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Here we are Beavos, another year wiser and another year balder.

Kickoff to the new season is at 1pm.

I’m going to wait until after this game (should be more like a scrimmage, but Riley will find a way to make it close) to give predictions on the season. Gun to my head right now I’d say Beavs finish 7-5, but teams never win the games they should, and the Beavs are especially bad at it. What they have going for them is an easy schedule, so 7-5 should be the low barometer. I don’t see a magical season here, but we’ll wait until after tomorrow before making big picture calls.

With regard to the Portland State game, what I want to see is if (a) the Beavs can get a big lead and then (b) if Riley will pull the starters and give the backups some valuable experience. If he doesn’t, we’re stuck with the same old dumbo Riley. Other than that, this game isn’t very interesting.

Go Beavs

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  1. Haven’t heard anyone guess we go all orange with white lids tomorrow. Would be a pretty kickass look. Feeling more and more like white-orange-white with maybe orange socks. #WhatBeaversWear

  2. 64 degrees and 43% chance of rain at kickoff. Bring your poncho and 3 extra layers if you’re a Willamette Valley hot cocoa girl.

  3. PBH is back and raring to get this season started! A three week trip to Europe was extended due to an emergency surgery and getting cleared to travel. Arrived home yesterday, so now it’s 4:00 AM and I’m looking for some lunch.

    The next time your right-wing brother in-law tells you that he doesn’t want “no commie medical care here in the good old USA” have him call me. French hospital, emergency room, surgery, three nights, post-op visits…out of pocket $203.85. They tell me that my US insurance might even pick that up.

    I’m way too lazy to go back over 100’s of posts. So what did I miss? Did any O-lineman survive fall camp? Who is the backup to Mannion? Is Will’s dad happy with his role? How many pissing matches did Jack get into? Has BDC emerged from his bunker after the testosterone surge of firing CR? Can’t wait to get caught up! JB

    PS: Hope I can stay up for the 10:00 PM kickoff.

    PPS: Anyone planning on European travel toss it out. Would be glad to share ideas.

    • Thanks for the info on the the Frenchy health care system! It’s comforting to know that when the Algerians riot and burn down the Paris suburbs every year, they won’t have a copayment for their ER visit after getting tear gassed. It’s hard to hit a Gendarme in the face with a rock or Molotov cocktail with a bad rotator cuff, so hopefully the physical therapy is paid for by the taxpayers also.

      • No. They want a name, DOB and some sort of ID. Admission took five minutes. Didn’t have to fill out a mountain of forms or meet with any business office personnel. They are more interested in getting you better than collecting money and avoiding a lawsuit.

        It was truly unbelievable when it can take you five hours to get three stitches here in the US. Of course I gave them pettibonehead. Are you suggesting that some people on this website use nom de plumes? JB

        • Oh, I wrote “petite” bonehead, like a French version. It was a joke attempt…

          I’m living the medical nightmare you describe, so this French system does sound pretty good.

          • Sorry missed it..one of those words you read by sight. Believe it would be “au petitebonehead” technically.

            Sorry trapped in the system. The insurance companies have us so screwed up it’s beyond belief. Up here, in Oregon, an insurance company, Moda, paid millions to rename the Trailblazers Arena. How many claims did they have to reject to come up with that much spare cash? JB

            PS: OH well… will bury myself for the rest of the day in the real world of college football.

  4. With the start of a new season, CraigBeav has sleepily emerged from his long beaver hibernation. It’s 9AM here on the gulf coat, got a nice thunderstorm rolling over, I just ate a shit-load of bacon, and I just cracked a 9% orange / coriander belgian I brewed specifically for gamedays.

    My pre-season expectation: 14-0 with a national championship and an absolute crushing of the ducks in the civil war along the way, of course.

    GO BEAVS!!!!!!!!!!

  5. Shit, my previous exuberant enthusiasm not withstanding, the vegas spread for us today is -32.5. I ain’t touching that with 100′ pole.

  6. Refreshing to not have BDC walk us out in the same tbing every week and be able to predict it with complete certainty. Could be 100° in August and BDC would go all black.

    Massari night and day and actually speaks well and has charm. Promote this guy to AD when Bob’s contract expires. Don’t extend BDC. We have had enough extensions. Massari is the total package and should be the face of OSU Athletics soon and not in 6 years or something. 2+ years will be hard enough to wait.

