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Good topic to discuss David. Yes the offensive live deserve their share of the loss. I think it was a team loss starting with the coaching staff and all the players. I specifically recall the running back Noah in the first half whiffing on one block resulting in a sack. Then on another play choosing to double team with the right guard and not seeing a nose guard coming up the middle to sack the QB. I wonder why the center chose to go left on that play leaving the nose guard unblocked. I'm wondering why the freshmen running backs didn't get more carries and were not starting. I for one would prefer having Davison at 236 lbs picking up a blitzing linebacker that the starters for that last game. In my opinion it wasn't just the offensive line who were not ready. The whole team was unprepared! What were they doing during their bye week?

Former Duck and NFL OL Geoff Schwartz has said his review of the film doesn't show the giant mess on the OL that many people have purported (throw me in there too). I don't know anyone I've regularly read more qualified to break down OL film than Geoff (and while I like some of their stuff, that definitely includes Addicted to Quack). Sort of contributes a bit to a different narrative; but, it overall should be taken as a positive moving forward (and I can spoil the ending now, in a couple days ATQ will report huge error rates for the OL and pats on their backs about their "transfer portal OL effect". Obviously playing 3 younger OL who the coaches have barely trusted to put on the field this year was the stronger play). 🙄 From Schwartz: -Moore was routinely fooled by where the sim pressure was coming from. If he thought it was coming from the right it came from the left. Indiana was able to isolate their LBs on RBs in pass pro and it worked well. In previous games Moore/Stein adjusted protections but yesterday they did none of that. -Credit Indiana. Moore was never comfortable in the pocket even with plenty of clean pockets. Just never moved off his first read. Did not play well. -Not as many open guys as I expected. A few times but this is an issue against good zone defenses spanning a few seasons now (Rose Bowl). Indiana was dialed in. -OL was fine. -I know everyone is going to hate this but just the truth. Few individual breakdowns but 4 of the 6 sacks were on the RB/Moore. First play of the game OL didn't handle a twist + RT got beat late. Then on a designed rollout the RT got beat across his face. Plenty of clean pockets with chances for success. (I'll take that analysis over OL "error rates" which either intentionally or unintentionally are subject to confirmation bias from the grader, who is also writing the article)

One thing we have already seen take place following Franklin's firing is a string of decommitments for Penn State's 2027 class. One of those decommitments, 5-star running back Kemon Spell, happened to pick up an Oregon Ducks offer not long after announcing that he was back on the open market. Oregon Ducks offer former 5-star Penn State RB hours after James Franklin's firing

The betting odds reflect this as Oregon is currently favored by minus-15 1/2 points and has its moneyline odds set at minus-670 according to FanDuel Sportsbook. The point total for the game is set at a whopping 58 1/2, with bettors likely expecting a high scoring output from the Ducks. Oregon was covering the spread easily earlier in the season, but have had some closer calls than expected lately. They will look to get back to their dominant winning ways this week against Rutgers and fight for another trip to the playoffs. Oregon Ducks open as two-score favorites over Rutgers Scarlet Knights

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Charles I humbly disagree with you. At some point a young qb is going to get overwhelmed. Trying to guess who is going to be successful out of the portal isn’t sustainable imho. Who remember Dakota Prukop? Hythloday at addicted to quack has been screaming since Pregnon transferred in that every team that has started three transfer linemen has seen significant drop off in their line play. Isiah World hasn’t been getting it done since Northwestern. Yes Dante had his issues, but if he had 1.5 more seconds to set his feet, or if the outside run game was just a little more consistent. We are having a much different conversation. Go back and watch the film of our tackles, especially against Penn State. It might change your perspective, it certainly changed mine. I know coach Terry can get em improved going forward. It just cost us one game. Those are the breaks. Here’s hoping the picture clears on what this team is and isn’t. I’m happy to be wrong, this is only my opinion. Go Ducks!!!

Going into last Saturday’s match-up against Indiana, the Ducks had one of the most dominant offensive lines in the country. That is no longer the case. On the very first play of the game, the Ducks gave up a sack, and the sacks kept coming. The Oregon offensive line was porous and had no answer for Indiana’s pass rush. To ... Oregon's Offensive Line Folds to Indiana

Highly agree. But fans and donors get impatient and expect the impossible these days The changing financial landscape of college football has insured hat their will never be another Alabama dynasty. Saban saw that and got out early. At Georgia, there are people beginning to wonder if Kirby Smart has lost his edge and even speculating about who would be the best fit if and when the time comes to part ways with the best coach Georgia has ever had. This is nuts, but I now believe that Kirby will tire of the sniping and be gone in another 5-6 years at most.

