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May 2, 20251 yr

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5/1 Spring game thoughts and recruiting discussed.

Thursday Roundup: This week at DSA

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Oregon football builds culture and depth while recruiting swings big with Curtis, Cantwell, and long-game precision.

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May 8, 20251 yr

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5/8 Mainly a rehash of recruiting losses with some sunshine mixed in.

Thursday Roundup: A Turning Point Kind of Week in Eugene

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This week in the roundup: Oregon wraps spring ball, hits recruiting bumps, and celebrates a softball title.

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5/15 Dante Moore spotlight

Tuesday Ted Talk: Realistic Expectations for Dante Moore in 2025 - On3

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Oregon quarterback transfer Dante Moore opens up as the odds favorite to lead this offense next season. Is he ready?

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May 22, 20251 yr

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5/21 Softball, Track and Field and Baseball

Thursday Roundup: Champions Week

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Today in the Roundup: Oregon softball stuns Stanford, track overachieves, and baseball claims top seed in Big-10.

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5/29 Baseball, softball, recruiting and Bittle.

Thursday Roundup: Looking back on a big week at DSA

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This week in the roundup: Softball rolls, baseball preps, Bittle returns, and recruiting momentum builds in Eugene.

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August 24, 2025Aug 24

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Flock Talk: Silent Running

Oregon Ducks 2025 Fall Camp Review

As Oregon wraps up the fall camp portion of the season and shifts into game-week preparations on Sunday, the Ducks enter 2025 with perhaps their deepest roster under Dan Lanning. Across three weeks, two scrimmages, and countless reps, this team emerged sharper, more versatile, and more competitive than at any point in his tenure.

From a settled quarterback room to reshuffled position battles, Lanning and his staff leave camp with fewer unanswered questions — but plenty of key storylines to watch as the season begins.

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August 24, 2025Aug 24

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Recruiting Nuggets

RECRUITING NOTES:

- I know that Tom Loy mentioned Oregon is ‘still in contact’ with Ryder Lyons and he could potentially visit this fall, but I am going to say that everything I have heard matches what Steve Wiltfong said following that report by Loy – the Ducks love what they have with Bryson Beaver and are not going to get back into the Lyons sweepstakes.

Generally speaking, there are components of the package BYU offered that simply will not be offered by Oregon. I think when Lyons comes back from his mission, there will certainly be some thoughts on the topic, but as of right now the guys being recruited for 2027 class at QB do not include Lyons.

Oregon is not going to go too heavily into trying to flip too many people. They still want to add on OL, DL, and WR to the class and are looking at a few candidates there, but I would not expect a ton of flips on either side of the ball at this point. Things can change, but that is the way it looks heading into the first game week preparation.

August 25, 2025Aug 25

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DSC Inside Read: A 3-2-1 Primer for 2025

Setting the Stage

Dan Lanning enters Year 4 in Eugene with his deepest, most complete roster yet — and perhaps his biggest challenge. After three weeks of fall camp, two scrimmages, and endless reps, Oregon emerges sharper, faster, and more competitive than at any point in his tenure. But the Ducks’ path to the College Football Playoff won’t be simple.

Oregon opens with Montana State and Oklahoma State, and Oregon State before the Big Ten gauntlet begins with a tricky early trip to Northwestern. From there: at Penn State, Indiana, at Rutgers, Wisconsin, at Iowa, Minnesota, USC, and at Washington.

The Ducks’ roster can contend with anyone in the country, but success in 2025 hinges on how quickly this group settles into roles — and whether they can survive an unforgiving Big Ten slate. Here’s what we learned from fall camp, what we still don’t know, and where this season is headed.

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August 29, 2025Aug 29

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Taking Nothing For Granted

Some moments stop you. They strip away the noise, the routines, the deadlines — everything we convince ourselves matters most — and leave you face to face with what actually does.

September 1, 2025Sep 1

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DSC Inside Read: 3-2-1 Look at the win over Montana State

Three Observations

1. Dante Moore Looks Ready for the Stage

2. Run Defense Shows Needed Growth

3. Preparation and Execution Set a New Tone

Two Questions

1. How Predictive Is This Blowout?

2. Can Oregon’s Secondary Handle More Sophisticated Passing Attacks?

One Prediction

If Oregon replicates Saturday’s discipline (3 penalties), balance (253 passing, 253 rushing), and defensive control (1.7 YPC allowed), the Ducks will beat Oklahoma State comfortably — especially with the Cowboys starting backup quarterback Zane Flores.

