(God damn you Alabama!! ) (Now all thats left is to throw a few Seminole Chops around)
Great hit on Carpenter! He barely had a chance to cover up before that one. Good series for the Duck D. They have really stepped up again.
OK, 13 min left, you are up 19 in what may be the biggest game of the year (at least short of the bowl game). Do you a) run it into the middle of the line 3 times. Or b) stick to the offensive game plan, keep the Devils on their heels and in over pursuit and make a firm statement on national television? I think you all know my preference, lets see what they do.
Oh no!! Dixon took a stinger on the knee there!. He is up and walking off, but I think I suffered a minor coronary.
There goes the last timeout... Now I am more ok with a little more conservative offensive series. But not much. Its not like Leaf is some schmuck red-shirt freshman with no game time experience.
Great play call to start of Leaf. Love to convert here... gonna be 3rd and long it looks like though.
Good look at Scott, ball just drifted a little. Gotta believe it would have been complete if Dixon were throwing. Syria is kicking well today. To bad he is already a Junior. It's so nice to not live in mortal fear of punting
Eleven more minutes of sold defense. Thats all he need. And not the “keep it all in front of you, let them dink and dunk defense” stay a little aggressive and trust your secondary.
Reason # 4,135 I hate these announcers. They don't even bother to understand the difference in pass interference rules between college and the NFL. The NFL has a 5 yard rule for pass interference, in college you can bump until the ball is in the air.
Great defense there. You gotta believe its 4 down territory here. And it is, Carpenter is still on the field. One more big stop could be the game.
ASU may have converted on 4 and 10 but I am proud of Aliotti. He didn't rush 3 or 4, he sent a linebacker and it nearly paid off. No reason not to play balls out in a game like this!
Picked!!! I had feeling one of those was going to come one of these plays. Would preferred a knee and a touch back, but its tough to keep your head sometimes.
Looks like Dixon will be ok. Glad to see him moving on the sideline. Also more than ok seeing them leave Leaf out there. At this point, no reason to risk Dixon any more.
Nice pass by Leaf gets it to third and manageable. On third and three, it will probably stay on the ground... and nothing gained unfortunately.
Drained a good 2 minutes off the clock though.
ASU will be going to the air here. We'll see how good Carpenter really is. Down 19 with 6 min to play. Still hoping that Aliotti doesn't get too complacent
Rushed 3 lineman on each of those. You would think Aliotti might of learned something from last week and the first 54 min of this game. You would be wrong.
Thats an ASU TD... took a whole 41 seconds off the clock. Still a two score lead, but this game is by no means over. Big question... does Dixon come back in now? Only if ASU scores again? (Also up for debate, you need 2 scores in 5:20 seconds, do you try the on-sides? [I say no, given Oregon's past history of being extremely conservative in situations like this])
Well... its a long field Oregon can use to drain the clock. Just have to do it. No three and out here. Gotta run 5-7 plays.
It is still Leaf... and they throw a short pass! Complete, and still in bounds. 2 & 8... Stewart dances, and leaves it at 3 & 7ish. ASU uses one of its last 2 timeouts. Down to 4:14... need a conversion here.
Damn it! Two good play calls, and Leaf can't keep it in bounds on the sideline route. I know its a tough throw, but you need to convert on something like that. Weight is back on the defense.... and a bad bounce costs the Ducks 20 yards on the point.
Send a blitz Aliotti! Got him!!! 7th sack of the game and another from Reed. Exactly what I wanted to see.
Didn't want to see that long pass caught... FUMBLED!! I know he is fighting for yards, but you have to hang on to the ball. Heads up play by Glasper to get on top of it. And not try and pick it up or carry it.
That should seal the game. Not as huge as Harper's pick, but it really is just about the nail in the coffin.
Oregon closes the game with a sack... 8 on the night. Fantastic game all around.
Thats all for tonight. BC is down 7-0 at the half. Go Seminoles! Go Bobby Bowden you crazy old sonuvabitch go!
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A good game by Oregon. Dominating when they needed to be, Dixon looked pretty unstoppable early on, and snuffed out any hope for ASU in the fourth. I kept thinking throughout the fourth to keep up the defensive pressure. Send at least 4 or 5 each play. It's clear Carpenter has happy feet and doesn't know how to handle pressure, even if it's not there yet. Also, the O-line for ASU doesn't look all that sharp. Not much of a running game to speak of for the Devils, and 9 sacks on the day is pretty damning for the boys up front. I knew Carpenter would throw at least 1 pick, and I figured that one of those sacks would lead to a huge fumble. Can you believe it, Dixon for Heisman! Ducks are going to be #2 or #3 after this weekend, and need either Michigan (of all teams!) or the SEC East winner to pull an upset to propel them to a possible National Championship berth. 3 games to go guys! Keep focused on what you can do!
Dixon is unbelievable. And he gets another national TV game to show it a week from Thursday.
The defense is a huge surprise to me. Not just the 9 sacks, but 18 TFL on 78 plays. The Devil's fans are saying the loss of one O-lineman early in the game is what caused it. Bull shit I say. Just great work by the front 7, and a few of those sacks by the coverage.
Too bad you were stuck with the FSN broadcast. We had that and Comcast's new NW sports show with the OSN feed, with heavily pro-Oregon commentators. No more competent, but partisan in the right direction. They were railing for minutes against the bad spot and the late hit call. Such crap that everyone in the country gets top-notch ESPN coverage, and we just get to watch the skycam get in the way of our view. Ah well, the alternative would be the nation not getting to see our awesomeness. I feel kinda bad for Carpenter. Syd's mom thinks he's a whiny bitch, and he is, but it must suck to be on a (formerly) undefeated team that's letting you get sacked more than almost any other I-A team. The OSN talking heads were freaking out about time of possession the whole game, but when we have 1 minute TD drives and Carpenter's spending the whole game on his ass, it's less significant.
And yes, Syria was awesome. Two unassisted punts within the 5 yard line.
#3! Woo! Hey, 3 in the BCS, too. I have a hard time rooting against LSU after that effing crazy call at the end of the Auburn game, and Auburn's dirty-ass cheap shot on Dorsey. I'm more than happy to root against Ohio State, though, along with everyone else in the country, it seems.
OK, enough babbling, time to hang a shelf. Oh, one last thing. I hope you're all getting a kick out of UCLA's bizarro season as well? Their losing to the worst teams and beating the best? Joke's on me if they beat us, but for now it's hilarious.
Trust me, ESPN does not equal "top notch" coverage. Paul Maguire? I don't think so. And while Dixon was on the ground holding his knee? We were getting sideline coverage about how both Donald Duck and Sparky the Sun Devil were designed by Disney people. Also, I missed the opening 18 minutes or so of the game because they had to finish broadcasting the Cincinnati v. USF game, whose 4th quarter lasted an hour because of all the terrible incomplete passes, interceptions, punts, etc. So I really missed all the fun and just got to see the highlights later.
Well, that makes me feel better. It just hurt my feelings watching their sideline reporter swoop down upon Bellotti at halftime and not getting to hear those trite banalities.
I suppose listening to those asstastic ASU commentators was better then not seeing the 1st quarter.
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