got consistent pressure on Foles, and he picked apart the Duck secondary. There will definitely be a lot to work on over the next week and a half.
But hey, a win is a win, and an injury free and largely drama free game at Arizona is always good news. The Ducks now have set the school record for most consecutive conference victories, and will look to extend that against Cal next Thursday night. GO DUCKS!
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You and your thread creating habits
Herbie is explaining that now...
Kind of a short bye week, since the next game's on a Thursday
Still good to give the guys a chance to get healthy.
More days for Clay to be day to day.
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Cal actually has a rushing attack and our secondary was out of position waaay too often this game
Last thing I would want to do is to get Maynard into rhythm
get Maynard into rhythm
HAHGAHAH… oh shit, you’re serious? Maynard in rhythm still completes almost 50% of his passes
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349 yards and 1 TD is chump change
and a barely 50% completion % definitely is chump and I’ll take the change
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I'm more worried about Keith Price, personally
although with the protection he’s getting he may wind up out for the season by the time he gets to us.
But he hit 76% today and averaged over 11 yards per attempt.
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Price is probably the biggest surprise for me in the Pac-12
He’s going to be pain to deal with the next couple years.
Did the irritating announcer who must not be named say it was a high ankle sprain?
I hadn’t heard that from any other source, and, well, let’s face it, HE’S AN IDIOT, but it would kind of make sense.
Got the shoes. Got the jersey. And finally, got football. Go Ducks.
(Good call, Daisy)
by lovemyducks81 on Sep 24, 2011 11:14 PM PDT up reply actions
Maybe, but why would *he* know and nobody else?
I think he just pulled it out of his ass, between licks that is.
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Don't you mean Foles's ass?
Got the shoes. Got the jersey. And finally, got football. Go Ducks.
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by lovemyducks81 on Sep 24, 2011 11:17 PM PDT up reply actions
Well, I'm sitting here watching my dog lick his own ass, which prompted the thought.
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For heaven's sake.
SportsCenter’s on. That’s got to be at least MILDLY more entertaining!
Got the shoes. Got the jersey. And finally, got football. Go Ducks.
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by lovemyducks81 on Sep 24, 2011 11:19 PM PDT up reply actions
So, the UCLA Baver game then?
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by Bill Musgrave on Sep 24, 2011 11:20 PM PDT up reply actions 2 recs
It is annoying that Chip can't announce the fucking injuries
This does not seem to give away any competitive advantage.
I honestly couldn't care less if they announce it or not.
It doesn’t change anything, and it’s just one more little way to piss off the media.
Got the shoes. Got the jersey. And finally, got football. Go Ducks.
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by lovemyducks81 on Sep 24, 2011 11:20 PM PDT up reply actions
Yes, but an unnecessary way to piss off the media
It’s not as if the media is all bad.
I really don't think that's the goal.
It’s just a pleasant side effect. What would us knowing the exact nature of an injury do? Other than ACLs or breaks that mean a done season, everybody heals from similar injuries very differently, and a sprain might mean three weeks for one guy and six for another. Chip announcing that it’s a sprain would give us very little more information than we already have.
Got the shoes. Got the jersey. And finally, got football. Go Ducks.
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by lovemyducks81 on Sep 24, 2011 11:24 PM PDT up reply actions
I would just like to say
you are wonderfully reasonable!
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by Duckfanatic10 on Sep 24, 2011 11:53 PM PDT up reply actions
I spend my days mediating disputes between 14 year olds.
Reasonableness is a specialty of mine.
Got the shoes. Got the jersey. And finally, got football. Go Ducks.
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by lovemyducks81 on Sep 24, 2011 11:57 PM PDT up reply actions
Chip announcing that it’s a sprain would give us very little more information than we already have.
Exactly, which is why it’s a waste of his time to talk about specifics.
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by DuckUntilDeath on Sep 26, 2011 1:45 PM PDT up reply actions
We will get an extra day to prepare for ASU though
So that’s good.
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by BigGreenWreckingMachine on Sep 24, 2011 11:13 PM PDT reply actions
Hey, this James kid is pretty good
our secondary was not
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imagine if he wasn't a giant fatass
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by David Piper on Sep 24, 2011 11:14 PM PDT up reply actions
He should take advantage of Oregon's native resources to help himself out.
We have some of the finer methamphetamine trailers in the entire country.
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by HoodRiverDuck on Sep 24, 2011 11:18 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
Yeah what the hell was going on there?
It was like they were surprised that Foles likes throwing down the field
I think our LBs really struggled in this game. Our D-line wasn’t great, but was adequate. They had a few big sacks, but didn’t get consistent pressure. They did alright against the running game, but heck, four of us could probably hold UA under 100 yards rushing.
But the LBs got torched. I thought our safeties actually played okay. Our cornerbacks struggled and still can’t seem to buy a pick. Man, it wasn’t pretty out there. That’s a one-score game if the Wildcat WRs don’t completely crap the bed in the first half.
I am very, very scared of Stanford.
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Crap the bed...
You said it….Foles was on target and his receivers dropped plenty of balls tonight, two of which should have been easy scores. I couldn’t believe the dropped balls. Foles over threw a few open guys, but mostly his receivers lost the game for them. Foles is a stud but he couldn’t carry his team by himself.
The secondary’s lack of picks has less to do with them than the fact that Foles is pretty damn good and their schemes play to his strengths.
Plus, the Mildcats committed plenty of stupid penalties….the upside of which was the camera on Stoop Dog going ballistic…I’m going to miss his goggle-eyed frog routine next year.
If Luck is better than Foles, I agree…..
As far as the secondary is concerned, Boyett is a maniac……
It seemed the Ducks fell asleep in the third but woke up and decided they were going to win the game….
Best thing about the evening? Sitting in a “Beaver bar” in Tigard, I shut up a crowd of Beaver fans, rooting against the Ducks, with two words: Sacramento State….I didn’t hear a peep out of them the entire second half…
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by vegasduck on Sep 25, 2011 12:48 AM PDT up reply actions 2 recs
Rec'd
…for Sacramento State shutting up the Baver fans. It’s exactly what I would have done.
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by M. Fletcher on Sep 25, 2011 12:05 PM PDT up reply actions
You and your hyperbole
Against predominant rushing offesnses “OUR D-LINE SUCKS”
Against a decent passing game “OUR SECONDARY SUCKS”
Good grief people. We’ve faced one balanced offense all season (LSU), and even they needed to depend on the rush because they couldn’t trust their passing game or weren’t confident in what they had in Lee. STOP THE FUCKING OVER-REACTING
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by Matt Daddy on Sep 25, 2011 12:17 AM PDT up reply actions 2 recs
Foles is a very, very good QB.
His receivers are tall, fast and experienced. They will give just about any team fits.
I wasnt shocked at all that Foles passed for 398. What surprised me was that he only averaged 7 yards a completion, and we didn’t have to throw the ball to win.
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by benzduck on Sep 25, 2011 12:31 AM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
Dude, we were playing against a team that has
one of the best and highest % efficiency passing games in the Pac and they threw the ball 57 times tonight. This is like playing someone in Madden with Manning and the Colts and he never hands the ball off. Yet in the end you beat him by 3+ touchdowns and 3+ 2 point conversions and he tells you, “well your secondary sucks.”
Are you kidding me? They rushed the ball like 8 times in the second half and decided to throw against our beat up secondary. Did they succeed sometimes? Sure. But are we facing another team that will throw the ball 57 times all season? Not likely.
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Think back to the 2002 ASU game. Remember that one?
We were up like 21-0 and Andrew Walter said “Nothing else is working, might as well start flinging it” and wound up with 500 yards passing? And we lost that one?
