Stop with the attempts at the kill shots and for fuck’s sake stop with the punishment plays… he could easily have been ejected for ripping Quizz Rodgers’ helmet off and maybe that would have got through to him that this kind of shit is unacceptable.

AAAAAARGH.

Otherwise, I agree about Williams and Bradford being clutch, but I think that RoJo’s diving catch for the TD might have been the best individual play of the game. That, and Bradford taking a seat in-bounds on the final drive.

Am I the only one who only thought that Mays knocked Rodger’s helmet off with a strong arm tackle? I saw no visual evidence that his hand grabbed the facemask. And, I don’t believe that it is a penalty if the arm hits the helmet during a tackle, as long as it’s not a punch. It just so happens that we are so athletic and aggressive that the play looks like a penalty, even if it wasn’t. If anyone can post the language of the rule on that play, I would love to read it. I believe the refs made the right call in spite of Mike Patrick’s hissy fit. Brittney Spears anyone? Enough said about Mike Patrick.

Otherwise, could it be more evident that Mike Riley is a top 5 coach in the country? That is the best offensive performance of a system that optimizes the talent of its players that I have seen all season. UCLA should have done whatever it took to hire Riley years ago. Bama would be just as good, if not better, with Riley than Saban. Texas A&M, Nebraska, Florida St, Penn St, Colorado, Cal, ND, etc. would be smart to make a run at Riley. Two Grey Cups, 5 bowl games in 6 years on his current stint w/ OSU, 4 8 or more win seasons in 6 years, 3 9 or more win seasons, and top 3 in conference 4 out of 6 seasons.

USC needs to take a hard look at an overhaul of our offense this offseason, and Oregon St is one system that needs to be studied hard. Mike Riley is arguably the best coach in the country. Corvallis has a population of approximately 50,000 and the state of Oregon has a population of 3.8 million. The metro area of LA has 13 million. Mike Riley is very, very good.

I totally agree with Para, and it sounds like whining. But, our offense underperforms RELATIVE to the talent on that side of the ball. Sure, we make it look easy putting up 30-40 points per game, but these are bad defenses that we are playing, and we are loaded on offense. SC has the talent to score in the 50s. Our offensive system, which is uncreative on a relative basis in the college game, needs some serious tweaking.

Final comment is the defensive system. The bend but don’t break pass defense has been torched 2 weeks in a row. Granted, we played 2 great QBs in a row, but this is a major cause for concern.

Autzen looks to be a brutal game against a hot Duck squad on Halloween night. The Ducks are finally playing some defense along with that explosive offense. This will be a “somethings got to give game” with the incredible Duck running game against the USC rush defense. After watching the Quizz do his thing, I reluctantly say advantage Ducks. I anticipate an exciting game with a Trojan loss. However, with a true frosh QB, finishing 10-2 in the regular season would be an outstanding result. No BCS this season, but then Barkley begins a historic championship tear. Exciting, well-played game tonight! I must say that I respect the Beavs more than any other PacX program. No one has done more with less in the entire country over the last 6 years.

Ok, ok- the truth? I witnessed the marriage of a once-child that I held in my arms to calm her to sleep. She’s my eldest sister’s daughter, as well as my God-daughter- and the coolest/most impressive young man I’ve met in . . . .forever is now her husband and. . . . .I’m one of the mot happiest uncles/nino’s ON THE PLANET RIGHT NOW!

I’m drunk. I’m happy. And. . . .we won.

’Nuff said.

Fight On!
(taymay clocked the f_ck outta Keeze? yeah-ah. boi-ah. tell me something once again? what’s wrong with that picture? . . . . .right. i’m drunk. i get it)

So everyone is completely over-reacing about Mays. His tackle would have hit square in the chest or shoulder pads had Rogers not started to duck/fall back and thereby make himself lower – AFTER Mays had already lined up his hit and left the ground. It was not intentional. That being said – I think the refs blew a lot of calls on both teams. Missed calls and wrong calls. But I don’t think any of the bad calls decided the game. We definitely lucked out on some OSU penalties when it looked like they were about to march into the end zone again!

But what I don’t get is I keep hearing and seeing so much about our incredible defense and our offense needs to step up . . . even you, Paragon, pointed out that we need to put more points on the board. I think 42 is a pretty good pint total! Even if one of the touchdowns was special teams. Barkley is amazing when keeping his age and true frosh status in mind and between RoJo and Williams we have real threats down the field. Bradford is becoming an absolute beast and seems a more reliable back than McKnight. Letting OSU score 36 would be a defensive issue. We have the talent, for sure – our line is pretty amazing and our linebackers show flashes of living up to the recent years of being a Linebacker U – but they’re inconsistent in their brilliance and our secondary was what was getting brutalized tonight! Mays had some good plays and some bonehead plays, but Canfield was picking us apart. The D is what has me much more concerned about a Ducks team next week that seems to put up 35+ every game.

I currently live in Portland, OR, but hail originally from SoCal. I’ll be at that game in Autzen – hoping at the end of the night the 2 hour ride home is a happy one! Let’s hope McCoy is able to get back – no one mentioning Krista’s dirty plays tonight. 3 of them, the final resulting in McCoy’s injury! FIGHT ON!!

We are not as good as I thought we were, we really are about 7 rank but at least we won even if the DEE got owned.

1. Once again we get killed by a TE going over the middle constantly. This has been a problem as long as PC has been here, I assume partially because of the cover 2 but maybe also because of our safety play? I bet Oregon sees this and goes to Ed Dickson over the middle A LOT next week.

2. I thought we shut down Quizz early on but after he came back from his ankle injury he was just as good as last year.

3. Oregon St rocked our defense once again, we avoided the costly penalties in the red zone this year but man does Mike Reilly know how to beat us or what? If Quizz is in there instead of Stevanson on that one play they probably score a TD instead of getting a dropped completion and getting a FG.

4. Loved seeing Bradford tonight. I thought last year we could’ve won had we gone with a more power oriented run game instead of getting cute with McKnight. Honestly the game plan tonight on offense seemed to be all the things that worked last year against OSU and very few of the things that didn’t. Aside from some big drops by WR and a few freshmen mistakes by Barkley nothing really to be made about.

5. I really hope PC starts talking to Mays. The guy is killing us week in and week out. His only good play this season seems to be the Riley INT against Cal. And even then he was out of position and had to rely on his ridiculous speed to make it. He really needs to get straightened out before Oregon, between his shoddy coverage and his dirty hits he’s too much of a liability right now.

The thing is Mays just plays the Defense that the coaches call period, even he wasn’t responsible for all the TE catches. The F-ing MLB is the one that is assigned to pick-up players TE-FB- coming out of backfield, and he missed on it a lot. But you the only thing that matter is USC won and OSU lost, and even if USC was still undefeated the computers wouldn’t recognize them.