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Fans expressed their displeasure at Oregon coaches at halftime. Oregon Ducks On SIDan Lanning Addresses Fans Booing During Oregon's Win Ove...The Oregon Ducks (3-2 overall, 2-1 Big Ten) pulled off a tight 17-14 win against the Nebraska Cornhuskers in front of their fans at Autzen Stadium, bouncing bac

Great comment. I always want to write a novel in response. Not this time. You cut to the chase on several topics and issues.

Picking up where Gat's post, immediately above, left off. Five P4 teams are undefeated after Week 7. Three are from the B12, 1 ACC team, and UCLA. UCLA is the only Power 2 team that is undefeated. Using Massey strength of schedule (SOS), current and future. There are 68 Power 4 teams, including Notre Dame. Strength of Record (SOR) rankings use ESPN's FPI rankings. 4-2 Oregon - 16 to date/ 20 remaining - SOR 29 6-0 No. 1 Miami - 65/ 57 - SOR No. 5 The Canes have one Top 25 win vs. 17 Wake Forest. No. 4 Notre Dame is the only ranked team left to play; November 7th in South Bend. 6-0 No. 2 BYU - 22/ 31 - SOR No. 1 BYU has two Top 25 wins: 25 Arizona and No. 4 Notre Dame, both in Provo. A much tougher schedule than Miami's, now and in the remaining six games. 6-0 No. 8 Texas Tech - 71/ 57 - SOR No. 8 One Top 25 win against 14 Houston in Lubbock. No. 25 Arizona is the only remaining Top 25 team on the Red Raiders' schedule; Lubbock on 10/31. 6-0 No. 9 UCLA - 31/ 52 - SOR No. 3 No wins against the Top 25. No. 16 USC in the final game of the season in Pasadena is the only Top 25 team the Bruins have left to play. Bob Chesney coming to UCLA from James Madison and a lightweight schedule is eerily reminiscent of Curt Cignetti's first season at Indiana in 2024. 6-0 No. 10 Utah - 61/ 50 - SOR 13 No Top 25 wins to date. This Saturday, 14 Houston visits with College GameDay going from Provo in Week 7 to Salt Lake City in Week 8. The Utes play No. 2 BYU at home on November 7th and No. 25 Arizona in Tucson the following week. --- Four two-loss teams are ranked in the latest AP Poll: No. 13 5-2 Alabama; No. 18 5-2 LSU; No. 20 5-2 Florida; No. 22 5-2 Missouri. No two-loss team from outside the SEC is ranked. AP Poll rankings are an art and not a science, with many pollsters painting with an SEC-centric brush. Based on its 10-2 out-of-conference record against Power 4 opponents, the SEC does deserve a fair amount of love. However, nine SEC teams ranked in the Top 25 is over the top. 5-2 Oklahoma State was ranked No. 18, lost on the road to No. 14 Houston by three points, and is no longer ranked. This kind of stuff is male bovine excrement, and why Tony Petitti insists on a 16-team playoff with eight play-in games. Blast Bret Bielema. Make his Illini ILL!

You and me both. My response wasn't directed at you per se (or simply a response to your analysis). As I have said before-you see the game in slow motion-better than most of us. Let me expand on why I believe the scheme is the issue: the install for this defense allows for some flexibility that fits the unit, its components, and the talent within the unit. But there's more, it also is flexible enough as a base to provide a multitude of looks and strategies. I didn't believe that myself until I looked into it. You specifically mention Koi has a terrible sense of pursuing the ball at the proper angle. It seriously nullifies his speed. I believe you said that is a coaching issue (more like a damn malfunction if you ask me). While scheme has nothing to do with that, the flexibility within the scheme allows for it to a degree. Koi is too fast to bench. So what can be done to exploit his talent? That is the question. I finally got to see highlights of the Georgia at Bama game. Let me tell you, Kirby Smart realizes he has to modify the Mint-because I saw variations to it-including putting 5 guys at the Line of Scrimmage. I am seeing it a bit with Lanning. But I haven't had the time to really get into it. But my study has led me to the conclusion the install is flexible enough to throw teams off because they wouldn't be able scout tendencies as much. Again, this game is far more complex that we hacks have time or expertise to judge. This year more than ever, I have been humbled because I have discovered Lanning and his staff ARE on this and think about our concerns far more than we grasp. I think Duck Nation is convulsing over the dramatic difference in performance than we expected. And I am being kind when I say that (that I will actually address because I am starting to get annoyed with our fellow fans).

The current negative vibe will do one of two things, it will make the coaches/players turn on each other, or they will come together and become stronger as a unit. If they become stronger, it will become a turning point for all involved, especially for DL. If they turn on each other, personnel changes will be necessary. The coaching profession is based upon winning. I don’t ever want to see a win at all costs environment at Oregon. Firing someone is an easy option, but in this profession, if you don’t replace them with someone who has immediate success( not so easy ), you can create a downward spiral. I still believe.

The Toilet Bowl 0-0 tie from the Brooks era comes to mind...

