Toss up. Did you watch the game at Palo Alto, despite the late comeback, they were dominated.
I've seen much better examples of domination other than that game BTD.
What I mean by that was a very "dominating" (if you will) offensive line
manhandle a small set of defensemen... which has been discussed plenty
in here. We hope that the piece I posted about Oregon's lines bulking up
en mass over the winter sufficiently addressed that issue.
What Stanford's offense pulled off was a pretty decent game of keep-away
so you see how I might not suggest that their own defense was all powerful,
but statistically I have little or nothing to counter with since it was a bad wheel
that put a cramp into Mariota's game, something no one expected to see... but
I had to replay the game since you brought it up.
After watching the game, I must say that was one hell of a time for Mariota's
knee brace to make its TV debut. Only then did the school reveal that their
star QB had been wearing a knee brace for the entire game. I knew nothing
about it -- certainly no more than anyone else. However I did happen to
notice that Marcus happened to be throwing off his back foot much more
than I had seen him do before, and he was consistently throwing high to his
receivers downfield. Not that I wish to belabor the point, but Mariota's own
difficulties do seem to knock some of the starch out of Stanford's defensive
game that day. In essence I guess you could say dominating, and you could
also say dominating. FWIW.
Just for a joke, what do you think of this game result being referred to as a
"toss-up" since I used the phrase to my homer-like dismay? There are many
ways to look at a "toss-up" when one is describing both a game and its outcome.
Do you know that the game ended with Oregon scoring 3 TD's in the final quarter,
2 of them in the last 3 or 4 minutes?
They kicked 3 on-sides kicks -- they missed the first but got the 2nd, then the Ducks
missed the last of their 3 on sides kicks. All 3 were fielded by a WR receiver that played
for Stanford named Jeff Trojan. After the 2nd of 3 onsides kicks, it all came down to
Trojan making a good catch on his 3rd try off the high bounce. In other words, maybe
a type of toss up??? That one didn't work for the Ducks.
With 2 minutes remaining, Stanford's offense had no problem running out the clock.
Actually there were 3 tossups. One was successfully retrieved by stanford. The second
by the Oregon Ducks, and the game decider, the 3rd of 3 was successfully caught by
Jeff Trojan, thus deciding the game by a single tossup.
(How terrible was that?)
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