This team wouldn’t lose that game.
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Yeah at no point was I concerned about losing this game.
Our running attack made it really hard for them to gain any sort of momentum
Again no is arguing against our secondary sucks, but AZ made this game much less interesting then it could
The entire AZ WR corp deciding to get a case of stone hands saved our secondary from looking much worse in the first half..
I guess I wonder what people expected from an Arizona team
down 35-9 at half. Did we expect them to come out and rush the ball 30 times in the second half and dominate the line of scrimmage? Or try and pass their way back into this game with what has obviously been one of Oregon’s weak spots this year and that is the mid range passing game.
As for the drops, I’m still waiting for anyone to give credit to Oregon for all the drops that JWill, Kent, Murphy, Hoffman, etc endured over the years.
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Wrong, you drunken putz. They actually passed more in the 1st half.
In the first half they had 32 pass plays and 10 run plays. Pass ratio 3.2:1
Second half? 19 run and 29 pass. Pass ratio 1.5:1
Admittedly, three of those 2nd quarter rushes came in the last two minutes, but so did one of the passes. The only difference is that AZ started catching the ball.
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I love how we can win a conference game on the road now by 25 points with no injuries
And everyone is bitching and moaning.
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You're the only one bitching and moaning about everyone else bitching and moaning.
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Then by all means, bitch away. You'll are good at it.
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I love how we can win a conference game on the road now by 25 points with no injuries
And everyone is bitching and moaning.
Excellent point. How spoiled we’ve become. We demolished Arizona in their own stadium. We should probably be more excited about that than we seem to be.
I tend to always overexaggerate and be in panic mode right after the game, waiting for the other shoe to drop. I need a night for perspective.
We also forget that one result by any unit does not foretell the future.
God, with the attitude a lot of us have right now, how did we EVER survive 2000/2001 without keeling over?
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Joey Fucking Harrington, that's how.
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by Bill Musgrave on Sep 25, 2011 9:37 AM PDT up reply actions
I was in a constant state of arrythmia
no idea how I managed to live through it.
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@jblair26
by M. Fletcher on Sep 25, 2011 12:07 PM PDT up reply actions
I sincerely hope your family was out of the house when you woke up
cause you’ll be feeling that hangover for at least 24 hours.
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Comparing those WRs to Criner isn't really a good argument
Also the majority of AZ’s self inflicted damage occurred in the first half which helped get themselves into that hole.
We got much less pressure on Foles in the 2nd half as well.
Four sacks in the first half. One in the second, and that one when we were up 42-24.
Foles hit 51.8% of his passes in the first half and 71.4% in the 2nd. Call it halftime adjustments, or the DL getting tired, or just not wanting it bad enough, but if Foles hits 71% for the game Arizona can beat just about anyone. And if he hits 51% for the game AZ doesn’t beat anyone.
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WHY THE HELL IS MURPHY ON THE FIELD?!?!?!
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by JShufelt on Sep 25, 2011 8:29 AM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
No, because you can't divide by zero
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DO IT, I DARE YOU
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@jblair26
by M. Fletcher on Sep 25, 2011 12:09 PM PDT up reply actions
I am still waiting for a legitimate answer to this question. Does he have some sort of dirt on the coaching staff? Was he recruited by Willie Lyles and he’s threatened to spill the beans unless he gets playing time?
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I don’t understand it. I am dumbfounded by the fact that he is playing.
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It's called 400+ yards rushing. No turnovers. Everybody getting along, team having fun. It's OK to not be perfect.
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Why not?
"What you are entrusted to do as a coach is to create an environment where your players have a chance to be successful." CHIP KELLY
Am I to assume that you have watched him play the game of football?
He has 2 receptions on about 6-7 targets and from what I remember about 3-4 drops. That is bad. Really, really, really, really, really bad.
You mean that as a true 'fan', you cann't remember exactly?
That is bad. Really, really, really, really, really bad.
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So I am not a true fan because I do not know exactly how many times will murphy has screwed up?
I am sorry sir, I do not keep a detailed report of every offensive play tattooed in the front of my brain. I specifically remember him dropping 2 on one drive saturday on back to back throws, then that awful drop against lsu on the screen play. Noting those bad performances, I made a bold statement and assumed he has dropped at least one more. I am a little confused however as to why you are so quick to defend a player that has played so poorly? Are you related? Did you have money on the over/under will murphy drops prop bet? Now I’m curious.
Foles is a stud...
Don’t tell me you weren’t in awe of that play when he was being tackled by two Ducks, one of whom had a hold of Foles arm, and Foles shifted the ball to his left hand and threw a completion for a first down?
His receivers played like shit tonight…as was noted above, some of those drops become completions and its a different game.
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I came away a Foles fan
I was talking to the U of A fans about him and they were all like “he’s an idiot.” I don’t understand it. I guess losing makes you sour on everything. The closest thing to a positive they got from the game was that the refs want Oregon to win… I just told them to fire Stoops and better luck next year if they want the refs to lean there way. He ran across the field and berated each ref individually after the game.
by gitterfidder on Sep 25, 2011 7:13 AM PDT up reply actions
That play was amazing
I thought it was a fumble… that flew straight into a UA player’s hands for a first down. Then I saw the replay and that was just incredible.
by INducktrination on Sep 25, 2011 7:36 AM PDT up reply actions
This
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by DuckUntilDeath on Sep 26, 2011 1:55 PM PDT up reply actions
I didn't say our secondary sucks
our secondary is very good. They didn’t play well this game.
We gave up 448 yards passing to Foles last season. Its not exactly anything to freak out about.
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by David Piper on Sep 25, 2011 12:36 AM PDT up reply actions
I just love the fan reaction that is
good rushing teams rush well, but still lose “Our rushing defense is terrible” or a good passing team passes well but still loses “what’s wrong with our secondary?”
Personally, I’m happy that teams have to play to their strengths and still lose. Here’s hoping Andrew Luck has to pass 50+ times and still watch his team lose. When you have a high powered, quick scoring offense, you have to get over the old notions of what is considered a “good defense/secondary/front 7/d-line.”
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My biggest concern for the game
is what seemed to be quite a few blown assignment. Granted that UA is good passing team and that we were going to give up some points and yards to them, but I’m very afraid of how many wide open receivers were running around. We were playing a nickel package all night, so there’s no excuse for uncovered receivers.
Like many people said, had some of those drops turned into easy touchdowns, it may have been a different game. I’m not going to get on the “our secondary sucks” bandwagon at all, but I would have been much more comfortable if most catches were made in traffic and followed by a tackle.
I saw a ton of missed opportunities for their offense, and it makes me very, very afraid of what a balanced offense like Stanford might do to our D. I do not want to see a repeat of the ’09 game in Palo Alto.
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by M. Fletcher on Sep 25, 2011 12:14 PM PDT up reply actions
Arizona was 117th in rushing coming into this game. It's not as though we were expecting a balanced attack. But..
By my count of the play-by-play, AZ had 29 run plays and 61 pass plays (sacks are counted as runs which explains the discrepancy).
If you count sack yardage against yards passing (which you should) and not against yards rushing (which for some reason is the standard), Arizona averaged 5.8 yards per pass play and 4.3 yards per run.
I’ll take any game where we can hold the opponents to under 6 yards per pass play and under 125 yards rushing.
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I agree
It makes a lot more sense to group sacks with passing yards, especially when a team has a QB with cement shoes.
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by DuckUntilDeath on Sep 26, 2011 1:59 PM PDT up reply actions
Criminy, Matt, you act like winning a game means everyone played well. Giving up 398 passing yards is not good. Against anyone. Foles threw 60 passes, but we didn’t pick him off and his receivers did more to cause incompletions than our coverage did.
