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  1. Not much of an opponent, but I don’t mind the Beavs getting another tune up game given all the player and staff turnover.

    Too bad they didn’t close out TT, and hopefully they can upset BSU, but otherwise they won’t have any “quality” wins on the season.

  2. Good start but need to step on UTEP in the first half. Give them no hope that they are in the game.

    Also the uni combo is bad. Away games should be all white

    • It is such a great surprise how Shepard et al have them playing well early.

      Also, Dahlen manages all the motion so much better than past staffs…that was all motion, no action, Dahlen is getting results.

  3. Colson Jr looks like a gamer to me….doesn’t quit on plays, good mobility. Maybe the Beaers should try to get him in the portal. Not that he’d beat out Atkinson.

  4. After all these years when I hear UTEP I still immediately think of the “UTEP two-step” by Tim Hardaway and his sweet-ass crossover dribble he had back in the day. Is that everyone or just me?

    • Not sure what he thought he saw there. The ball was high, but the receiver was tightly bracketed. Probably a little overconfident because everything was coming so easily.

  5. Sort of watching the duck game while listening to Parker. The Ducks douchy backup QB is #8, how the hell did they not retire that number after Mariota? What an insult

  6. I find it kind of odd that the MW tv guys can’t seem to locate the correct “black guy” who is the new OSU head coach. It looks like they keep following the rb coach and haven’t shown Shepard yet. Not a good look for the producers of this low budget product.

  7. Coach Shep: “I hate 15 yard penalties, we are not going to be that team!”

    I’m here for it…A coach that actually cares ands has some fire. It gives the staff a reason to keep coaching the team hard. Good stuff. The 2nd half wwill be interesting to see if there is more focus. A lot of self inflicted errors and yet they are uop 20-0. Much better than last year.

  8. Shephard letting loose in the halftime interview. Did not like the penalties. I expect them to come out fast in the second half and try to put this game away and get the backups in.

  9. Beavs are no longer in a tune-up type game. THey have made enough mistakes to allow UTEP some success. Now it is time to focus and see what this team is made of during some adversity.

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    Quacks are going to beat USC again. I wish somehow both teams could lose. Now, the Quacks will be part of the national narrative in a positive way. The Oklahoma State loss week was fantastic!

  11. Beavs got caught up in how easy things were going early and eased up. Good response to the UTEP TD, and now the defense needs to find that killer instinct and put this game away. Offense needs to get the ball to Legree and everything else falls into place.

  12. Good win but lots of stuff to work on and not just clean up. Needed a bit of a wakeup call after rolling Montana with ease. Intensity level dropped too much that would cost them much more vs better teams. They need to know to they have to get better each week.

    Start of the new PAC12 next week. The conference has played pretty poorly. And that creates an unexpected opportunity for the Beavs. They look like a top half team. Competitive in losses vs very good teams and soundly beating teams below them.

    • I just signed up for a subscription on Roku MW+ and tried to cancel but says I have no active subscriptions. The email I received after signing up said charge was still pending so I’m guessing my subscription won’t show up until that transaction hits my card…..

  13. I’m going to guess the opening line next week will be -3 or -4 in favor of the Beavs. Kind of a benefit playing at some altitude this week. Won’t be as a shock next week even with CSU much higher. Weather looks to be nice too.

  14. So glad to not be forced to watch multiple games on the MW+ network. Only plus was the ability to show up nlate and fast forward through commercials and half time. But I’ll take a real time USA or CW broadcast over that any day.

    Boring game for the most part. Hope it’s not a sign of playing down to the competition and more just a sign of keeping things simple and saving some creativity for conference play. Refs seemed a little trigger happy on some penalties. The face mask wasn’t a facemask. Was nice to see Atkinson remain upright most of the game. Need to keep him healthy.
    Legree makes the game look easy. Defense played well

    • Legree still got his even with a game plan supposedly designed to stop him. He also seemed to be doing a lot of chirping at miner players, first I’ve seen him do that… Hard to know if that was provoked though or not

  15. Olsen post game mentions not liking being taken down by one guy once tonight; working to be harder to drop than that.
    Did BIG JIM say Olsen was targeted 5 times and made 5 catches?….seems about right.

  16. Quarter of the season done, time for a re evaluation,

    I thought it was going to be a pretty rough road this year with question marks everywhere and didn’t seem like a whole lot of answers. Glad to see I was wrong. A winning season appears to be the minimum expectation now.

    Nearly everyone on the team has exceeded expectations. The coaches have made the biggest difference. Guys are completely bought in.

    Other than the Boise St game, Beavs should be favored in the rest of the games. Will have tough road games but this team has shown, they show up.

  17. UTEP head coach Scotty Walden:

    “When you play three Power 4 schools… we’re going to play good teams in the Mountain West but it will be slower than what we’ve seen in these three games. But we have to play better ultimately.”

    Beavs are back, baby

  18. Speaking of “defensive pride”, who here can forget the 3-0 win over Pitt in the Sun Bowl? I believe we could have played 8 quarters against the Panthers and still shut them out!

    • Speaking of early line, notice odds on Beavs winning the PAC12 championship have drifted from +1500 to +1000 and now stand at +650. Vegas is noticing and now has Boise State as the only team more likely to win the PAC.

      • I won’t be surprised if the Beavers win in Boise…they need to improve, no doubt, but I like their motivation, expectations of self (e.g. Olsen comment about getting taken down by a single tackler being unacceptable), and staff’s abilities to improve them.

        It was good to see them getting TFLs. They should have, but they actually did and that’s encouraging.

  19. A couple questions for those here who do detailed research:
    1-didn’t see much of Aiden Sullivan last night, eight Beavs had more tackle stats. Question is, did he play significantly less snaps than usual?
    2-isn’t it time to get some snaps for a back up center in case Wells isn’t eligible for the last few games? Question is, has anyone taken snaps at C other than Wells?

  20. After four games and, unfortunately, given how weak most of the P-12 has looked so far, I will now be seriously disappointed if the Beavs don’t finish at least second or third with an 8-4 regular season record.

  21. 3* , 6′ 185 lb QB Zeke Thomas from Willamette High committed to OSU class of 2028. Formerly committed to Boise State, Thomas will play both football and baseball for the Beavers. 60 TDs 10 INTs in his FR and SO seasons…

  22. “Our guys respect the game,” Lanning said

    Throwing the ball 4 times on your final drive up 77 points. Scoring a TD on 1st and goal with 30 seconds left when you should have taken a knee.

    Something about glass houses comes to mind coach.

    • Yeah in the context of USC celebrating the hit etc.
      He asserts that his guys respect game and would never do such a thing….honestly when do the Ducks not celebrate anything and everything they do as a program?

      On the human side of it, I agree with Lanning and could appreciate the brotherhood of the team in the moment when they had a teammate knocked out. But when it comes to Lanning climbing a hill for moral high ground, I laugh and mock it. The NikeU program has forfeited any rights to moral high ground in such matters. They long ago sold the proverbial program soul for attention, favor, wins, publicity & will likely use this as another opportunity for emotional manipulation in the goal for wider appeal.
      I have no sympathy for Lanning’s stance in that presser. May just be my Beaver goggles speaking.

  23. Did anybody attend the watch party in Portland at Pioneer Square yesterday?
    It looks like some group of protestors and “Patriots” decided to stage a protest of sorts in the area prior to the game. Curious if anybody showed up for the OSU event?

    https://x.com/BreakingXAlerts/status/2103937197879747024

    Btw, for anybody who seeing these things from a distance, these groups are organized by people who mysteriously speak both English and Russian fluently. Just like you’d expect from your everyday American Patriots.

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