David Marsh

I think we have seen the extent of what Moore is capable of I hate to say. He doesn't read the field in real time. He was rushing throws when the offensive line was giving him plenty of time and he was fleeing the pocket when he still had time. He also held onto the ball too long and got sacked. Which I would say wasn't entirely his fault because the offensive line isn't great but most of those sacks looked like coverage sacks if I recall correctly... Which I might not as I watched the game on multiple devices and had to work pretty hard to keep watching the game. This just looked like Moore at his worse last year and even last game. I haven't seen the growth I was expecting from him. Nix and Gabriel were amazing at improv and reading the field in real time. Moore does not seem to do that.

I'm HOPING it stays on Disney+ and I don't have to scramble and find a way to watch it. I'm still watching football on the cheap and avoiding subscribing to something until I need to. Today the game is supposed to be on ESPN and Disney+ (which we have because of the children) and hoping it stays that way.

I saw a statistical breakdown of Mestermaker that basically showed how bad he was under pressure. And the result was.... Really really bad under pressure. If the defensive line can get consistent push it's not going to be pretty for him.

I'm always too optimistic in my score predictions. Which is why I'm pretty much always wrong.

It's football eve! Here are just a few thoughts I have for the game tomorrow. Final Thoughts and Prediction for Oregon vs Oklahoma StateAs we gear up for another game tomorrow here are some of my final thoughts and things I’m looking for in tomorrow’s game.

Game 1 turned out to be a no risk game... So didn't see the youngsters and newcomers so much. Hoping to see them this week against Ok State.

Getting Bair involved will be big in this as he has the height and jumps to win most of those 50-50 balls. Getting Johnson down the field as well will help with a lot of these too. And Harrison! the dude is like 6'7'' and could absolutely win most of those 50-50 balls.

I don't bet ... and I wouldn't bet on the Ducks because Dan Lanning does not give a crap about the spread. He only cares about the win. I think here even if the Ducks did blow out the Broncos and the reserves did get some play, Boise State probably would have back-door covered anyways. Lanning would have seen he had the game under control and was giving his reserves valuable reps. Betting on a Lanning team to cover the spread is a risky proposition.

A lot of this comes down to using a strong run game to set up the vertical passing game. The Davison is a beast an averaged close to 6 yards per carry last year. First down run the ball for 6 makes second and 4. Taking a deep shot and a higher risk play on second down is now less risky because 3rd and 4 isn't bad. Obviously the better first down goes the more options open up. Gotta get this run game rolling too... but strangely the vertical passing game can open up the run as defenses have to decide where to place their safeties.

They are an extension of the run game. Getting a player into space with the ball in their hands. It worked fantastic for Chip and company but defenses have know how to defend in space and if they can tackle in space then it's easy to slow down an offense.. It also felt like there were some missed blocking assignments on the perimeter on Saturday as well. Lock down those assignments and I think they work better. But open up the vert passing game and the defense can't play so close to the line of scrimmage. I'm not advocating getting rid of short passes because sometimes getting small chunks is all you can get... But those vertical passes were deadly and we need to see more of them.

I agree.

Happy Labor Day Monday, Lots has already been discussed about the BSU game but I do believe this will be the x-factor the Ducks will need to take advantage of this season. The Ducks Need to Unleash the Vertical Passing GameOregon survived Boise State a team that seems to bring out the worst in the Ducks.

Probably sorted out against BSU on the field in reality. But the other side of things too comes down to how else Michigan performs. If Michigan is good, they'll look at that loss and ignore it due to the ref interference. If Michigan is awful then they still ignore the loss but it was a close game against a bad P2 team. Either way I think everyone of substance ignores that loss and counts it as a win for them but the context of what Michigan is will depend if that helps or hurts them.

Both have been coordinators before coming to Oregon and both we Co-coordinators previous years. Play calling needed fine tuning and it got better over the game. Offense needs to just line up and punch a lesser roster in the mouth, the offense was vanilla outside of the questionable 4th down calls and the double pass that almost worked. I think a portion of the offensive frustration were the underneath passes but frankly BSU liked to pressure at the LoS... The vertical game they didn't have much of an answer for besides PI and hoping for a misthrown ball. Defense felt less like a play calling issue and more of playing undisciplined. Coaches will be hammering this into the heads of these players for the rest of the season. Two touchdown were the result of Oregon penalties that kept the BSU offense on the field. That's still coaching but not play calling. I hope we'll see a cleaner game out of the Ducks and better play calling in the next two games.

If the civil war was yesterday we would have flattened them. Instead we played the Scrap-12 champs. Good to know WSU and OSU built a conference that they aren't competing for the top spot.