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Their mindset would not have changed because of the extra yardage, because there was no reason for it to change. More than enough time left on the clock. I know it's hard to swallow, but there is only a sliver of a increased chance we were going to stop Penix in his last drive of 90 yards vs 50 yards with the reasons you mentioned, vs 45% chance of ending the game if we got the first down. That doesn't even take into account the time management. If they are going to score, let it happen quick, so you have solid chance for a final score. The more yards they go, the more time it would have eaten up.

Pretty tough to look back when you're trying your hardest to real in the WR that got past you and it isn't happening. No point in looking back when you don't think you are close enough to make a play on the ball. Seeing Penix throw like Justin Herbert makes me wonder what Justin could have done in an offense like that.

Not to derail this thread, but no way J-Smith will go to MSU. Maybe Tucker could be bribed with enough cash to give up a great thing, but look at his moral/wisdom track record. Crap job at a rust belt school renown for moral failings, and getting pounded by big brother and his two other cousins every year, vs Alma Mater he's has built from the ground up to a nearly top 10 team. Notginnahappen.

This hurts because Holden is a fantastic possession receiver.

Yeah our OL excels at creating a clean pocket for Bo when he steps back. We lost that when the play goes lateral taking 3 of our OL out of the play, and almost none of the D while setting a timer on Bo. No room or time for Bo to improvise. In the pocket he could throw where the pressure is coming from or if a lane opens up after a bit take it a little ways to draw the second level and dump it off to a short route or RB for a first down. And in short yardage the field is already compacted vertically, so why cut it in half horizontally too. It's an anti-spread play. Let's give the offense as little room to work as possible. I really hope someone points out to Stein what Stanford did to Colorado with 50 straight slant passes to a dominant possession receiver. It was an unstoppable high percentage pass for a stressed young QB.

Was that the run out of the pistol? One of those last drive plays was a pistol dive into a stacked box for minus 1-2 yards. SUCH a slow developing play allowing the whole defense to converge on the point of attack. Definitely Mastro/Arroyo/Cristobal bad memories came back on that one. Yuck.

It's inferring a bunch that PK is upset with going for it on 4th. He was upset we were giving the ball back to Penix. It didn't matter where we gave it back.

A 1 loss PAC12 champion will make the playoffs over any other 1 loss team in the country. I don't see 4 teams going undefeated. Oregon still controls it's own destiny. Any talk to the contrary is just reactive.

I will vehemently defend DLs 4th quarter decision to go for it on 4th down. It absolutely was the right call for the reasons Dan game in the press conference. Did anyone see the live shots of Penix pacing the sidelines itching to get back in for the game winning drive? Did you also see how dejected he looked once he saw Oregon was going for it on 4th down? You don't voluntarily give the ball back to that guy, in that moment, with any significant time left. He went 50 yards in 34 seconds. Making him go 75-99 yards would only have had a worse result with him burning enough time off the clock to prevent our last drive to try to answer. I love what Josh Pate said yesterday about Dan and these calls. 100%

Thank you. The most worrisome statement from DL after the game is he thought they had the perfect play for each of those 3 failed conversions. I do feel like Stein's playbook is incomplete for 2-5 yards conversions. When the other team loads the box all the way to the edges, you need to have quick options to get the ball behind the box. A quick seam route to a TE in combo with a drag route by the slot receiver. Also slants to a WR put wide is a much higher percentage throw than a slot receiver running to the sideline. Play action RPO when the line clogs in front of the RB at the mesh.

100% agree. Thank you. No way you voluntarily give the ball back to Penix with 2 minutes to go even on their 1 yard line. Definitely take the points at the end of the first half. It FEELS like you are playing with house money since you get the ball back in the second half, but that is a fallacy. Your behind and there is half a game to go with two competitive defenses. That's reality. Same could be said in the 3rd quarter although we were in bigger trouble at that point.

I disagree. We did not beat ourselves, we played really good ball. If they aren't a good team then neither are we. Eye test says these were 2 top 10 teams slugging it out possibly at a higher level than Texas vs. OU last week.

It barely went wide. I've also played sports. Try hitting 10 free throws in a row. Even in a good head space with tons of practice just about everyone will miss one. If he'd really shanked it like he did a bunch earlier in his career okay, but a close miss from 42 happens. And he had a little bit of accuracy issues last week. Even golfers have ebbs and flows of their skill. I hope he flows back into the level of accuracy we have grown accustomed to.

