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I read somewhere she is pregnant. Wowser.

There is no fool like an old fool...

The quote "Lies, damn lies and statistics" is attributed to Mark Twain. One needs to be a bit of a humorist to get an upside out of ATQ's take on the perils that OBD will suffer as a result of having three transfers starting on the O-line. Pass and block error rates calculated on Excel over an entire season may yield valuable data, but does it take into account position and growth over a season? Is a transfer at center riskier than one at guard or tackle? What about the coaching staff identifying and correcting the root causes of why talented OTs like World or Harkey whiffed so often in certain situations? I have to assume that the coaching staff has evaluated the potential starters and will choose the best five based on practice and scrimmage situations. Cohesion and acting as one is the critical thing for an O-line and having Poncho as the veteran homegrown anchor should mitigate some of the transfer effect negatives. The miserable up front play that plagued last year's Idaho and Boise St games were identified and corrected by the time Ohio State came to town. Unless the 2025 version of the OL gets off to the same start, I will remain optimistic in Oregon's front five.

Dan Lanning: "Preparation’s going to create confidence."Head Coach Dan Lanning meets with the media following practice on August 27, 2025. Matayo Uiagalelei: "Each day, each week, it’s a battle." Everything Oregon head coach Dan Lanning said on Wednesday before Montana State game Oregon coach Dan Lanning offered his final remarks before the season opener with Montana State on Wednesday. Here is a full transcript

Dumb Stick personified.

BTW...look closely at her picture. I've read where even young women in their 20s have had facial surgery...doesn't that look like a pumped-up cheekbone? High forehead with angled eyelashes?

When Memes are confirmed by reality? Let me get this straight...they are going to profit off her plan that everyone sees, and Bill is going to pay dearly for later? Wowsa.

I am blown away, as while it may be routine for the Blue-Bloods, this is new elite territory for Our Beloved Ducks. And we have two Ducks joining Justin Herbert in Jamaree Caldwell, and Nikko Reed, who surprised everyone in training camp. What does this say to you? These 11 Oregon Rookies Made the Cut for NFL Rosters on Tuesday Nikko Reed!

A lot of people have conditioned themselves for our O-Line to have a slow start due to last year. I think that is a false equivalence. Our slow start last year was due to the center being injured at the last minute and doing a poor job of shuffling the players around to find something that would work. I expect our OL to be dominate from the start, with missed assignments sprinkle in.

Who do y'all think will be the last two additions before the B1G expansion door closes?

I think in general coaches are risk adverse and prefer not to play with their food and risk it running away from them. You can lose any given Saturday, so you'd better be willing to put your best foot forward to win.

It was nice to see that he took the step and realized he had a scheme/counter scheme problem "He indicated he underestimated his fellow adversaries’ ability to not only adjust to Lupoi’s scheming, but also their ability to set up Lupoi and use his strengths against him. That was my impression from the discussion." Fool me once . . . hopefully moving on to the Who's "Won't Be Fooled Again" mantra.

We could have three playoff rematches from week zero and a GO5 Eliminator.

Josh Pate's B1G Shot has OBD winning 11 games and going over 9.5 wins. PSU, also with 11 wins, and 10-win Ohio State and Nebraska (?), joins OBD in the PO. Pate has SC going 9-3, 8-4 for Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, and UW. 13 B1G teams finish bowl eligible. No bowl for Wisconsin, Maryland, UCLA, NW, and Purdue. On3Predicting the record for every Big Ten team in 2025.

While they recruit bigger DL, and faster players on defense, it does seem that our defensive progression is slow. Tosh seems a little like Cristobal, except on defense. Meaning that the defense seems to be underperforming to their capabilities. Not sure what the missing ingredient seems to be, but isn’t the MINT defense designed to make it difficult on a QB to determine where pressure may be coming from? Good defensive set for spread offenses, but adjustments need to be made based on personnel matchups. Perhaps the best is yet to come.

Very good observation about the secondary, and the fact the OOC teams (and West Coast Offense type teams) exploited those weaknesses.

I agree Microburst. If Lupoi struggles this year, I believe he will be on the hot seat. This year's unit is too talented to waste.

Great read, thank you! I mean, Chip Kelly is a certifiable offensive wizard that just doesn’t like recruiting. If he didn’t out coach Lupoi as an OC with that much talent, that should be considered shocking. I don’t consider it an inditement to have the D struggle last year against the best of the best in our last 2 games. It was the longest season in history and I do think we ran out of gas a bit. Our secondary personnel wasn’t all that relatively great IMO. We had 10 guys drafted, but not one from the secondary, that’s very general but telling. Jabbar was supposed to be all world and didn’t get drafted. The plodding B1G made the relative secondary weakness pretty easy to mask. Go figure we struggled against a couple of west coast style teams OOC to start the year. Looking forward to moving on, it’s on in a few days lads!

