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Translation: they put their mouth where their money is.

Welcome! There is very little untainted analysis of anything on TV in general imo. It’s all about packaging the next thing to watch or buy. What used to be fun and an event (any GameDay show on Saturday) has now become noise and I’m tuning in for just the game.

Some thoughts Where is the Bear? Any injury report on Pregnon? Too bad Jurrion Dickey got himself booted. He would have seen some time in this game and perhaps show his ability. Where is Makhi?

I prefer to look at the efficiencies tab... 😁🦆

I’ll admit here and now that ALL the kids playing for OBD are far better that I ever was, and for coaching, I’ve never been offered a job to coach football at any level. Therefore, they’re all better players and smarter coaches. So I’ll just wince occasionally, when somebody makes a mistake. When a coaching decision doesn’t work out, I’ll groan a little. Otherwise, I’ll watch and enjoy. And here on the forum, I’ll read with pretty much the same reactions. I appreciate what you are doing here Charles. I hope you don’t end up regretting this decision.

It was a miracle that Penix and his 3 primary WR targets weren't injured over those 2 seasons....particularly given Penix's previous health history.

It's a good sign that Dak wants to be the best player he can possibly be. Pancake blocks by a WR of his size are a darn good start!

My thoughts: 3 sacks, 7 TFLs Not enough, in my opinion. This was an FCS opponent. And yeah, they got the ball out quick at times, but I still expected more than 3 sacks and 7 tackles for loss. For comparison, Miami put up 3 sacks and 5 TFLs against Notre Dame — not an FCS team. Maybe they were keeping things conservative, or maybe it’s just first-game rust, but either way the front seven should’ve made a bigger statement. Hopefully we see them turn it up next week.

Watched some of the ESPN segment on week 1 reactions...I can't remember the last time I cringed so hard, the mental gymnastics some of those guys were doing to protect the SEC bias was mind-blowing.

I also noticed the QB under center and thought that was rather interesting. I wonder if that will become a regular part of play calling over the season.

Tri-focals might help...

Maybe I could get excited about this, but it's hard to for me to get excited about something so high that I can't even see it.

"If your good enough, you're old enough."

Some interesting Week 1 results based on 247 Sports 2025 Composite Roster rankings. Four of the top-10 ranked teams, No. 2 Alabama, No. 4 Texas, No. 7 Clemson, and No. 9 Notre Dame, lost in Week 1. Texas and Clemson lost to the higher-ranked No. 3 Ohio State and No. 6 LSU, Notre Dame lost to No. 15 Miami, and Bama lost to No. 19 FSU. No. 26 UCLA (?) lost to No. 44 Utah, and No. 57 Northwestern lost to No. 68 Tulane. UCLA plays the highest-ranked G5 team, No. 51 UNLV, in Vegas this Saturday. No. 42 Iowa is the underdog, +2.5, on the road at No. 71 Iowa State this Saturday - Fox Big Noon game, 9 AM Pacific and 11 AM in Ames, Iowa No. 49 Oklahoma State rides into Eugene to play No. 5 OBD on Saturday. CBS 12:30 Pacific. In his final season, Gary Danielson pays a visit to Autzen. Lasso the Cowboys!

Hughes single carry came in the Ducks first possession of the third quarter. Oregon was leading 38-6. None of us know if Hughes was offered an opportunity to be a "feature back" prior to his transfer. But, from a season planning perspective, seeing so many guys get reps (78 participated I believe) and get some game experience does have value. A lot of RBs touched the ball. Which I would rather see in a game like this one that being on the field with in-experience in a tight game due to sudden injuries of "feature backs." It may also add value in recruiting to have so many guys get reps.

Maybe he thought Bryant was gonna make the 1st guy, who was late coming over, miss, so blocking the second guy was clearing the path for the touchdown. One of those cases where the player ends up being right even though it wasn't how the coach drew it up. Don't get me wrong; against Penn State I definitely want Moore to block the first guy in that exact situation.

The ND true freshman QB started getting more comfortable later in the game and the offense started to open up a bit. I recall us with MC as head coach beating OSU when they had a true freshman QB in the first game of the season...Not sure we would have beat them later in the season even if MC didn't have one foot out the door.

I'm just a simple design engineer worrying about space. Moving the ball past the point it's snapped requires some kind of path somewhere. Putting 22 people in a space the size of a classroom and trying to move the ball forward 5 to 10 feet is a pretty tall ask. Like you guys are saying, if perfectly executed and the defense guesses wrong it will work 100% of the time. So if it is a true coin flip (based on the defense' guess) and you have 3 downs to pull it off then odds are it will work. And it definitely sets up well for a sequence play of the outside blocker releasing into the flat for a pass. Just don't run it on 4th and 1 in a frenzy and I won't complain anymore.

Keep On Piling On the Fools Paradise Index. 🤪 Scarlet and GameESPN's SEC bias reaches preposterous proportions after Oh...Despite Ohio State taking down Texas in the first game of the season, this ESPN analytic still has a clear SEC bias.

One error that I found in the article. Notre Dame has a bye this week and hosts Texas A&M in Week 3. IMO, the ND conservative play calling last night played right into Mario's ground it out game plan.

Gotta love it!

I just read over on Yahoo Sport's Misery index (Dan Wolken) describe DeBoer's huge 2023 season at Washington as: (an) "Entire season played on the knife’s edge with a series of Houdini-esque escapes thanks to the brilliance of quarterback Michael Penix."

Saturday Blitz writer, Josh Yourish, with some very good thoughts on the first week of the 2025 season. My take on the best wins in Week 1 relies on the preseason AP Poll's best guesses. 1. No. 9 LSU 17 - No. 4 Clemson 10 - Terrific win on the road. 2. No. 3 Ohio State 14 - No. 1 Texas 7 3. No. 10 Miami 27 - No. 6 Notre Dame 24 4. Florida State 31 - No. 8 Alabama 17 5. No. 24 Tennessee 45 - Syracuse 26 G5 - USF 34 - No. 25 Boise State 7 Saturday BlitzTable for 12 Week 1: 1st impressions of Arch Manning and...Every program in the country is vying for one of the 12 seats at the College Football Playoff table, and each week, FanSided’s Josh Yourish will break it down.

Based on last year and this year so far it is a short yardage formation. It's only designed to pick up 3ish yards at the most. It's less about clogging the running lanes and more about creating windows via timing. My article I wrote about it last year looked at it's use against UCLA. But when they used it in that game they put Cornelius and Connerly side by side on the right side of the formation. Both were NFL draft picks. The blocking scheme between those two was rather complex and then the additional blockers coming off the delay from the snap as they were the ones standing next to the QB and the RB being lined up directly behind. It has lots of potential but the timing and precision of the blocks has to be just right or it gets disrupted.

Wow. Good catch, as I did not know that. David Marsh revealed in his article that Benson was the surprise leader in receptions for the game, and it bodes very well for us. Like you, Solar, I am feeling MUCH better about the upside of our passing game.