We played poorly on defense. I’m not sure why it makes you angry that people say it. Our secondary played below par, our linebackers were bad, and our d-line was just meh. The fact that we still won by 24 points indicates two things – 1) Our offense finally got its mojo going, and 2) We got really, really lucky that Arizona receivers made as many terrible mistakes as they did.
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You remind me of what I consider an overreaction with things like the BCSNC.
“They can’t handle big defensive linemen like Fairly”
“Oregon is undersized and their defense caused havoc all night”
All of which could have been significantly downgraded in rhetoric if we ended up winning – which we weren’t that far from doing.
I will say I think everyone is over reacting. Our defense didn’t play that poorly and they didn’t play that well. The fact that anyone is surprised or alarmed over Arizona putting up those yards apparently hasn’t been paying attention to Arizona.
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You remind me of most fans who try to paper over poor performances by making excuses. I’m not willing to do that. I’m not going to give our defense credit for preventing yards that Arizona would have gained had they not made unforced errors.
And in the BCSNCG, we COULDN’T handle Fairley. That’s true whether we won or not. We would have won by finding a way around him, or because our defense made more plays. I’m not going to let my fandom get in the way of rational analysis. Our defense played poorly last night. That doesn’t mean they ARE poor, or that they will continue to play poorly, but there are issues there, and those issues could cause more problems against better teams.
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Whoa whoa whoa... slow down.
I actually agree with your general sentiment with your response to Matt Daddy.
You took my response to you way too personally, Gorby. I – in no way – intended that as an attack. Though after rereading that first line, I can see how it can be interpreted.
What I meant was, based on what you said, you reminded me of something a little bit more meta.
You completely misunderstood my point regarding the BCSNCG and Fairly. We couldn’t handle Fairly and winning or losing doesn’t change that – but no team could handle Fairly last year either. But history is written by (and for) the victors – the rhetoric is that Fairly and the Auburn D-Line overwhelmed the small offensive line. It was a very close game and if a few plays go in a different direction, the rhetoric would have been Oregon’s defense actually stopping Cam Newton. There would have been sentences about Fairly being a machine – not entire stories.
This is a similar thing with Arizona. They got a TON of passing yards on us. But we won, so the headline is LMJ rushing for 280 yards and breaking all those records
Peace?
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Totally, and yeah, I did take that first line to be directed at me personally, so I’m sorry I misinterpreted it.
I guess I’m not interested in rhetoric at all. I don’t care what people have determined the narrative to be. I love that we got our running game going. I love that our o-line looked good, even though we have to discount that somewhat for a struggling UA defense. LMJ is a steely-eyed missile man. All that is fantastic.
I just don’t was to gloss over the defense’s struggles simply because we won by 24 and LMJ broke some ankles. Honestly, I don’t think we deserved to win by that much, and UA isn’t going to compete for much of anything this year. Yes, Foles is good, but so are some other QBs in the Pac 12. I’m worried about those games, because we can’t count on getting 3 – 5 blatant dropped balls on 30+ yard pass plays.
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First, Arizona has the best top to bottom receiving corp in the Pac-12. Dropped passes are a part of college football, and while we can’t count on that, it’s safe to assume that no other Pac-12 teams will have their receivers so open. The only team that is in the same ballpark in terms of receivers is USC. It should be no surprise that we gave up a lot of yards (and we should have given up more yards).
I understand Duck fans worrying about Stanford and/or USC, but that’s a month and a half away. We still have a very young team, and it’s safe to assume that we’ll grow defensively, especially if we get Clay back.
It doesn’t make sense to worry about those games. At this point, worst case, we’ll be in shootouts. If our defense can grow (which I think is a safe assumption), we could have a good advantage against the rest of the teams.
The thing to remember, is even with this performance, we will be favored against every opponent this season except maybe Stanford.
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The way The Ducks are progressing, I don't think anyone in our conference will be able to beat us.
Think about it. Consider how confident they looked last night.
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FWIW,
The Arizona passing attack averaged more yards per attempt against Stanford than they did last week.
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If you give them even 20 more yards for all the drops they had (and I think that number should be more like 80), then that isn’t true any more.
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And they had zero drops against Stanford?
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by trumpetduck on Sep 25, 2011 10:57 AM PDT up reply actions
Foles was 17/17 in the first half.
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by DuckUntilDeath on Sep 26, 2011 2:14 PM PDT up reply actions
Completely agree
This game played out exactly as any fan should have expected. Arizona would pass the ball all over the field, rack up a shit-ton of yards, but score fewer points because they are unbalanced and can’t run when it counts.
Foles is at least as good as Luck (better in one way because he makes less risky throws and takes fewer chances with the ball) and their receiving corps is the best in the conference. I am not shocked at what he did. Some of those long completions were pure magic as he was scrambling for his life and flicked the ball back across the field 40 yards. You can’t cover any receivers (let alone great ones) for that long and it takes a special QB like Foles to make those throws.
Our defense held when it had to and got good pressure and some nasty hits on Foles. At the end of the game Foles could barely walk.
Arizona’s defense is the one that sucks. Even our second tier receivers were open and Thomas just missed them. Our running game was obviously unstoppable.
Much of Arizona’s points came when the game was already put away. Aside from a brief point when the got within 11 there was no real threat. Yards don’t count; points do and Oregon dominated.
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Foles is at least as good as Luck (better in one way because he makes less risky throws and takes fewer chances with the ball) and their receiving corps is the best in the conference
See, I agree with this. Putz Daddy says IT’S NOT EVEN CLOSE though. I think Luck is a better QB, and USC might have better receivers, but I think Arizona’s passing attack as a whole is the best in the Pac.
Which just speaks more to the fact that Stoops is a horrible fucking coach. And a horrible human being. How in the world does he still have a HC job?
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by HoodRiverDuck on Sep 25, 2011 10:44 AM PDT up reply actions
I would take Luck over Foles
because Luck is a strong, fast runner as well. But Arizona’s passing attack is lethal. If they could run they could probably outscore anyone. They may not have the “best” receiver (Criner is close) but like the broadcasters were saying, they’re really deep at that position.
I was reading the Arizona papers this morning and Kelly is extremely complimentary of Foles. That play where he’s being dragged to the ground by two Duck defenders, switches the ball to his left hand, and still throws it 10 yards for a first down was just insane. He’s thrown for over 200 passes without an INT!
Stoops is an embarrassment to college coaches. There’s no other way to explain it. How he can walk out on the field and rip into officials (like Boyett’s hit) and not be penalized is pathetic. He will continue to act like an exploding buffoon until the league slaps him down. Berating his players is just sad too. Our guys fuck up and Kelly may have a choice word or a stare at him, but more often than not he just coaches the player up and gives an encouraging tap.
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AND A HORRIBLE HUMAN BEING
yes
scrappy
by Honka Playboy on Sep 25, 2011 7:18 PM PDT up reply actions
The correct phrase is: bad person.
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by Bill Musgrave on Sep 26, 2011 1:13 AM PDT up reply actions
IFFY
The correct phrase is: bad person.
Not on my holiday card list.
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And Cliff Harris was like, "VRRRRRRRRRRRROOOOOOOOOOMMMMM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
by DuckUntilDeath on Sep 26, 2011 2:15 PM PDT up reply actions
IFFM
The correct phrase is: bad person. Not on my holiday card list.
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And Cliff Harris was like, "VRRRRRRRRRRRROOOOOOOOOOMMMMM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
by DuckUntilDeath on Sep 26, 2011 2:16 PM PDT up reply actions
Even our second tier receivers were open and Thomas just missed them.
I don’t remember this at all. Our receivers did not get any deep separation last night.
