Desert Duck

Yikes & Ouch. C'mon Duckies... get it all together for a kick butt home stretch.

There are 136 FBS teams in the US. These teams are primarily spread across three time zones, and if you’re still living in the land of denial, wake up… because in regard to CFB, being out on the Left Coast is a big, natural, geographic, disadvantage. We have been living in the Southwest for 15 years now, and I am still shocked at how huge, and even somewhat beloved, the Oregon brand is down here. I travel a few times a year to TX, NM, AZ, UT, NV, & CA, and, for the most part, people either like, or even have a strong affinity, for the Ducks. I come across very few detractors. OregonDucks is spot on about this. In the last 25 years, Oregon football has won a LOT of games. We’ve provided the nation with a lot of highlight reel material. We came oh-so painfully close to winning it all in 2011. Got beaten up in the NCG in 2014. And got clown-stomped again last year by that same evil team when it mattered most (‘they who shall not be named’). We’ve done everything… except that one detail known as winning the entire enchilada. Or, more commonly referred to as The National Championship. Don’t get me wrong… in the eyes of the college football world, we are about as entertaining and fun as it gets. We are exciting to watch, we are extremely competitive, we have one ridiculously loud stadium, great fans, and the best football uniforms in the history of uniforms. Heck, we were even on the cover of Sports Illustrated once, where they said: “Dazzling Ducks… Rich, Cool, & 4-0.” But until we win the NCG, and preferably two, I’m afraid we’re going to have to be satisfied with dazzling, rich, and cool. Until then, to the rest of the nation, we’re primarily going to be that exciting team out there somewhere near the end of the Oregon Trail. However, win it all, and the familiarity will finally follow.

They are using him a decent amount, but we also have so much talent that I think they're 'spreading the love' around. And knowing how long the season is, I'm guessing the coaching staff is also protecting our monster-beast a bit and will use him more down the home stretch.

"Facade" is absolutely the wrong term. Perhaps Tom just needs a dictionary. Facade typically indicates deception, fake, etc. Totally the wrong word in this situation. For one to be in panic mode, would require me to recall what my expectations were for this team at the beginning of the season. I expected us to primarily have a rebuilding season. I felt like a two loss season would be a solid one for us this year. Expectations certainly changed overnight after the Penn State win. And then a week later, reality struck. The talent is there, and, while it will be a huge challenge, I think this team is quite capable of winning out the season. Frankly, I still have no idea how good this team is in regards to the playoffs. We played poorly against Indiana and only lost by 10. That gives me some hope that we can compete with the big boys when the time comes. But, at this point, I'm absolutely not convinced of that. I'm concerned that if we do get into the playoffs, that we will potentially have another beatdown like OSU gave us last year. Finally, with all of that being said, this team has a great opportunity to grow up fast over the next several weeks. Here's to hoping that they do.

Stone cold, my friend. But only because your comment is true. Four weeks ago, I thought we likely had a championship caliber team. But now, as someone else around here said, I can't believe we had to go into double OT to beat PSU. So, if you were to ask me how good I think OBD are, I kind of have no clue. But, my instincts say we might get away with winning the rest of our regular season games. But if that amazingly happens, when the playoffs get here -- at least at this point, I don't think we've got the stuff this year to win against the OSU's & Indiana's. And I certainly hope I'm wrong.

Sheldon High School has been very-very good to OBD. The great Chris Miller in the 80s (13 passing records while at Oregon & NFL Pro Bowler). And the almost walk-on at Oregon, the great Justin Herbert. And who knows... maybe the young Brock Thomas.

Well, that was an atrocious first half. But great to put up 7, and we start the 2nd half with the ball. Let's see how they respond after their behinds are shredded at halftime.

Do your grandson's, by chance, have eligibility remaining?

They addressed them. He didn't say that they fixed them. I'm wide open to a better explanation.

Maybe the coaches and team have taken the entire Grateful Dead / Hippie experience a bit too literal. At this rate, they're gonna need a lot of Doritos at halftime.

Any chance of allowing a score prediction change due to me just seeing the wild Eugene weather forecast that I just saw? I realize that it never rains at Autzen stadium, but holy cow. 38-9 3 2 222

I think it's a bit more like he has the talent surrounding him to continue getting opposing coaches fired.

Yeah... IU is definitely the real deal. It was pretty damn funny to see a bunch of their fans with their shirts pulled off and waving them over their heads... as a tribute to Coach Lanning.

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OBD 48-9 3 3 333

I'll absolutely admit that I wasn't expecting Oregon to be up 49-3 with 12+ minutes to go in the 3rd Quarter. And I did not expect to see Moore put up 14/18, 279 yards, 4 TDs... in the first half. And what a nice gift it was to get so many backup players in for some decent PT experience. Just an excellent bounce back game, on the road, 3,000 miles, and 3 time zones away from home.

I will never-ever forget Mario's first play called as Oregon Head coach. In case you don't remember, after about 3 weeks off to prepare for our bowl game, Mario's first call was a timeout BEFORE the kickoff to start the game. My then 17 year old son looked at me and said: "Well, that doesn't exactly bode well now, does it." Truer words...

Great point. As you may recall, Herbert was a 3 star QB because he didn't play his junior year (broken leg), and basically nobody knew who he was (and he didn't do the camps). He hardly had any offers and none from top tier programs... until at the last minute when Oregon seemed to suddenly realize that we were desperate for QBs (not to mention that fact that Marcus was as a 3 star well). Due to the fact that Wiepert came from a relatively smaller school, and it sounds like he didn't focus on the QB role until his senior year, maybe we do have another secret-stud QB waiting in the wings (pun intended). One thing for certain is that he is clearly a serious stud athlete.

What an impressive response to a tough loss last week.

I was around at that time as well. He was such a fine QB at Oregon and had a great NFL career as well. But he took too many damaging hits.

Under the trivia category, we've had two stud NFL QBs come out of Eugene's Sheldon High School. No pressure, Brock.

Dante 14/18. 279 yards. 4 TDs. At the half. Amazing. What a fabulous turnaround from last week.

258 yards of offense in the first 17 minutes

Oh-so very true. My first Oregon game was as a kid at Autzen. Huskies 66 Ducks 0 Frankly, it took 2+ longgg decades, along with a lot of therapy, to get over that start to 'My Life as a Duck.'

So, I say that if we're not getting the coach fired, we might as well help him get a $100 million contract. Cig should be sending flowers and chocolates to Oregon right now. I'm thinking that the timing of his Oregon win was worth at least an extra $15 million 😉