Oh what a day

Well, what can we say...the hope of a Beavers Rose Bowl Bid was crushed with the Civil war tonight, and folks it was not pretty.

We will get the that here in a bit, but first we must recap the weekend in sports so far.

Thursday I think I called most of the games pretty well, but to be honest I was very surprised not only by the play of the Eagle on Thursday night, but I was also impressed at how well Brian Westbrook played. I have never really given Westbrook the benefit of the doubt that he is one of the top players in the NFL, but he once again stepped up and not only helped his team in a game that they had to win, but help his QB get out of a funk which was making him one of the common targets of the Philly Boo Birds, but then again these people booed McNabb on Draft day when he was taken over Ricky Williams in the draft...then again who has had a better career so far...and then again Philly did Boo Santa.

I was luck enough to not have to watch the slaughtering that was layed on my Seahawks. It is hard to think that just three years ago the Seahawks were a couple of dropped passes, and crappy officating away from being the Super Bowl Champions, but now, now they are back to being a laughing stock, a team that is just an old shell of what they used to be, I feel like we are back in the Kingdome getting bowled over by Bo Jackson. Was losing Steve Hutchinson really the biggest blow to the Seahawks? Is Matt Hassleback out of the skills he needs to make it as a top QB in the NFC? Was the draft picks we sent to New England for Dieon Branch really a smart idea? we are not the team that went to the Super Bowl after the 2005 season. Seattle has a lot of work to rebuild on next season, but we do we need to make a better team next season, is Jim Mora the coach that we want, or is he going to pull a Nick Saban and jump ship to UW? we will get to that at another time.

Thanksgiving Night was able to attend my first Nuggets game at the Pepsi Center, and people, let me tell you, The Pepsi center is a great place to watch a game, and the show that is done for the game is top notch, and the Nuggets are doing pretty well to boot. Plan on a Nuggets focused Blog tomorrow.

Well I think it's time to face reality and spill out what happend to my Beavers, it was not pretty, and it was a sad way to end a season that was pointed in the right direction for a little while.

Oregon crushed Oregon State 65-38, setting a team record for most yards in a single game, 694, and Oregon State allowed the most points in a single game, folks, it was not pretty and not even close. The Beavers defense was over matched most of the game allowing Oregon to rush for 385 yards, and allowing Jeremiah Johnson to rush for 202 yards in the first half of the game alone. Why I have never really been a huge fan of the spread option offense--I'm more old school when it comes to offense, and more modern in my defensive philosopy--but Chip Kelly may have found the QB he needs to run that offense at Oregon in Jeremiah Masoli. Oregon State was playing with out Pac-10 leading rusher Jaquizz Rodgers, and in the second half older brother James went down as well. The Beavers did have a big game from QB Lyle Moevao, but is was well noticed that they need the Rodgers brothers to be the same team they were in the middle part of the season.

With the loss it leaves the Pac-10 bowl picture looking like this:

USC with play in the Rose Bowl against Penn State. Am I the only one who is tired of seeing USC in the Rose Bowl? I understand that they are the best team in the Pac-10, but I'm really tired of seeing Crimson and gold in the Rose Bowl what seems to be every New Years day playing a Big Ten team that was good on paper, and everyone says is the team to the bet and one of the top teams, and then just gets crushed by the Torjans.

Oregon, with it's win over OSU, will take second in the Pac-10, and will play the number three team from the the Big XII, and I don't even want get started on that conference yet, in the Holiday Bowl. Ducks have been to the Holiday bowl a number of times, last time in 2005 when they were crushed byt Oklahoma...it could be a rematch this season.

Oregon State witll go on to play in the Sun Bowl, again, against at Big XII team, possibly Mizzou...again, just like two years ago.

It was a rough loss for the Beavers, but it was a great season, and we have some things to work on, but things are looking up, not bad for a team picked to finish 5th in the Pac-10.