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Here is the interview, for those who couldn’t find the link in the last post (lol).

http://www.gomightycard.com/2013/10/blogging-.html#more

This was pretty fun, so I’m going to try to find an enemy blogger for each upcoming game. (Hank, if you’re reading this, email me any contacts you have for Pac-12 bloggers).

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  1. Seems pretty spot on. I do think the Beavs will break out several trick plays. As far as a prediction goes, I think either one of the teams will win by more than 17. I could see Stanford demoralizing us but then again, OSU is playing with tremendous confidence. My orange colored glasses predict 42-21.

  2. “Blogging with the Enemy” is a great feature, I’m glad you are trying to do more if this.
    Great to see you back in the game, Angry; and glad much of the medical stuff is behind you!

  3. I feel like we’re all starting to get a little over confident going into this game. There’s alot of talk on this end about the importance of this game/ shock the world/ Stanford is beatable, while on the other end, there really isn’t much chatter coming from the Stanford fans or players. We can only hope that Stanford is looking forward to the Oregon game a little, even though they have a bye week to prepare for it. I would love to see the passing game work against them, but they know they can play extra defenders deep to cover our receivers. I hope Mannion is wearing an extra thick abdominal cushion this week.

    • Hank’s prediction:

      As for your final question…

      I see the Cardinal defense rising to the challenge. I think the defensive front will be able to generate enough pressure to make things difficult for Mannion, and although they won’t be able to completely shut things down, I think they’ll do enough. The Stanford offense will continue to do what they do — hard running and occasional passing. I’ve got it as Stanford 31, Oregon State 17.

      He seems confident.
      I think OSU fans just see the team hitting stride and are overly excited. It could end this weekend, and we’ll all be pissed off again.

      • Is this the same guy as Hank-Med on TV? He can perform open heart surgery with a dull spoon while riding in the back of a speedboat. We got no shot if this the same Hank. Plus he lives in the Hamptons.

  4. “Here is the interview, for those who couldn’t find the link in the last post (lol).”

    Well we aren’t Stanford alumni now, are we?

  5. Does anybody read GoMightyCard? I see 3 total comments from their last week’s “blogging with the enemy-UCLA” post. They could use a little of the trademark Angrybeavs humor over on their site. Maybe we should all help them out and leave a comment?

  6. Angry: When future historians want to know what the zeitgeist of this era of OSU football (or, at least, the critical minded subset of same) was about, your report to the Stanford site is a perfect crystalization. Excellent encapsulation. Your analysis of Riley’s role in OSU history was spot on.

    And I love the idea of a weekly exchange with other teams’ bloggers, like dawgman, for example.

    • Dawgman is a joke. Even if the Beavs were 10-0 and UW was 0-10, their guys would still think the Dawgs would win. Living up here, most Dawg fans think we’re still mired in 28 straight losing seasons.

      • Well if you guys know of objective blogs let me know. I’m just going to ask Hank for his contact list since he’s been doing this a while. I don’t have the time to research other pac-12 blogs and find someone similar to this site (I really doubt they exists, since 99.9999% of fans have their heads up their asses).

      • I never got the “bow down” part of this. Are they all so short they think nobody can hear them? Or are they just an extension of the Princess Bride joke?

  7. The Beavers will get official visits from Duke commit Kameron Schroeder (Elk Grove, Calif./Cosumnes Oaks) and uncommitted tight end Jake Knight (Meridian, Idaho/Rocky Mountain).

  8. Another QB award which allows fan votes. Beav fans have been representing lately with the Mannin award votes. Mannion won it again this week, despite a late push from David Carr fans.

    The Obrien award can be voted for daily. If you have a few extra minutes, take the time to register and vote, and keep voting. I figure the more awards won by a Beav player leads to better recruiting.

    http://www.voteobrien.org/

    • Mannion started out at around 50th place yesterday and has moved up to 21 today. Follow the link above and vote for Mannion daily, if you’re so inclined.

