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They definitely have a stronger rushing game this year than the the last couple years, that's for sure. As for the individual backs, CJ is obviously the stouter of the two but I have to definitely say Dye is the more dynamic runner. Watching in against Cal, he seems to be better than CJ at field awareness which allows him to pick up extra yards. I was also impressed at a couple of his runs where he was basically dragging more than one defender for 6, 7, or 8 yards.

It sounds like he's stuck. Of course he doesn't want to bad-mouth his own starting QB and destroy any confidence further but I'm sure he knows more than anyone on that team that something has to give eventually.

9-4, 29 points per game, 21 points allowed per game.

That makes Oregon at its healthiest state since the beginning of the season. It's unfortunate that Flowe is out for the year, he really needed that game time experience alongside Sewell to make that super-duo for next season when KT leaves.

Whatever your personal feelings about his stance on the vaccine, at the very least it's no longer a distraction for WSU's football program.

Given the Jekyll and Hyde nature of the offense it's just impossible to make any sort of semi-accurate prediction, plus the dark mood probably skews any predictions artificially downward in some regard. Oregon could finish anywhere from the Rose Bowl to the Sun Bowl...

DTR is basically a younger version of AB who sees the field a bit better.

Neither did I. In fact if they had played Stanford again instead of Cal yesterday, Oregon would have lost again.

Man I just read about this online. Apparently it's been a long time coming due to his pre-existing ailment related to that right leg and compounded when he fractured it a couple years ago. Thankfully it sounds like the surgery went as well as it could have.

It seems to show a complete lack of awareness of how bad the offense is really playing. In all the years I've watched Oregon football I can't recall a time when fans booed their own players in Autzen. As a side note, I wish the coaches would instantly bench a player for the game if they start jawing as opponents after a play. We've seen way too much of that this season and its contributed greatly to the huge number of penalties happening.

Isn't taking a snap under center and taking a knee something you learn in pee wee league? I couldn't understand why they took it in the shotgun in the middle of the end zone...what the....?

We learned that AB can make passes when he's pushed to do so. It was only after the fans started booing him that he started to play better. I have no problem with him throwing in the low 200's for passing yards as long as it's consistently moving the offense forward, which it hasn't. If AB and the offense played the entire game like they played that last 9 minutes then they would have scored over 40. There needs to be a sense of urgency instilled in the offense and we've only seen it sparingly so far.

True, though teams seem to always take their best shot at Oregon and Cal certainly did. But you did see the six point Cal offense in flashes throughout the game as they had penalty after penalty (a lot of holding calls against that OL struggling to contain KT).

Defense is what saved the game for Oregon. The offense as it stands will not make it through the rest of the schedule without at least 2 or 3 losses. AB did some nice things but overall was extremely inconsistent and indecisive, two things a 6th year senior should not be at this point.

Why does the offense finally wake up with less than 9 minutes left? Why can’t they show that kind of urgency from the get-go?

Defense is doing enough, offense is constantly shooting itself in the foot.

I don't think so either, he hasn't looked anything like before his ankle injury. If it's a high ankle sprain that he suffered then that's probably the issue, those take anywhere from 6 weeks to 3 months to fully recover from.

We now know why the SEC favored the 12 team format, they had already known Texas/Oklahoma were coming to their conference to improve their odds of making the playoffs so getting those bye games is swung in their favor. It has to be an 8 or 16 game format.

USC could do worse. Leavitt's always been a solid coach with a good record of success, defense is always elevated when he comes on board. He's a decent recruiter, he brought in some blue chips to Oregon when he was here but if he were hired as USC then he'd probably want to hold onto Donte Williams and have him run the recruiting program. Then hire on a good OC and then USC is back on stable ground to work up from.

The depth chart just released for Call shows Benson as the #2 RB, so it might be that Cristobal is going with sort of a "thunder and lightning" setup with them as the duo.

I think part of it was the elevated expectations when they won at tOSU when they were expected to lose so there's some level of disappointment at the lackluster play lately, I know I certainly felt that. But before the season started I had them at 2 losses and a Rose Bowl win as the ceiling given the well-known limitations of AB under center and I still stick with that. They're not a CFB team but certainly good enough to win the Pac12 for the 3rd year in a row and bring back a Rose Bowl trophy. That's still a very successful season in my book.

Looking at the whole depth chart released for the Cal game also shows some other interesting tidbits: https://twitter.com/Jared_Mack7/status/1447948301337169925/photo/1 Trey Benson is listed as the #2 RB, so let's hope there we have some kind of "thunder and lighting" duo with him and Dye on the rushing offense. Linebacker groups looks much healthier, Mase and Noah are starters along with Keith Brown. Keith is getting a ton of great game time which should yield good dividends next season. Alex Forsyth is back so there should be more consistency up front this game.

Like it or not, unfortunately Dye will be the bell cow for the rest of the season. Moorhead and Mastro will need to adjust how they use him in the offense since he obviously should not run between the tackles all the time. I think they'll spread the load with the other freshman, maybe McGee and Benson along with making the running game more dynamic. If they get Dye into open space and get more creases in the line then the running offense should fly. I always thought that if Dye had been able to work in the old Kelly/Helfrich offense, he could have stats similar to Kenyon Barner.

Right?!?

Let's hope AB's been spending the bye week concentrating on passing accuracy. I don't think offensive scheme will change much because Moorhead is still out after that surgery. Playcalling will improve in the Cal game if he's back in the saddle, I don't think Jim Mastro is that great at it (at least in Moorhead's RPO scheme).