10-02-2021, 05:20 PM
(This post was last modified: 10-02-2021, 05:22 PM by BostonCard.)
(10-02-2021, 05:16 PM)Goose Wrote: 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.
The hit by Thibodeaux was clearly targetting. Rod Gilmore broke it down quite well. There was head to head contact, initiated by Thibodeaux, and, key to the finding, Thibodeaux "launched" by jumping into the QB, which clinched it.
BC
(10-02-2021, 05:16 PM)Goose Wrote: 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.
Also, there was the fourth down call (not the decision to go for it, but the offensive playcall) at the end of the first half. The game is very different if they score a TD there.
BC