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Ok, I will risk getting a stern talking to from Charles, but what a bunch of negativity! (toned down from Negative Nancy’s) C’mon guys and gals, It is a NY6 Bowl game! Have we become that jaded that we are gonna look down our noses at an undefeated opponent? Yes, it could have ended differently, but it didn’t. OBD gets a shot at ruining Liberty’s perfect season. We get another month of practice! Next year’s Ducks gets a chance to gel early. if I were in DL’s shoes, those players who think they are “too good” or “too valuable” to play in a NY6 Bowl game can watch the future of OBD while they practice in preparation for the game. Go Ducks!

Thank you @Charles Fischer for the endless hours you put into making YOUR playground safe for us to play in. We all have opinions, and your Forum with Decorum allows us to safely post our opinions. We can respectfully disagree, but we cannot attack others for their opinions, and thankfully you enforce that. THANK YOU. As fans, we all get riled up at times, and is never easy to see your team lose. Especially to a rival who has a history of low class one up-man-ship. We will NEVER hear the end of their perfect final PAC 12 season in which they beat us twice. While it was no worse then when the Utes did it, the dogs will never let this one lie. At the end of the day, and hopefully before I post, I remind myself the this is a GAME, played by KIDS, and someone always loses. It is not failure, it is coming up short. We all do it from time to time, it is part of being human, and humility m is a good thing.

I lean toward Michigan Washington Florida State Texas Texas is annihilating their opponents, they beat Alabama (in Bama’s house), Bama beat Georgia. However, I would not be surprised to see 2 SEC teams get slots 3 and 4. SEC bias being what it is…

For me the hardest part will be listening to Mutt fans bragging about their “perfect season” where they beat the Ducks twice. That is more relevant than their 40 some odd year old half-championship that they still crow about.

I don’t want to harp on the refs, but that was one heck of a pass breakup! Wonder if it makes the stat sheet? On the same topic, was that the same ref that called our last TD out of bounds? The replay showed it was really not even close to OB.

I knew we were screwed when the zebra broke up Bo’s first pass. Would have been a first down if the zebra hadn’t knocked it down!

They are doing to us what we were supposed to do to them.

Mighty Ducks, 35-18 1TO 2 Sacks 341 yards passing. Final PAC 12 Champion punches ticked to final 4 team playoff.

Nice clean look, and I love the green hats with fade to yellow wings! Far superior to prostitute purple and hooker gold. Go Ducks, Destroy dawgs!

Great thread @Duckster we certainly sit on the edge! But never have we been here with a D so complementary to our O. We are truly breathing rarified air! But like @Charles Fischer, the nervousness persists. We have been close before, only to come up short (for a variety of reasons). I have faith in the 2023 version of OBD, and the DL coaching staff to go the distance, and I will savor every breath-taking, heart-pounding moment of it! Go you Magnificent Mighty Ducks!

The Duck D is the difference tonight. Beavus just can’t run it down these guys’ throat! We are flat out stuffing their run game!

Would you rather have a long spirit killing drive or an explosive demoralizing drive?

@Log Haulin that is one of the best posts I’ve seen! I particularly liked the part about destroying them so badly the MWC no longer wants them! That and “I hope these slimy vessels of the Black Plague get incinerated today in epic fashion. Agressive, violent, abused, battered will be the adjectives used when describing this beating the Beavus will take at the hands of the Ducks.” Epic, Oh Great Hauler of Logs, absolutely epic! Today WILL BE the day Beavus looks back on and says. "This is where the story ended".

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,