(From Oregon Athletics Press Release)

 

Question: About Oregon’s success running the ball…

 

CRISTOBAL: "Well offensively I think we have morphed a little bit now. We throw the ball pretty well too. It’s just, again, the rain was coming down at such a high clip that it wasn’t going to be easy throwing the ball. You had just as good of a chance that it was going to be a tipped ball or whatnot throwing the ball as you would just giving the ball to one of the best players in college football in Travis Dye behind that offensive line.

 

And we felt that the way we practice means a lot to us. We take a lot of pride in it. We take a lot of pride in blocking and we felt that even though we’ve been down a couple of offensive linemen that we could find a couple of ways to establish the line of scrimmage and take control of it. And they had some really good plays too. But overall, just felt that our guys did a really good job and Coach Moorhead and the offensive staff did a really nice job of mixing it up with the ball inside and outside, with our gap schemes, our pin and pulls, ball on the perimeter.

 

It was really hard to find where the ball was going. And Anthony is always a threat to run the football as well. He did a great job with his legs, his third down pass to Johnny [Johnson III) was huge later on even though we got called for something when we had first and goal at the one inch line but I guess I’ll figure that one out later."

 

“We throw the ball pretty well too.”.   Huh?  Get some new glasses, Coach!

On 11/7/2021 at 5:50 AM, Duckdude said:

“We throw the ball pretty well too.”.   Huh?  Get some new glasses, Coach!

Notice he did not say, "We threw the ball pretty well too." 

 

MC said, "We throw the ball pretty well too."

 

If he used the past tense it would mean that he was talking about the game that just ended, but he wasn't. He used the present tense "throw" because he was talking about the last few games in general. We "throw" the ball well is a general statement.  We "threw" the ball well is a specific statement about a specific circumstance.

 

His statement was correct. The previous three games, the passing game was improving each week... over 80% completion rate the week before... That's throwing the ball pretty well.

On 11/7/2021 at 1:58 PM, Jon Sousa said:

His statement was correct. The previous three games, the passing game was improving each week... over 80% completion rate the week before... That's throwing the ball pretty well.

Exactly.... This game would have been different if the ball could be thrown. 

In that weather, yeah except for a terrible INT, the ball was thrown 'well.' 'Well' may be a stretch but not by much considering the weather.

 

Can't throw? Then smash mouth the opponent running the ball. Just like the Ducks did.

 

ALABAMA rushed for 6 yards yesterday versus a D decimated since UCLA ran all over it.

 

Yesterday was an excellent win on the road in bad weather against a most motivated opponent.