Jon Joseph

You have a game manger QB who managed the game beautifully into the 4th Q. So, when you are ahead by 2 TDs and you have run well, you have shut down a rushing team's rush attack, why ask the guy to start throwing the ball? No comprende?

I am a 12-1 optimist who is often on the verge of ostracism for offering objections of the O and mariO. I'll see all of you pessimists in the Orange Bowl.

Excellent win on the road against a motivated Bruins team. Lee Corso. Puddles has changed phone #s and you ain't getting the new one! That was a fowl move to break up with Puddles on TV! I thought the policy was not to hurt any animal in the delivery of a media production? And to do it in front of one of the world's biggest gossips, Bill Walton? Just you wait Lee until the Ducks go 12-1 and Puddles refuses to speak to you before the Orange Bowl kicks off! Great recap Charles. The passing attack was opened up and Brown took advantage of a suspect UCLA secondary. Picking nits but it would be SO NICE if AB could toss an accurate deep ball? Mr. T led by example and the entire D stepped up. Of course it can never be easy with this team, right? The late TOs took us fans right down to UCLA's ultimate possession. What else did you expect? Next Saturday, please have CU fans ralphing from start to finish! Buff up the resume with a style-points win and not a cardiac arrest win. Give an old man a break!

Remind me? What's Chip's record at UCLA/? The Ducks won because the D saved the day. This game should not have been close.

WIN! And go 12-1 and win the B1G.

Chicken? YES! Unis? How about NO. Charles, we need a prediction contest: How many 1 score games will we watch this season?

Is this team destined? 3 TOs in the 2nd half. 2 Ints by your 'safety-valve' QB in the 4th Q? And you win on the road? No, I am not a fan of the where were you when the stuff hit the fan unis! Brown is worth aa half bottle of Mylanta every game. Half bottle of scotch for the late kick offs.

All evening long putting on your best moves before you know whether you going to score; or, lose by a score? And to the guy who used to live next door? DOCTOR? Where are my heart meds! Take THAT Lee Corso. Puddles may be a tough date but you never, ever dump her. 12-1? Not a fowl call, eh? Always Say Dye! First 8 carries, 4 TDs.

NEVER A DOUBT! ALWAYS SAY DYE! MR T - ABC may put you on Mute _ But not the Bruins O line.

Guest Picker today is not Judge Judy. It's UCLA grad Bill 'Conference of Champions' Walton. Show will definitely go over its allotted time. Impressive turn out by UCLA fans at 6 in the morning. UCLA last defeated a ranked opponent in LA 14 years ago. The opponent? The Ducks. Oh no!

Dawg gone it! UW wins the 2nd half 21-3 and comes back for a great win that had all of college football mesmerized, er, asleep. Arizona cements its 130 ranking.

Have fun DR and great story Charles. I have a feeling that there will be many the available seat today?

Thank you Mr. FD. This play sure seemed to work for Oklahoma in the 2nd half against Texas and vs TCU? Probably matters whether Jimmy or Joe is playing QB? Hope Forsyth being back will help both the run and pass game today?

Thank you Doctor! Another think on the line today? If the Ducks win CU KO is 3:30 Pacific; take the L, KO is at 7 Pacific. Win the Dye!

Which begs the issue. Where is the learning from the mistakes? Is doing he same thing over and over again 'learning?'

And then the real draft happens and these guys never measure reality versus their predictions. Hell of a job! Bernie Madoff did this and went to prison.

Nothin is more tenuous than a lead at half time,. Seal the deal, Go 7-0 to finish the season and show up in the playoff semi and the trophy is Mario's?

In other news? 2 great takes that express the current divide. The 2 headlines perfectly express the disjointedness today among us Oregon fans. Bill Parcells: Your record is what you are. OK Bill, the record id 5-1 with a W on the road against the now #5 ranked team in the USA. Come the end of the 2021 season? Bill's take applies 100% to Mario and every coach in the business. Scoreboard is for winners. Excuses? Injuries, youth of team, Mario needs time to learn as a head coach, there is parity in the conference, the refs suck? Absolutely irrelevant.

Is Andy Staples of The Athletic allowed to participate? In an article today up on TA discussing Oregon at the midway point of the season, Andy predicts that the Ducks will finish 12-1. So, I have Andy going for me, which is nice.