--AddictedToQuack, SBNation's Oregon Ducks blog
I wouldn't say "deep separation"
but DT threw some balls high…namely to DAT deep and then out in the flat in the first half.
No one else has really mentioned it, but I think the wind was causing some balls to sail. You don’t see Foles overthrowing by 5 yards for no reason.
My parents believed in me.
I think that that early horse collar affected him.
"What you are entrusted to do as a coach is to create an environment where your players have a chance to be successful." CHIP KELLY
I would rather DT overthrow the receiver than try and make a perfect pass and end up throwing a pick
especially in those deep one on one situations.
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I love the Thursday after the bye
12 days between games, followed by 9 days between games.
Very ideal
The defense wasn't all bad
Foles took a goddamn beating all night. And that may be the most talented passing attack in the conference, we all knew they were going to get theirs.
Not to say I thought the secondary looked great, of course.
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We did get decent pressure on him for a change, especially in the first half
I think some adjustments were made, our guys got a little tired in the 2nd, helped give Foles time, which is all he needs.
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The D definitely was looking tired during the second half.
They haven’t had to play quite this much in awhile.
Got the shoes. Got the jersey. And finally, got football. Go Ducks.
(Good call, Daisy)
by lovemyducks81 on Sep 24, 2011 11:16 PM PDT up reply actions
That left handed throw was sick.
I was very impressed with Foles all night. Good thing about the cockfingers his WR’s had.
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by HoodRiverDuck on Sep 24, 2011 11:17 PM PDT up reply actions
I agree...
That was awesome play….
"Trick or Treat is not just some remark you chant idly like the Lord's Prayer, it's a social contract."
-Bart Simpson
He has some serious arm strength.
That pass he completed as he was being tripped, was one of the most impressive passes I’ve seen in a while.
"Last time I checked, there is no ‘Hall of Average.’ " Chip Kelly
that was as impressive as the left-hander
scrappy
by Honka Playboy on Sep 25, 2011 7:20 PM PDT up reply actions
You're right. It was a fucking dart!
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I have to think we'll put it all together by then
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by David Piper on Sep 24, 2011 11:17 PM PDT up reply actions
That is so far away...
"I love Oregon's obsolete recruiting report on an unhealthy level. Just more proof how balla Chip Kelly really is." Dr. Saturday
Yes
And Clay should be healthy by then.
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by DuckUntilDeath on Sep 26, 2011 2:17 PM PDT up reply actions
Um, cuz UA's WR are giants compared to our DBs
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by DuckUntilDeath on Sep 26, 2011 2:18 PM PDT up reply actions
And that may be the most talented passing attack in the conference
Not even close. USC with Barkley and Woods and Stadford with Luck and (who the fuck cares) will be better. But it was definitely the best passing attack we’ve seen so far
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Lights out for me fellas
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You have a real good time tonight
You have a real good time tonight
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Bring back Bellotti!
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What I liked
The Ducks got off to a fast start and basically imposed there will, forced Arizona to play their game. The offense marched.
If they can continue to do that this season, it puts them at a definite advantage.
Who needs normal sleep patterns?
by AcadianTraverse on Sep 24, 2011 11:26 PM PDT reply actions
Lurved the fast start.
Workmanlike, too.
Ducks GOOOOD. Fuskies BAAAAAD.
by BigGreenWreckingMachine on Sep 24, 2011 11:37 PM PDT up reply actions
i can't even think of anything
the mere thought of placing myself in barkley’s shoes scares me
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by Bill Musgrave on Sep 25, 2011 12:36 AM PDT up reply actions 2 recs
"Temperature's risin'.
It’s gonna start raining men."
by omb on Sep 24, 2011 11:44 PM PDT up reply actions 10 recs
"Seven out."
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by benzduck on Sep 24, 2011 11:49 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
YOU'RE the one dancing in those funny YouTube videos!!!
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"I'm going to make you dance bitch"
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“I want to take you out to a lovely dinner after this game!”
It's spelled "S-H-U-F-E-L-T-W-O-O-Z-Y".
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by JShufelt on Sep 25, 2011 8:32 AM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
When it rains men, you'll fucking know it.
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by Gorbachav5 on Sep 25, 2011 8:55 AM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
I am scared just looking at this pic.
If Vontaze Burfict isnt intimidating, nobody is.
Winter is coming, Sunshine.
"SOON"
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by ProbablyMonty on Sep 25, 2011 11:05 AM PDT up reply actions
You’ve got a little piece of turf between your teeth riiiiiiiiiight there. No? Well you will in a second.
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by axemen23 on Sep 25, 2011 12:02 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
It's going to be raining Burfict tonight!
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@jblair26
by M. Fletcher on Sep 25, 2011 12:17 PM PDT up reply actions
Matt Barkley:
“I think I just wet myself a little”
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This has got to be the winner right heya.
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by Bill Musgrave on Sep 26, 2011 1:15 AM PDT up reply actions
Late-inning heroics.
omb started so strong, too.
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by HoodRiverDuck on Sep 26, 2011 10:03 AM PDT up reply actions
“Your workout videos are my favorite! Great cardio burn!”
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And Cliff Harris was like, "VRRRRRRRRRRRROOOOOOOOOOMMMMM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
by DuckUntilDeath on Sep 26, 2011 2:20 PM PDT up reply actions
just throwing it out there
did a pac-12 review and power rankings and just posted it
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James set the season record for rushing yards in a game
Guess that isn’t too surprising given it’s only week 4, but at least most of the powerhouse vs FCS games should be over with so it may very well stand for this season.
For rushing yards per game, if I did my math right…
Denard Robinson (Michigan) – 168.66
Marcus Lattimore (SCarolina) – 152.75
Lamichael James (Oregon) – 152.5
Ronnie Hillman (San Diego St) – 151.5
LMJ is trailing only Denard Robinson and Lattimore. Didn’t check all-purpose, he went into this week ranked 12th though, so I wouldn’t be surprised if he hit #1 there.
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Hmm? You mean most rushing yards in a game this season so far?
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by BigGreenWreckingMachine on Sep 24, 2011 11:38 PM PDT up reply actions
Impressive considering he played against the LSU defense,
and barely played versus Nevada.
Eye <3 LMJ
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How could you not?
He’s just about the most lovable little tub of lard the world has ever known.
Got the shoes. Got the jersey. And finally, got football. Go Ducks.
(Good call, Daisy)
by lovemyducks81 on Sep 24, 2011 11:58 PM PDT up reply actions
Wow, you really do love your Ducks.
It must be a tough love.
Sigh.
As I mentioned last night to someone else who doesn’t get the “LaMichael is fat” jokes, he gained 20 pounds this offseason but dropped from 14% bodyfat to 7%. In the interview where he was discussing it, he couldn’t believe how fast he was last season being “so big.” No one in their right mind actually thinks LaMichael was then or is now fat, which is why it’s a fun thing to joke about.
Got the shoes. Got the jersey. And finally, got football. Go Ducks.
(Good call, Daisy)
by lovemyducks81 on Sep 25, 2011 11:57 AM PDT up reply actions
Only reinforced by everyone saying after the LSU game that he looked slow and it was because of his increase in weight.
It's spelled "S-H-U-F-E-L-T-W-O-O-Z-Y".
"YOU ARE THE KING OF THE AWESOME GUYS, JSHUFELT!!!" - daisyduck
Those would be all the people in something less than their right minds.
Got the shoes. Got the jersey. And finally, got football. Go Ducks.
(Good call, Daisy)
by lovemyducks81 on Sep 25, 2011 1:27 PM PDT up reply actions
I think LaMike has his confidence back
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Win the Day and GO DUCKS!!!
by David the Duck on Sep 25, 2011 12:00 AM PDT reply actions
C*nz*no thinks Oregon will lose to ASU, USC and Stanford.
