David Marsh

With Harley and Sadiq out in more concerned about the run game they are both great run blockers.

Sounds like Lanning does chew his players out as well.. he just doesn't do it in front of the cameras. There was an interview where Dante Moore says that Lanning would cuss him out over some bad passes and a lack of ball security in practice. We just didn't see it because it wasn't on camera.

Some green... Finally!

Oregon Rutgers happened for the first time this year.

But who would he supplant on the receiver side of things? Justus Lowe started some games last year with Tez injured and he has barely seen the field this year. The receiver room has a ton of talent in it as well.

I wouldn't change our situation in this college football environment for anything. We are in the right conference for the health of our program. Looking at little brother is depressing enough to make me be grateful for where we are.

When Utah and Colorado joined the Pac-12 most fans felt the same way on the west coast. It took about 10 years of rather frequent games to build up a relationship between Oregon and Utah to make that game feel exciting. Oregon and Colorado got a supercharged relationship and rivalry with the Lanning v Sanders narrative but that only lasted a year. I know it will take years to get more excited about the games against B1G opponents. It will happen but it will take even longer for me to get interested enough to watch non-Oregon B1G games. With the Pac-12 I would watch a bad Washington State team and a bad Cal team throw the ball at each other for like 700 yards combined passing. I cared about those teams, not as much as Oregon but I cared enough to tune in. I know it will all take time and rivalries aren't built in a day, week, month or even a year. They take a good decade to form and longer if those games are every other year.

He was on the West coast for the Oregon years. You can't expect national media to pay attention to what goes on over here... Our game started too late at night for them to stay up for. Then before he was at Oregon we was at Bama and no one remembers what he was doing before that.

Oof... Yeah the injury hit him hard as he lost last season and the last recruiting class was just bonkers good. Interesting note... This does signal the LAST DB in that first Lanning recruiting class to depart the program. I believe now that all DBs recruited in Lanning's first class are now gone.

I haven't figured out the numbers but how much of the pass rush not getting home is down to the speed of the release? Feels like there have been a lot of quick passes opposing offenses have tried to use because they wanted to get the ball away fast. But I know that hasn't always been the case this year as well. Feels like MU is not as effective this year but TT is having a great year.

It's a very good defense that will continue to need to develop. I know our linebackers are kinda the weak link but they aren't as weak as I think their reputation is. They are asked to do a TON! Part of me thinks that maybe to set up the linebackers better to more regularly succeed something in the base scheme should change. But I'm not sure what that would look like or if we even have the right players to do that. Getting some redzone stops would be nice. However, a lot of the points scored on us in the redOne have also been either field goals or when we've had the backups on the field late in the game. Most drives don't get close to the redzone.

They beat Lafayette a couple weeks ago. And I know about as much as that school as you do. Soooo... I suppose it counts as a win.

Hey... They'll raise another pac-12 champs banner.

I'd say most aren't. But everyone is paying.

All teams are buying a quarterback evey year. Only difference is if it's someone already in your roster or someone from the portal.

https://fishduck.com/2021/10/cristobal-has-spoiled-fans-by-winning-the-off-season/ Talked about it when he was here. He does a great job in the off season that generates hope for the program. In so many ways he's a fantastic off season coach. Just don't let him coach any games.

And just like that... miami is staring down missing the playoffs.

Also.. just wanted to share this video. Run vs Pass and some game theory. It gives a little insight I feel if we apply it to Lanning's defense as well. Try and stop both but a bit more emphasis on stopping the pass. I'd argue that until this year our biggest defensive weakness has been our secondary.

I feel like Oregon's run defense is very hot or cold. When it's hot it's a freaking wall. When it's cold we get gashed for chunk yards. That can probably be said about every run defense and defense in general. We ask a TON from our linebackers for sure and if they are out of position then it can really hurt.

They aren't going to leave out a power two team at 11-1 period. The big 12 is over rated at this point and is eating up a lot of the rankings when they don't really deserve it.

There are SO many open HC jobs right now that if he wants any of them he'll get one. I haven't been following coaching searches so far and realistically there is going to be a lot of quiet behind the scenes stuff going on because we are only just over halfway through the season. But if Fisch wants a job that's not at UW ... He'll get one. There just aren't that many pre-existing big games floating around. And the few that are like Lanning aren't leaving their current programs.

The loudest and most obnoxious voices on many football forums (Ducks or otherwise) don't know as much about football as they think they do. I remember when I first started posting on FishDuck (before the forum when we just had conversations under the articles) that I was always cautious in making any comments because I didn't feel like I knew as much as others. I mean, I still know that I know nothing (thanks Socrates) but I am fine being corrected when I get something wrong. I have a friend and colleague in the social studies department who is the offensive line and offensive coordinator for the school's football team. I took him with me to the Montana State game and he at least was kind enough to say that I know more than pretty much everyone around us screaming for deep balls. So I'll take that. Now I'm writing a weekly article and some of them are good and I think have valuable insights. You probably know more than you think you do and the loudest voices tend to know less than they believe they do as well. Your insights Woundedknees are always welcome.

We still have coaches on a pretty short leash. Helfrich wasn't given the anywhere near the same amount of wiggle room Bellotti got. Cristobal brought in highly ranked classes which bought him some room and he got a freebe from the 2020 season. Yes we won the Pac-12 but if that was a full season I think we would have been. Quite disappointed at the level we were with the 2021 season. Cristobal does just good enough to bring hope.. Lanning has done a fantastic job in all parts of the program. But I think Oregon fans are only two under performing seasons away from calling for his head. Fan bases have absolutely zero patience and ADs feel a lot of pressure especially from boosters. If Uncle Phil is happy then Lanning is safe more than anything. He'd be one of the people to pay the buyout if it ever comes to that. With all that said... I really really really hope it never comes to that. I'm just being realistic as looking at some other Duck forums out there are calling for coaches to be fired after a couple bad performances. Our fan base is really not too different than that of LSU, Penn State or Florida. Just FishDuck is a nice little corner of the fan base. Remember... My posting privileges have been banned elsewhere for posting a FishDuck article that a few angry fans didn't like.

There are some great shots of just how rainy it was at Autzen. As always most cameras don't always do it justice but they got some good shots of it.

Frankly... Yeah it would suck to see Indiana win it all in year two of their coaching change. Oregon has been toiling to get the pieces put together to make a run at it for decades and hasn't gotten it done yet. Indiana as an institution has not done that, they made one great hire which is at times all it takes. I think Ohio State will probably prove too much for them when they meet in the B1G championship. I don't see either team losing two games and missing out on that game at this point. I think Oregon can only sneak in at this point if Ohio State drops a game and Oregon wins a tie breaker against them as Indiana owns the direct tie breaker on us. I don't feel confident Oregon makes much of a run in the playoff this year but I also feel there is an extra gear or two just waiting to be found for this time. If they can unlock that then the Ducks absolutely could do it. I think we are seeing Indiana at full form and they've been at full form all year. I wouldn't be surprised if we meet Indiana against this year and beat them.