David Marsh

17-14 as a score feels like a curse for the favored team today.

Furgusion made that horrible pass look good. But still... Bad Bo... Don't force that pass!

This may be the beginning of the end of Saban. Last year he was undefeated against his former assistant coaches... He lost two games to his former assistants last year (Fisher and Smart). And it is looking like another one of his assistants might take another one. Texas fans would be feeling pretty good about their SEC move if they win this one.

Cristobal is VERY VERY GOOD in the offseason. Cristobal Has Spoiled Fans By Winning the Off-Season FISHDUCK.COM Mario Cristobal will be Oregon's head coach in 2022. The only way this doesn't happen is if he opts to leave for another program... He hires incredible offensive and defensive coordinators and he is a monster recruiter... but we have yet to see a team come together that is truly great. I get what that Miami fan was feeling.... Cristobal makes you feel anything is possible with every off-season but in-season is a completely different story.

So... Business as usual for Cristobal then.

It also gives you a real sense of how much talent Georgia has. Because coming in at one in the SEC also implies coming in at one overall and Georgia has done it twice on that list. Granted the majority of their 2018 star power is probably gone... But still. That's the kind of talent Oregon needs.

I think this comes with the quarterback, assuming it's Nix, is also calm and comfortable. We were hit with being behind desperation that makes everything worse. Nix has had some great heiro ball moments in his career but when he tries to play hero ball it's what gets him into trouble. Same went for Brown last year. Need to get points on the board and find that rhythm. I think it Oregon is playing either ahead or ateast not behind we will see a calmer team that just executes better. The rushing offense did pretty good last week but it didn't have time to really develop.

Oh the quality of the last recruiting class was good. The problem is the lack of many recruits this recruiting class. However, the transfer portal changes everything when it comes to recruiting as well. So if Oregon can get a few quality pieces at offensive line then go transfer portal shopping.

The funny thing is that this year has been real tough to land offensive linemen. Need that to turn around for us as well.

This is NIL I can get behind. This also feels like the most natural version of NIL.

I want to see our Defensive front seven get pressure on the Quarterback. There were quite a few plays last week where they were getting close to the Georgia QB and if they just had a little more time they would have got him. So also looking for the back end of the defense to hold up a bit longer. I would love to see the secondary maintain coverage for a long enough period of time that the quarterback actually feels pressure. This has been a problem since last year for Oregon's defense and I really want to see it corrected.

Absolutely agree but the problem was that KD lost patience or Nix lost patience. We should have had 14 more points than we did at least because if we were patient we would have gotten the yards. I feel Nix's pass on the last offensive play of the game was foolish, if Oregon ran the ball they could have probably gotten those two yards. Putting the ball in the air there against a team that had shut down the passing game didn't seem like a good idea.

I don't think a bunch of the players were embracing that mentality until last week's beat down.

I think the coverage against Georgia may have been deliberately a bit softer underneath. I think some of the goal was to bend but don't break against Georgia, now that obviously didn't work. But I do feel there may have been some fear of getting beat over the top and by having the safeties so far back at the snap that they wanted to prevent this. On the whole Georgia didn't go over the top on Oregon's defense, they had to score in the red zone. Now Georgia did that just fine which hurts. But what I will be curious to see is if there is some more physical coverage closer to the line of scrimmage this week when there isn't a clear talent advantage on the opposing offense at receiver. I'll be more concerned this week if we see soft coverage underneath again this week.

Not going to lie... I'm pumping some sunshine this week. But I also feel that the season is no where near over and anything can happen. We have BYU next week which will be an early test. Then we have Washington State which is a good time of year for that game being early fall and they didn't look terribly great against Idaho. So by the time we hit perhaps the meat of our schedule the players have been tested and are hardened vets. To get to the Rose Bowl does not require winning all the non-conference games but it will require winning the conference. And right now we can still win the conference. I get the feeling this coaching staff doesn't like to sit still for too long and they are working hard at fixing all the problems they can. Eastern Washington this week will be interesting to see just the coaches have managed to fix in a week.