Thanks Jon for the compliment. As for above, I believe Ohio State's plan for the season was to script slugfests while in conference play. I am sure the players DID emphasize they wanted to exploit their talent advantages. But I am almost sure the team had been practicing plenty of plays designed for the playoffs. The way they executed reminded me of Michael Penix and his receivers the way they played us in Seattle-they were unconscious. The back shoulder throws were perfect, and in my eyes that was due to hundreds of passes in the summer were thrown to be that perfect. I believe Ohio State had done the same. In no way were they going to expose much of their "real" offense during the season (though I did see one play run twice against Penn State). I personally believe the elite teams should design game plans for the playoffs (against likely contenders) all year. I actually would be surprised if they didn't. They have a whole team of analysts that scout all year. In fact, I'd personally develop those analysts as if they were coaches. I'd have one set scout and design game plans for opponents, and the other design game plans against OBD. I would have them emphasize every players' weaknesses as well. But that's just me. Who knows what these elite coaches do.

Overall, I tend to enjoy the detail from the two guys over at ATQ. First of all, they tend to provide video to support their observations; and, that allows one to decide for themselves their level of agreement. Second, they seem to take care in collecting data and comparing it with historical numbers and trends. However, I sometimes feel they get a bit too into their own data and how they apply it. They have been pretty pessimistic about the 2025 Duck OL (and World in particular). I think in another recent article they suggested the best possible use of World (this single year the Ducks have him) would be for him to sit out the season and use it to get additional time learning the Duck system (to lessen their "transfer effect"), and adding more muscle (his "anchoring issues"), and to instead have him start playing in late December for the playoffs. Instead they suggest using rSO Genorris Wilson at LT (who I had hoped we would have heard more about in fall camp but that has been pretty quiet), who has I guess graded out ok so far; but, with only 50 career (mostly) garbage time snaps since high school, what does that really mean? The article even suggests it might be fair to pencil him in as "about an average FBS LT if thrown in this year" Wait, we know that exactly how? Did the coaches know that when they went out and got two portal OT? I appreciate having the guts to throw out such predictions if one really believes it (who knows maybe the OL will be the huge topic of conversation the first month of the season or longer); but, I'll have to go with the coaches and their evaluations on this one -- which by almost all accounts seem to an OL plan they are cautiously optimistic about that includes World -- rather than ATQ data. Geoff Schwartz also did a pretty deep film dive on World and seemed to think most of the problems that ATQ dinged World for were correctable. I am comfortable saying Geoff knows some OL. Further, I'm willing to give World a bump for not having to play for a Nevada team, 7-30 during his time there (getting regularly blasted in the Mountain West by the likes of Air Force, Utah State, and Hawaii). It wouldn't surprise me to see a guy lose a bit of focus, have a few bad reps, and be at times possibly a bit frustrated in that environment. The 4-8 Ducks squad in 2016 likely had some good guys put up some at times not so great reps on film getting blasted all season.

The year of my birth in February. Why can't I remeber this game 🤬!

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Thanks, NJ. Tears are going to flow in Columbus as a nonagenarian CFB institution hangs it up. In 1962, Maryland HC Lee Corso convinced Darryl Hill to transfer from the Naval Academy and play for the Terps. Hill was the first Black athlete to play at Maryland and in the Atlantic Coast Conference. A shining and underappreciated act by Coach Corso. On the other hand, when Lee, 'The Sunshine Scooter,' and Bert Reynolds were teammates at Florida State, Reynolds was injured, and in Bert's downtime, he took acting lessons. Corso was the first of many teammates to tell Reynolds not to waste his time trying to make it as an actor. Far from $age $tage advice.😁 The one college football guy who made me feel like a pup is exiting Stage Columbus, where the Hat Dance started in 1996. One of the best guys who ever suited up for ESPN. On Saturday, I hope he doesn't go Headdress Horny, Just Sayin. 😊

The Oregon Ducks' 2025 campaign is finally here. At kickoff on Aug. 30 at 1:00 p.m., nearly nine months will have passed since the Ducks fell to Ohio State in the quarterfinals of the College Football Playoff. The opponent will be the Montana State Bobcats, a team that the Ducks have rarely played in program history. Just once, in fact, with that game coming all the way back on Sept. 20, 1947 — a mere 78 years ago and just years after the conclusion of World War II. Oregon vs. Montana State series history: Ducks and Bobcats play for first time since 1947

Pretty much Smith, Lupoi did a very good job of shutting down Henderson and Judkins in Eugene. Chip came back and exploited Lupoi's tendencies in Pasadena so well it looked like it was a scrimmage.