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2. There was a point in the game where it looked like Shaw should pull Chryst, then the broadcast showed Chryst and Shaw talking on the sideline, and Chryst was gesticulating and it looked like he was describing what he was seeing, and Shaw is taking it in. Then Shaw keeps Chryst in. I don’t know what they said, but maybe Chryst is seeing defenses and tricks that weren’t on tape and Shaw didn’t prepare either qb for, and Shaw needs to weigh the fact that if there are surprises out there, Costello might do worse. As bad as Oregon State is, their interim head coach played like 5 years in the NFL in the defensive secondary. That is a pretty exceptional background. And did you see the Oregon State coach pumping up his players on the sideline? Think Harbaugh, except with a defensive secondary background instead of qbing.

I wonder if we're overlooking this to some extent. ORST still had the worse team talent-wise, but that was functionally the second game of the year for them, since it seems like everything has changed after Anderson quit. I wonder if that caught the team off-guard a bit, like they weren't seeing what they expected.

That said, it shouldn't matter all that much. We had the better athletes and it should have showed, but didn't.

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2. There was a point in the game where it looked like Shaw should pull Chryst, then the broadcast showed Chryst and Shaw talking on the sideline, and Chryst was gesticulating and it looked like he was describing what he was seeing, and Shaw is taking it in. Then Shaw keeps Chryst in. I don’t know what they said, but maybe Chryst is seeing defenses and tricks that weren’t on tape and Shaw didn’t prepare either qb for, and Shaw needs to weigh the fact that if there are surprises out there, Costello might do worse. As bad as Oregon State is, their interim head coach played like 5 years in the NFL in the defensive secondary. That is a pretty exceptional background. And did you see the Oregon State coach pumping up his players on the sideline? Think Harbaugh, except with a defensive secondary background instead of qbing.

I wonder if we're overlooking this to some extent. ORST still had the worse team talent-wise, but that was functionally the second game of the year for them, since it seems like everything has changed after Anderson quit. I wonder if that caught the team off-guard a bit, like they weren't seeing what they expected.

That said, it shouldn't matter all that much. We had the better athletes and it should have showed, but didn't.