Tough loss. We didn't beat ourselves, but we lost. No turn overs, no false starts or bad penalties, tons of yards and time of possession, but didn't finish drives and lost. Obviously a lot of focus on the 4th down conversions that weren't. What about the last second time out on the final drive by DL that allowed us to convert on 3rd, when the no-play failed? Dan had his team mentality prepared and they played pretty well for 4 quarters. You have to take the good with the bad here. I'd like to see some different short yardage options in our scheme. We're the slant passes really never there? Drag route from play action? Didn't see many RPOs acted on. I think the biggest frustration is losing so similarly to last year, even with a Williams brother having a really bad game and not converting on fourth downs. I sure hope we can play UW again in Vegas, a neutral sute.

Stanford is the ultimate Jekyll and Hyde team. They shut us down for a 20 minute stretch, played the most uninspired football I've ever seen in the 2nd quarter against Colorado, then turned into a dominating team in the second half. Really, I'm not sure Colorado really played significantly worse in the second half, it's just Stanford played that much better. And that was the most dominant performance I've ever seen from a receiver in a single half. I think he had 10-15 catches and and 250 yards. Completely unstoppable

Evan and Bennet are equally skilled with one exception. Evan in fast. Speed was always Bennet's liability like Steve Stephens. Both those guys cost us about 4-5 touchdowns last year, one of them critical against Washington.

I think our depth in the defensive line will wear out the UW O-Line in the fourth quarter. Penix won't be able to do a "game winning drive running for his life. So if it's a one score game in the fourth quarter, odds are very high we win.

Husky fan doing their part on hate week. KDB can't recruit his way out of a paper bag, and once all the players he brought from his previous stops cycle through, there won't be enough good coaching in the world to turn that water into wine. Anybody got any "Your mama.." jokes? We've got almost 2 days left. Let's dig deep people.

When Bo was asked which uni he liked best in 2022, it was the eggshells whites. Whatever makes him feel good helps him play good I'm all for this weekend. It looks like the black speckles are more bold on the uniforms this year, which I think helps keep me from thinking my eyes are playing tricks on me that I am just imagining the speckles at a distance.

Kinda all sounds like "WIN THE DAY" to me. I wish UO never let go of that motto for that reason, that it is a cornerstone of sports psychology. It wasn't trademarked and doesn't have to be tied exclusively to Chip Kelly. I sure wasn't happy when Taggart replaced it with "Do Something."

We were the better team last year when we played. We lost because Bo got injured and frankly, UW appeared more motivated to win. I think we have improved this year more than UW has improved. Being an away game I think it will come down to these three things: 1. Bo settling down quickly and playing with confidence despite the road environment and tight coverage. 2. Don't beat ourselves with penalties and turnovers. 3. Our team playing with urgency and confidence, wanting to win more than the Huskies. Do these three things and the details won't matter. We are the better team.

You defer. How else are you going to pick-six Penix on the first play of the game? 😉

Interesting. So the analytics only gave a .1% chance of the head coach being foolish enough to run the ball instead of going into a victory formation. Cristobal is a 1 in 1000 coach. That's what the analytics are saying. Who am I to argue with them?

It's well publicized that USC did NOT want the Ducks tagging along with them to the B1G. The reason was simple and 2-fold: 1. Stop us from stealing their recruits. 2. Stop them from losing to us when we play. You may see where I'm going with this... It makes way too much sense for the 4 legacy PAC schools to keep playing each other every year as protected matchups due to history and travel distances. I don't buy the reason the league boss gave of more thoroughly integrating us. I think by only having us play in socal 4 times every 5 years it hurts our ability to recruit there and minimizes the number of opportunities for us to beat USC. After B1G told USC that Oregon wouldn't follow them just to end up doing that months later, it only makes sense that this B1G scheduling is their way to throw USC a bone. And by the time 2026 rolls around there will be more changes, the schedule will be redone again and perhaps then everyone will wise up that the 4 West Coast teams should play each other every year. What do you think?

Dan will be taking the best QB he can get from the portal every single year we don't have a return Heisman candidate.