But don’t expect the same kind of physical mismatch we saw against Montana State. This game will reveal more about Oregon’s ceiling than the opener did, particularly along the defensive front and in the secondary.

September 18, 2025Sep 18

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War Room: Previewing Oregon State at Oregon

September 22, 2025Sep 22

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DSC Inside Read: 3-2-1 Look back at OSU and ahead to Penn State

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September 29, 2025Sep 29

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Three Observations

1. Oregon’s identity travels.

2. The defense has turned a corner.

3. Dante Moore is Oregon’s closer.

Two Questions

1. Can Oregon clean up special teams before it costs them a game?

2. Will the tackles catch up to the interior?

One Bold Prediction

Oregon will be favored in every remaining regular-season game—and win the Pac-12/Big Ten crossover because of its defense, not its offense.

DSC Inside Read: 3-2-1 Look at Oregon’s Win Over Penn State

September 29, 2025Sep 29

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Oregon didn’t just survive the White Out; it solved it. From the opening possession, the Ducks set out to sterilize the noise—snap counts shortened, play calls clustered, ball security prioritized, and the chains nudged forward with a run-first, short-throw blueprint that kept 110,000 throats mostly ornamental. For three quarters, that discipline, paired with a suffocating, eyes-right defense, reduced Penn State’s offense to guesses and punts.

Then came the jolt: a 14-point fourth quarter from the Nittany Lions that turned a slow-burn strangle into a two-overtime thriller. Oregon answered with poise—the kind that only shows up when your conditioning, situational rules, and internal clock all agree—and walked out with a statement road win built on identity. Below is the how and why, told through the rhythm of the game and anchored by the numbers and PFF context you asked for.

Fifth Quarter 2025: Analyzing Oregon's win over Penn State

October 1, 2025Oct 1

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Wednesday War Room: The Standard Rises, Depth, Focus, and the Road Ahead

October 9, 2025Oct 9

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Wednesday War Room: Previewing top-10 matchup with Indiana

Dan Lanning: “An unbelievable opportunity sitting in front of us”

October 28, 2025Oct 28

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DSC Inside Read: A 3-2-1 look at Oregon’s Stretch Run and the Questions That Remain

November 2, 2025Nov 2

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Flock Talk: Learning to Fly

“Well, some say life will beat you down, break your heart, steal your crown…”

Dan Lanning isn’t one for vulnerability at the microphone. He’s measured, disciplined, and careful not to give too much away. His press conferences often sound like an extended chalk talk in code — full of familiar phrases and guarded optimism. But this week, tucked between questions about Halloween candy and childhood costumes, something real slipped through.

November 6, 2025Nov 6

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Wednesday War Room: Previewing Oregon at Iowa

November 18, 2025Nov 18

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DSC Inside Read: 3-2-1 Look ahead to USC

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December 27, 2025Dec 27

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First Look at Texas Tech in the Orange Bowl

The Ghost in the Machine

December 30, 2025Dec 30

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Dante Moore at the Crossroads of Timing and Tradition

April 2Apr 2

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Flock Talk: Somewhere in the Middle

One of the positions that we all thought Dan Lanning and his staff would be able to land elite recruits was middle linebacker.

That felt obvious. Lanning’s reputation was built at the position. He coached linebackers at Georgia. He coordinated defenses that turned second-level players into first-rounders. If there was a room at Oregon that seemed destined to become a five-star magnet overnight, it was inside linebacker.

And yet, cycle after cycle, the Ducks have shown a consistent restraint. They recruit the position. They develop it. But they do not appear eager to enter the highest-dollar bidding wars for the consensus No. 1 middle linebacker in America. Even when the rankings suggest the player is transformative. Even when the narrative says he is a culture-setter.

At first glance, that feels counterintuitive.

But sometimes the most revealing thing in roster construction is not who you land. It is where you are willing to spend.

With that in mind, I started looking for something more concrete than recruiting chatter. I looked for financial evidence. And the only place where we have real positional pricing data is the NFL.

What I found was not dramatic. It was clarifying.

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June 15Jun 15

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The Panic Offer That Never Came

A weekend that once looked like it could reshape Oregon’s defensive line board lost some of its shine before it even arrived.

Marcus Fakatou canceled his Oregon visit. Kasi Currie eliminated the Ducks and moved forward elsewhere. Two of the premier West Coast defensive linemen in the 2027 class were suddenly off the board, and even if both had long been considered more likely to land somewhere else, there was still a sting to those decisions.

