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I don't know anything about anything, but I think Oregon should be highly regarded this year. They have the best QB and return several good, experienced OL. They ran the ball just fine against us in OT. I like their tailback, too. We have to stop pretending it's all luck or smoke and mirrors.
The schedule doesn't break easy for them, but you only have to be a little bit better than each team on your schedule to post a pretty good record.
I don't know how much we want Rosengarten, but he's almost certainly going to Oregon. It feels like we were pretty late to the party, they are good salesmen, and even good, smart kids make bad decisions. Hell, look at Bru McCoy. Or all the guys that keep going to USC even if we have mountains of data showing that USC doesn't develop players very well.
UW lost to Oregon because of special teams. It wasn't just our fucking terrible kicker missing the game winning field goal. It was our terrible coverage units giving them short field after short field to work with. They couldn't drive the length of the field and score TD's on UW with consistency. It was the short fields that they took advantage of that even allowed them to stay in the game.
Offensively, UW out gained them with Jake Browning and no Hunter Bryant and no Myles Gaskin. Those were our two biggest weapons on offense and both weren't on the field. Chris Petersen is a slow strategy motherfucker. He redshirted all the Freshman linebackers so our special teams coverage units were trash and he redshirted all of the freshman D-lineman so we lacked beef on the interior D-line. Those things won't be problems this season or seasons to come. Petersen hurt us in the short term last season for the benefit of the program in the long term. By no means does Oregon getting a super lucky win over UW, at home, after a bye week, mean they are a legit contender this season. They're not.
Jimmy Lake did have a bad OT by not having a heavy goal line D-line package on the field to stop the run against an obvious run-first team, but the game should have already been won by UW rather easily long before that.
As long as Rosengarten takes that OV to UW, he'll be a Dawg.
UWs special teams out played Oregon’s. Oregon missed the same field goal as UW and fumbled a kickoff giving UW a touchdown. Short fields for tds? Oregon’s 3 regulation td drives were 88, 75 and 44 yards (after a long kick return). “Short field after short field” lol. Great revisionist history though
If you want to blame Pete for fucking up the end of the game, fine, because he did. But everything else here is just lol
Revisionist history? Alright, here you go:
Oregon's Possessions:
1. Field Goal: Drive started on UW's 37 yard line
2. Touch Down: UW's terrible kickoff coverage unit allows a 56 yard kick off return by Tony Brooks-James. Oregon's drive begins at the UW 41 yard line. Takes them 10 plays to finally score.
3. Punt: Drive begins at Oregon 25. 4 plays for 15 yards.
4. Punt: Drive begins at Oregon 30. 5 plays for 15 yards.
5. Touch Down: Drive begins at Oregon 25. 13 plays for 75 yards.
6. Punt: Drive begins at Oregon 28. 3 plays for -4 yards.
7. Touchdown: Drive begins at Oregon 12. 15 plays for 88 yards.
8. Missed FG: Drive begins on Oregon 33. 11 plays for 43 yards.
9. Punt: Drive begins at the Oregon 29. 9 plays for 39 yards.
10. OT Touchdown: Drive begins on UW's 25. 6 plays for 25 yards.
Oregon's offense was gifted two short fields for their first two possessions of the game. One came from an interception, so they get credit for that. The other came from a massive 56 yard kickoff return, which in previous seasons, UW would never have given up because our coverage units were much, much better. So Oregon scored 10 points off of two short fields and then could only manage two scoring drives the rest of regulation. I'd say that's pretty good defense by UW. Obviously in a low scoring game, 10 points is huge and kept them in it, otherwise the game never would have gone to OT and UW would have finished it easily in regulation.
UW out gained Oregon 437 yards to 379 yards and they did it without Gaskin in the second half and without Hunter Bryant the entire game. UW averaged a higher yards per pass and a higher yards per run than Oregon. They also did it on the road with Oregon coming off a bye and still should have won the game in regulation. Obviously UW was the better team, they won the Pac-12 championship whereas Oregon finished 4th in the North. But UW was the better team head-to-head versus Oregon as well. The better team doesn't always win. Upsets happen. I'll take the championship over a regular season win every time.