AT TEN AFTER TEN

Congratulations to my #10 Oregon Ducks, who this weekend fought their way back into the top ten in the all-powerful AP poll (well, all powerful until it's BCS time). My hat's off to backup quarterbacks Dennis Dixon and Brady Leaf, who traded series and and traded touchdown passes. And to Jordan Kent, the school's first 3-sport athlete in some time, who caught his first TD on Saturday. (He was already a hero for freeing up a scholarship to let us pick up a great JC transfer in Churchill Odia.)

If I have one complaint about that game, it's that while it was a very good game, it really shouldn't have been. The Ducks are now 9-1, and the Cougars haven't beaten a Pac-10 team this season. Yeah, yeah, so they've got one of the country's best running backs; there is no reason that game had to be won by a single field goal.

But hey, at least I'm happier with the Ducks than I am with the Redskins.

UPDATE — Jeez, how could I forget to mention the fact that Joey started again yesterday (only on account of Jeff Garcia being injured), and what's more, threw 3 touchdowns and zero picks in a game the Lions actually won? Well, now I've remembered. Well done. Here's hoping you get a few more chances, and manage to start over somewhere else.

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posted by WWB at 12:59 PM |