With this O line I dont see us making the playoffs

1 minute ago, Duckhart said:

When pay a 20 year old 5 million and others big bucks, is it possible their mind is occupied by more than just football. And still go through the motion?

Ive often wondered that myself.

With this O line I dont see us making the playoffs

1 minute ago, Duckhart said:

When pay a 20 year old 5 million and others big bucks, is it possible their mind is occupied by more than just football. And still go through the motion?

Ive often wondered that myself.

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350 yards OSU. 61 Oregon

Against one of the more crappy teams in the nation.

But hey, it was fun to drink the kool-aid once again.

15 minutes ago, Solar said:

Well, I would not have thought our special teams would our best unit this year, but man the kicking is just lights out.

So... you're sayin' that we've got that going for us!

Maybe OK St will get a bit unlucky in the 2nd half?

Let's see if our DC can adjust at halftime. Our scheme coming into the game was to take away all of the plays to the flats, but OSU has been going mostly north and south today and they are killing us with it.

Guys. If we are real with ourselves, last year's offense did not do well against tough defenses. It scored less than 21 ppg against five different teams. Iowa, Wisconsin, Penn State in regulation, Indiana, and arguably Texas Tech (we got a HUGE gimmie from the defense on one of our TDs).

With a very inexperienced OL, is that really a championship caliber team? No shade to whomever said it-we are not looking like, performing like or even transferring talent from last year like a championship caliber team looks like. Not on the scoreboard, not in film study, no doubt right this very moment.

It is apparent to me, this offense will need Dante Moore to play like an NFL QB that has no time. Our OC has to draw up plays that deal with that reality. Oklahoma State is playing a Cover 9-which is taking the routes OUR COACHES LOVE TO RUN away from us. It may explain the short passes. I don't know yet because I cannot see the coverages on every play. But it is clear teams are taking the explosive nature of the WRs away-which means the seams will be open sometimes, but in the very least, checkdowns and quicker short routes that exploit quick windows is going to be the norm for this offense.

OBD are not running the ball well, and that is killing their ability to get the ball downfield. Second and Long plays will require burst passes to seams or out routes very quickly. This is no longer a team that will be able to rely on the speed advantage OBD has, because teams are taking away that advantage with coverages designed to take that advantage away.

I am expressing this from a highlight displayed during the halftime highlights. It is the same thing Ohio State did in the Rose Bowl. Teams are not going to let our WRs kill them. It is not going to happen. Everybody-coaches and fans-better get used to it.

As far as our defense is concerned? It's time to throw the BEAR DEFENSE IN THE TRASH. It is time to put five guys on the LOS and get the LBs to find receivers instead of looking at the QB. That isn't exclusively an Oregon problem-that is a football problem.

My opinion of course.

Tonight I will diagram all of this. I have enough "evidence" now to show it. I took today off specifically to determine what is happening to OBD. I have the material and I am going to show it.

All the excuses we can come up with, heat/humidity/distance/time,breakfast etc don t change this Pathetic performance of our offense and our defense saved by two interceptions...

I have been watching Oregon now for 56 years as a Duck fan and college football longer... I could have never expected this performance out of an Oregon team this highly rated.... We are not playing Indiana, nor Ohio St.... Ok St lost to Tulsa last wee!! I hope we win... and I expect too (sorta). But any ranking in the top 25 will be generous.

All the excuses we can come up with, heat/humidity/distance/time,breakfast etc don t change this Pathetic performance of our offense and our defense saved by two interceptions...

I have been watching Oregon now for 56 years as a Duck fan and college football longer... I could have never expected this performance out of an Oregon team this highly rated.... We are not playing Indiana, nor Ohio St.... Ok St lost to Tulsa last wee!! I hope we win... and I expect too (sorta). But any ranking in the top 25 will be generous.

1 hour ago, JDuck said:

We'll be out of top 25 at 2-2 after USC loss in a couple weeks. 8-4 is the ceiling for this team. Talent is there, I think it's on the coaching.

Ducks will beat USC

Well the defense has been good in the red zone today for once.

Half time adjustment, what is that?

We know 1 thing, The Ducks are NOT a heat and humidity team.

If we only had more NIL money.

2 minutes ago, 1Ducker1 said:

We know 1 thing, The Ducks are NOT a heat and humidity team.