That is recruiting. Sometimes the long shot stays a long shot. Sometimes the visit never happens. Sometimes the board tells you what was probably true all along.

I wrote about some of that yesterday in the premium edition of Sunday Morning Sidewalk, because there is a natural reaction when the board takes a hit. Oregon should just go all in on Brayden Parks this weekend. Whatever it takes. Whatever number gets it done. Whatever keeps Notre Dame from winning another battle.

That sounds good for about a split second.

Then the actual math of recruiting takes over.

This week’s Inside Read is about the thing Oregon has not done since those defensive line losses. The Ducks have not flooded the board with panic offers. They have not suddenly started chasing every secondary or tertiary defensive tackle target in the 2027 class. They have not acted like a staff that was surprised by the outcome.

That matters.

So let’s go 3-2-1.

3 thoughts on the defensive line board

1. Brayden Parks is worth what Brayden Parks is worth

2. Oregon’s lack of panic offers is the real tell

3. The current roster is a bigger part of this than people realize

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June 23Jun 23

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DSC Inside Read: 3-2-1 From Oregon’s Final June Visit Weekend

THREE THINGS THAT MATTERED

1. Oregon made the right impression with Xavier Sabb

2. The tight end board took a real step forward

3. Brayden Parks became even more interesting

TWO RECRUITMENTS TO KEEP WATCHING

1. Tae Walden remains complicated, but Oregon helped itself

2. Lex Mailangi is still tied to the numbers game

If Oregon wants Mailangi, the Ducks are in excellent position. But offensive line recruiting is still a numbers game, and Oregon already has commitments from Cameron Wagner, Gus Corsair and Avery Michael.

The Ducks are also still involved with other offensive linemen on the board, including Gecova Doyal, Lucas Rhoa and Ismael Camara.

That means Oregon has to manage the room carefully.

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June 24Jun 24

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Oregon’s Summer Is Bigger Than the Schedule

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June 25Jun 25

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This article below and more is under Scott’s free substack.

Commit Impact: Lex Mailangi gives Oregon another major piece up front

The Mater Dei standout has been one of Oregon’s most logical offensive line fits for a long time, and the Ducks used the final official visit weekend to close.

Oregon has added another major piece to its 2027 offensive line class.

On Wednesday, Santa Ana (Calif.) Mater Dei interior offensive lineman Lex Mailangi announced his commitment to the Ducks, giving Oregon a powerful Trinity League blocker who has been on the program’s radar for a long time.

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Premium Scouting Report: Lex Mailangi Brings Power, Experience and Interior Upside to Oregon

A powerful Mater Dei interior lineman gives Oregon size, strength and a multi-year developmental profile built for Big Ten football.

June 26Jun 26

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For Oregon, the new eligibility model does not kill development. It kills the fiction that development can stay hidden forever.

As I have been writing scouting reports this recruiting cycle, I have found myself coming back to the same words over and over again.

Upside. Projection. Frame. Tools. Development. Patience.

Those words show up in almost every recruiting class, but they are especially common when talking about offensive linemen. That has been true again with some of the players Oregon has pursued in the 2027 cycle, and it stood out to me for one specific reason: Oregon did not just sign a good offensive line class in 2026. It signed an elite one.

That matters because when a program stacks talent at the same position in back-to-back cycles, the conversation changes. It is no longer just about who is talented enough to play at Oregon. It is about who is talented enough, patient enough and developmentally aligned enough to survive the wait.

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June 28Jun 28

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Commit Impact: Anthony Cartwright Gives Oregon Another Big Piece at Tight End

Oregon had been working this one for a long time.

There are some recruitments that feel like opportunistic pushes, where the Ducks get involved, make a run and see if they can create enough movement to make things interesting. Anthony Cartwright III never really felt like that. Oregon treated the Detroit Country Day tight end like a priority from the early stages of the 2027 cycle, got him to Eugene for Junior Day, stayed involved through a competitive national recruitment and then had the final official visit before his decision.

On Sunday, that work paid off.

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July 1Jul 1

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Commit Impact: Oregon Lands Elite Cornerback Hayden Stepp

The Ducks added one of the most important defensive pieces on the board.

Four-star Las Vegas Bishop Gorman cornerback Hayden Stepp announced his commitment to Oregon on July 1, choosing the Ducks over Alabama and Cal. With that decision, Oregon landed its 23rd commitment in the 2027 class and gave the defensive back room a major recruiting win at a position where the Ducks needed one.