Because the defense is fraudulent.
See how I helped y’all out here? Now you don’t have to go read what he wrote.
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by benzduck on Sep 25, 2011 12:00 AM PDT reply actions 1 recs
But where’s the video of LMJ blindsiding Chip Kelly with a leg of lamb? Will Oregon ever release the footage, or is there something even worse in there that they are trying to hide? WILLE LYLES WILLIE LYLES WILLIE LYLES!!!!!
/C*nz*no’d
by JonathanPDX on Sep 25, 2011 12:04 AM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
All 3 are more talented than the last 3
How much more I am not sure, compared to the scores of Stanford vs Arizona, ASU loss to Illinois and now USC to ASU. Confusing isn’t it.
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by David the Duck on Sep 25, 2011 12:04 AM PDT up reply actions
We get ASU and USC here.
ASU does not play well on the road, if you can judge by their effort at Illinois, not exactly known as a den of iniquity.
Neither does USC, judging by tonight’s game.
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The gap between us/Stanford and everyone else is pretty large
Can we be upset? Sure we can but its not likely.
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The only thing that upsets me
is that if we only lose to Stanford, some 2-loss team from the South division gets a crack at the Rose Bowl instead of us.
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by Brass-billed on Sep 25, 2011 2:25 AM PDT up reply actions
Yes...
because there is nothing fraudulent about the aforementioned teams and the fact that two of them come to Autzen.
Everyone needs to chill on the defense. I remember our defense getting torched in the desert last year as well against an eventual 6-6 ASU. Of course we totally dismantled them in the second half.
That is my only concern: what happened to our 2nd half defense?
"I love Oregon's obsolete recruiting report on an unhealthy level. Just more proof how balla Chip Kelly really is." Dr. Saturday
The game was won
I know UA rallied to within 11, but when their defense doesn’t have a chance in hell of stopping our offense, everyone knows the game is won. It’s natural for the defense to let up a bit (which they shouldn’t do, but its natural still).
Plus, it was damn hot and the defense had been on the field a lot.
My parents believed in me.
I appreciate that we can feel a little more anger without ever giving that rag a click.
Color me not surprised about his “analysis.”
"It’s great with these group of guys. There is no panic in them." --Chip Kelly, Clearly NOT talking about members of ATQ.
@jblair26
by M. Fletcher on Sep 25, 2011 12:18 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
i broke my promise on not giving the o page hits
but i just wanted to affirm my views on them. canzano adds nothing new to the conversation, and I could’ve guessed what he was going to write about halfway through the third quarter. oregon won’t win a big game without better defense. well no fucking shit can*ano. tell me something a high school girl coulnd’t inform me of. and to think he gets paid for this shit. like, it’s funny at first that this guy gets paid to write this dumb stuff, now i just get mad about it. it’s crap, portland can get better writers. this is a joke.
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speaking of funny
when DT was tackled on the 1st play from scrimmage on a running play? Then lay there
in a mock hurt position, kinda holding his leg? Then sprang right up? LMAO when he did that!
I don't think that was a "mock hurt" position...
He was horsecollared pretty violently and his knee was bent in a bad position. I think he was probably scared, and when he realized he was okay he got up and was pissed off.
Of course, he personally ran the ball down their throats for a TD drive after that.
They continued to go after his knees, by the way, shortly thereafter. There should have been another personal foul when their defender lunged and his knees well after DT had thrown the ball.
Which all makes Stoops’s tirade against Boyett’s (vicious, but clean) hit more hypocritical.
My parents believed in me.
Darron's really tough.
Like, if he’s shaken up, pulled down weird, or especially when they’re twisting his legs and he comes up looking a bit ginger or gimpy, he often immediately tries to shake it off, come to the line, then a lot of the time he will intentionally keep it himself and go hit somebody. Showing I guess that he’s fine and tough and not to be messed with. I admire the courage and enthusiasm, and the sterling example for the rest of the troops, but as the lynchpin starting QB for a top 10 team it doesn’t always seem like the wisest course of action.
Yeah...
Trying to run over that DB at the end of the game was pretty unnecessary.
My parents believed in me.
Stoops wasn't being hypocritical, it makes him biased.
As a coach, you fight for everything you can get.
As a fan, you want that passing interference penalty called against the other team, but get pissed off when the ref calls a that crazy phantom PI call – or that ball wasn’t catchable..
It's spelled "S-H-U-F-E-L-T-W-O-O-Z-Y".
"YOU ARE THE KING OF THE AWESOME GUYS, JSHUFELT!!!" - daisyduck
I'm speaking specifically
to the point where it appeared he got into CK’s face a bit as CK went to offer support for the injured player.
If Stoops can’t control himself on the sidelines, and his players who have a long history of dirty, cheap shots, he should not be complaining when one of his guys gets laid out.
I know why he does it, but it’s still hypocritical.
My parents believed in me.
by flyduckfly on Sep 25, 2011 1:44 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
Which all makes Stoops’s tirade against Boyett’s (vicious, but clean) hit more hypocritical.
Boyett’s hit may have been “clean,” but it should have been flagged. He went shoulder to helmet against a defenseless receiver, and he would have been fined and flagged in the NFL.
There was a hit against DT that should have been flagged, but Boyett should have been flagged as well.
--AddictedToQuack, SBNation's Oregon Ducks blog
Looked to me like he was more playing for the ball
and the receiver’s head got in the way.
15-yard penalty for my avatar. /Pereira'd
by Brass-billed on Sep 25, 2011 4:44 PM PDT up reply actions
He sure came a long way to break up that pass. It looked like football to me.
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Contrary to popular belief, LMJ doesn't own *all* Oregon's rushing records.
Droughns had 4 200+ yard rushing games. This was LMJ’s fourth. And Reuben did it in two years.
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An uninjured Droughns gets 2000 yards in 1998, and maybe in 99, and we're in the Rose Bowl at least one of those years.
I hate playing what-if games, but in my lexicon of what might have been, that’s the runaway leader.
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So he owns or SHARES *all* of them?
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by BigGreenWreckingMachine on Sep 25, 2011 1:23 AM PDT up reply actions
Pretty much, yeah.
He now has 4 of the top 10 rushing games including #1 slot.
1st in all purpose yards, single game.
1st and 3rd, single-season rushing.
1st, season scoring.
1st, season touchdowns.
1st, season rushing attempts.
1st, career rushing.
1st in 100-yard games, season and career.
And #1 in consecutive 100 yard games, tied with Onterrio Smith with 9.
What’s left:
He now has 4601 career all-purpose yards, which moves him past Ricky Whittle into 4th, trailing Snoop (4889), Burwell (4972), and Loville (5223), all of whom have at least 1100 yards of their totals in kick returns (LMJ has just 176). He needs to average 69 all-purpose yards to own that record.
He’s now #2 on the career scoring mark with 282 points, the highest-ranking non-kicker, and needs 42 points to pass Jared Siegel for that record. 7 more touchdowns will do it.
He’s currently averaging 6.6 yards per carry over his career, #2 all time, but if he keeps up his current pace (9.4 ypc this season) he’ll shatter Legarette Blount’s career mark of 6.8, as well as Donnie Reynold’s season YPC record of 8.1.
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Loved that LaMike brought back the spin move
with a vengeance. Seemed faster than before.
You know Duck history as well as anyone. Do you think LMJ is the top Oregon RB of all time? Where do you rank him, and how much distance would you put between him and the other greats?
Hard to compare eras, so I don’t like ranking players from different generations.
