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Those are rare... The last one I can think of was Caleb Williams. He basically played without an offensive line. However, he couldn't win the conference so there's that.

It was great Duck weather!!

If we keep doing what we're doing, you're correct. They cracked the code. It's not that difficult. Somebody's grandson was predicting plays tonight. The TD pass Dante threw against Indiana was schemed to handle what Indiana and Wisconsin pulled on us. It actually happened in the Penn State game too. You know, the clinching TD in OT? That is what needs to be more of the offense, when necessary. So, in my ultra hack opinion, we start getting Moore out of the pocket more often, or we get beat in the playoffs.

Sadly I think he may have stuck with the ground game because they had a backup qb in there. It worked but they need to use the run to open up the pass more.

Cignetti is always going for style points. The Indiana stat is what it is in part to running up the score. They are still a good team and beat us so I am not trying to throw shade at them but they are absolutely running up the score on their opponents.

I think OBD are going to learn more from these experiences than games like Rutgers. Very grateful that Stein made the adjustment and stuck with the ground game. We can’t see what Dante is seeing down the field, but it doesn’t seem like he knows where he wants to go with the ball or what matchups he has when he calls for the snap. Is Stein calling plays with a less experienced QB in mind, or is he still running an offense for the two QB’s with the most games ever played? It would be interesting to compare the average release time from the last three seasons. Dante seems to get rattled a bit after those early sacks. I’m not sure why we have him running as much as he has with the 8 capable running backs we have.

I'd agree about the contention appearing status of the Aggies and Hoosiers. Ohio State may yet prove to be elite, but folks!!! Brutus hasn't really beaten anybody other than a very flawed Longhorn team. They have a lot of proven to do.

I guess the challenge the coaches face is convincing the team to compete against teams they think they're better than. Not impressed with the emotional or competitive maturity overall.

He's not a running QB. I wrote a couple of articles about him for my sister's paper. He is already better than he was in high school. If Stein can design a specific run package for him, he'll be deadly (or whomever at this point because Stein-for all my complaints is also getting better by the week-and he may be gone in Smith's era). I believe Jr. is going to be better than his dad was.

Didn't notice any obvious egregious injuries, this game. I always sort of dread playing games like this, due to the increased chance of injury. Count your blessings, OBD!

I thought rain might keep the score down...but the offense was flat again. Use the off week well my Ducks.

They're beating blocks because they know what we like to do, and they're aggressively attacking the point if attack. We're in a conference of very good coaches. They know DL and his staff pride themselves on physicality. How do you beat physicality? You go all in. It is no mistake that teams are trying to take away our running game. They've also schemed ways to bring pressure. Our staff wants to impose its brand. Teams are going to attack it with everything they have. What's the best response? Stop exclusively attacking teams the same way. That is exactly why constraint/sequential plays matter. I wrote a couple of articles about it. Check them out here. and here

Thank you Mike for making me feel better. I usually find myself to be one of the sunshine pumpers and right now I am finding I have quite a bit of continued frustration. More on that on Monday. But still it's nice to have a positive take on everything.

Lanning running out the clock when he could have got STYLE POINTS after the interception, was a class act. How many coaches in this position would have gone for another touchdown? Water was GOOD to Us!

An interesting stat to ponder. Against Indiana....the Ducks allowed 8 tackles for loss (inclusive of 6 sacks) and Oregon scored 20 points. Against Wisconsin....the Ducks allowed 7 tackles for loss (inclusive of 4 sacks) and Oregon scored 21 points. No other game has Oregon allowed close to that many tackles for loss, and no other game has Oregon come close to being held to 20 pts. There is now a bye week before facing another opponent, Iowa, that had 9 tackles for loss with 4 sacks today vs Minnesota. Hope the O-line and staff use the bye wisely.

Maybe there is a quarterback out there who can be successful “without good protection “, but from what I saw against Indiana and Wisconsin that quarterback is not starting for OBD. It amazes me that those two opponents’ pass rushers have no difficulty getting into our backfield and our pass rushers couldn’t find theirs with GPS.

