David Marsh

They're both hoping for the long game where they might get a spot in the B1G which would come with reduced travel but be a good fit academically. I think they'll be waiting a very long time for that to happen.

A great picture for my article on Thursday!

I think Nebraska is scary... they're not getting a ton of respect right now but I think they'll surprise many.

2015 Rose Bowl against Florida State... That was an incredible game. 2014 Michigan State was really good too. I just like the 2014 team.

James may not have the great break away speed.. he does seem to be one missed tackle away from a touchdown at least three times a game. But what he does have his chunk yardage. I haven't had a chance to look at his average but its pretty high. When the line is clicking and he picks up 6 or 7 yards on first down and sets up 2nd and short... the whole playbook is completely open. James can just match it down the field himself. Whittington has his moments but I still find him frustrating at times because he seems to get stuck in a hole and not come out the other side. James seems to hit a hole and slip through or just carry the pile for a decent carry. Whittington just sort of stops. Personally... I wouldn't mind see more run plays attack the edges. We have fantastic tackles and if we can leverage them more then we might make the middle easier to run through as well.

That is a discredit to his players. The Beavers played disciplined and solid football. They are going to win quite a few games this season they are a solid team. They got run over by a team that played just as disciplined but we're far better athletes. Their style of football is a slug it out and slow the game down with long drives and lock down defense. It falls apart when they can't get a stop and they need to play catch up. Oregon executed beautifully and it wasn't too complex. They were bigger, faster and stronger and there's not much stopping that.

Both Washington and TCU and Michigan for that matter had National Championship runs built on Covid shirt rosters. They were playing with a ton of 5th and 6th year players. Oregon has had three seasons now built off 6th year quarterbacks but most of our roster isn't anywhere near as old in years as those rosters.

Fisch is a good coach. I know there are a lot of people dumping on him on other Oregon boards but he turned an awful dead in the water Arizona program around. I think most Oregon fans dump on him because he took the UW job and that's about it. Washington has no significany talent on that roster and it will take years for anyone to rebuild properly. There just aren't enough good portal guys for any one team to build a high tier roster out of ... Not when the big boys take the cream of the crop as it is. I think Fisch has had some bad meme-able moments, the shirt! But he if stayed at Arizona they probably wouldn't battling for the top of the Big 12 this year, I do think he should have waited another year before jumping ship but Arizona doesn't have any money. Will Florida want him? They might want to interview him but I kinda doubt it at the moment... They want an instant fix and I don't think there is one so they'll probably make another bad hire. I think Fisch if given two years could turn Florida around but they won't want to wait that long.

Except the way ooc games work is that the home team plays the visiting team to travel. So in that regard ... The Beavs are paying us to come 40 mins up the road to punch them in the face collect our win and a (rather small) bag of money and leave. Though the payout isn't great it does add insult to injury which is nice at least.

According to all the media heading into this one 2023 didn't happen. Last we played was 2022 and the Ducks lost that one. So I don't think they're alone in forgetting 2023.

The Beavers have a very good head coach. I feel they did well in hiring Trent Bray. But this is year three of Dan Lanning and his roster. The Beavers were well coached and if they played us a week earlier it might have been close ... But Lanning and company put it all together and we're ready. The Beavs played a good half ... But they couldn't play a second one.

The announcers at one point during the game said that Stein simplified the playbook a bit for this week. If true it would be a smart move to get everyone doing the basics well before adding on layers. Last year with so many returning veterans they really could add a few extra layers early on to the playbook. But this year there are a lot of new faces, though veterans in their own right.

I would tend to agree with that... But perhaps it was also fear of Strother's recovery. It just seemed weird that they insisted on playing him at right guard when he's always been left. And I've been told many times that it's harder to flip linemen around than it seems. It just kinda feels they weren't putting him in the best place to succeed. When Harper seems flexible.

Unless the formula changes.... I'd rather have a consistent victory over the Beavs rather than risk a loss against the SEC. With an expanded play off we'll get plenty of shots at the SEC.

Strother was in position to secure a starting role at left guard LAST year before his injury. At that point Harper took over at left guard. I'm actually SHOCKED that they didn't slide Strother in as left guard and move Harper over to right from the get go. I think Harper has prior experience at right guard. I know Harper was taking reps at center (not this year) but the previous years. So he is probably our single most versatile lineman we have.

I saw Bedford in for a couple snaps with Dante Moore. There was one angle you could see his name on his jersey. But that was it. The coaches got some live snaps under him but weren't going to risk him for the game.

And that one is going to sting for a long time for the Huskies.

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This was the Oregon team we expected to see this year. First half defense was a bit underwhelming but it did feel like the Beavers put everything they had into the first half and had nothing the second. Solid half time adjustments. Also ... Huskies lost! Great day to be a Duck!

I think 24 and 25 was very generous of Oregon to buy out their opponents to make room. But until our schedule opens up it feels like a pretty big ask to break all those contracts.

I was referring to the Pac-12 that included all the former members. This new Pac-12 will probably get 10mil each.

Oh they have the money if they want... If they paid the Pac-12 around 35-40 mil per school in media rights Fix and ESPN would be paying close to what they are now ... And probably less in the long run. They wanted to destroy the Pac-12 so they pretended like they didn't have the money. They could totally pay 10mil out per school if they wanted to.

Oh I doubt they'll pay anything near a price that they pac-2 want. Mountain West Media payouts are around 6mil if I remember correctly. So if OSU and WSU Cherry pick all the best MW teams and themselves I could see them getting something in the range of 10-15 mil. A major upgrade for MW teams but still a far cry from any P4... Including the ACC which is locked into a horrible contract that's around 20mil per school. I mean they'll want 30 mil like the Big 12 but as I went over in my article a year ago... I suspect that the 30mil payout was designed to murder the pac-12 more than a realistic value for the conference and it's inventory.

Fox and ESPN will certainly pick them up but not at the same rate as B1G, SEC or Big 12 games. They will be given something maybe slightly better than the MW gets now. But this will come at a major cost... This will be seen as late night inventory. These games will have a lot of 7pm start times because both Fox and ESPN want games for that West Coast time but don't want to pay too dollar for them. So maybe they also cut a deal with CW to have some games that are not at night.

I don't think the Ducks have lost their fight... I think the Boise State game showed that this team cares about the outcome and will fight for it. I think what is lacking is execution and some leadership. This doesn't feel like a complete team but against Boise State in particular it didn't feel like they were flat, just incompetent at times. I think this team is motivated and they just need to turn that motivation into development. This week they should take another step forward.