Assuming we’re talking modern-era (post-WWII), my top five all-time Oregon offensive backs are LMJ, Snoop, Droughns, Don Reynolds and Moore. Please don’t make me pick a favorite; I think on this team any of those guys would have kicked ass. I’d put the first three in their own mini-group with the next two close behind.
Next five is JJ, MoMo, Loville, McCullough and Onterrio. Blount would be in this group but I like “all time” selections to have played at least two full seasons (I know this DQ’s Droughns but physical injuries are OK, mental ones not so much).
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LMJ is the best back for this style of offense.
His combination of quickness, change of direction, toughness, and speed make him absolutely lethal. Snoop is right there with him, though.
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@jblair26
by M. Fletcher on Sep 25, 2011 12:28 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
You right! How many times did he STOP, start, stop again, shift and then proceed. It was just beautiful! Rec'd
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I refuse to get too worried about defense
in a game that was over so early. They can pile up all the yards they want in the second half, doesn’t matter.
Didn’t force any turnovers again but Arizona has only turned it over a few times all year.
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Huh, I didn't realize it but...
Arizona has literally become the exact same team as Army.
Arizona:
Army:
"We Believe" - Rudy Fernandez
Well, not literally.
I’m willing to bet the players at West Point are a bit smarter than the ones in Tucson.
At least I hope so.
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Do you realize.
The rushing and passing columns are switched. Its a little misleading.
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My favorite new opposing coach photo
Boom goes the dynamite
by Mill_Duck on Sep 25, 2011 3:56 AM PDT reply actions 5 recs
I would love someone to put together the myriad angry faces of Mike Stoops. By the beginning of the second quarter, me and my friend would watch a play and then “Here comes the cutaway to angry Stoops!” We came up with such faces as
- Pissed Off
- Betrayed
- Bemused
- Furious
- Murderous
- Disbelieving
- Sexually Frustrated
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by Gorbachav5 on Sep 25, 2011 9:02 AM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
This is awesome.
Formats could be:
Akin to the stages of meth pics.
Evolution of Stoops (akin to evolution of man, with emotions rising from mildly bemused to bat shit steam blowing insane)
Or a website where you could enter an emotion and get an associated Stoops face. “How are you feeling?_____________” If you wrote “happy” or “elated” you’d get back an error message or a “confused” face that says “Sorry, Bob doesn’t understand how you are feeling” or similar. If you gave an acceptable Stoopsism, you’d get your prized face and LOL cats style commentary.
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by Bill Musgrave on Sep 25, 2011 9:33 AM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
Someone please
GIF the “Scanners” head onto Stoops’ body.
If I knew how, I’d do it myself. It’s only a matter of time before his head bursts like a puss filled abscess in the vacuum of space.
My parents believed in me.
This isn't green yet?
What the hell?
Journalism allows almost anyone to direct questions they would never ask of their own friends at random people. --Chuck Klosterman
Even better than ?
Personally, I think we should eventually make a collage of all these desperation shots. Hopefully, we’ll nab every coach in the Pac-12 by next year!
15-yard penalty for my avatar. /Pereira'd
by Brass-billed on Sep 25, 2011 4:09 PM PDT up reply actions
anyone
notice the jackass color commentator say in the first half, “Oregon’s good, they’re not that good”. Then there was a pause of a a minute or so, and jackass comes back to say “what I mean by that…” and then some worthless drivel. Obviously the truck was telling him to stop being an idiot.
can ex UW QB’s not do color for Oregon games since they have no ability to be even marginally objective? He was even wearing a purple tie.
I hate that dude.
Brock Huard
He is still humiliated by what happened in the 1994 Oregon / Washington game. He is “The Pick” heard ’round the world.
Boom goes the dynamite
Huard
Was rooting for an Oregon Fail, hard. I couldn’t decide if he was trying to make the game interesting for the anti-Duck crowd, or if he was just hating on the Ducks. He was suitably kicked to the curb like any other mongrel as the 2nd half progressed.
Yes, I married a Duck. It's all fun and games until a 'Cats - Ducks Rose Bowl...
just because an announcer says something
doesn’t mean he’s “rooting for an Oregon Fail, hard.” They have to try and make the game sound interesting and competitve because, if I’m not an Oregon fan, I’m turning that game off and going to bed at 35-3.
--Dave
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Yeah, true, but
Huard gonna go back to throw the ball…
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by Bill Musgrave on Sep 25, 2011 8:11 AM PDT up reply actions 3 recs
sets up, looks, throws toward the corner of the endzone it is...
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by Takimoto on Sep 25, 2011 9:13 AM PDT up reply actions 3 recs
INTERCEPTED! INTERCEPTED, THE DUCKS HAVE THE BALL!
It's spelled "S-H-U-F-E-L-T-W-O-O-Z-Y".
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by JShufelt on Sep 25, 2011 9:14 AM PDT up reply actions 2 recs
Down to the 35, the 40...
15-yard penalty for my avatar. /Pereira'd
by Brass-billed on Sep 25, 2011 4:11 PM PDT up reply actions 2 recs
KENNY WHEATON'S GONNA SCORE!! KENNY WHEATON'S GONNA SCORE!!
Go Team! Score Six Goal Units!
by FromAutzenWithLove on Sep 25, 2011 7:19 PM PDT up reply actions 2 recs
20... THE 10... TOUCHDOWN!!!
"[Autzen Stadium's] steep concrete banks and closed ends turn a small but rabid crowd from WAC-sized cheering section into a horde of bees with megaphones capable of reaching 127 decibels of hatenoise." -Spencer Hall
by ProbablyMonty on Sep 25, 2011 9:22 PM PDT up reply actions 2 recs
KENNY WHEATON....ON THE INTERCEPTION
15-yard penalty for my avatar. /Pereira'd
by Brass-billed on Sep 25, 2011 11:57 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
To be fair, he was quite hammered last night.
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Love you too snoogums.
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he was very convincing...
And looking at it from the anti-Dawg perspective made the 4th quarter that much sweeter. So did the fresh keg of Boneyard red…
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by Dr.NO on Sep 25, 2011 7:16 PM PDT via mobile up reply actions
They were doing whatever they could
to keep viewers on that channel. It was an Oregon blowout and when UA got within 11 it was their job to start the whole “cat comeback” angle.
Anything to keep the wider audience.
Huards really not all that bad as far as ESPN analysts go.
My parents believed in me.
So Dion Jordan kinda got his groove back yesterday.
Did he not drop off the line much? Because it sure seemed like he was used more conventionally.
Where was it before?
It's spelled "S-H-U-F-E-L-T-W-O-O-Z-Y".
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I don’t think so at all. He had 2.5 TFL’s (including 1.5 sacks), but it was not inspiring. He was feast or famine. The defensive line was feast or famine last night.
--AddictedToQuack, SBNation's Oregon Ducks blog
I thought he played pretty well
It helps that, to quote benzduck, the DL could “pin their ears back” and rush a pocket passer. Obviously, they did a pretty nice job against the feeble run game. The LBs, were… confusing. On coverage. On blitzes. Just being out of position. I’m not sure if Kiko knows the defense yet
scrappy
by Honka Playboy on Sep 25, 2011 7:34 PM PDT up reply actions
Check out the venue for a college game against UNC and MST
Yes that is a freaking carrier.
The game is called the Carrier Classic. I’m not sure you can call a inaugural event classic, but whatever man.
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I think they need to ramp up the punishment for things such as horsecollaring a QB on the first play of the game.
Things like that.
After that hit, I figured that Darron would have a good game.
He looked absolutely pissed, and rightfully so.
Not to mention, there was that non-call where Arizona’s DT hit him low and late. Darron took a lot of hits last night.
Winter is coming, Sunshine.