  9. Angry, I strongly disagree that Nelson is our best defender. Coverage is good to great and he is excellent at playing the ball, but his tackling is below average (even by 2013 Beavs standards). His tackling has improved a lot through the year, but it’s still bad. Plus, a lot of the reason he’s made so many plays for us is because opponents are throwing away from Reynolds.

    Reynolds is pretty clearly my defensive MVP. One of the best tacklers on the team (if not the best ?) and great coverage to boot. And Crichton is up there still, though awful DT play has allowed offenses to plan around and marginalize him.

    By the time he leaves OSU I could see Nelson as our best player, but he’s not there yet. You can’t put “best player” and “bad tackler” together in a sentence.

  10. “[At Utah]…We got outplayed, and we have to make sure that doesn’t happen again. So we’re not going to forget that any time soon.” – David Shaw

    This is what I believe could be a deciding factor in a Beavs upset win this Saturday. The mentality is that of a golfer thinking back to his last bogey and playing for a birdie to compensate. Beavers have moved far past EWU and are playing one game at a time. If we take a lead on Stanford, or get any positive momentum shifting in our favor, this will most likely lead to Stanford overcompensating out of fear of repeating a loss that they aren’t going to forget any time soon.

  11. ESPN just rated recent commit Datrin Guyton as a high three star recruit. Highest rating of the class. He looks pretty legit. Good hands and tough. No breakaway speed but if he develops that, he’ll be a star.

      • He’s at best 4.7 right now.

        In the ones he takes to the house, he’s breaking a lot of tackles to get there and that’s awesome he can power through but he’s certainly not running by anyone on the d1 level. If he trains right and develops that speed, he’s a 5 star guy. He’d have all the tools, speed, size, toughness, and hands. Hopefully everyone continues to ignore him and he comes to osu.

        • I think you’re right. Upon further review, he’s not a very explosive runner, but he has a long stride, so once he gets going, his speed is pretty good.

          One thing that’s difficult to determine is his route running ability. Most of his highlights are either screens or simple deep balls.

          My best comparison would be that he looks like a more physical Malik Gilmore.

  12. I’m going with Stanford 35 — 24.

    Mannion will give up the ghost sooner or later….pray to the almighty Beav that I am wrong!!!!! Stanford’s special teams gives them good or short field position for many of their drives. Stanford won’t make as many mistakes as OSU will.
    ….but hard to gauge with the home-crowd factor and all…..this will make or break the season IMO.

  13. Great Beaver in the Sky let Mannion-to-Cooks continue to flourish and a record-setting pace….

    BTW – couldn’t OSU actually do a “Beaver Signal” (knock if off you juveniles) at the games – Intros, scores, after victories – at least when the sky is overcast. Which it usually is? They had the beaver signal cartoon associated with the “heroes” like “Mach 7” I don’t know why they couldn’t actually do it. Hell, they might even use orange light…then to take it even further (lower), they could synch it to “Crank Like A Chainsaw” and have laser light shows…..

  14. Angry,

    Congratulations on not sounding as bad as the Utah blogger. Good grief…

    “Utah English Class 101: Where I leaned not to end sentences with prepositions at.”

  15. After this weekend when rb Harris goes head to head with the highest rated rb (on Beaver list) in the West, the Harris stars will increase. He has had a 7 td 460yd game this year. He is rated 2x now because he was not a starter last year and was hurt and missed game time. The star system does not account for late bloomers very well. That is a fatal flaw and reason to discount (not ignore) the star system.

  16. Hadn’t seen this video, but I like the pre-game comments of the coaches: “we’re going to play smarter, harder, longer….they’re going to try and intimidate you and hit you in the mouth, hit them back in the mouth…..we’re going to outlast them….”