All credit to Indiana, but this "big" game didn't seem to elicit the same type of energy at the Whiteout game, or the game last year with Ohio State. Maybe I'm wrong, but perhaps this top ten matchup was just bigger on one side. Oregon was the proven commodity, they were the brand and the power that held the crown. I only caught a little bit of GameDay, but I heard the Oregon crowd booing the mention of Ohio State more than Indiana. The loudest boos were aimed at McAfee when he trolled the crowd and picked Indiana to win(correctly unfortunately). Perhaps I'm wrong, but maybe Indiana wasn't given the amount of respect they've earned. As long as Cignetti is there I think they will win, and he has no reason to leave. He's older than Lanning, Day, Smart, and even Dabo, so he has a long history of success. Just Google or ask him 😂.

Boise State and Gonzaga have been misled into thinking they are finally joining a conference that provides them a real chance to compete in a power league. It's a real shame the Big 12 wouldn't take Boise and the Big East couldn't take Gonzaga.

I did think it was interesting that near the end of Canzano's interview with OSU AD Scott Barnes, Canzano asked, "what can you offer a new head coaching candidate?" Barnes replied that "we are in the top quartile of resources at our level." So, perhaps, maybe, Barnes is no longer attempting to sell the new Pac as a Power 5 conference. Canzano: Oregon State AD Scott Barnes sounds off on firin...Exclusive 1-on-1 interview.

I hope Oregon doesn’t do that to Dan Lanning if he ever gets 3 losses in a row! That would just about be too much for me to handle. This win at all costs attitude is absolutely ruining the sport. I keep coming back to: IT IS A GAME! Played by kids. Every game has a winner and every game has a loser. ALWAYS! To think your team will win every game all the time is just ludicrous.

I think we might have been fine if we didn't have a bye. Teams that have lots of experienced players and leadership tend to do better because they can be more disciplined through the bye than teams that are younger. Bye weeks are physical rest weeks but should be double mental weeks.

Couple quick comments: The UCLA Moore showed up because he had the UCLA O-line leaking like a seave! Six Sacks! Who saw that coming? This is NOT on Moore. This was a TEAM loss. They were lethargic all afternoon. They were out played and even got out-shouted by the opposition between the 3rd and 4th quarters. For whatever reason (over confidence, reading their own hype, trap game let down, bye week blues) OBD did not show up on Saturday 10/11/2025.

Perhaps Coach Lanning was trying to build up Dante’s confidence. You could see how much the Penn State victory meant to him - he broke down in tears after the game in Coach Stein’s arms. I think UCLA completely broke him and our coaches have been trying to build him back up.

LOL. This is so freakin’ good.

Sorry to hear about the rough week David. Hope you’re feeling better now. I knew right after the Penn State win that I was VERY glad OBD had an extra week to gather their emotions. Evidently, it wasn’t enough.

The 2007 and 2012 NYG, 2023 Texas Rangers, 2014 UConn Huskies, 1986 Villanova Wildcats and 1983 NC State Wolfpack would all agree. I should also add that a football team with a OK offense and a great defense always has a chance. The 1986 Penn State Nittany Lions, the 2000 Oklahoma Sooners, and 2002 Buckeyes will vouch for this take.

I mean I could feel a bad game coming. I just wasn't looking forward to a game like I usually do... Nothing scientific about it... Just felt it in my gut. Also... Last week I couldn't really walk as I had a foot wound and then I got COVID... And now I'm sick again. Wound is healing well so at least I can walk. But something about it all just didn't have me feeling it was going to be a good Saturday. Also my 3 and 1 year old daughters were just melting down all day before, during and after the game..

I had the same feeling which is why I predicted an Indiana victory in the prediction contest. Too much talk about the winning streak at Autzen and Indiana’s losing against top ten teams. This is a team with very few returning starters who just came off an emotionally taxing win in Pennsylvania. The difficulty they experienced on Saturday didn’t surprise me. It somewhat reminded me of Oregon’s response to beating a highly ranked Michigan State team in 2014. They barely beat a bad WSU team the next week in Pullman and lost to Arizona at home two weeks later after a bye. That team responded and never lost again until the national championship game. I think we have the coaching staff to help keep these players pointed in the right direction.

