The Oregon State football team put up a good fight in an ugly contest, and lost to Cincinnati 28-18 on Saturday in Reser Stadium.
Here’s a link to the Beavers Report Card. Here’s a link to the OSU notebook. Here’s a link to my main story, looking at where the team is after this one.
The game was another example of how important RB Jacquizz Rodgers is to the offense. He wasn’t full strength due to an ankle injury, and wasn’t able to grind out the yards.
“It was a little tender,” Rodgers said. “My ankle held up well. I got prepared during the week with treatment to get me prepared.”
OSU used various other methods to move the ball, but with inconsistent results. WR James Rodgers picked up the slack with short passes and the fly sweep.
“We had spurts we could execute,” coach Mike Riley said. “We just had a disastrous second quarter. It came at a horrible time. We had a couple decent drives (in the first quarter) but had six points. That loomed so big. We move the ball and got six points, and they make one play and were ahead.”
Of course that brought up the too much Rodgers brother question again. The Bearcats keyed on Quizz and were ready for James, but he still gained 157 offensive yards.
“That’s probably true in some regard,” Riley said of Cincinnati not worrying about anyone other than the Rodgers brothers. “We have to look at that. We do have guys we should get involved more and should make more plays. I think that will happen. We didn’t take a forward step with some guys tonight. I’ll just say that.”
QB Sean Canfield had an off game. Part of it was the pass rush and part good coverage he couldn’t find anyone open at times.
The overall offense couldn’t punch it into the end zone when it got in close. The blown first-and-goal on the 5-yard line at the beginning of the fourth quarter hurt the Beavers.
“I don’t want to go through that series,” Riley said. “That was horrible. We got beat on penetration inside and lost yardage. We back it up with another play that was a double screen. That fails and we are in a situation where Quizz had to run it and didn’t make it. We kick the field goal, it wasn’t very good.”
The defense did a good job containing the 2-minute drill all game. The pass rush improved. And let’s just say the officials were kind to the Bearcats when it came to their holding of the D-linemen.
Special teams were far better than last week from the kicking game, kick coverage and returns.
Video report
The above video is of the Rodgers brothers with the media after the game. The below video is of CB Tim Clark. The one at the very bottom is of LB Keaton Kristick.
8 comments
angrybeaver says:
Sep 20, 2009
Angry's post game analysis:
http://angrybeavers.wordpress.com/
tommiet says:
Sep 21, 2009
I like reading your stuff, I enjoy differing opinions, but why do you have to throw in the "F" bombs and other profanity? It's just not necessary and really detracts from otherwise interesting writing. Try it without, it'll still be good stuff.
By the way, the Beavs are better than you give them credit for.
angrybeaver says:
Sep 21, 2009
Tommiet, I don't think I do use profanity. If I do it's not often. Just did a search and there is 1 F*** and 1 S***. Both from last night. Hey, I was extra angry after that loss.
I agree it's not a good thing. Kind of like comedians who rely on profanity…it ruins the act.
tradernum1 says:
Sep 20, 2009
Riley seemed checked out (reminiscent of the pre Cougar turnaround) and once again the play calling was awful. From the choice at the PSU game to go all Rodgers instead of working on some other aspects, to playing an injured Lyle at the Sun Bowl, to refuse to go deep with a senior qb with a great arm, Langsdorf has been severely lacking.
It was exasparating to see how confident Cincinatti was, and to see OS again blow an early season game. All these games count, not just the ones when Riley has his team ready later in the year.
beaverteeth says:
Sep 20, 2009
The Beavers looked like the team that traveled across the country and had to deal with the time change and everything else. Cincy was very cool and played well and were the better team in fact they were very good. With three games played in my opinion the beavs will have trouble beating most any of the pac-ten teams maybe with the exception of WSU They are very average on both sides of the line which is where most games are won and lost. I focused allot of my time watching the line play and the beavs offensive line was pushed back numerous times and cincy offensive line pushed our defense line all over the place and it all breaks down from there.
BeaverProj says:
Sep 20, 2009
Wow. Jumping off the bridge already. All I can say is: I'm sorry.
The opposition doesn't agree with you:
“We went down early with that crazy, unbelievable crowd,” Pike said. “Oregon State is a great team – an obvious top-25 team. We were able to go through some tough times and come back out of them.”
saltick says:
Sep 20, 2009
We turn field goals into TDs we win the game! Our safety got beat twice on the same play, before the half how do you let someone get behind you with 36 seconds left?? I agree play calling was poor, going to the Rogers too much. we had a first and goal, Riley admits to that series being poor; what happened to t he tight ends in the red zone series?? Hopefully we can learn from this; be smarter, involve more players, both lines need to keep getting better, we can beat UA and ASU…
beaverteeth says:
Sep 22, 2009
BeaverProj, I am not going to jump off a bridge but Pike is going to say that because it makes their victory seem even bigger and better. Look where the beavers are today AP Poll 32th. Now I am a big fan and Riley has turned thing around before but this team feels different it just seems very average they just lost to many players last year. This team will not be as good as last year this is a rebuilding year I expect next year will be much better even without a senior quarterback. I am with Cliff the Beavs will go either 7-5 or 6-6. I will hope for a better record but I just do not see the Beavs beating Cal ASU UofO UCLA Stanford or USC look at UofW they are no gimmy.