The winner was Canvasback! The final score was 21-7 with one turnover, one sack, and 132 yards of passing. Massduck had a score of 27-6, and was off by only seven total points, but so was Canvasback with his 28-7 predicted score. So they were tied, and now we look at tiebreakers... Massduck predicted three turnovers, while Canvasback predicted two. Canvasback was closer and won that tiebreaker. Massduck predicted two sacks, while Canvasback predicted four. Hence Massduck was closer, and won that tiebreaker. Now we come down to the passing yards; Massduck predicted 210 yards, while Canvasback predicted 185, and thus was closer and won by a raindrop! Congrats to Canvasback! And thanks to all who played, as I thought we were going to have quite a few tied up and bunched around the final score. A Canvasback Duck...

I'm still struggling to figure out if we are really good or really bad on offense. We've been both, especially early in games. We aren't matching the intensity of our opponents early on. Also, i wonder if we have so much variation in the plays we run that the offensive blocking doesn't have the precision to properly block a variety of different looks from defenses. So many of our "custom" play call are getting trashed by missed blocks. Not blocks they lost, I'm talking blocks they could have made, but a defender beat them to he point of attack or ducked in behind them because the blocker thought they didn't need to block them. I think defense is as good as we've had in the Lanning era. Maybe not quite 2019 good, but close.

Worried about a road game at Iowa honestly. As someone said above I'd be concerned about a number of SEC teams potentially down the road. US and UW are not gimmes either. Penalties at home was too much

I'm not worried about this team at all. As much as Indiana controlled things, they got help twice to score their go ahead TD (gifted extra yardage on a 3rd down conversion and a no call pass inteference for their TD). To play as horribly this week tells me this is a young team that can focus, but not consistently enough to feel they can challenge for a title. They are about to embark on their 4th 2k plus trip of the year, and they're 3-0 so far. I wasn't impressed with Iowa or Indiana to be frank, and Penn State pretty much demonstrated Iowa has trouble handling physical teams as well (so does Indian whether you want to believe that at this point). Ohio State has looked good, but they have yet to face a real offense. I believe every fan base of elite programs are gnashing their teeth right now because nobody has a clear-cut dominant team. NOBODY. We are truly in the age of parity. I mean, cmon. Vanderbilt is a so called top ten team (really? Does anyone in this forum fear Vanderbilt?). It's October. Titles aren't won in October. Besides. I called for two score margins of victory. That is my standard. It sticks. Especially for a team that is exactly where we expected them to be: 6-1. They are ahead of themselves as far as I am concerned because I really didn't expect the defense to hold Penn State to 17 points in 4 quarters (and those that are saying Penn State is a shell of itself, well that shell almost beat Iowa, but for their lack of having their NFL bound QB. An Iowa team that held "superpower" Indiana to 20-and they would have won had they had their QB). The defense will play well enough for the offense to get their butts in gear and start throwing the ball downfield. We have seen a glimpse of what could be. I personally believe Stein is holding back on the offense given some of its troubles. I personally would open the flood gates, part the damn Red Sea and try to destroy every defense I see. But that is just me. I personally don't believe a team is going to win the title unless they score 40 plus. ON A DEFENSE LIKE OHIO STATE'S. So, in my view, you better be dialing up every damn fade, post, corner and wheel route known to mankind because you need to take down every secondary in football. There will be no explosive running plays against the elite teams. Your QB is going to have to drop 16 gigaton nuclear bombs. And you better have the best air force known to mankind. That's my opinion and I am sticking to it. A QB is going to win the damn title, with or without good protection. We have that of QB. We need to feed him missiles (bunker busters) and atomics. Everything else is wasting time.

https://fishduck.com/2025/08/oregons-top-five-new-rivalries-in-the-b1g/ I was already alluding to how Oregon v Wisconsin has a potential Rivalry written all over it. When the Ducks play the Badgers it has tended to be a close ans brutal game. This game was brutal but despite the score it wasn't all that close after the first quarter.

Certainly will take the win, the weather was horrible, but we have to be better on offense, Moore has to read the defense better, our O-line has to be more consistent, Stein has to have better game plans. Defense was fine, this Wisconsin team is an abomination on offense, I would like to see us hold the running game better, but it is what it is. Should drop in the polls. I see about 3-4 SEC teams that will beat us if we play them, disappointing, but this was step back compared to the previous week, Wisconsin is bad team, and we struggled in this game, even if it never seemed like Wisconsin had a serious chance.

The close up of the cheer squad sure look like pain in the rain... At least some of the players got to warm up periodically.

I imagine that game was pretty miserable for the players.

It's a win! A win is a win!' Lots to work on. Go Ducks and be ready for Iowa! Damn rain anything could have happened.