David Marsh

I love the way he just holds the edge and holds the contain until he knows he can make a move. I know those were highlights so he doesn't play that well every play but still great instincts. He didn't just blindly rush which I think is a big deal. Holding contain on the edge means that plays just can't go to his side which means the rest of the team knows where the play is probably going. Also you get a real sense that he knows he can beat his man on any given down. So him holding contain isn't him being contained but doing his job. Because once you know he doesn't need to hold his contain anymore he springs free and is going to party in the backfield.

In 2015 (when Petersen went to UW) we were coming off a National Championship appearance. Sark went from UW to USC and UW grabbed Petersen. Oregon had no interest because Helfrich was our guy at the time. Then there was some potential interest after Cristobal left but Petersen really seems done with College Football because of the recruiting side of things. He opted to retire from Washington, he was not fired. There may have been some interest back in 2012-2013 after Kelly but the Oregon tradition at the time was promote from within... Beyond that Petersen's offensive style was prostyle and Oregon made its name by being a spread offense with high tempo. The Oregon brand at the time needed to keep the Kelly offense so Helfrich was really the guy. Timing never worked out for Oregon and Petersen.

Something I read said that it looks like ESPN will be doing at least some production. So it's probably just a platform. On the PAC side of things oddly enough a big thing (that is also making everything more complicated) is that we actually have a production capacity. Larry Scott created the pac-12 network in what was a massive folly... But it's built and now an asset if it's leveraged correctly. CW, Amazon, Apple and any other streaming platforms doesn't have the production... But the pac-12 can provide that but that comes at a cost to the streamer which they know they must incurr.

And when the PAC gets a better contract than the big-12 and streaming is THE thing... Yeah we'll laugh at them all the more. The big-12 took an awful but fast deal and will be hurting without their big two schools. We'll see how things change in 2024.

Roku is pretty straightforward... And it's just about getting your feet wet at this point. Don't need to dive into the deep end just yet and go exclusive streaming.

Dan has a vision for what he wants his defense to look like. He didn't gut the ducks when he got there and took a year to evaluate what he had. He determined what he had or more to the point didn't have in that he didn't have linebackers who could consistently cover and didn't have edge rushers. Oddly enough the secondary did a pretty good job as the year went on last year but we're constantly undermined by the linebackers giving up the underneath routes and no real pass rush, in part to the underneath routes. And even then Lanning and improved the secondary. Oregon is going to have a monster defense to go with a monster offense. I still see Riley at USC playing big-12 style football... Namely shootouts. It's worked for him so far in his career... Well mostly worked. So it'll probably continue.

But we really aren't beta testing it at this point. I've been streaming games in some way shape or form for over a decade now. I used a friend's Comcast account for years to stream games. It worked just fine on significantly worse internet and a setup than I have now. I used to plug a computer into the TV back then. Now I can use a remote to access the apps on my TV to stream games. Are there some issues... Sure... But compared to ten years ago it's smooth. I know rural areas have more issues with internet than urban areas and I live in Portland so I definitely have better access to internet than those in more rural areas. So I can see some difficulties for those in more rural areas. When it comes to the tech to stream... A Chromecast or a Roku make it very easy. Personally I like the Chromecast better because you can stream stuff from your phone to the tv nice and easy.... In a lot of ways it's easier than trying to use a remote and navigating menus. If the PAC announces a deal that includes streaming I'll write an article on FishDuck about the easiest ways to get streaming set up. Once it's set up actually feels like linear TV and set up these days is pretty easy but I understand it can be daunting if you don't know. Streaming is the future but it's also the present. I know younger generations will have easier times adapting than older ones. I'm not trying to be dismissive but it's where everything is going and again I'd be happy to write an article about how to best get duck games in a non-linear fashion. It would just be nice to know what services they will be using but I can probably start writing one now as next season I'll be completely without cable and streaming all the games. And for the PAC... Getting in early may be here the money is and they can leverage the that pac-12 network debacle that Larry Scott made into potentially a major asset. It's not a beta product anymore... It's all about ensuring they can get the audience and that might take a year or two to ramp up as people get used to the transition. But let's also face it.. the Pac-12 network doesn't have much of an audience on linear TV as it is right now.

Just going to post one of my older articles which I still feel has a lot of truth in it. I would say Scott Frost was right for the time but times have changed a lot and the walls have certainly come down to some of the greatest barriers Oregon has faced in the past. But the mentallity of how to recruit with Cristobal and now Lanning has completely changed how Oregon is able to recruit. Scott Frost Was Absolutely Right About Recruiting to Oregon FISHDUCK.COM Oregon is hot on the recruiting trail right now. Just last week, Oregon landed 2022 recruit Andre Dollar over Scott Frost and... Then to follow that up... just take a quick look at how Oregon's recruiting was during the Bellotti, Kelly and Helfrich eras. Modern Oregon recruiting isn't in the same ball park. https://fishduck.com/2022/02/a-defense-of-helfrichs-recruiting-legacy/ The second link may not be working... I was getting an error trying to pull it up but the link is still good once it works again. But in short.. Lanning is bringing a recruiting mentality to Oregon that simply wasn't there in the past. Oregon was all about finding diamonds in the rough and every few years might be able to steal a five-star recruit. I would say Scott Frost is really stuck in an older school recruiting mentality and that bit him real bad at Nebraska. If he goes back to coaching in the G5 the older approach of finding diamonds in the rough works really well for G5 schools because that's the talent that they can get. But remember Frost's time at Oregon was during the eras of Oregon's building reputation and brand that attracts kids to it today... it was still pretty dependent on 3-stars. I remember during Helfrich's time that the Oregon staff came in 2nd with a lot of high end recruits... and coming in 2nd back then isn't what it is today. With all that said... I wouldn't want Frost back at Oregon and recruiting. He isn't a big enough recruiter for this day and age.