Yeah... that's it. The heat and humidity bit them in the butt :-)

Edited 2 hours ago2 hr by Desert Duck

Good drive by Moore and the WRs playing elite ball. Moore has enough time, WRs just need routes at can get them open and execute.

Our NIL players got a call from the donors at halftime LoL.

Why is Stewart not returning punts anymore? If injury is a concern, send someone else in!

Punt would have been my call 🤦🏻‍♂️

Defensive line looks like they are frauds, can't stop the run against freakin' Okie St.

OMG I can't believe Hill let that ball go. Turned out great but it could just as easily turned back to the center of the field which would have been an absolute disaster.

Instead we get it at the 50 yard line.

We may not be as good as we'd like our team to be, but I still want us to win this game!

GO DUCKS!

Man, I scheduled a bunch of stuff today because I thought this would be a snooze fest. Imagine my surprise when I check the score and see we’re down by six in the 4th quarter to (checks notes)… Oklahoma St. Let’s go, Ducks!

How many 4th downs are we going to give up due to penalties, no discipline at all in this defense.

So much for my dvr recording this week

This defense is biggest fraud in football, so soft.

Gotta give Mestemaker some props. kid is a baller. That being said, Ducks defense needs to get it together.

There seems to be a disconnect between what these players can be, and what they believe they can be,

We're talking echoes of Penn State last year.

This game could be hunting grounds for teams on the recruiting trail.

I feel like I'm watching an episode of the Twilight Zone.

This defense is biggest fraud in football, so soft.

1 minute ago, SoGaDawg said:

Gotta give Mestemaker some props. kid is a baller. That being said, Ducks defense needs to get it together.

He is, I give him a lot of credit, but the coverage has been bad, the run defense has been atrocious, a lot of hype from for our players, but they've been terrible.

How does that happen, how, that's coaching, that's not being ready, terrible.

Just hoping that we squeak out the win. Even if we do, we're probably out of the Top 10.

Go Ducks!

A delay on change of possession! Can’t happen

Can we still get some transfers on the O-line? My god they're bad.

Both tackles look extremely slow, they're consistently getting beat by the defensive ends.

This game is over if osu scores here.

Just now, kirklandduck said:

Both tackles look extremely slow, they're consistently getting beat by the defensive ends.

Terry should be fired after this game, he hasn't been able to develop the younger lineman, dependent on his predecessor's players and transfers.

2 minutes ago, Sharpshooter1997 said:

This game is over if osu scores here.

Maybe, but we've snatched victory from the jaws of defeat before - hoping for the same miracle here.

Go Ducks! Let’s win this, then leave both coordinators on the tarmac in Stillwater.

Finally, some defense!

4th&8???

So bad.

Fire Meringer and get an actual experienced OC.

4 minutes ago, GeotechDuck said:

Go Ducks! Let’s win this, then leave both coordinators on the tarmac in Stillwater.

And DL too☹️

Can't believe Lanning went for it on 4th and 8.

All the excuses we can come up with, heat/humidity/distance/time,breakfast etc don t change this Pathetic performance of our offense and our defense saved by two interceptions...

I have been watching Oregon now for 56 years as a Duck fan and college football longer... I could have never expected this performance out of an Oregon team this highly rated.... We are not playing Indiana, nor Ohio St.... Ok St lost to Tulsa last wee!! I hope we win... and I expect too (sorta). But any ranking in the top 25 will be generous.

I'd say that we're still going to be ranked in the Top-50

Idiotic, absolutely idiotic.

Idiotic to not have a national search for the coordinators, it's negligence.

When Lanning loses he really knows how to lose bad. Every time he's been completely unprepared. He's a defensive coach, and he has no control over his defense.

Well, I guess we have an answer to the question of what happens when well-paid, much-ballyhooed college football players spend time reading their own pre-season press clippings. Sheesh!

And, as if I wasn't irritated enough already, thanks a lot, ESPN. I made the switch from ESPN1 to ESPN2 when they wanted to go with the women's final of U.S. Open tennis. But, when they decided to switch (to ESPNNews which I don't pay extra $$ for) from a seesaw game in the 4th quarter to the highly-anticipated Pitt vs UCF game I had to switch to Jerry Allen's radio broadcast. Now, I think I'm fortunate that I don't have to watch the remainder of this one.

0-6 4th down so far this season...

The thought process was hit an open moore across the middle, but throw it in the dirt to dead covered reciever on 4th down. This is not a hiesman qb