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Oregon State @ Arizona (Game Week)

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In the prior comments, I explained that if you’re not seeing the recruiting feed it’s due to the AdBlock Plus plugin in Firefox. This leads me to concluded any/all issues with the Twitter feed are due to individual browser settings. Companies have been locking down more and more on their browsers. You might have to go in and manually adjust the settings.

As far as the Arizona game, I think we all agree this is the Beav’s best shot at a win. For some reason I thought this game was at home, but I must have confused it with ASU. That’s unfortunate because at home I’d take the Beavs in this one, but on the road I’m going Arizona by a hair.

34-31, Arizona.

Cursory watch of Arizona tells me Tate isn’t the player he once was, but he’s still good enough and mobile enough to make the difference. Beavs are riding their confidence and are rested, so they have a shot if everything clicks. We’re about due for the “good Luton” to show up, too (i.e. bad D).

Go Beavs.

General Thread / Bye Week

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Have at it.

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Oregon State @ Cal (Game Thread)

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Go Beavs.

20-17 is my prediction. Not sure which team wins.

Cal Game Week / Website Makeover

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Update: decided with the downtime to finally revamp the site. The old code was too broken to salvage (10 years and zero updates to it from the guy who made the theme). With donation money I purchased a theme that will have updates. Then I edited the code to get it as close to the old site as I could, for now, in terms of looks and function. Suggestions and feedback welcome. Thanks to the AB donors. Site should be more functional and faster now, too.

The original post:

For those who missed it, Luton graded out at 2.7 out of 6 and was accused of having bad body language and quitting. How that “Player of the Week” status seems like a distant dream. People were arguing this is just a number and means zero. Since we’re just grading his passes, it means the passes themselves (rather than the outcomes) are below average, which was pretty interesting. If it means nothing to you keep burying your head in the sand. It’s your right.

Gebbia looked like a natural leader and natural QB. Very subtle things like throwing a tight spiral, quick decisions, scanning the field, throwing a TD on the run, snapping the ball to catch their defender in penalty, “moxie”, etc. We should be breaking him in now if we want to be the team we can possibly be next year (and the rest of this year).

PS. Chuck_the_Mouth, who said this week’s games in the CBS pool were the “easiest picks yet” after I said they were tough, scored 5/12. I scored 7/12 for reference. Bad week for the anti-AB, Luton sack suckers. Somewhere, a sock monkey was throw at a wall, but since we weren’t there to hear it, did it make a sound?

Utah @ Oregon State

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With Zack Moss upgraded to probable I’m going Utah 35, Oregon State 24. Prove me wrong with a great game plan, Tibesar. We’ve seen the Beavs finish versus a bad Pac-12 team, but until we see them finish versus a good one it’s hard to go Beavs. Should be some energy in the building with homecoming, a lot of recruits, etc, so maybe some October magic happens.

The Luton Scale might not be in play afterall. I won’t able to document down, distance, and time for each play since I’m sick and will be lying down/commenting from the phone. If someone is commenting from a laptop and has good typing skills please step up and document the plays. Thanks!

Go Beavs.