I am aware that our receivers and starting qb and an offensive lineman are hurt. This is real. We overcame that last game despite a very poor qb outing for 3 quarters. It's nice to see we have another quality running back. The defense, is looking much better against the run and pressuring qb The offensive Line is obviously an issue. Correctable, maybe? I have hope. Not confidence, but hope! Go Ducks.. All games are winnable, keep winning we are favored in all... but of course Ohio State who looks beatable..

Nebraska Game Report Card. https://duckswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/college/ducks/football/2026/10/18/oregon-football-week-7-report-card-middling-grades/92312243007/

Good point, Charles! Our information is just conjecture blended into existence by what we see. Then crafted to fit our personal conclusions. Those conclusions are part of the foundation for this great Forum. We all can see the very same game and have hundreds of view points and opinions. It makes for great threads! Case in point...... I was unable to watch the game live. I followed the Forum game thread and it was clear to me that the sky had fallen and the imminent collapse of the Duck football program was upon us. GEEEZ..... I then read the post game comments and the majority of comments, AFTER A BIG WIN, were negative. Which, to me is understandable because of the heat of the moment for this great fan base. So this morning at 4 am I watched the game. My view point and take away was that there was way more positive than negative. So I watched the game again. Sure love fast forward and rewind. Again, you could see positive improvements in many areas for our Ducks. I could create pages of positives but do not have the energy or stamina to do that. So here are a few. O Line play in the first half and thru out the game was improved. More room for improvement, though! The play calls were solid and diverse, with a few new plays. The only reason the Ducks didn't march down the field and score was because BT missed too many wide open receivers. Repeatedly! DL and the OC created plays that BT could execute. It was a good game plan. For the most part, BT had time to throw, he was just off and didnt settle down. He had time because the line blocked. IMHO, Brock is not terrible, nor does he suck. He had a bad game. He is a walkon! The run blocking was improved but there were too many missed assignments by the Ducks. If that improves each week then more points will show up on the scoreboard. Also as,I mentioned , BT is a walk on QB! He is not 5☆ BN with 60 plus starts. Or 5☆DG with 60 plus starts. Nor is he 5☆DM who will mostvlikely be a first round draft pick.All 3 could read the D and audible out. The Ducks O Line played well enough to be up by 17 at the half. BT did not execute and JD supposedly fumbled inside the 10. That is what kept points off the board. Also, consider all the receivers and RB's were true freshmen or sophmores. DS and JM were not out there to help BT. The Cornhuskers could double DM and the Ducks TE. But again, the plays were there, BT just couldnt execute. It happens! Just ask Texas, Georgia, Bama, ND and Mizzou. The Ducks should have scored 14 points, not 6 in the 3rd quarter. The D was was exceptional. Nebraska had 2, that's right, 2 sustained drives the entire game. One ending with a very generous, officiated assisted TD. This team gave IU everything they could handle. They could do nothing against the Duck D. The D has improved every game since the OSU embarrassment. What more are we expecting from them. In the last 4 games the Ducks have given up 58 points. Like 14.5 points per game. And Bear had his best game as a Duck.... Thankfully, DL pulled BT and brought in DR. For the 2nd time this season, DR came off the bench to lead the Ducks to victory. The same plays that BT could not execute thru 3 quarters were there for DR. He executed them and pulled out the win. It was a team win. For the 3rd game in a row the Ducks, as a team, dominated the 4th quarter. They won 2 out of 3 of those games. There are certainly things to criticize about this team. But they are improving, a little each week. I think it's fair, as fans to criticize everything. Negative is easy to find and point out. And i agree that the Ducks have alot to improve on. But this Duck fan feels it is fair to point out the improvement this week. Remember, the Bruins, a top 10 team needed 7 turnovers and a bad coaching decision to beat the Ducks by 2 points. Looking foward to more improvement this week and a close, hard fought win against Illinois. Go Ducks.....

I’d agree. There are too many parts of the strategy puzzle we just don’t know being taken into consideration by Lanning and those people whose opinions he trusts. Case in point would be when Dan decided to replace Brock with Dylan. There were people in caves in Siberia screaming for Brock’s head by the 2nd quarter. But DL waited, and guess what? It was the right moment to make the change. Plain and simple: we don’t know what goes into deciding upon a coach’s fate, let alone when to switch quarterbacks in a game.

I haven't rewatched the game. but from memory the O line unit that was in in the 4th played about the best they have all year. I do believe that Tofi was a part of that group. Hopefully they have found a combo that works going forward. Get Donte back and who knows. Everyone is losing in the cfb this year. If Oregon can make the post season, win or lose, it is a massive success. If that happens, nobody gets fired imo.

Yeah man!

Rhule didn't account for our speed on kick coverage. Low hang time on kickoffs or punts is irrelevant with our speed. Bair can legitimately almost outrun the ball in the air.

Illinois defense is 92nd and they have a new freshman QB who could be lights out, but he's never thrown against our level of DBs before. I also think we may have somewhat turned a corner on the OL with Tofi at LG. The line seems fine with a high uncertainty band on the QB for both sides LOL.

