2 hours ago2 hr No. Here are some of the things I heard coming out of fall camp before the start of the season:Drew Mehringer is a scientist. He is going to take college football by storm. Oregon has 8 offensive linemen that could be starters and are playing above the line football. Evan Stewart is unguardable. Akili Smith has improved drastically and is playing above the line football. Obviously, none of these things are close to being true. Should we believe anything that we hear from the coaches and/or players in fall camp? Or maybe we should just assume the opposite?
1 hour ago1 hr No. Maybe Lanning is just holding stuff back so Ohio State doesn't know our full game plan?
1 hour ago1 hr No. 35 minutes ago, GeotechDuck said:Here are some of the things I heard coming out of fall camp before the start of the season:....Oregon has 8 offensive linemen that could be starters and are playing above the line football.....I seem to remember that back in the spring there was great concern over the O-line.
1 hour ago1 hr No. "Oregon has 8 offensive linemen that could be starters and are playing above the line football."Ah yes, the good old days when Lanning believed what Terry was telling him.
35 minutes ago35 min Author No. 35 minutes ago, Solar said:"Oregon has 8 offensive linemen that could be starters and are playing above the line football."Ah yes, the good old days when Lanning believed what Terry was telling him.58 minutes ago, Annie said:I seem to remember that back in the spring there was great concern over the O-line.Yeah. Agree. Then in the fall, the coaches were saying that they had 8 starting caliber players that were playing winning football. Right now, they maybe have 1.
34 minutes ago34 min Moderator No. This may be the best topic of the year. As a fan, I really don't care what the narrative is for any given year whether it's "This is THE year!" or "Prepare to be the scrappy underdog this year.". I just want to be prepared for what's coming and embrace it whatever it is. Shocking upsets can do and will happen from time to time and "This is THE year!" can turn to "At least we're still in the top 25." at anytime on the schedule and I don't have a problem with that.This year feels more deceitful than upsets happen. We have two five star QBs being lead and instructed by a guy coaching QBs for the first time who played tight end in college. Unbelievable. Our all world tight end and his 4 star position mates are being coached by a guy who's never even been a position coach before. Ridiculous. They're all being lead by an OC who's OC experience is one year leading bottom dwelling Rutgers offense. Inexcusable.This is the offensive infrastructure that we were told was going to compete for a national title. This isn't even counting how hard the O line was over sold as ready to take over the starting positions. These internal promotions were a gigantic swing and a miss by Lanning and will most likely be corrected post season. Still this season should have been promoted as a learning curve year rather than 'This is it!".We all could have embraced for impact and adjusted our fandom accordingly.
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