The Ducks go down. When you dress like Gumbi you start thinking like Gumbi.

The Ducks coug'd it.. at home

Furd DBs pretty impressive in OT.

Ahahahahahaaa!

Costello looks like Pawlawski

I like how the Duck fans are still booing 5 minutes later.

The Ducks will be emotionally deflated for the next week and they will be listless next Saturday.

I'm looking for a Cal win.

Well Stanford losing looks good for my law school (Notre Dame) if they beat them next week.

Oregon will be flat next week, play clean football and we will roll.

Why do you give the ball to a freshman RB to run out the clock? At least tell him to kneel. What a dumb coach.

They need to get a life or go to track town pizza and get drunk.

Herbert s completion rate was insane in regulation but pathetic in OT.

Bear_Territory said:

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Well Stanford losing looks good for my law school (Notre Dame) if they beat them next week.

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Ugh.

That was an arod at sc type of performance. Just couldn't get it done in the end

I like our chances next week, even though we also make penalties like Oregon instead of being all perfect and smart like furd.

ducky23 said:

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That was an arod at sc type of performance. Just couldn't get it done in the end

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We call that Tedfording it.

I didn't see the second half - how did the time of possession go? Is Oregon going to be worn out?

I think we match up better against furd than against OR, furd doesn't have the explosive offense and by the time we play them Garbers will be better.

I'm hoping furd figured something out defensively in the 2H that deruyter can replicate

ducky23 said:

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I'm hoping furd figured something out defensively in the 2H that deruyter can replicate

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Don't give their WRs 15yrd cushions

Furd linebackers were horrible in coverage.

How the hell furd stayed in that game is a mystery to me...What makes FB fun.....Like a soccer game you lose 0-1 when you have dominated the whole game....Strange....

OdontoBear66 said:

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How the hell furd stayed in that game is a mystery to me...What makes FB fun.....Like a soccer game you lose 0-1 when you have dominated the whole game....Strange....

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Ducks literally gave that W away. Two huge turnovers

I really hope furd's fans have the same look on their faces on Nov 17 in our visitors' section as the Oregon crowd did tonight!

Yeah I hope he's super mad!

A shockingly many of you don't seem to appreciate the reality of the Letdown Game effect (which bit Tedford's teams many a time on the ***). It would have been better for the Bears next weekend for the quackies to win today; letdown/complacency/overconfidence after the euphoria of beating the #7 team. No way they come out flat after a loss this early in the season; to soon to give up their chance to win the North. Much more likely they'd come out "flat" if they won.

At any rate, OU's Run D is solid, but Pass D looks very vulnerable. Garbers or McIl has the opportunity to shine effulgently but will still need to be his sharpest ever through the air for the Bears to score the 30+ pts to outscore the quackies' all-around talented Offense. Will one of them rise to the occasion?

Pac-12 season so far tells me that anyone is beatable, and also there are not many pushovers. Cal has a shot.

Nasal Mucus Goldenbear said:

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A shockingly many of you don't seem to appreciate the reality of the Letdown Game effect (which bit Tedford's teams many a time on the ***). It would have been better for the Bears next weekend for the quackies to win today; letdown/complacency/overconfidence after the euphoria of beating the #7 team. No way they come out flat after a loss this early in the season; to soon to give up their chance to win the North. Much more likely they'd come out "flat" if they won.

At any rate, OU's Run D is solid, but Pass D looks very vulnerable. Garbers or McIl has the opportunity to shine effulgently but will still need to be his sharpest ever through the air for the Bears to score the 30+ pts to outscore the quackies' all-around talented Offense. Will one of them rise to the occasion?

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Our secondary is going to have to prove themselves against a real opponent.

Nasal Mucus Goldenbear said:

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A shockingly many of you don't seem to appreciate the reality of the Letdown Game effect (which bit Tedford's teams many a time on the ***). It would have been better for the Bears next weekend for the quackies to win today; letdown/complacency/overconfidence after the euphoria of beating the #7 team. No way they come out flat after a loss this early in the season; to soon to give up their chance to win the North. Much more likely they'd come out "flat" if they won.

