Washington Waddler

Chesney and his tag-a-long group of coaches/players probably have some extra incentive, but we’ve already once seen his playbook and inclinations full bore. So, as long as Dan has now got our defense’s full attention and can keep it, we match up pretty good.

We had The Toilet Bowl in ‘83. Maybe this will be The Troylet Bowl for two very deserving programs.

Agree, for the most part. Installing a playbook is only the first stage, and they probably did an okay job of that, individually. Where I see the OC, DC inexperience affecting performance is in what must accompany the X’s & O’s: teaching how to communicate the playbook between one another which is what leads to the kind of confidence that breeds quick play evaluation and execution. Talented coordinators - which we have - must still learn how to make their plans work correctly between 11 individuals. That takes time and experience. When you have the potential, there’s always the chance to get it right.

Riley would not be the first head coach to exhibit an imbalance between his focus on the X’s & O’s, and governing team conduct and behavior. I’d guess the majority of HC’s would fall in that category (on one side or the other), because the few great ones excel at both. If Dan can stomach him, being focused on the X’s & O’s is what a coordinator is primarily about. The other way around makes you mostly a good dorm mother.

Oregon has quietly gained a reputation among players as place to go to rehab a downwardly spiraling career into a new and successful one. Bo Nix, Dante Moore and Dylan Raiola are pretty good examples. If players can check-in to the Duck recovery center, why not coaches?

If it appears that the recruiting needle is dipping into the red, you can bet Riley will soon be gone and a new hire in place before any ink can dry on signing day. The same old classic salvage story. AD’s know which side of the bread the butter goes on, and the need to appear “reborn” in the eyes of recruits.

David, you made an interesting comparison between the known time Stephens will be away from the game, and the unknown duration for Dante. If the punishment were to fit the crime, shouldn’t the perp’s time away not be measured in games, but by the time lost to the injured player?

Excellent! And change the name to the Quackoliseum

Even though the gates are closed, it’s still nice to know that they’d not all be Trojan Horses.

Very visual using all the neon detail. Preferred they’d waited for a night game to trot it out.

Mike, couldn’t activate link from this end.

Might send them a Duck feather duster since all those vote-by-mail-popularity-contest national championship trophies are getting dustier by the year.

The USC team rejection - from players through head coach - of taking responsibility at the time for what happened to Dante Moore clearly reveals the level of desperation they have now arrived at to win. They are willing to now celebrate (players) or ignore (coaches) endangering behavior by their own in order to maintain game time momentum, no matter the cost to an opposing player, or their own reputation. To acknowledge their egregious behavior a day later is just crocodile tears. That’s a program that has lost its way.

Going to be a very interesting Homecoming game.

Don’t know if anyone in the upper echelon of Nike’s administration has anywhere near the engrained connection to UO that Knight has, so I just hope his leadership has embedded in the company’s DNA the desire to continue what he and Penny have started. What an amazing pair.

That makes sense to me. If the edges can create more pressure with the occasional linebacker through the middle, it should force quicker reads allowing the safeties to adjust close and run a cover 4.

Have often thought that the song cycling through the minds of all those Duck haters when they’re forced to think about us must be Hall & Oates’ ‘Rich Girl’. Our road is no longer an easy one, and our days of sneaking up on anyone seem pretty much over. We’ve just got to make up our minds that there’s no way to get there but the hard way, and then do it. That’s the only way they’re ever going to respect us. Wrong sport, but these lines from, ‘A League of Their Own’ kind of capture what’s behind that attitude: “ — Jimmy Dugan: Baseball is what gets inside you. It’s what lights you up, you can’t deny that. “ — Dottie Hinson: It just got too hard. “ — Jimmy Dugan: It’s suppose to be hard!! If it wasn’t hard, everyone would do it. The hard . . . Is what makes it great.”

My bad! Getting too many threads for my humble abilities, like kitten with a ball of yarn

I humbly suggest you take a look at last year’s games against Penn State and Iowa. I agree wholeheartedly with your comment. I did not and would not post what you attributed to me.

USC represents a ‘must rise to the occasion’ opportunity for the D line. What they experienced against both Boise State and OSU are eye openers to what they should expect in spades from a much improved Maiava and a notch higher cast of characters. Maybe the time has come to see what happens when the hounds are unleashed?

Boise State has provoked a number of miracles out of us.

It often seems like 1st quarters are defined by underdog teams taking the initiative (the idea being they have nothing to lose), and the favored team playing a waiting game of absorbing their best shots while zeroing in on match-up weaknesses. As David points out, being the favored team and playing like it are two different things.

Who determines the criteria for what is a ‘legitimate’ NIL deal? And, is this definition in anyway under scrutiny by the DC poles? Maybe that’s why car-parking Rebel football team members were referred to as Ocean’s 11?

The term I heard and saw written more often than any other to describe Oregon’s mental state was ‘sleepwalking’. It must have been in the air because I remember thinking the same thing.

Too many variables to call it one way or the other. I had a guy standing next to me at the Boise St game who correctly called a fair number of plays based on our formations. Even though Boise was usually on it, our success rate was still around 50% on the ones he called. You could say it doesn’t matter how easily we’re read so long as we execute our plays. On the other hand, it doesn’t make it any easier to execute if we’re being read that often.