Give him a year... He will be spending half the season freezing his butt off in the Midwest and probably see more snow in a year than the majority of southern Californians will see in their life times.

I'm not sure if that individual is being sarcastic or not... Either way it denotes a major failure and delusion.

I'm cool with a throwback uniform. We saw it in 2014 against Washington for the anniversary of the pick. I also wouldn't mind seeing the uniforms from the early 2010's come back. Those were real nice looking (granted I really started following Oregon at that time so there's my bias). Granted the early 2010s was really peak bonkers in a lot of ways. Also... Chrome helmets... Wouldn't mind seeing those again.

It sounds like it's a third and short situation with the media deal right now. Just need to get everything lined up correctly and it's done. It doesn't sound like it's a 4th and 5 everyone poo your pants moment.

Would I like to? Yes Will I be able to? No idea... but hopefully.

Did that Washington board say they were going to flip Franklin? And like every other player at Oregon?

My reading of that is that they aren't panicked... That can either mean they have a good deal that is being ironed out or a deal they can live with... Spin it however you want.

Last year all the MC era runningback decided they wanted to mortal before the meat of the season. The fear of the portal is certainly a factor. Irving and Whittington are both juniors so they can enter the draft at the end of the year. I can see Irving being good enough to make the leap potentially... Whittington I could see needing an extra year but that comes with the risk of being overshadowed as he isn't really built to be an every down back of a featured back. So keeping players engaged is going to be difficult.

I do feel that Oregon is going to rotate through probably 3 backs regularly this year. We'll probably see the freshman play against PSU in the opener and a few other games in garbage time. I personally think Irving needs more snaps per game than he got last year... I also feel that he needs to be in the field running touchdowns in around the goal line. He only had 5 rushing touchdowns last year because he wasn't on the field around the goal line.

I do love the idea of using a huddle to just disguise stuff in general. Basically what if a huddle isn't actually a huddle sort of thing.

Or a summons to a trial because Taggart encouraged more sketchy behavior we didn't know about...

Return to sender? I mean Taggart wasn't in Oregon long enough to have a permanent address... I mean he never moved his family here.

Not saying this will happen... But I think it might be their plan. It's easy for this whole thing to get blown up. I think it's just as likely that everything gets divided up into the big two and everyone else. I wrote about that scenario last year. The Great College Football Schism is Coming FISHDUCK.COM The great college football schism is coming, and it will fracture college football in a way that will shake the... And how everything could see a major reset of sorts. The Eventual College Football Renaissance FISHDUCK.COM The Great College Football Schism is Coming, and it will leave College Football divided between the... But as with all things it's highly speculative. I also think that the financial game would have to change dramatically because it doesn't really pencil as it stands for Oregon to join the B1G. For that to work and make sense on a financial level there would have to be a willingness for whatever that contract looks like to help alleviate travel expenses for teams that have to travel the most. I highly doubt that would be the case as it stands right now... Or they add more west coast teams which would cause new problems.

Pretty much guarantee this was it... A big time in state talent for Arizona. Worth throwing the bag at. The rest of their class will be three star talent and maybe a couple of four stars.

And I'm sure that will be a follow up pitch. Though the flip side of things... KT was still a top 10 draft pick even when he was constantly double and triple teamed here. So for Rushing as long as he has some good film showing his potential he'll get drafted. Though... He'd be on a team with a lot higher ceiling at Oregon. Downside is he'd have to work harder to see the field... Which again would benefit him in the long run. It isn't over yet.

A lot of these posters are just highly reactionary. Anything good or bad comes with extreme responses. It's kinda the nature of the internet... The most extreme response garner the greatest reactions. Granted I do think most get caught up in the immediate moment and never take a wider view of what is going on. Oregon is going to keep recruiting Rushing and they will probably take another good run at him leading into December and will probably take a shot with an updated NIL package.

Oh yeah scoop duck has some crazy people who lose their minds when Oregon misses a recruit. They were calling for Tosh to be fired the other day as "he serves no purpose other than to recruit" which is just false... Tosh is a very good positional coach, we're still learning about his coordinator skills. Losing rushing hurts... But that group also doesn't seem to understand that Jedd Fisch was an INCREDIBLE hire for Arizona. Sure the results aren't there at the moment but he is a dedicated and diligent coach. I love how his team played the last two years, they never gave up on the field. He's not going to win the vast majority of his recruiting battles.but he is going to win enough. Also... There is a scoop duck crowd that gets annoyed that Phil Knight and Division Street don't just out bid everyone for players with the NIL potential. I think the NIL game is pretty solid at Oregon. Right now they seem to have their numbers set and it really does seem like division street doesn't want to get into bidding wars, at least not this early in the cycle... But we have seen them get more aggressive down the stretch. Josh Connerly comes to mind as he likes Oregon more but USC had a bigger package and Oregon closed the gap at the end of the recruitment and landed him. I browse scoop duck all the time... But I never bother posting. You'll get drown out out there real fast.