    FWIW, I think the usually predictable OSU should surprise everyone and break out the orange unis this Saturday. This is a bigger game than USC; better team, higher ranked…more competitive for OSU recently…this could be a special night (7th straight win if successful). If something a little different like the orange uni is extra for the kids, let ’em wear the damn things.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=LxC8KkWI35s

  17. quite honestly I have watched Stanford a few times this year and offensively they do not impress me. I think they are more impressive on the defensive side but they also have not faced an offense like ours yet. I think we win this game and easier than most people think. Beavs win 38-17

  18. So it looks like Oregon State isnt the only program that likes to keep it family. Lyerla is represented by Portland area attorney John Tyner. Same John Tyner whose adopted son Thomas plays for UO. Same John Tyner who repesented Cliff “we smoked it all” Harris earlier this year.
    UO may not have paid the Tyner family to have their kid play there, but all the extra business representing Ducks with legal trouble sure can’t hurt. That well will never go dry.

    http://www.oregonlive.com/ducks/index.ssf/2013/10/colt_lyerla_attorney_john_tyne.html

  19. “If the Beavers are good enough to take down the Card, it will almost certainly be because of their passing offense….”
    http://www.stanforddaily.com/2013/10/24/fisher-pass-rush-key-to-shut-down-mannion-co/

    Apparently we have someone who has not watched OSU at all this year trying to analyze them. He also does this:
    http://www.stanforddaily.com/2013/10/24/football-predictions-stanford-vs-oregon-state/

    And the best line proving ignorance is this from the third would be prognosticator.
    “However, OSU’s offense under the revamped Mannion is much too one-dimensional to gash Stanford’s defense. The Beavers are averaging 2.6 yards per rush this season and have passed the ball almost twice as much as they have run it. When Stanford’s defense isn’t kept off-balance by a diverse attack, it has playmakers who can pin their ears back and make big plays. Stanford beat another pass-happy team in Washington State by almost 40 points.”

    Hello? I thought SU people were supposed to be smart. I’m not saying the score won’t or can’t end up how these guys see it happening. But it would be nice if they at least looked at a little tape beyond the highlights before pretending to know something about a team.

    I also don’t like that bettors are all over us for this game. But at least they have solid logic in making their picks.
    “The Beavers can’t run the football and don’t really even try all that much, and why would they?”
    http://news.bangthebook.com/stanford-vs-oregon-state-picks/

    When half your runs are 2nd, 3rd, 4th and one or from the one yard line for a TD, and half the remainder are fly sweeps and draws… I think there’s a method to the madness of “no run game to speak of.” It’s taken some getting used to, but I see everything they do which makes a pass-happy pro set work. I’m also seeing it on the NFL level, so that helps. It has something to do with screens and deep balls. But it has more to do with the other 90% of the game which sets up those plays for success without utilizing a run game.

    • It looked like Utah was successful at attacking the edges with fly sweep (not sure how many times) and WR screens, stuff Riley certainly likes to run. Question is will Stanford be better prepared for it, I’d suggest they would. OSU will likely continue to attack the edges that way. To mix it up, I’d like to see Chris Brown as the FB get a quick handoff up the middle and see if the line can spring him – once in the next level he can cover some ground.

      • SU brought their backers down and shut down flares and WR screens. But this brings up another problem when they run the cover 2. That leaves the middle wide open. It’s not like Cooks is the only player we have out there.

        Where wine and cheese dood misses greatly in his OSU offensive analysis is that Mannion makes defenses look like they’re playing whack-a-mole. You take away the deep ball, and he’ll throw for 15 yards over the middle. You take away the deep ball and over the middle, he’ll beat you on intermediate and deep outs. You adjust to take away all three, he’ll start beating you up with screens, flares and hits to everyone shallow.

        I suspect Shaw will want to allow the latter and try to keep everything in front of him. But that only works until it stops working. You’re going to have to leave 10 yards open and just hope your rush gets to Mannion?

  20. What’s going on here? Supposedly the Kathy Lee and Hoda show was skyping with someone from the Beaver coaching staff today? And they sent OSU gear for the ladies to wear on the show? Anybody know what this is all about?

