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Things are looking up at Mountlake, by next spring they should be, once again, preseason favorites. Maybe not predicted to be undefeated, but why not, they do the preseason so well!

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Games like this and teams like the dawgs are the perfect situation to test your emotions. Much like an O-line which has to stay set while craziness happens around it. Offsides kills drives and O-line's have to control that. The big thing I see is, much like an O-line, you have to be in control. The other is it is an opportunity to get the opposing team to lose it. If Pittman or any other player truly wants to win that type of battle, get the penalty on the opposing team. I would think this is coached as kids need to be able to see past their emotions. You're right they will react, if not coached. Kids will go offsides, kids will get PF's called, but the next step is to frustrate the opposing team so much they lose it. That is where Pittman needs to take his focus. I hope and expect he will, I do know it isn't easy, but that is the next level he needs to get too.

But January will be necessary, if we are to win the title, which is vital.

I don't care about the rankings, just win the games. If we end up within the top 10 at the end of the season it has been a success. Right now we are lucky to be where we are, with a chance! I would actually love to see tosu get ranked ahead of us, more fodder for the fire! It is going to take a lot more fire to keep winning, not ranking higher in the short term.

Anthony Brown is who he is, limited passer, but a leader on the team. The players seem to rally around him and respond well to any mistake he makes, along with his weaknesses. The player I am concerned about is Mycah Pittman. Everybody makes mistakes, but selfish penalties where you put your team second can kill a teams energy. Great teams rally around each player and make up for mistakes and weaknesses. They never put themselves first. This is exactly what killed, and will probably continue to kill the sc program. Pittman is only a sophomore, but to me he is becoming a reductive element on the team. We need as many additive players on offense as possible, even if it is just their attitude. Maybe Dye can pull him aside and talk to him. I love his talent, passion, but the guy needs to become a player, that adds to the whole. I look for Mycah to grow going forward. This team is greater than the sum of its parts, a defining component of any great team. We need everyone to continue to make that grow, and can't afford anyone taking away from that dynamic!

The impact of the Dye family continues to grow on the Oregon Football Program. I am not sure there has been a more impactful family on the program. Troy Dye willed us to the Rose Bowl and a win. Travis Dye is the heart and soul of this 2021 team. In the coming years we will talk about that Rose Bowl team and also this years team and the legendary Dye brothers who carried us to great heights. The only question is just how far can this 190lb. running back carry this team? Right now it is limitless with heart this guy is showing!

A focused passion, is the key. We have seen the intensity against tosu, teams from socal, but have often struggled to find the same feeling when playing just another Pac-12 team. Maybe The Ducks are finding their dedication to winning against all teams. While the penalty against Pittman was a selfish and foolish penalty, the rest of the game I saw a team fighting for each other. Maybe the dawgs have awoken a component we need to win it all. Going forward, a team with dedication to winning, and defeating all teams together, will be a hard one to stop, if we can just pass! I will put the lack of passing on the miserable weather. Why would anyone want to go to that school, oh yeah, research. Certainly not to play football!

The Meltdown At Montlake By Jimmy Lake Not quite the pick, nor the end zone lay down, but definitely defines the game. I predicted the dawgs would do something stupid, and we have another stupid coaching move. The lay down was embarrassing, this one goes a bit beyond embarrassing, stay tuned how much beyond. The dawgs seem to always make losing even more entertaining, and for that we are grateful.

Between accusations of having Margaritas for lunch and now alleging better coffee for breakfast, what will the assertions be for my dinner, evening drinking habits be with my Duck postulations? All I know is my cup is always getting filled when it comes to my Ducks! The funny thing is my estimates have been pretty close this year, except the Stanford game, once the refs came into play.

Stanford gave it all against Oregon and Utah will do the same. Expect a similar effort by the dawgs until they get distracted by their tail.

--the winner, OREGON --the score, and the tiebreaker information needed from each of you is...71-20 --the amount of turnovers Oregon creates 3 --the number of sacks Oregon records on the opposing team 5 --the number of passing yards. 250 yds.

You bring up a good topic, which raises a question about their mascot. Should Dub really be Deb? I mean if the women win everything at the University of Washington, it only makes sense.

I get excited when they commit, hopeful when they sign and ecstatic when they see the field. It is truly a process where the Canton's fizzle and the Kingsley leave, while the Walk's, walk-on and become stars. We can hope for the top star ratings, but the stars on the field come from effort and passion, something the camps and pundits, often, can't measure. It really takes getting them on the field, the real field, when the rubber hits the road and to see if they really have talent, and maybe just maybe the ability to lead men on the field. There are so many variables that when a prospect says he is looking elsewhere, oh well, that is part of the process and maybe Kingsley didn't look enough. Maybe we didn't look hard enough at the Canton's. It is a process where boys become men and mens dreams just might come true. Our dreams, though, are just that, dreams of others processes. The real story is the lives and the impacts becoming a Duck and playing on the team have on individuals. The wins and losses matter, but only so much that they are lessons on the way to generate outcomes for creating men of integrity and strength. Long week, have a great Duck Weekend!

Whoops, Rob Mullens made the top ten list, not the list you want to be on.

Walk away with class, dignity and integrity, something the dawg program has little of.

My only story happens just about every day. It use to be when you saw a dawg fan they acted like they owned the sidewalk, the street and half the city they were in. Now you see a dawg fan, and you may not even know they are a dawg fan, just the way I like it.

If there is ever a time to expand it is now with the financial hit the schools have taken with no NCAA basketball tournament and limited football with the pandemic. Money talks and it might happen with this backdrop for the schools with a little broader view than just $$$$$$$'s.

A pay site, I didn't get past Lakes achieved something nobody thought possible, blowing a 4th quarter lead against Montana at home, enough for me to say it is a good article.

Love it, same colored helmet Kenny Wheaton wore. We should always wear something to honor that day when playing the dawgs. In the big loss, we wore blue, never again!

Sounds like a great question, if you don't know the dawgs. Talent and arrogance cancel themselves out.

It is nice to see a kid spiritually connected and making decisions based on his social needs. I also give props to Cristobal for handling this situation with class and grace. I wish him the best, and agree with Jon most of these kids are either reaching out indirectly or directly to check things out. You call an old teammate, friend and see if the program is needing somebody like you to play at the school. They all know each other, been to camps, recruiting visits together. That student athlete then talks to coaches, all indirect, but they all know what is going on. The individuals who just up and leave, may end up school less, but the game with the big names is a pretty easy one to see how it works. I am not insinuating Kingsley did this, but I have no doubt it happens. Seems like a great kid, wish him well. I will also note Kilani is building something special at BYU, and we should all take notice. We will have to take special note next year when we play them the third game of the year, and we could be a bit unsettled after our first couple games with a new qb. Fortunately our O-line should be seasoned by then!

Come on guys that was long ago. The dawgs have moved on from their cheating past, let's all just forget and move along.

Go to this site https://imgflip.com/memesearch?q=dog First bring the picture to your desktop front page. Then go to create and load the picture in the create section. Then make it say what you want or just create your own Meme. You can also just select from the multitude of pictures to keep it simple.

Oh that one, tell me more about the other 11 of the 12 straight! What is exciting for us and scary for the dawgs is the scenario we are most likely seeing unfold tomorrow. It is a confirmation game for the Ducks and the Dawgs. It will confirm the Ducks are entering an elite status, and 3rd straight going onto more, and the dawgs are entering another decade of irrelevance after almost breaking through. The other scenario is the Ducks are still just on the cusp of greatness and the dawgs still almost treading water at mediocrity, but that isn't going to be the outcome, go Ducks!