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I thought TT front 7 would be bad because they sent so many to the NFL last year. Based on what I saw last night I think they have reloaded. I would agree we were out coached at times. I think Stein needs to change his mindset and guidance to Nix to consistently take what the defense gives you for 4 quarters. We are good enough to win that way every week because our offense is so complete.

We've got Hampton on deck. If Wilcox is fired from Cal, it could be a reasonable move for Ducks and Wilcox. Many failed HCs go back to being coordinators. We don't know what Lanning really thinks of Wilcox.

Charles nailed the difference in this game was the havoc our defense created when Shough held the ball for more than 2.5 second. Lanning needs to check up on his sports psychology. Confidence can overcome much of the "adversity" and our response to it in the first half. I still question Steins route trees that don't get rubs or overstress numbers very well to scheme people open. As others pointed out our run O was predictable, and there were very few audibles by Nix, and too many low percentage sideline deep balls. This O seems more like Taggarts Gulf coast spread than what we saw from Dilly. Not good if this becomes a pattern.

Our O-Line is dominant!

Can TT and Shough keep up this energy for 4 quarters? A lot of times that underdog energy drains you by the second half. I would really like to see Oregon keep pounding the ball on the ground, and play to win the second half.

The betting line reduced to 5.5 and Kirk Herbstreit picked Texas Texas. Smart money still doesn't believe in our D and Bo Nix on the road. I'm hoping they are wrong. We find out soon.

A weak front 7 for Texas Tech just got weaker. I'm pretty confident our offensive strategy will be to establish the run and then pass. It will wear down the TT defense in the heat and second half which is easy to do given our depth and what we saw against Wyoming.

Looks nice. We will be the guinea pigs is my concern. It'll probably be fine, but We'll see.

This is actually what the rumor mill is saying. Vote to keep all money and assets, and vote the entire Mountain West in. I don't think it will keep them as a P5 conference, but they will get assets and will get a little more prestige from the name and the legacy even if it is just a shell of it's former self. Not sure how the network fits into it. There probably aren't enough eyeballs to keep it going

The game is afoot. If they get all the voting rights they can vote to fire Kliavkoff and any other dead weight and vote to give themselves every last dime and asset remaining or owed to the conference. Haha.

Every offense in this league is capable of running an effective offense with passes delivered in 2.5 seconds or less consistently. The one photo you included shows two linebackers guarding grass while a PSU person is wide open in the flat with the safety moving down from center field to pick him up. Saban let Tosh go mid year. I really hope we don't have to lose a bunch of game for Lanning to do the same. Lanning took over the D for the Utah game after Washington beat us. He also brought in former DC Hampton and made him Co-DC. Both Dilly and Stein adapt the offense to the players they have, not the ones they wish they had. Apparently Tosh was/is incapable of doing the same. Why should he get a pass for that? Tuioti has the best DL players in our league yet they grab and dance with the OLs regardless of size. Not getting off blocks was the hallmark of the 2016 ducks. Is Dorlus any better than he was in 2021? These are developmental issues that fall on the position coach. Yeah it's just the first game of 2023, but I won't change my opinion until we hold a power 5 air raid team to a small amount of 1st downs and yards.

Better than being a lame duck!

Like a few on here I think the reason is Lanning understands the difference between being the most deserving and being the best. He started those that were most deserving to make a point to the team that earning something carries just as much weight as being born with something. The goal is to get everyone to buy in to competing to be the most deserving, even those that are already the best. That keeps the true starters humble and working to be their absolute best. I'd be really surprised if he does it again, as there had been a full fall camp of earning playing time and an easy opponent, this week is just 1 week and presumably a much better opponent.

I would like to see the Ducks outcoach TT. I think that is a key to this game. Better scheme, better adjustments, better decision making and time management than TT coaches. If we do that, it will nullify the home field advantage for TT.

Not only does TT have Tyler Shough, they also have Tim DeRuyter for their DC. At best their defense is as mediocre as ours has been, but our offense is way better than theirs. I'll take 45-24 Ducks over TT. Somehow I think the O/U should be higher, but that's my guess. 45-24 3 TOs 340 Passing yards.

Our locker rooms will be temp trailers?! Anybody want to start a betting pool on the odds the AC "breaks" in one or more of them?

One of the knocks on Nix at Auburn was poor play in away games. I certainly hope he is past that issue, but it could raise it's ugly head. Against OSU at the end of the game, Bo really missed a wide open TE on 3rd down that resulted a punt that was muffed for 7 points and got OSU back in the game. Does Bo make that throw at home? I don't know.

Fun to ponder. I'm also pondering how well the air raid will work in late November. Wisconsin just switched to it. I recall that UW WSU game in Pullman where WSU was the better team that year, but the snow just took out their offense and they lost.

The only thing about Stein that I'm still a little nervous about is the route trees. I don't get the sense they stress the secondaries as much as Dillys' did. Maybe not as many rubs or something. It just seems harder for multiple receivers to get separation or find soft spots in the zone like we saw last year and we see with USC. It's still a small sample size though. Hopefully it turns out to not be a thing.

Chip Kelly calls clock change 'crazy,' cites commercials AMP.AWFULANNOUNCING.COM Notice how every broadcast was still a 3 hour and 30 minute window. They said they are doing it for safety, but with all the realignment decisions we know they did it for the money. More commercials, more money.

A special thanks is in order for Wyoming taking Texas Tech into OT to wear them down and show us the recipe how to stop Texas Tech's offense.

Wouldn't it be great for the PAC12 to sweep week one? I can't watch UCLA play because Spectrum and Disney are still fighting. If this doesn't get fixed soon I'm going to miss some Ducks games or have to get fubo tv...in the meantime I'm sure spectrum will prob eat refund the Disney portion of my cable contract for now...yea right.

The reason we set a record for points is the depth this team now has. You start playing the second string and nothing changes, third string and it slows a bit but keep rolling. And that many points with the shorter game time from the new rules. Pretty crazy. I did see Oklahoma beat an FCS 70-0 today though.

Colorado passed the eye test for a first game of the season. Yeah TCU's D is trash like last year, but Colorado executed at a high level. Colorado will suck the oxygen out of the room in the PAC12 for the preason.The hype for our game with them will be intense.

Tuioti and Lupoi both need to be replaced if we want our D to be the best it can be. Great people and good recruiters, but...the coaching and play calling is not good enough. I think Hampton takes over before the end of the year, just like Saban did to Lupoi at Bama.