    OSU Football Video ?@OSUVUNIT

    We skyped with @klgandhoda yesterday! Tune into the show right now to check us out! #gobeavs http://instagram.com/p/f5eF5tseZa/

    Brandon Sprague ?@BrandonSprague 55m

    Good lord @Coach_Riley and his staff strike again. Getting in Today show and having Kathie Lee rock a hat!? #Genius pic.twitter.com/3W79pRzY03

    • No shit.. This is it. Our defining moment.

      GO BEAVS!! Oh, great Beav in the sky….GIVE THEM STRENGTH AND WILL!! …and maybe the refs on their side….

    • These guys are all too focused on the 10% of the game they see on highlight reels.

      I love how they mention in passing the need for 3-4 OLBs to cover the whole of the intermediate field… as if they could without anyone running routes. And that’s the whole of their analysis for the 90% of the game you don’t see on the highlights. It’s as if Cooks is highly successful because he’s the only player on our team who can catch a pass or get open, and he runs exactly three routes all game.

      • Since you asked…it was a little embarrassing. Three weeks ago Haden sent me up to Alaska to do some scouting and early recruiting. Who knew there was so much talent in Alaska! As it turns out there was screwup on my return flight. SC accidentally booked me a one-way ticket. It took over a week to hitch a ride back to the lower 48. I’m sure Pat Haden will be very sorry, when he returns my calls. JB

  21. Next year’s starting RB, Harris Ross, now has 1800 yds, 22 tds and is coached by Ken Simonton. He has played against some of the best teams in California.

  22. Is Stanford focusing only on Oregon State, and not peeking ahead to the Cardinal’s next game against Oregon? Consider the last sentence from a Thursday article in the Stanford Daily:

    “As the final challenge on the Cardinal’s schedule before its collision with No. 3 Oregon on Nov. 7, Oregon State will be looking to play spoiler against a Stanford team that needs as much momentum as possible heading into its game of the year.”

    http://www.stanforddaily.com/2013/10/24/no-25-beavers-stand-between-stanford-and-oregon-showdown/

    Spoiler? Interesting choice of words, considering that Stanford is currently trailing OSU in the PAC-12 standings.

    Is Stanford coming in to Reser with proper respect for its Beaver adversaries? Consider this quote in the same Stanford Daily article from star fifth-year defensive end Ben Gardner, about stopping Mannion and Cooks: “…it’s our job to make sure they’re not in the Heisman conversation the week after we play them.”

    The insightful pre-game analysis of Great White Hunter comes to mind: “I hope we beat the hell out of these pretentious pricks.” I think the word “smug” also applies.

    Go Beavs!

  23. I predict Beavs win by 3. I also predict three days of confusion on the East coast where people keep saying to themselves, “wait, I thought Oregon played UCLA Saturday?”

  24. Need some help tracking down Scott Wolf’s (USC) email addy for next week’s questions. Can’t seem to find it on his blog. Anyone know? He has a twitter, so if you use that maybe shoot a note and ask for his email.

  25. Minnesota is going to beat Nebraska. They are 50 times better without Kill overcomplicating their sideline. Hope today is a perfect day for Beavergopher with his two favorite teams both getting big wins.

  26. I loved seeing a crappy Miami team pulling out the crappy win over Wake Forest. That will give Florida State another easy win against another highly overrated team. Further securing their hold on that #2 spot :D

  27. If anyone is sitting near Stanford sideline, continually harass and distract #61. Connor McFadden. Prevent him from studying our defensive tendencies.

  28. Bruin defense has been a beast, but Mora is very, very conservative on offense, it’s going to bite him in the ass soon. Also, did I miss some P-12 by law where Oregon is exempt from offensive holding?

  29. If UCLA could mustered anything at all on offense, they win this game. Just stay on the field a little longer…the defense played out of their minds but have just run out of steam.

  30. First pass of the game. Complete and holding called. Whats up with calling holding? The game i saw prior to this game didnt have that called.

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