One thing I don't understand
and this is a bit off topic, but with our neighbours to the north laying a brick against UcLA and thus looking like a legitimate chance to go 0-12, why is everyone saying that their only chance at a win is AT Washington State? I may be a bit of a WSU fan, but watching UcLA against San Jose and Texas, and then watching them beat up the bavers, it seems to me that the Cougs are a better team than UcLA, and the Cougs get the bavers AT HOME.
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by FromAutzenWithLove on Sep 25, 2011 11:35 AM PDT reply actions
I think it's not so much that they have a chance
but that if they have a chance to win a game, it’s there.
"[Autzen Stadium's] steep concrete banks and closed ends turn a small but rabid crowd from WAC-sized cheering section into a horde of bees with megaphones capable of reaching 127 decibels of hatenoise." -Spencer Hall
by ProbablyMonty on Sep 25, 2011 11:36 AM PDT up reply actions
For your discussion purposes: Presume the Beavers go 0-12.
Does Mike Riley keep his job? And if not, who replaces him?
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by HoodRiverDuck on Sep 25, 2011 11:38 AM PDT up reply actions
Yes.
A friend of mine recently characterized him as having tenure at OSU. I think that at this point, it’d take about 4 straight non-bowl years to get rid of him.
"[Autzen Stadium's] steep concrete banks and closed ends turn a small but rabid crowd from WAC-sized cheering section into a horde of bees with megaphones capable of reaching 127 decibels of hatenoise." -Spencer Hall
by ProbablyMonty on Sep 25, 2011 11:42 AM PDT up reply actions
I don't think he'll lose his job
but if he does, and I think the Neweasel and Stoops will get the can as well, then Chris Petersen’s phone will be ringing off the hook.
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by FromAutzenWithLove on Sep 25, 2011 11:43 AM PDT up reply actions
Oh God, Petersen to Corvallis?
That seems strangely…probable? And frightening.
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by HoodRiverDuck on Sep 25, 2011 11:44 AM PDT up reply actions
he wouldn't take a job that is a step down
--Dave
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by David Piper on Sep 25, 2011 11:45 AM PDT up reply actions
Of course it is.
But he’s had plenty of chances for steps up, which makes me think he’s not that kind of coach. He’ll either stay put or pick a project.
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by HoodRiverDuck on Sep 25, 2011 11:48 AM PDT up reply actions
Would you consider UCLA a step down from Boise State?
Journalism allows almost anyone to direct questions they would never ask of their own friends at random people. --Chuck Klosterman
Recruiting and resources have to be easier for UCLA.
With the struggles at UCLA through two (and a half. Toledo didn’t always have great seasons either) failed coaches… it makes me wonder if there aren’t other issues at UCLA.
It's spelled "S-H-U-F-E-L-T-W-O-O-Z-Y".
"YOU ARE THE KING OF THE AWESOME GUYS, JSHUFELT!!!" - daisyduck
There are definitely other issues
but you don’t pass up Ucla for Boise State. If he does that, I’ll have to seriously consider whether or not Peterson is afraid of the next level, or just so content in his little bubble that nothing will pull him out.
Personally, I think Peterson is gone after this year. Moore will have moved on, he’s already seeing some of the struggles that come with recruiting at fBSU and the recently handed down sanctions give him plenty of reason to go collect a huge paycheck.
I’d actually be excited for Peterson at Ucla. Think of all the great coaches we could have in the Pac
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When the sanctions were being handed to fBSU, there was a gem on late night sports radio where they were saying inside sources were leaking to them that Peterson would end up being the coach at Oregon after Kelly got fired.
It's spelled "S-H-U-F-E-L-T-W-O-O-Z-Y".
"YOU ARE THE KING OF THE AWESOME GUYS, JSHUFELT!!!" - daisyduck
I think there could be other factors at work here.
Petersen’s got young kids. It’s quite possible that (A) he doesn’t want to uproot them, and (B) even if he is willing to uproot them, he may not want to live in LA. Both of these reasons would make a lot of sense to me.
"[Autzen Stadium's] steep concrete banks and closed ends turn a small but rabid crowd from WAC-sized cheering section into a horde of bees with megaphones capable of reaching 127 decibels of hatenoise." -Spencer Hall
by ProbablyMonty on Sep 25, 2011 2:06 PM PDT up reply actions
He currently lives in Boise. Moving to Darfur would be an upgrade
by OregonNYC on Sep 25, 2011 9:50 PM PDT via mobile up reply actions
Having been to boise numerous times
its not a bad place to live in. mild climate, average sized city that has only one fault in housing fBSU
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by FromAutzenWithLove on Sep 26, 2011 1:16 AM PDT up reply actions
I understand the meme, but you can do a lot worse than Boise in terms of places to live.
For some, LA would be an example of such.
"[Autzen Stadium's] steep concrete banks and closed ends turn a small but rabid crowd from WAC-sized cheering section into a horde of bees with megaphones capable of reaching 127 decibels of hatenoise." -Spencer Hall
by ProbablyMonty on Sep 26, 2011 10:49 AM PDT up reply actions
It's very comparable.
Both schools recruit the same kind of guys (type and rating level). Both win by developing those guys. It’s just that OSU has the extra ceiling of playing in a real conference.
Peterson so far has been smart enough to realize that everyone has the shine come off once they leave Boise. So he’s probably smart enough to, if he does leave, at least go somewhere big and cash a really, really big check.
Being from Idaho and reading all the papers
Petersen is not going anywhere anytime soon. Everyone’s just going to want him.
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by FromAutzenWithLove on Sep 25, 2011 12:20 PM PDT up reply actions
It'd be one thing if OSU were having a down few years and had a bunch of money to spend on righting the ship.
They simply don’t have the funds to purchase a high profile coach. If anything happened where Riley had to go in a year or two of bad seasons (I’m guessing very unlikely as well), I would say that the Beavers would poach a young, innovative coach who would see the job as a step up and would take a modest salary. Petersen won’t stoop to Oregon State, especially when they can’t offer him a sexy contract to do it.
Things like that.
I don't know how you can go 0-12
have all the off season distractions that they’ve had the last two years, and the questionable calls he’s made this year and still keep his job.
If that does happen, you might as well give him the title coach for life.
"the putz from that UO blog, Matt Daddy" - Steve Tannen
The Daily Faberian
You want to know how someone can keep a job with all of that?
I give you: Mike Locksley, head coach at New Mexico. 2-22 his first two years on the job. Lost to Sam Houston State in OT @ home last night. He’s punched out a coach before. Oh, and this little nugget that came down last night:
UNM Recruit Gets DUI in Coach’s Car
Journalism allows almost anyone to direct questions they would never ask of their own friends at random people. --Chuck Klosterman
From what I read at buildingthedam
It could just come down to the Oregon State AD not being willing to bite the financial bullet it would take to fire him. I’d imagine we see some movement below him, though.
by WeeJa on Sep 25, 2011 12:21 PM PDT via mobile up reply actions
That new TV contract will give them a lot of wiggle room.
I do think from a competitive standpoint, OSU’s a hard place to win. Are they really going to get somebody better than Riley, who can do it better than Riley? I think he needs a swift kick in the ass, but not necessarily out the door.
I hope they can figure something out.
As funny as 0-12 might be, I’m pretty fond of Little Brother and want them to succeed. I’d be more than happy if they went 11-1 every year.
by WeeJa on Sep 25, 2011 12:27 PM PDT via mobile up reply actions
I’m with you on that, actually. The only team on whom I wish epic failure every year is that purple-clad team up north.