At any rate, OU's Run D is solid, but Pass D looks very vulnerable. Garbers or McIl has the opportunity to shine effulgently but will still need to be his sharpest ever through the air for the Bears to score the 30+ pts to outscore the quackies' all-around talented Offense. Will one of them rise to the occasion?

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Agreed it would have been better if Oregon won in overtime and partied like rock stars this week. Also because screw Stanford.

I have to admit, I had to look up what effulgently means.

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NeverOddOrEven said:

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The explanation in my head is the pylon is where the goal line meets the sideline. If the ball touches it, it is simultaneously at the goal line and sideline, which by rule is a touchdown, perhaps?

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Sure, that makes sense, the problem is, the pylon is raising the plane of the ground in this ruling. You're allowed to be out of bounds for example when catching a ball, as long as the first foot hits the ground in-bounds. When the Oregon player hit the pylon, he still shouldn't have been considered out of bounds until his left foot landed.

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OK, I found the answers in the rule book:

RULE 2
Definitions

SECTION 12. Lines
Goal Lines
ARTICLE 2. The goal line at each end of the field of play runs between the
sidelines and is part of the vertical plane that separates the end zone from
the field of play. This plane extends between and includes the pylons. The
two goal lines are 100 yards apart. The entire goal line is in the end zone.

SECTION 31. Field Areas

End Zone
ARTICLE 3. a. The end zone at each end of the field is the rectangle
defined by the goal line, sidelines and end line.
b. The goal line and goal line pylons are in the end zone.


RULE 4
Ball in Play, Dead Ball, Out of Bounds

SECTION 2. Out of Bounds
Player Out of Bounds
ARTICLE 1. a. A player is out of bounds when any part of his person
touches anything, other than another player or game official, on or outside
a boundary line (Rule 2-27-15) (A.R. 4-2-1-I and II).
b. An out-of-bounds player who becomes airborne remains out of bounds
until he touches the ground in bounds without simultaneously being
out of bounds.
c. A player who touches a pylon is out of bounds.


So I guess if you touch the ball to the pylon, you have reached the end zone, but if you touch any part of your body on the pylon before the ball crosses the goal line, you are out of bounds.

OneKeg said:

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I have to admit, I had to look up what effulgently means.

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Effulgence is a great word! I found out recently from reading through a fun appendix in The Oxford American Writer's Thesaurus (3rd ed.) that Effulgence, Refulgence, and Fulgence can be used interchangeably with only slight connotative variation.

Nasal Mucus Goldenbear said:

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A shockingly many of you don't seem to appreciate the reality of the Letdown Game effect (which bit Tedford's teams many a time on the ***). It would have been better for the Bears next weekend for the quackies to win today; letdown/complacency/overconfidence after the euphoria of beating the #7 team. No way they come out flat after a loss this early in the season; to soon to give up their chance to win the North. Much more likely they'd come out "flat" if they won.

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Unless....Oregon isn't as good as advertised, and this game makes them realize it and starts the tailspin. It seems like the same thing has been happening to USC after they lost to furd, and has happened to countless teams.

Gotta keep the faith! We can do this on Saturday.

At first I thought the rule still didn't make sense since you could hit the pylon and not put your foot down out of bounds, but I guess the thinking is the pylon could prevent the foot from touching, so rather than have the argument about whether the pylon did or did not hold the foot off the turf they took the easy route.

nwbear84 said:

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At first I thought the rule still didn't make sense since you could hit the pylon and not put your foot down out of bounds, but I guess the thinking is the pylon could prevent the foot from touching, so rather than have the argument about whether the pylon did or did not hold the foot off the turf they took the easy route.

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It's simple. The pylon is where the goal line meets the side line. When you touch the ball to the pylon, you are touching the goal line with the ball, therefore touchdown. When you touch your body to the pylon, you are touching the side line (and the goal line, which doesn't matter), therefore the ball is dead at that point.