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Here is the clip so you can hear the correct quote...I remembered it as best I could, but the actual sounds better....

I went home for a late lunch and had the show B1G Today on, and ol' coach and analyst Gerry DiNardo was effusive in his praise of Will Stein and what he witnessed in his trip to Eugene prior to the season. He stated that the QB meeting he sat in on with Stein...."the coaching and discussion of progressions in a play was the best I've watched in my life."

The 10,000 foot view of the 2025 Ducks football team has certainly changed in 2 plus weeks. On the field from their performance, many of the questions or preseason doubts are being answered. The sample size is pretty small, for sure! The on field execution and performance have been large. Scoreboard speaks volumes. Let's hope this continues against Northwestern and Oregon State. And then the perception is cemented after the PSU Whiteout game! GO DUCKS!

"Is Kenyon Sadiq still the favorite to be the superfreak of the offense?" Can't the elite teams have more that one superfreak???

I would not pretend to know what Stein and Lanning are trying to do here but shocking the opposition into submission after two touchdowns on three plays is going to work almost every time. Putting the game away in the first quarter is true intimidation. Bring on Northwestern! GO DUCKS!

One of the obvious benefits of scoring in bunches early on is that the game is essentially over at halftime, allowing for LOTS of playing time for your young and talented roster. One of the things I recall from Georgia (and Alabama's) natty runs, is that they were deep at every position, and when a player went down, often a player of equal (sometimes better) talent stepped in. Lanning has assembled that kind of talent in Eugene, and there's no time like the present to get them on the field accumulating real game reps. Come playoff time, we are going to be deep & experienced. "If you're good enough, you're old enough."

Maybe the best combo since Dixon to Dickson ....

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The B1G got outFoxed. 🤬 Petitti is reviewing the schedule for all sports. One way to make football travel more equitable going in both directions (Michigan State at SC in Week 4 will finish around 2:30 AM Eastern😧 ) is for all four Left Coast teams to have three permanent Left Coast permanent opponents. OBD plays UCLA, SC, and UW every season. It would take longer to rotate trough the other B1G teams, but that's no Big Deal except perhaps for Fox and friends. How about a Super Conference where the B1G and SEC and a few select invitees own, market, and broadcast their own inventory? Former TV exec Tony Petitti needs no help selling the product directly to advertisers, and/or streaming the inventory on the Super Conference Network. In Week 2 as well as in Week 1, the B1G and SEC games were eight of the ten most-watched games.

Yep, unfortunately, style points are still important...

Stein has the luxury of having a QB that has gone to school studying his offense for over a year. I think he rolls out the “deception” plays because they work, are fun to run. Plus, you are probably correct that our future opponents have to watch that tape. The hire of Ross Douglas as receivers coach, probably added some plays to the arsenal, as well as being a great addition for teaching players. The Ducks are fun to watch, which also helps future recruiting efforts. But, to answer the question of what is going on. I think our schedule overall is soft, and the coaches know that scoring a lot of points is needed to separate ourselves from the pack.

What do the Northwestern Wildcats do well on offense?Originally, Northwestern had a solid rushing attack with Cam Porter at running back, but he was ruled out for the season with an injury sustained in Week 2. Now, it will be interesting to see where the Wildcats go. Preston Stone is a decent QB who transferred in from SMU, but he had a terrible game in Week 1, throwing four first-half interceptions vs. Tulane. He righted the ship last week, but against a porous Western Illinois defense What should the Oregon Ducks expect from Northwestern Wildcats offense? What do the Northwestern Wildcats do well on defense?While we only have a couple of games to look at, the Wildcats have been pretty solid against the pass so far this year, giving up just 131 yards per game through the air. Contrarily, they've struggled to stop the run, allowing Tulane to rush for 269 yards in Week 1. They have some nice talent in the front seven, led by Anto Saka and Carmine Bastone, but we will see how they match up against Oregon's size in the trenches. What should the Oregon Ducks expect from Northwestern Wildcats defense?

