[Beeg_Dawg]

[quote author=winflop link=topic=17704.msg206732#msg206732 date=1508160632]
The team that showed up Saturday night was a bad team. Not as bad as Rice, but of the caliber of some of the teams Chryst played well against last season. Also, that D ranking was in part built when their starting QB was in and they were putting points on the board and keeping the D off the field

Chryst played well against Oregon last year. That certainly made it lots easier for him to do so this year. He had "ownage" on Oregon, and he knew it. Oregon was a bad team on Saturday. They may be better than that next week, but they didn't have it Saturday, for whatever reason. I totally agree that we should not to over-interpret the result. Nice win, but it doesn't prove that we are as good as we appeared to be. WSU will be much more definitive of where we are.
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Couple of things.
1) Echoing others, this was by far his best game I have seen. 
2) Quality D or not, Chryst put several throws where only the receiver could get it.  Great job by the OL with some nice work by receivers, but I'm not going to denigrate his game because Oregon's D wasn't all that. 
3) WSU? After Friday night?  Maybe Leach didn't bring his real team, but Cal doesn't come to mind when discussing even good defense.

As a team, these guys have seen significant improvement in the last 3 weeks.  They are on the right trajectory and, right now, I'm wearing my rose colored glasses. :)

[Beeg_Dawg]

[quote author=winflop link=topic=17704.msg206732#msg206732 date=1508160632]
The team that showed up Saturday night was a bad team. Not as bad as Rice, but of the caliber of some of the teams Chryst played well against last season. Also, that D ranking was in part built when their starting QB was in and they were putting points on the board and keeping the D off the field

Chryst played well against Oregon last year. That certainly made it lots easier for him to do so this year. He had "ownage" on Oregon, and he knew it. Oregon was a bad team on Saturday. They may be better than that next week, but they didn't have it Saturday, for whatever reason. I totally agree that we should not to over-interpret the result. Nice win, but it doesn't prove that we are as good as we appeared to be. WSU will be much more definitive of where we are.
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Couple of things.
1) Echoing others, this was by far his best game I have seen. 
2) Quality D or not, Chryst put several throws where only the receiver could get it.  Great job by the OL with some nice work by receivers, but I'm not going to denigrate his game because Oregon's D wasn't all that. 
3) WSU? After Friday night?  Maybe Leach didn't bring his real team, but Cal doesn't come to mind when discussing even good defense.

As a team, these guys have seen significant improvement in the last 3 weeks.  They are on the right trajectory and, right now, I'm wearing my rose colored glasses. :)