And we all know coaches are working on tackling this week and players are working on tackling this week. Biggest problem with football is how to teach and practice tackling. Coaches don't want to injure players so keeping tackling to a minimum tends to be the goal. If Oregon was playing touch football that defense would have done a much much better job. Sadly this isn't touch football and contact alone doesn't count.

I feel the talent we have needed a wake up call more than anything else. Sure we beat Ohio State last year and that was a big deal. But Ohio State's defense last year was soft and awful. Georgia was a better program than Ohio State last year and is probably a better program than Ohio State this year. Complacency has seeped into the program. The losses to Utah and Oklahoma last year can be easily excused away by a variety of factors, injuries, coaching changes and whatever else out there. Additionally... Lanning wants to de-recruit his players. Those stars don't mean anything anymore as they have to earn everything they want out of the college game. That part of his culture just got a major lift because our players got smacked by Georgia hard. By the sound of it yesterday with the first practice after the game, players have taken that to heart and are working harder in practice now. The talent we have needs to buy in and learn the culture and sometimes it takes a really awful defeat to get them on board.

The game was harder for us than practice” and they went about correcting that today. this quote is super important. This is a building the future culture quote. The players now know what they need to do. It's one of those things that you can be told but don't really understand until you expirence it in a bad way. I think this loss may be the most important loss in Lanning's career at Oregon. This is when his culture will start to take hold. the current players will practice and play better. And they will pass it on to next year's players and so on.

I'm not a fan of the call. Later in the game Nix was tackled to the ground well after he had released the ball and there was a no call. Feels like a lack of consistency from the refs.

I think everyone, including myself, though this was going to be a super fast turn around with Lanning. It won't be quite as quick as we wanted.

This is absolutely what happened. When Oregon was running the ball the offense was moving down the field. Our average rushing yards were good actually against a team like Georgia. I don't know the final number but the number that came up during the game was 4.9 yards per rush. That's pretty good against a team like Georgia. But as Oregon fell behind the desperatation to score increased and they went to the air and it only got worse. I look forward to seeing what this offense can do in a game without the best defense in the country attacking it.

I think one of the things that was on display was some of the lack of development over the past few years. We had defenders stuck on blocks and could get free and assignment confusion at times. These are things that aren't new but have been problems within the program for the last two years. 2019 was pretty solid defensively for Oregon but 2020 and 2021 Oregon has been pretty squishy and that's with two defensive coordinators. Now we look like we have the same problems for another year with a whole new staff. getting our butts kicked this bad might light a fire under some players to really improve. But maybe that should have happened last year with those two Utah games being embarrassing. There are some sestemic problems that need to be fixed.

Well if Georgia goes on to win another national championship that takes a little of the sting out of it. We also were the ones projected to beat Boise State as we were the ones with the better roster and we lost. Not saying they are fully equal but we weren't supposed to win and we didn't have the better roster against Georgia. Granted, i we weren't supposed to lose as badly as we did and I am incredibly annoyed by how much we lost by. I'm not trying to outright blindly sunshine pump but I feel we need a little perspective and need a little light because there is a whole lot of darkness right now. The season isn't over and it can still be a good year.

I completely agree. And we beat Ohio State being down a bunch of players and Ohio State at full strength. We lost to Utah and the head coach checked out and was ready to leave for Miami and we were down what felt like half a team's worth of starters.

We can cast judgement then because you cannot truly say how successful the season has been until it is over. We can safely say that this team is not Georgia's equal. But this can still be a very good football season. The playoff has distorted any concept of what makes a good season. It's playoff or bust for coaches, players and fans alike for teams that have those aspirations. In truth I was hoping for a shot at the playoff this year. It's still possible but I feel highly unlikely. And I'm fine with that. There is still plenty to play for and as a fan I intend to keep watching and seeing the growth. This team will not be the team we see by the year's end. Lanning will be better and the players will be better. Maybe I've just drank the Lanning Kool aid but I do feel he will figure things out. And as for Chip Kelly's 2009 team. Yeah they got beat by Boise State and then had a great season. They were exposed in the Rose Bowl against Ohio State. They came back the next year and maybe a very good and real run at the National Championship. For the culture to build and truly form it sometimes does require a team to be embarrassed and know just what it takes to win, for coaches and players alike.