This game was close to the “ah ha” moment you’d expect from a growing offense. Things still aren’t tight, but they’re getting better, and you could see plays clicking better.

Nothing specifically stood out to me. The defense was bend but don’t break with some help from the awful QB play of San Jose, Collins was his usual self running like a deer and passing like…a beaver (?..even the TD was ugly). Woods ran for almost 9ypc, which should quiet those who wanted Chris Brown to start. Woods ran for 6+ ypc last year, so this isn’t a fluke. He’s slow and downhill, but he gets it done mostly. He’s not the most consistent guy, so have Brown ready for when Woods is off. Brown is a good prospect, but he needs to toughen up and work on his vision..goes down too easily, too.

Special teams was once again awful, with a fumbled punt and two missed FGs.

Paul Lucas was a no show again. Ryan Nall a no show. I continue to be disappointed with how that’s being handled.

Overall the game was a step in the right direction. It should get the anti-GA guys off the ledge for a week.

Stanford is a team that could injure and/or intercept Collins. While they aren’t exactly fast, they’re bigger than OSU and usually in the right place on D. I don’t think the Beavs can keep running the offense through Collins as they begin Pac play. 115 yards rushing and 135 yards passing…that isn’t going to happen versus good opponents, as we saw vs Michigan, so the passing game needs to step up. My biggest concern is the passing game. Beavs have playmakers at WR, but the QB is missing them too often (52% tonight, which is about 15% below where an efficient QB needs to be). The yards per completion are abysmal, too (5.4 per attempt).

Overall this game went about as I expected. It was a decent mid level opponent, which is exactly what the Beavs needed.

I’m lowering my call to 27-14 after speaking with the source in the thread below. Hopefully a win solves any problems that do exist.

Go Beavs.

The following is an excerpt between an inside source and I. Combine this with GA saying some players need to grow up (we have to assume that was Bright O, but who else?), and Storm not starting the game (possibly an injury, but he didn’t look injured). Then there’s the issue of possible locker room divide over the QB situation and locker room issues over moving players around so much — I’ve never seen so many players moving positions — and GA shunning a pampered media used to Father Riley.

Anyway, read below and decide for yourself. I sense something negative brewing, but wins fix negative vibes, and the Beavs should be able to eek out a win. I am definitely lowering my expectation (score prediction), though, as this seems like a divided team with some conflict brewing.

Source:

This has been a really weird week at practice.

First, there was zero energy or I should say very low energy for only being the third week of the season. It had a final week of the season after a blowout loss with no bowl game on the horizon kind of feel to it. Seth is even mentioning that he only needs to bring energy on the field.

Then players were dodging the media like crazy, saying they have to run to the weight room and that they will be right back, then never coming back out for interviews. It’s a big shift from previous week. I don’t know if this is because of what the media members who haven’t bothered to show up to anything all season wrote after the Michigan game or what.

The offense is still looking like a mess the past two days, Seth is short-hopping screen passes to receivers and Marcus looks rattled. Honestly, dating back to last week Mitchell has looked the best. If I’m the coaches I give him a couple series against SJSU, the quarterback play has been so poor up to this point, why not see what he can do in a game? Probably won’t see him, but I would give him a chance.

Angry:

That is crazy, but not totally unexpected — after week 1 I wrote something like the rush of hiring GA is now over and fans and players have to deal with actual results now. The players in the preseason were talking about adding on all this weight and muscle and talking like they were all world. I bet the kick in the nads at Michigan, and the return to reality, is hard to deal with.

Players will work hard for a taskmaster type coach when they see results, but it becomes harder when they work their tails off then get beaten that badly. It’s going to be harder for them to “respect the process” when it nets a beat down. It’s possible they’re still jet lagged from that trip, too.

Source:

There is definitely that feeling that the “honeymoon phase” is starting to end. Which is a good thing, it was never going to last forever especially during a rebuilding year.

Good call on the jet lag, everyone who made that trip has been complaining about being not up to speed quite yet. That is an excellent point. Maybe I’m just overreacting a bit on this, maybe not, we will find out on Saturday. Just an odd week.

For those who follow the Twitter feed, this is no surprise, but the Beavs have two 4-stars coming in this weekend.

Christian Wallace and Shurod Thompson, along with some other athletes.

The idea to draw comics is ingenious. I’m not sure if this is an OSU thing, but if it is they deserve a lot of credit.

Unlike a lot of Beav fans, I’m not flinching after last week — still love GA and think he’ll do great things over time. This season will be up and down, and I expect to see things click on offense as we move along.

Andersen said San Jose State runs a pro offense, wants to pound the ball, had has a lot of trick plays. I’ll take his word, because I could only make it through 5 minutes of their game last week. What I saw: QB threw a lot of balls in the flat, hit one nice TE seam route, their offensive line looks undersized. I didn’t watch any defense. I know some guys here watched that game, so chime in with a scouting report.

This has the potential to be a huge turning point for the Beavs QB situation. Weber State meant very little except getting nerves out, MI was a test and wake-up call, and what they need right now is a soft D1 team — a team better than Weber State but (much) worse than Michigan, and that’s what they get. The schedule actually worked out well here.

Beavs just need to take care of their own issues. Clean up special teams (a lot of that was nerves) and get into a grove on offense. I feel like they’ve been experimenting with personnel and play calling just to see who can do what in games. Beavs have depth problems and will be taking off some redshirts this week, too. Aydon is going to play, and my guess is that’s because San Jose runs a pro offense and GA wants to run some 4-3 (people in another thread suggested he only runs 3-4, but he said early on they’d do both). Versus Michigan they didn’t have the bodies to run much 4-3 but Aydon should help (he looks raw on film, but hopefully he’s been coached up. Fun with cliches!). So, I expect to see some defensive experimentation now that GA knows pro offenses with physical players will run all over the Beavs. He’s going to try to plug those holes with what he has (desperately need to get more big bodies in this program). He’s taking off redshirts is for San Jose State but probably with Stanford in mind the following week. It’s smart to get Aydon and any other big body some work this week.

Everyone is chalking this one up as a win, which is never a good thing, but after that loss to Michigan I think these will be some peeved Beavs.

38-13, good guys