A few thoughts, not mine, on this excellent take of yours. "Set the highest example. Remember, no one ever did anything absolutely right. Perfection is impossible, but striving for perfection is not." Dick Couch - The Warrior Elite. "Only those who will RISK going too far can possibly find out how far one can go." TS Eliot My thought - I don't see how losing to the best opponent on the schedule could possibly be a good thing? If the Ducks was 5-1 with a loss at Ohio State, Oregon is not ranked in the top 10.

Mr. FishDuck, please, say it ain't so? A 2 TD loss to the Chippers? (Unfortunately, off the record, I 'GET' the pick!) OREGON MIGHTY DUCKS - 30 - 24, 3, 2, 190. Lot's of bending, not much breaking. Mr.T creates havoc. DTR turns the ball over and this leads to Ducks scores. Cam Lewis keeps on keeping on. Always say Dye! After choosing unwisely, Lee Corso, the Guest Picker (Judge Judy?) and the rest of the Game Day crew are righteously forced to hitch hike to LAX, with Desmond carrying Puddles on his back!

What a great comment. But I don't get this 'learning his craft' take when it comes to Mario? Mario has been a HC for well over 70 football games. Marion studied under the maestro of CFB coaching. He is not going to change his coaching methodology. He is not going to change from playing O in a phone booth. He is not all of a sudden going to coach up talented recruits. But 5-1 speaks for itself. If he wins the conference as he should with this roster and shows up for the bowl game, who cares what I think?

As David notes in his excellent article we see the same stuff out of Cristobal game after game. The team is rarely shows up ready to play. The in-game coaching doesn't improve. The same system is run on O with little or no change. And of course when you recruit well and the team is not playing well fans are going to question what appear to be puzzling decisions regarding the personnel on the field. I don't see Chip Kelly within a million miles of THIS. The fans weren't 'spoiled' by Kelly. Kelly had Oregon playing at a level the investment in facilities warranted. He allowed his DC to run the D. He had a staff of outstanding assistant coaches. Why should Oregon fans accept less, especially in this conference, then titles every season and trips to the playoff? Mario's product on the field represents perfectly the manner in which Mario wants to play football. If the fans don't like it, too bad. If the roster rarely plays up to its talent well, a W is a W. A guy he coached for was winning championships. Saban saw that the system-as-was would not win additional championships and changed. After Oregon defeated Ohio State Ryan Day demoted his DC, changed the system on D and made significant changes in the starting personnel. Oklahoma was being run off the field by Texas and Lincoln Riley pulled his putative Heisman winner, put in a true frosh at QB and won the game. THIS is what is called, Coaching. Oregon's last 3 opponents were Arizona, at Stanford and CAL. Ole Miss' last 3 opponents were at Alabama, Arkansas and at Tennessee. It's minor league ball versus the Majors and the Ducks can't close out a game before the bottom of the ninth. I have zero patience left for Mario, ZERO. Bringing talent into any organization is meaningless if there is inadequate leadership at the top. Yet, because I an a Ducks fan and I do respect Mario as a human being I want him to go 12-1, make the final 4 and show up in the semifinal playoff game. However, with its roster advantage, if Oregon does not win the conference in 2021, Mario should be on the hot seat. And if the Ducks do not win the conference in 2022 he should be gone. This would be what would happen in the SEC. Of course Mario is more locked into his job after he went 4-3 and the AD rewarded him with a big raise accompanied by a $9M buy out. For those who believe Mario to be a hot coaching commodity. That was once the case. Now?

Signing Days are Christmas Day and then the toys don't work? Proper assembly is not attained. The children cry and ask, "Why?'

Where's the love for Bowdoin College? No prima donna recruits. Recruits play more like Donna. No guys headed to the portal. Super seniors are already in medical, business or law school? NIL? Free pair of LL Bean Waders for every guy on the team. Every so often the fans in the stands outnumber the number of stray dogs on the field. However, except for New Year's Day, the per capita attendance likely equals that in the Rose Bowl for Bruins games? Cool Mascot? How about them Polar Bears! APR? Absolutely no worries. More guys in the lab than on the practice field. And the head coach doesn't need an agent or a financial advisor. He only needs a spouse who keeps a weather eye on those lobster purchases.