  7. OK faggots, time to get yo ass kicked again by a lower division team. Coach Burton got dem wolves ready to pounce! It ain’t gonna be pretty and Mannion gonna look OK but yall gots no depth on dat squad, and ain’t nuttin yo boy Riley can do bout it. It’s gonna be another Sac St, Eastern Wash kinda party today chumps!

  8. Ucla are a bunch of chunk blowin’ peeshwanks and it’s damn wet and sticky in the swamp. Come on Beavs win a game for the ol’ saloppe. I’m out.
    – from the swamp.

  9. Yall stay on dat Mr Rogers mediocre grind doe huh? Wit dem ugly ass halloween colors too?! C’Mon mane! Dats some funny ass real comedy shit right thurrrr

  10. Almost kickoff time! My favorite time of the year! Thanks angry for keeping this great site going. Enjoy your grits, Belgian beers, coors, bacon, brass monkeys, and the sorrow of going bald. Let’s enjoy being undefeated while we can. Fuck Oregon, fuck the Taliban, and go Beavs!

  11. Garret’s attention to detail really paying off on that first series…my god. Parker tried to attribute it to “stage fright or nerves.” Really? Against PSU? At home? With a senior QB.

    Riley is so lame.

    • He is about what I would expect from a D2 QB in the first game of the year.

      The EWU QB last year played out of his mind. I don’t remember a single pass that wasn’t perfectly accurate…and I don’t remember a drop either. OSU’s D was horrible obviously, but their offense played absolutely mistake free. And that’s rare on any level, let alone D2.

      • That’s true, but this guy isn’t throwing the ball within 5 yards or WRs. I can see not throwing guys open or hitting guys in stride, but this is ridiculous.

  12. And here comes the PSU “wildcard” QB to light things up haha.

    New season, same script. No challenge of an obvious blown call, get lit up by a nobody QB.

  13. PSU’s defense is often rushing 4 and dropping 7 back. So when the announcers talk about how nice of a pocket the OLine is creating…they outnumber the opponent.

    It’s also possibly why the WRs are having trouble getting open.

  14. I’m looking forward to the Tinkle era more than CR. CR was a banker at heart, and we all know bankers want the most money for the least amount of work. This is their nature.

  15. I was cycling around town this morning (like Riley!) and caught a pee-wee football game. They played with more discipline than the Beavers. 9 penalties. Zero discipline, zero control, just mayhem and poor coaching.

  16. Dear god. Another running QB TD. And another huge fuckup by the defense, could have gotten off the field but Murphy supposedly held(nobody could see on those shitty replays). He and Wynn are supposed to be vets, wtf.

    This is a 5 win team. At best.

  17. Can we OFFICIALLY be done with Riley if we LOSE a 3rd straight cupcake game to a frickin’ FCS opponent. NOWHERE is this even close to tolerated. Beyond bad. Riley doesn’t have the mustard to take us beyond 6-6 and another unearned extension. Put this dog down now!

  18. And our DLine has gotten little pressure and no sacks so far. AKA not a strength of the team.

    AND ANOTHER QB RUN. FUCK YOU BANKER.

  19. Terrible clock management. Garrett fail here. They lost 26 sec on the first play on the short pass and then on a first down play it took them 10 sec to get the play off.

  20. Riley really knows how to get his teams ready to start the season. One of the tangible benefits of having a experienced HC!

  21. After 14 years it is time to admit the Riley experiment won’t take us any further. Let’s cut bait next week if we lose and go with an interim. Otherwise if we win but don’t make a bowl do it after the season and pick the best of what’s available. Plenty of coaches like Tinkle know yiu can recruit tk Corvallis with the right attitude and energy. Riley has neither.

  22. First half takeaways, none too good:
    -still can’t manage the clock
    -still talking about running the ball and not doing it
    -still cannot seem to focus and play with discipline
    -Garrett effect a disappointment so far
    -Perry the only coach in skybox? I still want Locey up there as well.

    Now, a chance for Riley to show how he can motivate this team, Ron Callan (sp) says he has rarely seen Riley this pissed…….yeah, that’l be worth a lot!!

    Oh yeah, still cannot handle a running QB!