Head Coach Dan Lanning meets with the media following practice on September 10, 2025.

Last year I think Stein wanted to do more but Gabriel and the offensive line didn't have the ability to do so for whatever reason. He was also limited in terms of running backs as James was THE back for the majority of the season. The offensive line wasn't settled in a rotation until week 3 which limited what they could do in terms of a run game and pass protection.

College basketball scholarship limit for NCAA division one (D1) is 15 scholarships for both men's and women's teams, effective for the 2025-2026 academic year. While this is the maximum number of scholarships allowed per team, schools are not required to offer all 15 and the number of scholarships awarded is dependent of each schools funding.

Sounds like Oregon talked with the conference about better equity situation with game scheduling. I agree, the conference has placed Oregon with disadvantages more so than others in the conference.

Is the play calling such that opposing DC's do not have much of anything on Dante's maturity in the pocket and think they can storm the bastille and rattle our young quarterback? My money is on the sneaky dudes ..... Lanning and Stein. GO DUCKS!!

We'll just keep pounding them until they can't take any Moore. Puns aside, the only strength on this team is their secondary is excellent, so passing windows will be smaller and run after the catch will be contested..

Makes me wanna....

Great segment about OBD. Hope we stay under the hype radar and continue to play well! I let the tape run and he went on to talk about the Spoiled Children - "No drama" was his summary, LOL. Great job, coach Riley!

Last year, Oregon was the number one team in the nation for a good number of weeks until they weren't. This year's blitz of points brings to mind the Oregon Women's BB team's motto during the 2020 campaign... "Leave No Doubt." Maybe that is the answer. Maybe DL wants to "Leave No Doubt" as to who is the best team and where the Ducks stand among the elite teams across the nation. Maybe we will not be the best team at the end of the season, but no one will doubt how good and dominant they are. This was one of the frustrations we had with Mari-- Cristobal. He seemed to WANT to win by less than a touchdown. When you flirt with one score games too often, you are bound to lose some that you shouldn't. (Take a knee!!!) Don't let up until the game is truly over! That doesn't mean that you wait to put in more back-ups... especially when there are so many 1a/1b/1c situations! (Aren't we blessed??)

It is always fun to guess what Our Beloved Ducks are doing, and then seeing later how close we got. Our forum-friend, 30Duck, has tech issues and will not be able to rejoin us for a few weeks, but I spoke with him on the phone yesterday, as well as Mike West, and both gave me their thoughts on the offense that got me to wondering... What IS Will Stein up to? Thus far, he is doing the opposite of last year, whereas in 2024--he did a slow rollout of the offense that many here found pedestrian, almost boring at times. We were winning, but not winning BIG, while this year we are scoring boatloads of points, and showing stuff you would not think would appear until a big play in a much bigger game. What do YOU think is going on? Do you think he and Lanning decided to "go-for-it," as some games, (like the Rose Bowl last year) require a ton of scoring to win the game? Or that he is just messing with the Penn State DC in advance to make their preparation that much more difficult...and Stein pulls out new stuff for them? Or is this a head-fake and Stein reins the offense back in again...to keep opposing DCs guessing? I love what we've seen, but wonder what the bigger plan is the entire season, and what they're doing now--how it plays into their overall plan?

Thanks Jon. Sometimes there's a blessing hidden in the dark and that blessing just may turn out to be the fact that Billy just isn't a P4 coach. I don't get why guys think they can be offensive coordinators and head coaches in the SEC or B1G. Steve Sarkasian is doing the same thing but he is a much better coordinator than Napier ever could dream of. The guy has turned DJ Lagway into Graham Mertz 2.0 in one off-season. My only hope is we don't hire Lane Kiffin. We need a guy with discipline that won't live in the transfer portal. Maybe we saw our head coach on the opposite sideline this past Saturday.

I got you covered. Added the video to your post.