Evan Stewart is of age and is pretty slight and lean. 1 beer could be enough to trip the legal limit. Just need to wait for more facts. If he was out driving plowed and all over the road that's one thing, but if he was pulled over for speeding or some other minor infraction, and secondarily breathalyzed as barely over the limit when he didn't think he was, that would be very different, even though the law doesn't distinguish. Judge and coaches should handle them very differently. If we do get Evan back after his injury heals, I'm not sure Lott will give him the position back.

There is no way we are playing like the 41st best defense right now. We played Nebraska way better than Indiana who is at 10. And has Michigan played anybody with a real offense yet? It's still early in the season, there will be outliers based on competition.

I am not saying he shouldn't, but I was pondering if he did not replace them at the end of the season....why wouldn't he? We have not seen any practices or meetings, thus we know nothing about what the truth is--we are all just shooting-from-the-hip our impressions. Now, that is fine because that is what a forum is for, but virtually all our opinions are based on speculation, not what we have seen, heard or felt from exchanges with the players behind the scenes. For the OC, it is easy to state the truth--that the absence of decent run-blocking destroys all the plays, no matter what is called. Without proper time to throw...none of the passing plays can work. And since he is new at this OC role at Oregon, perhaps Lanning will let him work his way into the role as the blocking improves? For the O-Line Coach: considering all the accolades he and his players have received--I don't think he forgot it all overnight. Add to this that Mike Cavanagh is back as an advisor/analyst, and he is an excellent O-Line coach who made the JacQuizz brothers a ton of yardage for the Beavers when he was there. The amount of expertise is more than enough, so I've concluded that the problem is way too many inexperienced players. The only experienced offensive linemen is iluli and Poncho, and the rest have hardly had any. This game showed some improvement, and I would assume that would continue through next year....thus no changes? One Duck fan I know believes that Mehringer has lost the room, and the reason for the poor play at times. If this is true--Lanning would know it, and act upon it later. What if we are all operating from a massive lack of information--that Lanning has--and we're wrong? Like you, I want to see the ship righted again.... No. 77 is a freshman, (Tommy Tofi) but a big one!

Oregon WR Messiah Hampton responds to the false allegations about him: “Crazy how far a random lie and rumor can go we don’t trip tho we been through adversity are whole life we take the good with bad the pretty with the ugly and most importantly we know God will never leave you nor forsake you, Keep the faith youngin God got you”

Probably not a good time for Dante to be missing the last two weeks. Total defense rank this week, yes - Oregon opponent: 4-Michigan - yes 8-Ohio St - yes 10-Indiana 11-Nebraska - yes 17-Wisconsin 18-Minnesota 20-UCLA - yes 22-Iowa 31-Penn St 41-Oregon 48-Washington - yes 56-Mich State - yes 63-USC - yes 73-Ok State - yes 83-Maryland 84-Northwestern - yes 86-Boise St - yes 92-Illinois - yes 113-Rutgers 117--Purdue

Well, you can't confirm everything until everything comes to light, but my best effort to find more mud to sling yielded these results: Rumors are "unfounded": The Springfield Police Department explicitly stated that online rumors regarding Oregon football players street racing are completely baseless. No other arrests: No other Oregon players face any legal charges or citations stemming from that night. The only other player directly tied to the incident is wide receiver Dakorien Moore, who was simply the third party that arrived to pick Stewart up from jail following his release. Perhaps a bit more restraint before jumping on the rumor mill. Go Ducks!

I really like Evan Stewart. He always has a great attitude. Always smiling. He made a poor choice. I hope he can learn from it. I don't think he should be destroyed over it. I hope Lanning is firm but fair

Don't normally, but listened to Coach Rhule's Monday press conference. As you might imagine he gets asked a lot of questions on in-game decisions. One of the myriad of decisions questions was returning kickoffs. He talked about hang time, and how pre-game he thought there would be more opportunities in the kickoff return game because Oregon's kicker has shown low hang time which means once the receiver catches the ball there should be more opportunity for better returns. He said basically he has a rule to fair catch when opponent is showing 4 sec. hang time, but Oregon is below that. He talked about why he took timeouts when he did. What they were trying to do on defense....and though lost to both Indiana and Oregon proud of how few points were scored. Other "adjustment" topics were covered. It was interesting stuff. Felt Oregon's 4th Q was more run oriented plays than expected which they were unable to stop 1st downs.

That will be Northwestern's third straight Peacock game.

Well the Nebraska game showed us 3 things: Brock Thomas is a great kid, however, he is not a prime time QB. To echo other comments, the OC is a disaster. And as also reported, the OL is a huge disappointment.

Five players to watch: Freshman QB 6'4" 210#, his first start with a bye week to prepare; RB Laughery, 6.3 YPC WR Dixon, PPF grade 86.9 DE Holmes, PPF 80.1 S Bailey, 6'2" 225, PPF 77.3 Know the Foe: Five Illinois Illini players to know