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The PSU QB was pretty good at getting rid of the ball quickly.

I was expecting lots more sacks and TFLs against a terribly outmatched PDX team.

Thanks, David. My thoughts: OBD would probably (🤪) be favored to win the Big Sky football championship. Next week, a Blue Chip instead of a No Chip opponent. It was good to see the guys fired up on the field and on the sideline. 84 points? Did the Duck have to go to the Emergency Room? I hope Dan wasn't arrested for animal abuse. 😁 I guess the Vikings need the dues, but how about a 24-team PO, ten conference games, and no FCS opponents allowed? Send Traveler to the Glue Factory!

A friend also told me Oregon's beating of Portland State was bad sportsmanship. But as I see it the Ducks had to deal with a real monkey on their backs. They needed to find the confidence that was almost completely destroyed in the prior week. They needed to prove they are able to operate as an effective team. So, yeah, maybe taking a knee at the end would have taken away some of the criticism aimed at Dan and the team for a 4-quarter beatdown. But not by much. Better to judge the coaches and the team with how they perform next week as a result.

I watched the tape of last night's game and felt like a sadist. After the O disappeared in Austin, Ryan Day wants to do what Dan Lanning did last night. Pile on the points. I have NO problem with Ohio State scoring any and every way the Bickeeys can. The B1G Week 3 slate is sad. Want better OOC games? Go to a 24-team PO.

It was good to see the back ups get their shot. Our QB group is intriguing. I really didn't notice if Dante was faking his foot placement tells to throw people off or not But I did notice that when a pass play was called the pinky on his left hand twitched just a bit. I hope SC wasn't picking that up.

I think you are correct on why you take the shot at the end of the half, practice real game situation. However, I also think Oregon should have taken a knee at the end of our game.

The PSU line only held up for seconds which is why PSU only had 6 first downs... Two of which were Oregon penalties. Otherwise the the PSU QB was just throwing inaccurate balls hoping it worked. Sometimes it did but mostly didn't. Rushing 4 is the root of the problem here I feel. Offensive line plus a tight end blocker is 6 blockers to 4. But you're right containment is the goal. As for the sacks... Moore stepped up and into one sack as a lane opened and he wasn't decisive if he wanted to run. The other sack was on the second string offensive line where Manning didn't hold up and Raiola was sacked. The second one I feel is more on the offensive line than the first. Still not great that it happened.

Here’s an interesting sportsmanship question. Ohio State was leading Kent State 28 to 0 with three seconds left before halftime. They had the ball and could have simply taken a knee and gone into the locker room with a four touchdown lead. Instead, they took a shot at the end zone. It worked. Touchdown. 35 to 0 at halftime. My first reaction was basically, come on. You’re already up 28 to 0. Take the knee. There’s a long standing idea in sports that once you clearly have an opponent beaten, there comes a point where continuing to aggressively pile on points starts to look less like competition and more like running up the score. But then I started thinking about the other side of it. Three seconds left in the half is an actual football situation. Someday Ohio State could be down by four, five, or six points with three seconds left before halftime, or even at the end of a game, and desperately need that exact play to work. How often do you get to practice that situation against a real defense, in a real stadium, with the clock actually showing three seconds? (Eh em, Michigan) You can practice a Hail Mary a hundred times during the week, but practice is not the same as doing it in a game. The quarterback has to buy enough time. The receivers have to get downfield. The protection has to hold. Everyone has to understand the situation and know that this is the final play. From that perspective, maybe the score almost should not matter. Coaches are supposed to prepare their players for situations they may face later in the season, and this was a rare opportunity to get a real game repetition that you cannot completely recreate on a practice field. At the same time, there is still something that feels a little uncomfortable about doing it when you are already beating an overmatched team 28 to 0. So where is the line? Is taking that shot poor sportsmanship and unnecessarily running up the score? Or is it completely legitimate situational football, using a rare opportunity to practice something that could matter enormously later in the season? I can honestly see the argument both ways. What do you think?

Great takes David. Three observations I made. Raiola Looks like the real deal. I'm glad you mentioned the nullified TD pass. Letting the play develop and observing the field was great to see. I'd also mention the TD pass to Bidwell. He was separating from his defender but also running closer to another one breaking off hiss receiver. Passing it behind Bidwell forcing him to spin 180 degrees to catch it behind him, threaded a needle that wasn't obvious before the throw. Again he stayed present and was observing the game in real time and making smart decisions. The pass rush still concerns me. There's not a player on the PSU OL that should be able to hold up against any UO starter. That tells ne that containing the pocket as opposed to pressuring the QB is the plan. A ten alligator pass rush will get destroyed by any competent offense. Still concerned here. The OL giving up some sacks also concerns me. West Linn should be able to give PSU a good game. Neither team should remotely give any position group a problem yet they got a couple sacks. Not good. I don't want to be a Debbie Downer after 84-0 but the schedule gets real from here on out. If both lines can step up, I like our chances. If not, yikes.

This is why betting is called gambling. I thought that Lanning would want to score a lot. I have no idea how the USC game is going to go. I see win / loss as 50-50. It is a toss up. Who ever wins that game has a good chance to make the playoffs.

A loss two games into the season in some bad heat and humidity can be overlooked if the rest of the season goes well. A loss to someone you have been playing against for the last hundred years or so 4 games in and it being the second loss leading to a 2-2 record shows that you are probably not worthy of the playoffs. USC is not a top 5 team. However, losing to USC and then running the table would probably get the Ducks into the playoffs. But if they can't beat USC, then winning out is highly unlikely. This USC game will put the Ducks on a course for the season, either upward or downward.

Ball was fun to watch too. The guy just hit people! He seemed to seek contact to run through it.

They are very good players and a lot of programs wanted them. The team is lucky they stuck around and did not go into the portal. They need to keep playing, not just in cupcake games.

I'm not sure how much was learned in this non-contest". However, there were encouraging signs. Lastly, I think we should have taken a knee and ended the game 77 - 0

Brandon Smith seems to be the real deal.

I would be shocked if ANY 3 loss team made the playoffs. That’s why the USC game is a must win. (I’m anticipating a loss at Ohio State.)

We need R&R. Raiola and Riggs are for real.

DR looked better than he ever did in Cornhusker land. The future at QB now looks promising. It would've been nice if the tv announcers would've mentioned that Josh Bidwell was a cancer survivor... And the performances of some of the frosh were spectacular!

The back ups on the d-line seemed noticeably more aggressive. They looked fast and motivated.

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Let’s start new threads please…

Never as bad as it looks, never as good as it looks couldn't be more true than for these last two games. No brain baking, energy sapping heat to hold them back, reenergized mentally and emotionally by the online defamation, and Dan losing a few shoes up people behinds... And then there are the players; they responded well too...haha.