Tag Archives | Justin Roper

Give the reins to Masoli (and I mean it this time!)

Hi, my name is Nick and I’m a fickle fan. Last week, I wanted Darron Thomas to get the keys to the offense. Instead, someone gave the keys to Eddie Pleasant and well, bad idea (no one got seriously hurt, so it’s okay to joke, right?). Earlier in the year, I said let’s go with [...]

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Coach: Darron Thomas is Your Man

Normally, I don’t tell someone how to do their job when I don’t know enough about it to make a qualified judgement. Today, it’s clear to me that Darron Thomas is Oregon’s starting quarterback and Mike Bellotti had better know it. No other quarterback has looked as good as Thomas in a single quarter of [...]

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Easing up on expectations, still predicting an Oregon win

First off, yeah, what you see in the post below is what happens when the FOTB leaves me alone for the weekend. She promises it won’t happen again. Let’s move on, shall we? I took last week off from the cool world of blogging and it’s probably a good thing. If I had managed to [...]

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Pondering the quarterbacks

I watched the Washington game (duh). I was like just about everyone else. More Jeremiah Masoli, more Chris Harper. Roper? Eh, moving on. But wait. Let’s think about this with a little more thought. Why are we all so sure Roper isn’t the guy? He played well enough as a 5th string fill-in to get [...]

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