Happy Monday!

Here is this week's Marsh Duck Article. Enjoy.

https://open.substack.com/pub/marshduck/p/five-ducks-im-exited-for-in-2026?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=8foswi

Edited 4 hours ago4 hr by David Marsh

Always good to start the week with a sweet M&M. 👍🤞❤️

Good call on Matayo. He is better than last season's six sacks. His strip sack and fumble recovery against Texas Tech was All-World.

I'm also anticipating Teitum Tuioti bringing the heat on the other side of OBD's stellar 'Bronesian' D-line. Teitum was disrespected last season, with 9.5 sacks and only 3rd-team Big Ten recognition.

The 2025 defense finished 108th nationally in red-zone defense. Not nearly good enough considering the talent on the field. A surprising stat for a D that finished 21st in sacks.

Tosh was a great recruiter; I hope Chris Hampton will produce better on-field results. No more unacceptable and frankly puzzling second-time-around blowout losses.

These losses are Dan's low-water mark. The UGA loss is excusable, but ...

Dante, please don't disappear in the biggest games, B1G and otherwise.

Three new starters, but I'm hoping for another Joe Moore finalist O-line.

Thanks again, David.

Beat Boise!

Interested to see our offensive tackles get after it. Crader, Bennett III, perhaps sprinkle in some youth at times with Iheanacho, and/or Tofi.

With our defense loaded, I really want to see how they use Koi Perich. This could be a fun year for this guy..I mean who wouldn’t want to play safety on this defense…

2 hours ago, Jon Joseph said:

Tosh was a great recruiter; I hope Chris Hampton will produce better on-field results. No more unacceptable and frankly puzzling second-time-around blowout losses.

Just going to shamelessly plug an earlier Marsh Duck article.

https://open.substack.com/pub/marshduck/p/chris-hampton-is-the-next-evolution?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=8foswi

In the post practice interviews I would say that both new coordinators feel like they understand the problems they need to fix from last season.

Hampton said Red zone defense was a problem last year and Mehringer effectively said the offense needs to not stall out.

Those interviews usually don't give us much to work with but in addressing those concerns they are telling us they are aware of them. Ow can they fix them? We'll find out.