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I think the pass rush and coverage are the ultimate in complementary football. If the pass rush is disruptive the DBs don't have to guard as long, and if the DBs can guard well it gives time or the pass rush to get home and make coverage sacks. We likely will have the best pash rush in the country this year. Because of this and that our secondary will be so physical yet inexperienced, I think our secondary will play a lot of man coverage, to jam the wr off the line to eliminate quick passes before the rush can get home, and to minimize zone coverage breakdowns due to lack of experience as a group.

That's crazy. We only have 5 away games right? 3k miles average including a short jump to UW? That doesn't sound right.

WTD got taken down about 10 notches during Helfrich 3 and 8 season, when Helfrich was asked in an interview if the team was still winning the day. He responded saying "we're winning some of them." This showed the well had been poisoned, hence when Taggart arrived he got rid of it trying to instill some immediate accountability and agency for the players with "Do Something". I doubt he would have kept it forever, but lucky for us he didn't stick around for us to have to find out. WTD is still solid, based sports psychology, was never adopted by any other school, and represents a highly successful period for the program, so I wouldn't mind if it popped up around the facilities and on merchandise now and then.

Ohio State has never lost to a B1G team in a conference game either. They only get beat by themselves. If you don't believe me ask their fans.

This year's schedule is pretty easy, although within reason you only need to be elite in December and January. Also, top tier teams always have one and done rosters because of the starting talent, depth and portal. It's the new normal. Almost nobody is good enough to start more than one season on these elite teams.

Some guys just prefer a fixer-upper. It makes them feel needed. The only problem is they'll never be truly fixed.

I just watched that this morning. Yogi also said Lanning would announce on August 30th, so game day. The other interesting thing I noticed from the B-roll video is Moore's body language is waaay more confident than Novasad's. I think like most, we will probably not here anything until just before the game starts and it will be Moore. Next question will be if makes sense for QB2, who is in the same eligibility class as QB1, to stick around for the season. There is no future here for QB2 outside of an injury to QB1.

I think by week 10 Oregon should be as good as any team in the country unless our passing game is really dragging us down. So it's good that outside of PSU our toughest games are in November. Everyone is really high on OSU, but 2 new Coordinators is a level of risk we don't have to deal with. Remember the DC Day brought in for 2021? There is no guarantee they pan out.

Yes, the season can't get here soon enough, yet this is the last week of fall camp with 1st game prep beginning next week, so it kind of snuck up on me that shouldn't we have a QB1 announcement soon? OSU just announced Sayin as their QB1. At what point do we start to legitimately wonder if we have a real QB controversy between Novasad and Moore? For me, it's Monday next week if fall camp is over and still no announcement. It's not like we need to keep our QB a secret from Montana state. I mean, it's possible Dan would do that, but it's more likely we would see 2 QBs battling it out against Montana state to win the starting job like Harbaugh did with McCarthy a few years back. What do you all think?

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Bartering strategy; start extreme to make sure you end up where you want to be at, 11+5

I've thought about this, and I think there are a few reasons: There are no big cities and a lot of people went to smaller schools, and therefore prefer the smaller college atmosphere. I went to a small 1A high school and Oregon Tech at 2500 students was WAY more appealing to me than OSU with 10000 students for my engineering degree. For the Dakotas and Montana schools, they are the highest level schools in the state. If you want to play higher than FCS you have to leave your home state, and the scholarship may not even cover the out of state tuition increase. There is little national recruiting going on in these states where the talent density is so low due to the small populations, so G6 type of talent can be missed. Long story short these schools simply have higher talent levels than other FCS schools that only get leftovers from G6 and even P5 programs out of high school.

The fact the Bedford who was the alfa last year before his injury is struggling to start anywhere is surprising. Maybe his injury really took him down a notch or the others are just that good, or a bit of both.

I've been thinking the same thing. He's the only mission critical person on the whole team. The dude shouldn't play a single down more than absolutely necessary to ensure a win. I certainly hope Pickard isn't #2 on the depth chart after fall camp, but I haven't heard anything to make me think otherwise.

I just feel like this OL MUST be better on run blocking, because Moore won't be a Heisman finalist, and there is no Tex Johnson on the outside to work miracles. We need our run game to work the miracles this year and I'm hoping and sensing this is just the O Line to do it.

My biggest hope is somewhat confirmed by Coach Lanning during the post practice Q&A: Q: How has the offensive lines pre-snap recognition improved over the past two seasons?Lanning: "I mean, we had a really strong group a year ago, and I have a really, really strong group now."

Yeah, they will continue to matter until a fair format for determining playoff participation is employed, and who knows when that will be.

If I had to bet, I don't think DG ever starts a game in the NFL, but I'd by happy to be wrong. It certainly doesn't help he went to the Browns, who apparently are not satisfied with their prior pace of QB careers destroyed per year metric over the last two decades. Maybe the Browns will do him a solid and cut him before they permanently destroy his reputation.

My best memory of Taggart was him icing the OSU kicker just before halftime while we were up by 30 points, with an indignant look on his face of how OSU could be so disrespectful with their trash talking of Oregon. My next best memory is watching the opening FSU game where they looked horrible and Taggart looked like he wanted to hide. It made me realize that Oregon's program is what was special, the coach was just one part of the equation and any coach should be counting their lucky stars to have the program's wind at his back

I remember Bo in the spring game of his second season with us.. The dude was an "easy button" for the offense. Moving the ball was so effortless I felt like I should watch the offense play from a hammock out of respect. I expect Bo to have big jump with his second year in the NFL as well, and given how good was last year, that sounds a bit crazy, but it is what it is.

Now I understand even more why he gets off the ball so much faster than any of the OL or DL that you think he jumped offsides. A 36 inch vertical indicates an explosiveness few have. He does need to harness that a bit though as he has one of the highest missed tackle rates behind the line of scrimmage if any DL in the country. He needs to break through and get his but down, not continue to accelerate upright trying to steer the Titanic. I'd love to see him practice some of those Jordon Scott swipes at the ball as it is being snapped. I'm convinced that swipe at the ball against Washington on 4 and 1 that caused the fumble is what ended Peterson's coaching career. That response of him folding over and grabbing his knees for a long time looking like he was questioning his life decisions is ingrained in my brain.

With regard to bye weeks, the NCAA and the conferences should agree to the middle two weeks of the season to give half the teams in the conference a bye on the 1st of the two weeks, then the other half on the second week, that way everyone is getting rested in the middle of the season. That would be huge for player health as injuries typically happen when players muscles have been fatigued by the grind.

It's great to have the highest per recruit average grade, at the same time I chuckle about the metric because nothing brings your average down like a kicker or long snapper. If we add one of them later our lead may be toast.

The real benefit of 1st team vs second team reps is building chemistry between QB 's and WRs. So the timing of deciding who is the starting QB as well as the 1st team rotation of WRs is equally important.

Making any list with so many new QBs is a fools errand. A whole lot of mid QBs in the big ten is most likely, again nothing like we saw in the Pac12, I'm dying to be proven wrong, but I think Demond Williams is probably top 3 if he can clean up the freshman mistakes. Maybe that's not too different than one could say about Moore either. If the route tree is improved and OL is good enough and Moore can just play 7 on 7 it could be special. If our OL struggles at pass blocking and the game still moves too fast for him it will be a long season. My big 3 stats for Moore this year are sacks taken, interceptions, and throw aways (i.e. not missing reads and ability to extend plays).