"[Autzen Stadium's] steep concrete banks and closed ends turn a small but rabid crowd from WAC-sized cheering section into a horde of bees with megaphones capable of reaching 127 decibels of hatenoise." -Spencer Hall
by ProbablyMonty on Sep 25, 2011 1:17 PM PDT up reply actions
Mike Leach
Just saying. If Leach would coach (and coach well) in Lubbock, Texas, what’s going to stop him in Corvallis? Plus, just like Erickson used OSU as a stepping stone back into mainstream football, OSU would be a place that Leach would get that same chance.
"the putz from that UO blog, Matt Daddy" - Steve Tannen
The Daily Faberian
Wow
hungover Matt Daddy makes perfect sense! You should chug a 5th tonight so you’re good to go for work tomorrow.
Journalism allows almost anyone to direct questions they would never ask of their own friends at random people. --Chuck Klosterman
Interesting.
This seems oddly plausible, and I’m sure that Leach is dying to get back into the coaching.
Winter is coming, Sunshine.
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--Dave
Addicted to Quack, your friendly, neighborhood Oregon Ducks blog
I don't think he's fired.
But he will have to, by choice or by force, majorly shake up his staff and general approach.
I don't think that we should easily forget..
It was just the season before last that we played the Biebers for the PAC-10 championship and the Rose Bowl birth. The year before that, we had to beat them at home to prevent them from going to the Rose Bowl, so we could beat Oklahoma State in the Holiday Bowl. I should remember, I was at the 2009 game and the 2008 HB.
"Well you are obviously going to fit right in here." Daisy Duck
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by David the Duck on Sep 25, 2011 12:46 PM PDT up reply actions
This
It’s weird to see them fall so fast. Breaking WSU’s in-conference loss streak last year, getting beat at home by their paycheck opponent…it’s surreal. I actually miss when the Bavers were relevant.
Sure, we had nailbiters at the end of the season, but remember the Civil War for the Roses? There was a certain level of pride from both fanbases that the Rose Bowl was being decided in the state of Oregon.
Now we’re looking at a Baver team that could actually be the new Lossington of the Pac-12. Y’know how we rip on the Fuskies for their impossibly poor 0-12 season? It just won’t be the same with Lil’ Brother.
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by Brass-billed on Sep 25, 2011 4:41 PM PDT up reply actions
If he goes 0-12, and doesn’t resign, he is a terrible person.
--AddictedToQuack, SBNation's Oregon Ducks blog
Right. Fall on his sword. Honor and all that shit.
/tomcruiselastsamuria’d
"What you are entrusted to do as a coach is to create an environment where your players have a chance to be successful." CHIP KELLY
Assuming OSU ends up with two or fewer wins, it’s going to be impossible for the athletic department to get rid of him, but everyone knows he should be gone. For OSU’s sake, he needs to pull a Lloyd Carr and resign.
--AddictedToQuack, SBNation's Oregon Ducks blog
With 8 years left on a contract I see no reason he'll do that
Especially for an ultra competitive person like a coach. Hell, some Oregon fans are already making excuses for him, no reason to think he couldn’t make those same ones for himself. That’s why I think he’s going to have to be fired. I don’t know if OSU will have the guts to do it, but an 0-12 season pretty much requires it.
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The Daily Faberian
I don't think this is true
I don’t believe Oregon State aspires to be at the same level Oregon has reached. I think they will tolerate ONE winless season from Riley, and I think Riley sticks it out – if the administration believes in him there is no reason he shouldn’t try his best to fix his own mistake. The question would be how quickly they could turn things around. They aren’t going to tolerate several 2 or 3 win seasons as they try to right the ship.
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What if he goes 1-11
or 2-10? What’s the difference? He has a shitty team this year and it’s not due to coaching.
My parents believed in me.
and it’s not due to coaching.
This is where we disagree. That Sac St game, the lack of recruits, and rotating door QB position are definitely on the coach. Not everything is his fault, but he’s a huge contributor to this season and the way it plays out. No reason to take away his accountability.
"the putz from that UO blog, Matt Daddy" - Steve Tannen
The Daily Faberian
Sure...I'm not absolving him of everything
but fire the guy over one crappy season?
My parents believed in me.
It's been a slow decline. Mostly at the hands of Oregon
2008: Oregon stomps them out of the Rose Bowl @ Reser
2009: Oregon knocks them out of the Rose Bowl @ Autzen AND GOES
2010: Oregon knocks them out of a bowl game @ Reser and goes to the NCG
2011: Doesn’t even look like they’ll be playing for a bowl game against Oregon.
I think axemen is actually right
--HoodRiverDuck on 9/25/11
thats ridiculous
the downfall of an entire football program cannot mostly be placed on the shoulders of Oregon. You’d have to look at graduations, injuries, inability to perform even the most simple of tasks, the list goes on.
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by FromAutzenWithLove on Sep 26, 2011 1:19 AM PDT up reply actions
Here's their remaining schedule.
Home:
10/8 Arizona
10/15 BYU
11/5 Stanford
11/18 Washington
Away:
10/1 @ ASU
10/22 @ WSU
10/29 @ Utah
11/12 @ Cal
11/ 26 @ Oregon
That’s why people are pointing to WSU – Oregon State may not get picked to get within a touchdown of any team on their schedule, at least as it is now. Wazzu just seems like maybe the best of a really bad lot. They’re clearly underdogs in every away game, with WSU being the “easiest”. Stanford is hopeless, and there’s a very good chance of going winless at home. I hope they can improve enough to beat the purple puppies, but that’s looking bad too. If they were going to be this bad this year, they REALLY needed that Sac State win.
Of course, they do have some good players. And they’ve just had some good players come back. I don’t doubt that they’ll improve enough to knock off someone, somewhere. But with the way they’re playing right now, with that schedule, where’s the win?
I'll call it right now
BYU.
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Possibly Arizona, but I sincerely doubt it.
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by M. Fletcher on Sep 25, 2011 12:32 PM PDT up reply actions
How about Cal?
They did it before.
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by David the Duck on Sep 25, 2011 12:48 PM PDT up reply actions
Cal is a good home team.
I think axemen is actually right, I think home vs. BYU is looking like a better chance than @WSU.
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by HoodRiverDuck on Sep 25, 2011 12:55 PM PDT up reply actions
You might lose a lot of subscribers to your newsletter sir.
hehehe.
I think axemen is actually right
--HoodRiverDuck on 9/25/11
You've been in college for like four days, I'll attribute it to that.
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by HoodRiverDuck on Sep 25, 2011 1:01 PM PDT up reply actions
You've been in college four days and you aren't drunk?
I hereby withdraw my support.
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by HoodRiverDuck on Sep 25, 2011 6:23 PM PDT up reply actions
But Cal isn't home home this year
And Maynard is looking decidedly average. I think it comes down to Cal/Lossington. Late in the season, finally have some semblance of health, Mannion gets some experience. They could pull one out late.
I won’t favor them in any though.
by INducktrination on Sep 25, 2011 1:25 PM PDT up reply actions
Oregon State usually seems primed to pick off a decent team.
I say that they beat Stanford. Pac-10 football rarely made any sense, so I cannot imagine that the Pac-12 will be any different.
Winter is coming, Sunshine.
Where in the Wide World of Sports did THIS statement come from?
Oregon State usually seems primed to pick off a decent team.
"What you are entrusted to do as a coach is to create an environment where your players have a chance to be successful." CHIP KELLY
OK, that's rational. But this year?
"What you are entrusted to do as a coach is to create an environment where your players have a chance to be successful." CHIP KELLY
The Pac works in mysterious ways.
There is almost always a crappy UCLA, Arizona, or Oregon State that destroys a NCG caliber team’s hopes and dreams.
Mainly against USC, but still.
Winter is coming, Sunshine.
Well, I hope the fuck that you are right. Go Bavers!
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