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Thanks Charles! Good stuff to absorb on game day morning! If both teams play to their potential, OBD should take an early lead and steadily pull away from the Beavs. I will be seeing 2 Beaver loving brother this weekend, and am looking forward to a complete Duck victory. It was tough to hear them crowing last year, and revenge will be sweet!

Ducks 49 Beavs 17. 1 TO, 2 sacks, 325 passing yards Go Ducks!

I feel it as well. We have an explosive offense guided with laser precision, protected by bigs with attitude, featuring ball handlers with blazing speed and bowling ball toughness. This year we finally have a Defense to match! The D line is stout and the edges are beasts! The depth is incredible! The whole team has a focus I can’t remember seeing. That said, too many times have OBD unbelievably, inexplicably, and heartbreakingly come up short. My biggest fear is they somehow run up against a brick wall in the 4th quarter. Sound familiar? I keep telling myself that this year it is different, that we lost the 4th quarter in several games this year because we are 3 and 4 deep into the rotation (while giving next year’s Ducks experience), not because we are running into the wall. I want to believe that OBD could play all 4 quarters like they played the first two last Saturday. THAT team can and probably will win the next 4 games and give us a National Championship.

I always love it when (the game formerly known as) the Civil War has post season implications! However, nothing really changes for OBD, win out, we are in. While Beavus certainly presents a challenge, the best team should win, and right now the best team is OBD. OSU is a good (and dangerous) team that should not be taken lightly. I don’t believe for an instant that DL, the staff, or Bo & Co. will take them anything other than seriously. A well thought out game plan with good execution should put us in Vegas where we rain down sweet revenge on the cursed puppies from the north. GO DUCKS!

Congrats to Just Ducky for the outright win! Congrats to Duckhart2, BigDog, and 1Ducker1 for tying with me for second! But most importantly, THANK YOU to Charles for developing and implementing such a fun little contest for us to play!!!

2 point loss to #5. How far do the Beavs fall with their 3rd loss? It matters for our SOS doesn’t it?

Mr. Nix has just put himself head and shoulders into the lead in the Heisman race! DL needs to let him sit the second half, There is nothing left to prove.

I found this and had to share with my OBD buddies… https://duckswire.usatoday.com/lists/record-watch-several-historical-numbers-set-to-fall-for-oregon-ducks-over-next-month/ OBD have 3 Saturdays to re-write some records while punching their ticket. What a great time for these young men and their fans.

45-12, Ducks win! 2 TO 3 Sacks 320 yards in the air.

@Drake, you nailed it when you said “All the other sports that Oregon competes in are a scheduling nightmare for a student/athlete. Nothing like a 4 to 5 hour flight followed by a 1 or 2 hour bus ride in winter conditions to be in peak condition to play 40 minutes of basketball. “ In addition to that, add in the men’s and women’s teams in basketball, track and field, cross country, baseball, softball, lacrosse, golf, gymnastics, volleyball, swimming, etc. The throw in the fact that some of those teams play multiple games in a week! I think we will see the student athletes spending the majority of their time on the road, and the travel budget is going to go exponential with the price of fuel doing what it is doing. It makes me wonder how long football can sustain it.

Have we ever won wearing seagull splatter- er, eggshell? Not a favorite for this particular fan. I can’t remember if we ever won wearing it, but a couple losses in that hideous outfit are seared into my memory.

Alex, Great article and I agree with most of it. I do take exception to one sentence: ’There would be no Ducks team this year without Nix.’ As a firm believer in the next man up philosophy, I am positive we would have had a great team this year, had Bo gone to the NFL last year. We just would not have been ‘quite’ as great. Bo is awesome and will leave his mark in the record book, but OBD would have fielded a pretty darn good team without him. That said, you are correct in that it is hard to pick only one MVP, there are just too many standouts in this team, from the first squad, all the way to the 3rd man up,

Thanks for posting that Kamakazi Kid! I thought the same thing last night, how DL’s predecessors disingenuously answered the same questions. Isn’t it refreshing to have a coach speak from his heart rather than a script? Go Ducks, DOMINATE ASU!

Ducks win going away, 63-27. 2 Turnovers 3 Sacks 315 passing yards Go Ducks!

It’s the false starts and after the whistle needless stuff that fires me up. As you said, stupid stuff. I do believe that if the players held each other to a higher standard regarding unnecessary penalties, they could do anything! I guess I have no reason to gripe at ranking 112 in penalty yards when we beat 118 WA, 125 USuC, and 139 CO!

Now if they players will hold each other accountable for penalties. They do that, and there is nothing they can’t do!

No Jon, that would be Bama! Bwaa haa haa chuckle chortle Yuk yuk… I agree with you, but couldn’t help myself!

We should be up 28 zip

What a wacky 1st quarter… We need to stop giving them gifts.

Wow! We scored 3 times for that 6 points!

Oregon, 35-9 2 TO 4 Sacks 285 in the air 255 on the ground Defense has another stellar game, no TD allowed. 60% stops on 3rd down, 100% stops on 4th down. A guy has gotta dream, right? Go Ducks!

Will there be a BIG 10 Championship game? Is it divisional or top two? When?

Wow, what a choice, the culls from the north or the scumbags from the south. That’s kinda like asking if you’d rather be beat with a hammer or a club. Would you rather swim with sharks or pirhanna? Do you want to jump in front of a truck doing 35 or a car doing 45? There is just no good answer. As always, I want the best for the Ducks, and that will be to pile-drive a 12-0 team in Vegas to win the last PAC 12 Title!

Bo running is good for the Ducks, but it needs to continue to be smart running. It forces the defense to account for him. Having him run into the teeth of the defense is not smart (see Nix last year and Herbert his sophomore year. IMHO, the QB has no business running between the tackles unless it is a 1 or 2 yard QB sneak following his blockers.

I agree with you O Great Hauler of Logs! If our 5* commits don’t get a shot because we are bringing in “experience” the 5* commits will soon figure it out and commit elsewhere. Bringing in transfers doesn’t always pay off. For every Nix we had a Brown and for every Vernon Adams we have had a Dakota Pruckup