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I agree that Oregon is not a CFP team. They were not a CFP team before their best running back got hurt and they certainly are not now. Their coach makes a lot of strange decisions. The refs IMHO did not do a very good job today for both teams. The fact is, IMHO, Oregon is a "dirty" team and basically has been for the past 20 years. That said, the targeting call against Thibodeaux was marginal IMHO. He didn't know McKee was going to get hit from the other side at the same moment. He didn't lower his head. The helmet to helmet contact was cause by the hit from the other side. However, it was called. OTOH, I think the refs were letting Oregon get away with a lot of contact on the jump balls. I am glad they had the guts to call it at the end.

The fact is Christobal cost them the game by 1) not just running the ball on the last Oregon drive, and 2) playing a "prevent" defense with nobody in the middle of the field, especially after Stanford showed they could exploit it. Oregon the team didn't play great today, but their coach performed much, much worse IMHO.

I believe we had 6(!) false start penalties in the second half? Several of them were on receivers. That for sure didn't help us move the ball. It is also true that without Tremayne we seemed to lose confidence in ourselves.

Also, interesting nobody has said anything about McKee getting stopped on 4th and inches. I think it is unanimous on the Cardboard that it was a good decision, which is unheard of. OTOH, it showed that the middle of our OL is still a mess and can't move anybody.

[Goose]

I agree that Oregon is not a CFP team. They were not a CFP team before their best running back got hurt and they certainly are not now. Their coach makes a lot of strange decisions. The refs IMHO did not do a very good job today for both teams. The fact is, IMHO, Oregon is a "dirty" team and basically has been for the past 20 years. That said, the targeting call against Thibodeaux was marginal IMHO. He didn't know McKee was going to get hit from the other side at the same moment. He didn't lower his head. The helmet to helmet contact was cause by the hit from the other side. However, it was called. OTOH, I think the refs were letting Oregon get away with a lot of contact on the jump balls. I am glad they had the guts to call it at the end.

The fact is Christobal cost them the game by 1) not just running the ball on the last Oregon drive, and 2) playing a "prevent" defense with nobody in the middle of the field, especially after Stanford showed they could exploit it. Oregon the team didn't play great today, but their coach performed much, much worse IMHO.

I believe we had 6(!) false start penalties in the second half? Several of them were on receivers. That for sure didn't help us move the ball. It is also true that without Tremayne we seemed to lose confidence in ourselves.

Also, interesting nobody has said anything about McKee getting stopped on 4th and inches. I think it is unanimous on the Cardboard that it was a good decision, which is unheard of. OTOH, it showed that the middle of our OL is still a mess and can't move anybody.