Charles Fischer

At crunch time he loses confidence, makes the bonehead mistake or gets injured. Can't survive a season. Hard pass.

OK....now I gotta share this. When we played at Washington, I was watching ESPN GameDay when I saw maybe the funniest sign ever. It HAD to be from a graduate Psychology student, and even when you disagree--you have to admit it is funny! Oregon is GREEN with Penix Envy!

Well, Oregon beat USC by nine in Autzen, and the Huskies beat the Trojans by ten in the Coliseum. I can't complain overall with the Washington game, as we had our chances. But I think an analyst on the Pac-12 Network today said it best, "if there was an award for the most pissed-off team in America....Oregon would win it hands-down. They have been playing with a sense of mission and intensity since that loss like no other team."

I am certainly going to have them stopped immediately. But the ad platform people do not arrive at work until Monday morning. If I have the site up on a page on the forum....you are right, in that a video starts blaring! They gotta go, and WILL. My sincere apologies to all.

Trust me--this was not part of my plan on advertising. The company I work with just put them in, and changed the ad placement around without consulting me first. I will be in touch with them on Monday, and things should be fixed soon. We will NOT have video pop-ups on this site. So sorry to all, Charles P.S. I would like your feedback about the top of the site; it now has two huge spaces for ads at the top when there used to be one. Seems like more scrolling doesn't it? I am always trying to find the right blend of generating enough revenue to pay the costs of the two sites, yet not ruining the experience of being on the sites with annoying ads. Thoughts?

Wowsa. I had claimed PittDuck as the winner by tiebreaker, but when you do these things at late night as this old-fart did--you sometimes can make a mistake. The actual winner is Just Ducky, who was only four points off from 49-13 with his 52-14 prediction! Pretty darn good pick, and although I had declared PittDuck the winner--he was close at five points off is all. So I offer my apologies to Just Ducky as well as my congratulations!

My FishDuck Friends, while I am easily amused with humor, and impressed with the smallest items by OBD...Oregon's offensive attack for the Sun Devils was pretty impressive. So many times we fans will evaluate matchups based on talent, but ignore or are unaware of the differences in coaching and preparation. ASU had a robust defensive front, and even the Oregon insiders on the radio spoke of how the Sun Devils had problems on offense, but had a stout defense. Yet, the Oregon offense put 42 up on them in the first half? Whew! Like the Texas Tech game where they had strong huge defensive tackles...the game plan was run outside of them. So you saw a ton of Toss plays, Outside Zone Reads, and flair passes to our running backs in the flat after the WRs took the corners downfield. Oregon knew that ASU would focus on our favorite TE Terrance Ferguson, thus used him and those outside plays later as a decoy to open up Patrick Herbert. Wowsa. Once Arizona State got opened up in all directions--then what happens? The inside plays now become more open as the linebackers, and edge defenders have become hyper-vigilant towards the perimeter. It was a masterful GamePlan my friends, so... We Gotta Savor it!

It is honorable to cheer for the Huskies...when it benefits Oregon. Like tonight.

Oh no, I've turned a new leaf. I will not enjoy the grief of USC fans anymore....

Anybody need breakfast? I’ve got plenty of egg on my face that I can share…

Arizona up on Utah by a 28-7 score in the late second quarter? Whoa!

Here we are my Duck-Buddies, the thread for pondering the actual game as it happens. Let's discuss before, and during the game! The vast majority of you are GREAT in this thread, but you must remember that this forum is different, as we require civilized discourse. Discussion of negative is fine, but don't vent on us! Rule No. 31d covers GameDay Thread Conduct, and it is not hard for the vast majority of us--just a tiny few who need to reign it in when things don't go well for Our Beloved Ducks. Let's Have Fun Posting During the Game! Let's hope it does not take another miracle as in 2015!

There are times that we learn from each other, whether we like it or not! But it is nice to be able to assert strong views, without being personally attacked, as it occurs on all the other sites. Hug a Moderator today!

It is honorable to cheer for the Huskies if it helps Our Beloved Ducks.

