Charles Fischer

Does anybody really blame the offense for the Rose Bowl loss? Without our deep threat...the receiver who had a career game and WAS the difference in the first meeting with Ohio State at Autzen was injured? But wait...can't you still win with defense? Do you think being down 34-0 might have changed the game plan? Mucked things up? Oregon scored 21 points, right? Why not win 21-17 with a great defensive effort? Couldn't that happen? SHOULDN'T that happen? Oh yeah. Stein should be responsible for the defense too. Good thing his offense came to the rescue in the B1G Championship when the defense was porous.

As you know we look at the total point off to determine the winner, and we have... Game Result: 40-22 Eagles GatOrlando: 27-17 Eagles for a total of 18 points off. BabyJesus: 31-29 Eagles for a total of 16 points off. Mr. FishDuck: 31-27 Eagles for a total of 14 points off. Winner! This looks pretty suspicious, and winning over so few entries is lame...But I never said I was noble! Thanks to everyone for playing through the football season, and we will have great fun in the fall of 2025! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hello My OBD FishDuck Forum Friends! What is your prediction of Kansas City versus Philadelphia? Take your shot and let's have fun with it... Let's get these predictions started, and remember I look for the differential between your predicted points with both teams from the actual points. I will use the tiebreaker information when needed, so provide all the data below! Entries without ALL the information are invalid, and predictions on other threads don't count. And please check the other posts in this thread to prevent putting up the a score that has already been predicted. We had one week where four entries were the same score! Please follow directions, as I need all that is below for tiebreakers: --the winner --the score --the amount of turnovers Philly creates --the number of sacks Philly records on the Chiefs --the number of passing yards by the Chiefs My prediction is: Eagles 31-27 Philly creates two turnovers. Philly sacks Chiefs three times. Chiefs have 321 passing yards. I like the Chiefs, but have been a bigger Eagles fan over time...

He should. When he was asked to score a boatload of points in 2023, he did. When he was asked to do a slow roll-out with the playbook through 2024, he did.

DVH69...now that is fantastic first post. I do welcome you, and would encourage you to post your thoughts often. We are all right about half the time, thus I would love to see all opinions on the many topics. May you add your voice to the forum often! We have had many new people sign up recently and only post once or twice. C'mon! Join the fun, as every opinion here is equal and protected. There are many who have signed up in the past 90 days, and have NOT posted yet! Again...there is no downside because we do not allow personal attacks on other OBD members. We have a great GREEN community here, and I welcome readers to join us! Charles

Oh yeah....Beavis knows what he's doing...

I won't discount that, but Zac really exploded his senior year. He went from "upside" to the No. 45 player in the entire class, and from the status of Oregon's "final" O-line recruit added to the 2025 class, to now the headliner offensive lineman. “Zac Stascausky is one of the biggest senior risers in the 2025 cycle and certainly along the offensive line. We thought he made a considerable jump in his senior film. I think for starters Stascausky has just fantastic movement skills. He has excellent lateral agility and really mirrors pass rushers effortlessly in his pass set. I think when we look at Zac Stascausky we really project him as a high-level pass protector in college. Among the offensive line group that Oregon signed, in our opinion projects as the most likely to be the left tackle of the future for the Ducks. I think there’s just so much value in what he brings. Just from a movement, skills perspective and with what he can do in pass protection. Also just the nastiness he plays with, the physicality in the run game, it all projects really well. We were able to finally get verified size and length on him and he checks out."

Not the least bit worried...

Very, very cool. Goes to show how the staff identified his full upside, and got the job done in recruiting. I am behind the news cycle, but over on On3 was quite a bit about how Zac Stascausky jumped up massively in final rankings of 2025, to not only be one of the best tackles in the class, but the No. 45 player among all positions. He was a 3-Star originally, and the staff worked hard to turn him from Washington, and then he jumped to a Rivals 4-Star as the season progressed, and now he lauded as a very athletic offensive tackle. This staff sees upside before many others do! Zac Stascausky | DuckSportsAuthority N.RIVALS.COM Zac Stascausky - 4 Star Offensive tackle for Oregon on DuckSportsAuthority

It would be a terrible waste of his recruiting skills, IMHO.

Rueben Droughns would have KILLED IT in a Spread Offense... The late Jerry Thompson, a great friend I loved as a super Duck-Buddy, and miss, wrote this great FishDuck article about Droughns.

I have business associates that are Huskies, and I hold my nose when talking football with them. After we're done with that part of the conversation, I will tell them that since I uttered the "H" word, please pardon me while I turn to spit. It is funny, but there is some truth to it! You ARE in the first group, and frankly among the rare souls who are reasonable. I thought this forum would be five times bigger than it is at this time, but what I painfully learned is that most people do NOT want civility. They will leave as soon as they are simply "notified" that they broke a rule. I wasn't warning them, or banning them...just notifying them that they broke a rule and please be more aware going forward. Now let's forget about it and move forward...but they want to fight it. Sigh. So they leave because they love everyone being polite and respectful to them, but they want exceptions made for their behavior. Meanwhile we pick up great new people who love what we have, so the fun continues. So we have a small but very savvy community that I just love. You fit in wonderfully, and I wish we had another 30 or so people like you here. Thought you might enjoy this...

The B1G had four teams that finished in the top-ten with Indiana at No. 10. Pretty cool...

This topic I've given more thought to, as I may have been a bit too flip in an earlier post. David makes a great point about the defense being "Not quite right," and some of the information and discussion in this thread has been extraordinary. It is this community at its best... When I began writing about the MINT defense three years ago--it was acknowledged that it required three "freak" athletes of which are hard to find, to recruit and develop. Clearly, Lanning has good athletes, but not the freaks he needs yet. There are other signs that point to David's premise, for example when players do better when they leave Oregon and go to the NFL? I never thought Evan Williams would even make an NFL roster, let alone be a star for Green Bay. He was a good college player, but not THAT good. Hence it makes you wonder if our defensive alignment did not hold him back?

Amen CFB Brother. I am ashamed at such nonsense. Win it on the field or not at all... (And BTW...I edited your post to make it more family friendly to be in line with our rules. You're welcome)

You know...even if the Private Equity makes a boatload of money....the chances are excellent that the athletic departments will make more with their minority share than they are now. Because if the ADs did not see the opportunity before...how would they have the expertise to capitalize on it now?

Usually it is Oregon, but this year with their embarrassing loss to the Cougars...

I've had that dream before...

Boy isn't that the truth. I would not want to be in a top-heavy conference if I was not one of the heavyweights, but fortunately--we are.

If private equity wants in....that is a terrible reflection of college athletic administration management. That means ADs have SO MISSED so many opportunities the outside investors not only see, but believe they can make huge returns on their investment. PE does not want a nice return; they look for B1G returns, and that means a TON has been left on the table by ADs in the B1G...

In the pondering for this article....I completely changed my views. For the reasons in the articles--I want a Top-Heavy conference, and never thought I'd feel that way.