OSU Beaver Football Blog

Saturday, November 14, 2009

Beavers crush UW

Canfield proved he is the best Pac-10 QB at this point in the season. Stats don't lie. His consistency is awesome. His lack of INT's is unreal. I am psyched to see a kid improve at the college game, it's a good sign for pro scouts too.

The OSU D is playing like a unit for a change. Kids are maturing.

Quizz proved he is either #1 or #2 to Gerhart. James is also underrated.

Cal's QB sucks. But luckily they beat Arizona. Thus helping the Beav's Pac-10 championship hopes.

USC got whupped by Stanford today. Stanford posted 55 at SC. The most ever by an SC opponent. If Harbaugh had problems recruiting before, he has no excuse going forward.

The Beavers can make things interesting with 2 more wins.

Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Robinson is the man

Highly Touted Point Guard Ahmad Starks Signs with Men's Hoops

What is Important Now

WIN.

The most important thing for the Beavers to think about is winning. Winning every down. Every quarter. Every half. The Beavers have a chance to really shake up the Pac-10 this year. Most scenarios work towards USC's favor. Oh well. I'd rather have Cal, Stanford, USC, or Arizona win the Pac-10 if OSU can't.

This week is huge for the Beav's. Washington is a threat, but should lose to the Beavers.

Quizz Rogers is damn good. Here is some love from his coach-

"I would push 'Quizz for any honor you guys want to talk about," exclaimed Riley. "I think he's as good a football player as there is around. Right now, he's the third-leading rusher by a fraction to Gerhart and LaJames at Oregon, and he's the second-leading receiver in the conference and I think he's third in all-purpose yards in the conference. He's even thrown a touchdown pass now, so he's our MVP for sure, along with, I'd go with his brother. They can tie, you know. We've got some real exciting players." (source: Rivals)

I think Canfield deserves some luv. That dude is having a great senior year.

Saturday, November 07, 2009

Canfield=MVP

(AP Photo/Ben Margot)

Or Joe Halahuni, Mr. Clutch....

The Beavers went to Berkeley and beat the hell out of the Bears 31-14.

OSU played physical defense to set the tone, and the offense executed thanks to Sean Canfield's senior leadership. His one INT was at the 1 yard line of Cal. He is playing great football. Smart and efficient. Quizz and James were productive as usual, but Sean is leading and producing the way a senior QB should and it's making a huge difference. He was 29-39, for 342 yds, 2 TD's, 1 INT. Sean is going to be either 1st or 2nd team All-Pac-10 this year. Maybe national honors too if he keeps this up.

This is a team sport and others add major value. OSU's defense played out of their mind tonight. Good to see an improvement in a critical game. They only gave up 239 yards for the entire game. Impressive.

Jahvid Best's concussion was truly frightening. I thought he had a pinched nerve or worse. His arms looked stiff after he landed, like rigomortous had set in and he was convulsing.

The Beavers brought a ton of heat on defense, I don't think there were many sacks or TFL, but they swarmed all night. They hit Cal right in the face. Repeatedly.

The Beavers are now 6-3, bowl eligible again!

Saturday, October 31, 2009

Beaver's Offense delivers at the end

(AP Photo/Greg Wahl-Stephens)

If you have any doubts that Sean Canfield has matured into a great QB, you are nuts. With 2 minutes left he directed a drive to win the game against UCLA. His game tight.

The Beavers won 26-19.

The Rogers brothers are unreal. They are all about production and consistency. Mike Riley (and all us Beaver fans) are lucky to to have these kids.

If it wasn't for OSU's offense, our team would be 1-7. Maybe.

The defense is lacking "star" players, and by stars I don't mean Deion Sanders, I mean playmakers. Don't get me wrong the defense made some plays, but for the most part they were took to the cleaners. Giving up 4th quarter points is a deadly sin for any defense.

I think youth is the biggest problem on defense. Kristick is a knucklehead and he is a team captain.

Honorable mention kudo's-

Justin Kahut- he can kick the long balls easy, short ones are still an issue

Hekker is crushing it.

Kavanaugh is finally returning some punts.

The O-Line did not make any catastrophic mistakes.

Adenji is still making catches every week.

TE's produced 1 TD for the second week in a row.

Team Stats
	UCLA	ORST
First Downs	20	23
Third Down Efficiency	5-15	2-11
Fourth Down Efficiency	1-1	0-0
Plays-Net Yards	63-374	70-463
Rushes-Yds	29-51	35-144
Passing Yds	323	319
Kick Return Yds	114	90
Punt Return Yds	5	32
Passes	22-34-0	26-35-0
Punts	7-260	4-178
Fumbles-Lost	4-0	0-0
Penalties-Yds	2-11	10-78
Time of Poss.	28:3	31:57

Monday, October 26, 2009

The Beavers are predictable

Everyone expected the Beav's to lose, but they kept it interesting....

The Beav's played a great game Saturday night. They could have won, which is amazing in it's own right.

Canfield delivered a winnable performance.

The Defense clearly did not step up. Our whole d-team is suspect. Plays where made, plays where blown.

The referee's called a horrible game. I hate to blame ref's for the outcome of a game, because I think players make plays. Besides Kristick's calls, everything else was total BS. The Pac-10 must have the worst referee's in the nation. It sucks when the ref's materially impact a game. OSU is not the only team to suffer from the ref's incompetence.

From a Pac-10 perspective, it hurts our rep when the ref's suck this bad

More links to how bad the ref's sucked:

Cliff Kirpatrick

Angry Beaver

Thursday, October 22, 2009

21 point underdogs

Vegas has put the right spread on this game. Either the Beavers will keep it close or lose by 3 TD's minimum.

The Beav's haven't won in LA since 1960. A 30 year record went down against ASU this year, maybe the Beavers can pull off another miracle.....by beating the spread!!!

I hope the Beavers win, but the odds are definitely against them.