    • Nothing will change. EVER. None of this “this is a chance for Riley to do xyz”…he is what he is, and we all know it now. There’s no way to spin it, hope he changes, etc. This is what we’re stuck with because of a bad AD who signs bad contracts, and a fanbase that is insecure and accepts this is the best they can do. When people talk about the guy changing it pisses me off a bit. Sorry oldbeav, but you’re probably like 90 by now, and if you want to see greatness drop that teachable talk and lay it out the way it is. The coach is very flawed and is never changing. End of story.

  23. Why in HELL is Riley so freakin STUPID, BRAINDEAD, etc…..on game management????????

    Is he on a tranquilizer or something? There has to be something going on with him. A 6 yr old could do better. This is unbelievable.

    And of course, his teams are never ready to play in game one…. How is he rated as a good coach? Is this some kind of bad joke by analysists or other coaches?

  24. As others have said, Garrett is likely calling the offense. So blame him for play calling and time management.

    On a non-athletic side, I love these ads for Oregon State that either show no classrooms, or only engineering building rooms. I was a philosophy major, and basically all of my classrooms were trash.

  25. First half was about what I thought, penalties, dropped balls, missed assignments. They should tighten it up this half and pull away.
    However, what I didn’t expect was that Senior laden, strength of the team defense to not have improves from last season. They need to put up a shutout in the second half or it might be another L.

  26. Are you sure it wasn’t a horse shitting on a treadmill? I’m listening on the radio because I don’t have P-12 network. Good God, Beavs are going to be the joke of college football on Week 1 once again?

  27. Seems like the beavers are playing a video game… Where as they have no clue what they are doing and they have the difficulty settings way too high for them.

    I mean if we lose to another FCS team I can’t support this team this season nor ones in the future.

  28. Get in the red zone, throw 12 times. Get in the red zone, throw 12 times. Get in the red zone…

    This is why every receiver is double covered.

  29. Once again, announcers blasting Riley for abandoning the run.

    Riley had a play card in his hand there too. He is probably over riding Garrett in the red zone.

  30. The field is condensed so let’s throw the ball into the end zone three straight times. Nice confidence in the run game and offensive line. If Garrett is calling the plays, Riley must have brainwashed him before the game.

  31. And no criticism by Parker or Wilson of the play calling…..they are instead babbling about how many starters are playing on the kick off team.

  32. Parker is saying that Riley was “visibily upset” going into the locker room at halftime……I guess he must have shouted “dadgummit”.

  33. 11th penalty of the game negates the 5 yd first down play and they can’t get the 3rd down play off and have to burn a time out.

  34. I’ve been impressed with Strong today. Defense has played pretty well except for those 3 big QB runs. And the penalties of course.

  35. Strong takes very good pursuit angles and has nice tackling form.

    First clean screen in about an hour, TD Storm Woods.

    The Doctor has a huge play there, that RB just pooped himself when he saw 2 LBs in his face.

  36. PureOrange board looking very similar to this board right now. Never thought that would happen. Now if #GoBeavs Twitter would clue in…

  37. Hopefully we look back at this game and say “We sucked the first half, but fixed it in the second.”

    That happens sometimes.

  38. Is it possible to just give the ball to Woods or Ward three times and perhaps they might be able to gain 10 yards? Am I just insane to want to see that on occassion? Riley is like an impatient 4 year old who wants dessert before dinner.

  39. Well, at least the Viks are self-destructing. At least the Beavs aren’t Iowa St…..they got pounded by North Dakota St. 34-14. 5th straight win over FBS opponents.

  40. Why does PSU have better DEs than the Beavs?

    Also, Riley abandons run and lets PSU back in it by force-feeding the passing game. So lame.

  41. Holy shit man! Every fcs team is going to come in here thinking they have a shot. They will be paying OSU to come play at Reser!

  42. The tackles are a huge concern. Isaac may need to play there when he gets back. Receivers have looked better running the routes back to the qb to get open. Mannion with nervous feet because of the tackles.

  43. Do we take any solace in the fact that it should have been a 30 or 40 point win based on the stats and hope that the staff can clean things up?

  44. So what is the single season record for field goals?

    My guess is OSU will set that record this season.

    Drive to the red zone. Shit the bed. Kick field goal.

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