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July 1Jul 1

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Commit Impact: Tae Walden Jr. Gives Oregon Another National Win

Oregon’s 2027 recruiting class has added another important piece, and this one carries a little more meaning than the position label might suggest.

Four-star Collierville, Tennessee, athlete Tae Walden Jr. has committed to Oregon, giving the Ducks their 22nd commitment in the 2027 class and another national recruiting win for Dan Lanning’s staff.

Walden chose Oregon over a final group that included Auburn, Georgia, LSU and Ole Miss. That matters. Oregon was the lone non-SEC program at the table for a Tennessee prospect with legitimate two-way value, NFL bloodlines and options across some of the most talent-rich programs in the country.

That is not a small thing.

Oregon did not just win a regional battle here. The Ducks went into the South, stayed steady through the spring, closed with the final official visit and came out of it with one of the more versatile perimeter prospects in the 2027 cycle.

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July 1Jul 1

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Wednesday War Room: What Oregon’s Defense Must Become in 2026

There is a difference between making an offense uncomfortable and making an offense helpless. That may be the entire challenge for Oregon’s defense in 2026.

The Ducks were already good on that side of the ball last season. This was not a defense searching for an identity or hoping to survive while the offense did the heavy lifting. Oregon could create pressure, disguise looks, force quarterbacks to speed up and make offenses play outside of rhythm. In most weeks, that was enough to keep the Ducks in control.

But national championship defenses are judged by a different standard. They do not just bother quarterbacks. They finish them. They do not just force hesitation. They turn hesitation into lost yardage. They do not just create chaos. They collect from it.

That is the next step for Oregon.

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July 6Jul 6

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DSC Inside Read: A 3-2-1 Look at Defensive Tackle for 2028

Oregon’s 2027 Class Is Taking Shape, But the Next Defensive Line Search Is Already Starting

There are always chances for late-cycle flips in recruiting, and Oregon is never going to completely stop working on a board just because a player appears to be leaning somewhere else.

That said, college football recruiting has changed.

In the NIL era, it feels more and more likely that elite prospects will stay locked in once they make a decision, unless there is a coaching change, unexpected roster movement or some kind of turmoil inside a program. The days of assuming a top prospect can be flipped just because a school keeps recruiting him might not be gone entirely, but they do feel different.

That matters with Brayden Parks.

Oregon is still working hard to get Parks into the 2027 class, and that recruitment is not something the Ducks are simply going to abandon. But the current read remains the same. All signs continue to point toward the family pull being strong with Notre Dame, and unless something changes between now and his decision, the expectation here is still that Parks winds up with the Irish.

That also brings the bigger picture into focus.

Oregon will still search for players. It will still keep select recruitments alive. It will still look for the right fit if someone becomes available. But by and large, the Ducks’ 2027 class is mostly complete.

So this is a good time to start looking ahead.

And if there is one position where Oregon’s future attention will be especially interesting, it is defensive tackle.

Cam Pritchett and Zane Rowe both have the type of bodies and skill sets that could grow into bigger defensive line roles, but the early read here is that both still look more like big defensive ends or versatile defensive line pieces than true interior nose guard types.

What Oregon still needs to identify in future classes is that real interior presence. The guy who can play nose. The guy who can hold up inside. The guy who can change the math against the run while still offering enough athleticism to matter as a pass rusher.

There are not a lot of elite interior defensive linemen on the West Coast in the 2028 class, but there are a few names worth knowing early.

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July 8Jul 8

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Good evening all,

Did a site redisgn for the Duck Sports Central website. The goal was a cleaner look with less clutter but some of the features I like (i.e., teh commit list, but I moved it from the left side to the right side) and the schedule for the current season readily available whenever you are on any page. I addede a link directly to this site under 'Forums'

I think this is cleaner and fresher while still giving all of the links that were there before. DuckSportsCentral.com

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July 8Jul 8

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WEDNESDAY WAR ROOM: OREGON’S OFFENSIVE EVOLUTION

Last week in the Wednesday War Room, we looked at the final step for Oregon’s defense. The idea was simple enough: the Ducks were already good at creating pressure, but to become a true championship defense, they need to finish more of those plays. That was a finishing conversation.

This week, the conversation turns to the offense, but the framing is different. This is not about a unit trying to fix itself or find its identity. Oregon’s offense has already been one of the most productive and efficient groups in college football under Dan Lanning. The Ducks have scored points, created explosive plays, protected quarterbacks from negative situations and consistently operated with the kind of efficiency that gives a team national championship expectations.

