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LOL, now you give us the freedom when their is nothing to complain about! It's like your parents finally letting you take the car out by yourself for the first time and it's Sunday morning and all your friends are out of town. Joking aside, I appreciate the introspection and adaptability. Hopefully there is little to lose our "stuff" over this season.

I think I'm just as impressed how some of the top tier transfers are fighting for a spot against our HS recruits. I'm really pleased with the level of development I'm seeing from our young talent too.

I kept thinking that I hope Oregon is making their list of who they are going to pay dearly to keep one more year if we don't win a natty. Can we keep 1st round talent happy in Eugene for 2026 like Michigan in 2023 OSU in 2024 and Penn State in 2025. If we don't win it all this year 2026 should be our year.

I'm curious what people's thought are on Will Stein's offensive scheme for this year. To be clear, the ultimate metric of offensive is point per drive (and in a perfect world also factored by starting field position), and we did really good. It's an interesting sample against Montana State, where it seems pretty obvious the coaches were treating the game more as a proving ground rather than trying to exploit every match-up, so in a way it was a great look at the scheme Stein would really like to run this year, even though the playbook was kept small. But I don't believe it was kept so small that we didn't see the strong tendencies of this offense through the season. The.thing that stuck out to me is the lack of eye candy and option football. This appears to be a relatively straightforward pro-style scheme where the goal is to impose our will against the opponent with our better talent. The isn't much in the way of who has the football and presnap misdirection. There simply is a "am I going to hand it off, throw wide to the left or the right or down the field"; basically the defense has to guard the whole field every play. The real quick decision making being imposed in the QBs is working through their progression, not RPO or run option football. I'm guessing there are two reasons for that, #1 they prefer the Oline not have to hold back on blocking down field past five yards. These road graders routinely were past 5 yards when run blocking. The other reason is I'm still not convinced our QBs are great at split second decision making, at least not yet, maybe by the end of the season or next year. Lastly the QB and RBs seems strongly coached to take what the defense gives you, don't swing for the fences, which contributed to more methodical drives rather than a large number of explosive plays. I kept thinking to myself, so this is what it used to look like for Bama fans when they beat every mediocre or bad team by the same 60-10 score with very little in the way of amazing highlights, just pure domination. What do you all think?

I keep hearing about arm talent, but I didn't see anything super special. His spiral wasn't that tight and he overthrew quite a few open receivers. I'm judging him against the accuracy of Bo Nix' final year and Justin Herbert's last few years, so it's a pretty high bar, but when people start saying best ever, I'll say not yet. The bigger thing to me was he had command of the offense and his progressions. HOWEVER, that 3rd down play near the goal line after the blocked put was not good decision making. He got flushed out of the pocket, and ran out of bounds 5 yards short of the goal line accomplishing nothing. The announcers praised him for it, but he had the time to hold being the LOS and wait for someone to win the scramble drill. So I'm holding final judgement for seeing him operate with some consistent pressure. I do expect Dante to continue to improve like the rest of the team.

Watching the condensed game on you tube, Noles were balling and playing really hard, that impressed me the most. They are for real if they play that kind of inspired ball all season. Almost seemed like Alabama's O line was bad, but not enough footage to see for sure

Oregon 48-13 2 3 213 We shall see..

I love the white outline on the numbers; it gives definition and makes the colors pop.

Definitely interested in seeing who is getting playing time at every position outside the front 7 on D. Is the OL opening running lanes big enough to see from the nose bleeds. How many plays Moore wastes compared to the efficiency gods Bo and Dillon.

A lot of people have conditioned themselves for our O-Line to have a slow start due to last year. I think that is a false equivalence. Our slow start last year was due to the center being injured at the last minute and doing a poor job of shuffling the players around to find something that would work. I expect our OL to be dominate from the start, with missed assignments sprinkle in.

I think in general coaches are risk adverse and prefer not to play with their food and risk it running away from them. You can lose any given Saturday, so you'd better be willing to put your best foot forward to win.

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.