I love how "fans" have praised Stein's offense for wins but now are posting/perpetuating his offense after a loss! If you're going to be critical, be that, but don't two-face your criticism after a loss! The team is good. The O line has been an issue for two previous games, Northwestern and PSU, but the win made it better! With a loss we have people saying the OC is to blame?? If you believe in your own hype, another team will knock you down a peg, which is poison. As a fan, if you don't pull the rose-colored glasses off, you will be swallowed by the hype. We have a very good team but injuries and the hype poison will affect every team. Learn from the loss and become greater!!

Does having tablets on the sideline change your opinion at all? It's all right there to show and share with the QB one-on-one when he comes off the field. That was a Rose Bowl-like pasting. Yet, the Ducks had the lead late, and the defense allowed Mendoza, following what could have been a devastating pick 6, to drive his team 75 yards to the winning score. The same late letdown on D that allowed PSU to tie the game. Is the defense in 'game shape '? Is the problem with where the coach is positioned or with not making adjustments to a plan of attack that was failing? I'm reasonably certain that Stein on the sidelines could see on the tablet and on the field of play that his offense was flailing and failing. From the sideline, the box, and the bleacher seats, why all of the substitutions at running back? Why not a change in the plan of attack? Lanning was spot on postgame. Lanning and crew were outcoached before the game and in-game. As Cignetti noted postgame, this was not the first time his teams have won big games on the road. But it was the first time Cig posted a big win in a B1G game that the nation noticed. Cig and friends won the bye week. Last season, Indiana was outclassed physically at Ohio State and Notre Dame. Indiana's composite roster is ranked in the 70s; Oregon's is ranked No. 5. But the LOS failures against last season's national champion and runner-up were masterfully addressed and corrected via the portal. Cignetti and his associates have been together for a long time. They have far more game planning and in-game experience than Dan and his assistants. Intriguing question, friend Solar, but I don't think it would have made a difference where Stein was located on Saturday. After all, he was on the sideline with the same QB and information at hand when the offense rolled Montana State, Oklahoma State, and Oregon State. To date, we haven't seen the same performance out of this offense against three B1G opponents.

I wanted to write this post prior to the Indiana game this past Saturday, but I didn't want to jinx the game. Due to a family function, I only caught the opening series for each team but the game had an eerie feeling from Indiana's first sack on the first play. Even prior to the Ducks running out from the tunnel. The low energy, the grey clouds, the lack of fire, the poor prep from the first snap - everything seemed off. This weekend was the two year anniversary of our last regular season loss - by far the longest streak in college football and longest streak in Duck history(?). Our Ducks now have one regular season loss in the past two calendar years. In this day and age, bad football games happen to even the best teams. What Oregon has accomplished over the past 24 months in the regular season is close to impossible. Let's take a look at what the very best in college football have accomplished in the last two calendar years since the Ducks last lost a regular season game on October 14, 2023 (all regular season losses): Oregon - 1 loss (#3 Indiana 20-30) Ohio St. - 3 losses Texas - 3 losses Georgia - 3 losses SMU - 3 losses Memphis - 3 losses Alabama - 4 losses Mississippi - 4 losses Notre Dame - 4 losses Boise State - 4 losses Miami - 5 losses Missouri - 5 losses Penn State - 6 losses Indiana - 6 losses Tennessee - 6 losses LSU - 6 losses Texas A&M - 6 losses Michigan - 7 losses Washington - 7 losses BYU - 7 losses Clemson - 8 losses Arizona State - 8 losses Illinois - 8 losses Oklahoma - 9 losses South Carolina - 9 losses This loss to Indiana stings! Coaches and players have a lot to learn from it. Maybe we do, too, as fans. However, there has never been a better, more prosperous time to be an Oregon Duck fan. Let's fight like crazy to finish 11-1 and start another long streak!

A little advice for the fence sitters: “There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning.” - Louis L’Amour

How many of the sacks did Dante have the ability to just throw the ball out of bounds? Is he trying to save his completion percentage? That contributed to being behind the sticks by more yards. Those are bone head plays that have to be corrected and can be easily.