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David Marsh
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Do You Agree? What IS the Upside to This Offense?
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.
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Starting to Feel Sorry for the Beavers...Yet?
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.
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Poor Huskies, and Wowsa: These Did NOT Age Well...
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.
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Poor Huskies, and Wowsa: These Did NOT Age Well...
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.
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Is Oregon State vs. Oregon Football Series Due for A Pause Following 2025 Season?
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.
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Ruh-Roh! Beavers Losing Belief About Their Team, and Playing Oregon...
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.
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Ruh-Roh! Beavers Losing Belief About Their Team, and Playing Oregon...
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.
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Where are the Will Stein Boo-Birds?
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.
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Holy Crap! My Replay Study So Far Shows...
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.
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Is Oregon State vs. Oregon Football Series Due for A Pause Following 2025 Season?
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.
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Holy Crap! My Replay Study So Far Shows...
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.
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Oregon Gets Right with Rout of Oregon State
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.
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Let's Discuss! CFB College Football GameDay (All Other Games)
And that one is going to sting for a long time for the Huskies.
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So...How About THAT Get-Well Game?
Oh yeah ... And 2014 baby! The 2024 Ducks Can Learn from 2014’s Struggles | FishDuck FISHDUCK.COM The 2024 Ducks have survived, but have failed to reach their full potential this season. This is in large part due to an offensive line cobbled together… We're ahead on the calendar and this team is much much deeper.
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So...How About THAT Get-Well Game?
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!
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Civil War Future After 2025?
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.
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Words Alone Cannot Describe the Utter Ridiculousness of this Face Book Post
I was referring to the Pac-12 that included all the former members. This new Pac-12 will probably get 10mil each.
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Words Alone Cannot Describe the Utter Ridiculousness of this Face Book Post
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.
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The Great Beaver Sycophant Strikes!
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.
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The Great Beaver Sycophant Strikes!
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.
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Oregon Ducks Football Missing the 'Same Fight' as Last Year?
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.
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Words Alone Cannot Describe the Utter Ridiculousness of this Face Book Post
Part of me finds it difficult to see FCS power houses like North Dakota want to leave the FCS for the FBS. Sure it's a bigger pond but I think so much of what makes that program tick is that it's a big fish in a smaller pond. They have been kings of the FCS for some time and would they want to trade it out to be a G6 school that rarely gets whiff at the playoff?
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The Great Beaver Sycophant Strikes!
Oregon and Washington can receive some small piece of the blame for the Pac-12's demise. They were able to leave based on their investments and merits and a credit to them as they were placed in a difficult situation, and by all accounts it seems like the Huskies pulled the trigger first and the Ducks decided to go along with it so in that regard even less blame can be placed on the Ducks. I don't think we should shy away from our part in the story of the end of the Pac-12, if we choose to stay the conference would be a little better off, it would probably consist of Oregon, Washington, Oregon State, Washington State, Cal and Stanford and that would be it... and all would be in athletic financial ruin. So I am not saying we should have stayed because leaving was absolutely the right decision and we alone did not put Oregon State and Washington State in this position as it was the culmination of decades of decision making from every school in the former Pac-12. We left we take some fragment of the blame for the death of that conference and I can live with that. The Beavers and Cougs will kill the Mountain West and they will take far more blame for the death of that conference that we should for the Pac-12. And they will have to live with that.
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The Great Beaver Sycophant Strikes!
The blood of the Mountain West is on OSU and WSU's hands. But UCLA and USC along with Fox and ESPN have the blood of the Pac-12 on their hands. I'll even say Colorado has their fair share of Pac-12 blood on their hands. I think it is fair for Oregon and Washington to share some blame but no where near as much as those previously mentioned. By the time Oregon and Washington jumped ship the mismanagement had hit a crisis point and there was really no fixing it. Especially since the two big media partners of Fox and ESPN both walked away from the table to ensure the conference would die. Is killing the Mountain West as big of a deal as what USC and UCLA did to the Pac-12? Not really... but let's not sugar coat it and saying they are absolved of any conference realignment wrong doing here. If the Beavers and Cougs were serious about not doing this they probably could have gotten themselves into the Mountain West last year. They may have even used those millions from the Pac-12 to buy their way into the Big 12. I mean they could have said no media money for three years and have been able to float it in the Big 12. But they burned their bridges with the Mountain West and decided to take their top teams and run. That's blood on their hands if you want to get down to it. Though does anyone really care? Those left behind in the Mountain West do... but otherwise not really. We care more about the conference realignment drama and specitical than OSU and WSU creating a G6 conference with old P5 branding.
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Four Mt. West Teams Set to Join Pac2?
Going to be honest this probably wont happen. Stanford won't be caught dead in the same conference as Boise State and Cal is in the same boat. The thing here is that these conferences do share resources academically as well as the athletic component. Upon joining the B1G, Oregon got access to the entirety of the conference library system. Cal and Stanford don't see the value in most of these MW schools on an academic level.