I was at the coaches clinics with a ton of High School coaches who hung onto every word from Steve Greatwood who explained every step, the hip angle, hand placement and where the eyes should be looking by offensive lineman. The detail was astounding…not a gimmick!

This sounds similar to what we faced against Texas Tech. They had two really big, strong, stout defenders in the middle, which made inside zone read plays difficult. To wear them out and play to the weaknesses, we threw a ton of plays of passes to running backs out of the backfield, after sending the wide receivers down the field to open up a hole in the zone pass defense.

The likelihood of Chip Kelly, turning 180° with his efforts in recruiting and dealing with boosters, is about as likely as Mario Cristobal having an offense scoring over 40 points a game… They ain’t gonna change.

A great example of not settling for less than what he could get in another year or two. Be patient, Coach, Stein!

While I am not a big Ty Thompson fan, I cannot deny the massive improvement of him on the field this season in his limited opportunities. Doesn’t Stein get credit for that? Everyone, please keep in mind that every play that Coach Stein runs are common in the coaching world. He has no advantage of springing tempo on the opposition, because they are all prepared for it. He does not have the surprise element of his own perfected spread office as Chip Kelly did, because again, his plays are standard ones out there in the football world. He does not have the element of surprise at all, thus his success is that much more remarkable. Greatness and weakness, emerge early, and he is certainly a great example of it. It is not without some growing pains, but again it is growing from a very high level to begin with. I would agree, that having a Bo Nix would make anyone look good, and that next year will be a real test,. But I have seen enough already to be completely confident in knowing that we will still have a very high scoring office. And as a reminder as we will be going into the money portion of the schedule? I do not believe we have seen all of Will Steins surprises yet…

Then you have missed what has been written in the forum many times in the recent past. Stein has recruited three, 4-Star quarterbacks between 2024 and 2025, and this was done last spring and summer before he ever called a single play at Oregon! That, my friend, is selling in anticipation…

I cannot politely disagree with this opinion anymore than what is possible over a message board. Chip introduced fast tempo to college football, and revolutionized the game at that time, and everyone had a difficult time adjusting. It gave us a big edge for about a five year period. The fundamentals of the Chip Kelly offense still work today, as my article today shows, and I have video proof. Will Stein runs the basic plays of the Chip Kelly offense right now, very successfully. Football is football, and if you block it well, the play will work. The difference? The assistant coaches on our offense at the time of Chip Kelly coordinated every tiny detail down to the hand placement, and every single step of the offensive linemen and running back with perfect coordination. They had that offense down cold, and whereas we block those plays well now, it is not with the same precision as when Gary Campbell and Steve Greatwood ran the offense as assistants. I know this, because I created 50 instructional videos 12 years ago, that have been viewed over 2 million times, and at one point I was told that there wasn’t a single assistant high school coach in the northwest that have not watched my videos. Why? Because they were learning from Chip Kelly. I received emails from across the United States of college and high school coaches, and club teams around the world, and even published articles from coaches in Scotland and England at that time. All those coaches would not take the time to learn a gimmick, but they would for an offensive system, coupled with tempo, that would give them an advantage. Chip Kelly failed after Oregon, because of his own hubris in the NFL, and because at UCLA, he could not select and recruit the same quality of assistant coaches that he had at Oregon. Add to that his disdain for recruiting, and it goes to show how his time at Oregon was the perfect storm for college football.

You know the drill, as I need: —Winner —Score —Turnovers Oregon creates —No. of sacks for Ducks —Oregon’s passing yardage Predictions on other threads don’t count, and entries without all the information that is needed for tiebreakers are ineligible. Mr. FishDuck Predictions: Oregon 41-20 3 5 278

You misunderstand. I would rather have three of the 1 year Will Steins, than a dud OC, for three years.

Yep! I would put the Eeyore image in, but I am on my phone at the coast for a few days celebrating my divorce.

You asked for feedback and you got it. What do you think Nick Saban deals with every year? It is the biggest revolving door of coaches ever, and he survives and prospers. Thank goodness Lanning knows better than the fans…