So, this is not a final step article. It is a next evolution article.

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July 11Jul 11

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Flock Talk: Learning to Live With the Noise

Oregon has learned how to build a championship-caliber team. The next challenge is learning how to protect that team from the weight of expectations, survive the grind of a season and still play its best football when the stakes are at their highest.

There is a line in Kenny Chesney’s “The Noise” where he sings about a world filled with voices coming from every direction, each one fighting to be heard over the others. The song is not about football, but it might as well be about what happens around a program like Oregon once the expectations reach a certain level.

By the time the Ducks take the field this fall, nearly every possible version of their season will have already been discussed. There will be predictions about the College Football Playoff, debates about whether the offense will be more explosive, questions about whether the defense is ready to become dominant and conversations about which players are capable of becoming national stars. Every game will be analyzed before it is played, every difficult stretch will be labeled a test and every imperfection will become evidence for someone’s larger argument about what Oregon is or is not capable of becoming.

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Flock Talk: Silent Running

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Flock Talk: Silent Running

Recruiting Nuggets

Duck Sports Central

Friday Recruiting Nuggets

DSC Inside Read: A 3-2-1 Primer for 2025

Duck Sports Central

DSC Inside Read: A 3-2-1 Primer for 2025

Taking Nothing For Granted

Duck Sports Central

Flock Talk: Don't You (Forget About Me)

DSC Inside Read: 3-2-1 Look at the win over Montana State

Three Observations

Two Questions

One Prediction

Duck Sports Central

DSC Inside Read: 3-2-1 Look at the win over Montana State

War Room: Previewing Oregon State at Oregon

Duck Sports Central

Wednesday War Room: Previewing Oregon State at Oregon

Duck Sports Central

DSC Inside Read: 3-2-1 Look back at OSU and ahead to Penn...

Three Observations

Two Questions

One Bold Prediction

Wednesday War Room: The Standard Rises, Depth, Focus, and the Road Ahead

Duck Sports Central

Wednesday War Room: The Standard Rises, Depth, Focus, and...

Wednesday War Room: Previewing top-10 matchup with Indiana

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Wednesday War Room: Previewing top-10 matchup with Indiana

Dan Lanning: “An unbelievable opportunity sitting in front of us”

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Dan Lanning: “An unbelievable opportunity sitting in fron...

DSC Inside Read: A 3-2-1 look at Oregon’s Stretch Run and the Questions That Remain

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DSC Inside Read: A 3-2-1 look at Oregon’s Stretch Run and...

Flock Talk: Learning to Fly

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Flock Talk: Learning to Fly

Wednesday War Room: Previewing Oregon at Iowa

Duck Sports Central

Wednesday War Room: Previewing Oregon at Iowa

DSC Inside Read: 3-2-1 Look ahead to USC

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DSC Inside Read: 3-2-1 Look ahead to USC

First Look at Texas Tech in the Orange Bowl

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Wednesday War Room: First Look at Texas Tech in the Orang...

The Ghost in the Machine

Duck Sports Central

Flock Talk: The Ghost in the Machine

Dante Moore at the Crossroads of Timing and Tradition

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DSC Inside Read: Dante Moore at the Crossroads of Timing...

Flock Talk: Somewhere in the Middle

Duck Sports Central

Flock Talk: Somewhere in the Middle

The Panic Offer That Never Came

3 thoughts on the defensive line board

1. Brayden Parks is worth what Brayden Parks is worth

2. Oregon’s lack of panic offers is the real tell

3. The current roster is a bigger part of this than people realize

Duck Sports Central

DSC Inside Read: The Panic Offer That Never Came

DSC Inside Read: 3-2-1 From Oregon’s Final June Visit Weekend

THREE THINGS THAT MATTERED

1. Oregon made the right impression with Xavier Sabb

2. The tight end board took a real step forward

3. Brayden Parks became even more interesting

TWO RECRUITMENTS TO KEEP WATCHING

1. Tae Walden remains complicated, but Oregon helped itself

2. Lex Mailangi is still tied to the numbers game

Duck Sports Central

DSC Inside Read: 3-2-1 From Oregon’s Final June Visit Wee...

Oregon’s Summer Is Bigger Than the Schedule

Duck Sports Central

Wednesday War Room: Oregon’s Summer Is Bigger Than the Sc...

Commit Impact: Lex Mailangi gives Oregon another major piece up front