David Marsh

I don't like being up by just 8 points.

Caleb Williams may start getting worse out there due to exhaustion. He has been running his butt off and no one can keep that up under this pressure.

So far USCs defense has opted to sell out to stop the run.... On the bright side they can say they haven't allowed Oregon any first downs..

Oregons balanced offensive attack is going to give USC a few choices. 1. Sell out to stop the run ... And get beat by Nix passing it all day. 2. Sell out to stop the pass ... And Bucky Irving has an amazing day. 3. Try and stop both... And Oregon does what we it wants. I'm hoping that Oregon puts up at least 60 on the... But I dream of 70.

So.... Washington scored just as many points as Oregon in their win over Utah with 35. But allowed... 22 more points. It really annoys the crap out of me we lost to Washington when we are clearly the better team.

Looks like Utah just ran out of offense. Washington can kill the clock and win it.

The Utah player watched the film from 2014 when a Utah player dropped the ball before the end zone and Joe Walker ran it back. Because the Ute was all like... "There's a ball here... And it's not in the end zone... I better jump on this..."

Washington would get beat by Michigan or Georgia. They've been lucky when they have needed to be this year. The refs also seem to be watching their backs because they should be flagged far more than they are. It just irks me that Washington gets away with stuff the Ducks never would.

Oh that cristobal offense... I certainly don't miss it. The runner goes straight ahead into a pile of linemen, both offensive and defensive, when there is an open lane if the back were to just cut and take it. It's amazing how many yards Verdell and Dye ran for in this offense but could you imagine their numbers in the Lanning offense???

Also... Washington is getting away with loads of holds from their offensive line again. The Ducks would have been penalized for most of those. You can't hug the opposing defensive lineman to set the edge. That's called a hold refs.

Washington played out of their freaking minds against Oregon and Oregon shot themselves in the foot in so many ways that game. I think that was a massive learning game for the oregons staff. So....I don't follow the Huskies that closely but I'm sure they have some November depth issues at the moment. They have very little depth overall and it's November so most teams usually need to start digging into the depth. Not always because players are injured and out of the game entirely but because players start feeling the wear and tear of the season and just need more rest.

Well Utah has scored more points against Washington than they did all game against Oregon.

In fairness... Their defense will get them the ball back pretty quickly I'd think. It just might come with a 7 on the score board.

Not feeling it out of Penn State here. They just don't feel dynamic enough on offense to deal with Michigan. At the end of the day it might be nic to eliminate Penn State from CFP chaos with another loss. Michigan and Ohio State will most take care of themselves. It's the teams with one loss in the first half of the season that are the danger to sneek into the playoff. Oregon is one of these teams.

Go Texas Tech... They aren't the same team we faced. But it wouldnt hurt for them to be a bit better for our resume.

I am aware I am posting this before game day... So the three of you who read this before Saturday, I apologize. For everyone else you're reading this on one of the biggest days of the season for the Ducks. I am feeling good about a Ducks win but they do face a big eyeball test, at least a score board eyeball test. It's a pac-12 after dark game which means the majority of the East Coast is going to bed and they'll only look at the box scores in the morning. And this game's box scores against USC is going to be huge because our biggest competition right now are those darned Huskies and they just played USC last week. Now if Oregon can beat USC by a wider margin and potentially score more points, I'm hoping for 60, that will go a long way to showing those on the east coast that the Ducks are currentlu the better team. Additionally, Washington plays Utah today as well. I anticipate Washington winning this one, it's also at Washington, but if the Huskies are in a close(r) game it will go a long way to showing just how much better our Ducks are. After all, the Ducks put Utah away so thoroughly that Utah looked like an unranked team. Can Washington keep Utah to below 10 points? Unlikely. Will they score more than 35, that's a possibility but Oregon put Utah away and just ran out the clock against them. The Ducks didn't need to score more points. So for the box scores eyeballs... Let's hope that the Ducks run up the score and that Utah makes Washington look a bit more mortal. I'm torn as to if I want Washington to lose or not. I always want them to lose but I'm conflicted in that I am unsure how it will or will not help us. I think Washington is a top 10 team but not top 5 and they've been very lucky to date. Oregon has impressed the committee in how they are putting away opponets like Georgia, Alabama and Clemson all did on their title runs... Leaving no doubt whose the better team. And Oregon should get another shot at Washington regardless ... Unless there is a major disaster somewhere. So go Ducks!

The short narrative comes from British propaganda. If you look at the political cartoons of the era from Britain they depict Napoleon as short and with what is now referred to as a Napoleon complex. See look how tiny he is in this cartoon. It's. Mostly the British poking fun at the French and Napoleon because Napoleon can't touch them due to the British sinking all the majority of their Navy at Triffalger. I like to think the Ducks make political cartoons making USC look short and silly. Probably could make char GBT come up with something.

Except Napoleon understood the value of defense.

I'm feeling pretty relaxed about this game at the moment. This was not the case before Washington. I think this new confidence I'm feeling is that the gams prep by this team both from coaches and players has been so much better since that loss.

If he stays with the Ducks through this season he may get a ring or two for being apart of the team. But I think if he wants to get the primary target or at least a top target for a team and make a run at the draft he may want to go to a team with a bit of a rebuild but with a solid quarterback and offense to get him seen. ASU wouldn't be a bad option for him in that regard.

Napoleon was also Corcican which was just added to France before he was born. Also... Leipzig didn't go so well for him as it marked the beginning of the end for his French Empire. Waterloo was the nail in the coffin during his grand comeback tour. No idea where I was going with this...

It took a couple of rereads ... but it does look like this is mostly in reference to looking at the USC-Washington film in particular. Basically... it went so bad that they can't bare to watch the game again. As a fan, I get it... but I'm not a player who needs to figure out what went wrong to fix it so it doesn't happen again. So they aren't saying they don't look at any film... but the film you learn from the most (like anything) comes from losses and mistakes and not successes. So it is still a pretty bad thing to put out there that he doesn't want to look at film and evaluate how he could get better.

Delgado has been injured by the sound of it. Hutson has appeared in three games. I think he wants to keep his red shirt so might appear in one more. I mean I imagine he's good enough to be in rotation overall but he wouldn't see a ton of minutes because of the overall depth otherwise. So I think it's red shirtinn related to transfer at seasons end. I could be wrong though.

Steve Stephens IV praises Kris Hutson's scout team looks in preparation for USC 247SPORTS.COM Senior safety Steve Stephens IV says Kris Hutson has done a great job with the scout team of preparing... Scout team apparently... He's played in 3 games so he has his redshirt and I fully expect him to transfer at the end of the season. But talk about the depth at receiver when a starter like Hutson gets lost in the depth. Hutson has been fairly solid the past few years and he just disappeared from the rotation this year. Probably in part his own decision in wanting to transfer after being beat out in the rotation. But also look at his continued buy in this season. He is working with the scout team when he was a starter thr past few years. If his intention was to transfer then he could have easily.just given up on the team but he's still there working and working a job that doesn't get noticed.

Penalties have been so up and down this year. It really makes me feel it's more about the ref crew than anything else. It wouldn't be a shocker if the pac-12 refs lack consistency among themselves. Here are just some examples I can remember off the top of my head. Against PSU we had like 1 penalty and it was like the 3rd string. Against Texas Tech boat loads. Utah... Relatively few from the Ducks. Cal... Loads of stupid stuff. It just doesn't feel consistent and it's difficult to predict how any ref crew is going to react to certain things. There also seems to be an on going trend that smaller offensive lines seem to get away with holding at a far higher rate than bigger ones.