What we read often is how the Oregon offense originally was trying to be high-percentage, take few risks and diminish the turnovers under Mehringer. It is a reason for all the short passes downfield and sideways....

Then Johnson turned things mentally with the offense to an "attacking" mode, and they clearly are throwing the ball more aggressively downfield and scoring more because of it.

Dak Moore described this in an interview over the weekend, and the shift mentally is miles different than from before. I was also curious to see how we would attack the Ohio State Zone Pass Defense, because we beat man-coverage well in the Northwestern game, so I expected to see a ton of zone.

As you know, I was not sold on Johnson taking over, but we are seeing great changes. In fact I cannot recall such a transformation on offense at Oregon, and so fast. Johnson had the receivers finding holes in the zones, sitting in them, and getting good first down yardage and lots of YAC. He had them prepared to attack those zone pass defenses...

Any of you notice those quotes and more?

Why would Meh ever think "take few risks" is our brand of football with all the talents we got? That guy is just such a failure. But it certainly explains all the stupid and frustrating plays called and the results from them.

Anything different would deliver better results, as we have seen from JJ so far. The TV commentators kept saying that OBD played loose against tOSU, because we had nothing to lose. Let's keep that up because we still hardly have anything to lose!

1 hour ago, DuckFan93 said:

Why would Meh ever think "take few risks" is our brand of football with all the talents we got? That guy is just such a failure. But it certainly explains all the stupid and frustrating plays called and the results from them.

Anything different would deliver better results, as we have seen from JJ so far. The TV commentators kept saying that OBD played loose against tOSU, because we had nothing to lose. Let's keep that up because we still hardly have anything to lose!

Not only have the Ducks nothing to lose. But they have been pressed and forged like no other team in college football. Right now, Oregon is the most dangerous team in college football.

I thought us fans are supposed to be stupid?

Pretty much everyone was saying:

1. Mehringer was a bad hire

2. Our strength would be pushing the ball down the field, not dink and dunk

3. Crader, Tofi Lailu, Luli, Addison for the OL.

And after all the crap this season what is actually working?

Whittingham straight up said Beck wasn't going anywhere until after the season was over. Next day Beck is gone, like his boss and boosters read him the riot act saying your going to change OC and go north and south with the ball to match the skills on our roster, like every nincompoop on TV is saying.

Hubristic echo chambers are not coaching staff's friends.

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