Charles Fischer

I think it is a cool uniform with a great tribute....but any other home game please...

Wear a black uniform against Oregon State? Really?

DrJackPlaidPants! One of the great handle names on the forum that evokes pleasant memories of past champions in the state. As you know, Oregon won 34-14, and DrJackPlaidPants predicted a 35-17 score, that was only four total points off. Winner! It is wonderful to see all the great names of this forum entered in the contest each week, and if you have not--join the fun! Congrats Again to DrJackPlaidPants!

Their new conference is worse than the Mountain West? It seemed like a good idea at the time...

Oregon State 14 Texas Tech 45 Washington State 10 North Texas 59 How 'Bout Those Scores?

Good game to win, yet point out our flaws to work on. The development of many of our freshmen, is encouraging and promising for later in the season, and the future.

While our defense has not been perfect, and given up more ground yards than we are comfortable with, the bottom line is that they have given up zero points at halftime, which is certainly the goal for the first half! Ol’ TerryM9 might be pretty darn close on his score before it’s over!

While Dante has missed a few passes, he has thrown a couple of extraordinarily accurate passes. This gives him fantastic confidence going forward, and this is as good as I had hoped to see from him early in the season.

And New Mexico is up 14-7 on UCLA? The Bruins can't stop the running game of the....LOBOs?

Boy, I don't know because the designated "Star" is Jaden Canady, the transfer from Ole Miss, and he has been all over the field as that fifth defensive back. First, with five defensive backs....if the Free Safety, (Dillon) is up closer, then we still have four DBs to combat the passing attack of our opposition. And...I cannot help but think this was brought about because of the unique talents of Thieneman?

Playing a safety up closer to the box, (in the middle) allows Dillion Thieneman to crash in run-support, and yet help out in the mid-zones in pass defense. It makes sense against a run-heavy B1G conference, and we had it implemented on us in the Rose Bowl...so we know it works! It morphs into a Tampa-2 kind of defense for passes, but I think it takes a very savvy safety, (such as Dillon) to make this work. Although...I believe Kingston Lopa was playing this spot in relief, and he sure brought the wood on some running plays. Thanks for pointing this our Eric, and we look forward to more of your thoughts on this and other elements of the team! Kingston Lopa

What is remarkable to me is how nearly two-thirds of the conference only have recruits travel only a third or half as much. We have a tall disadvantage to overcome, as prior coaches knew, but Lanning and his staff overcome these barriers.

I've been staying in touch with 30Duck, who has a tech issue and thus why he has not posted in a while. He hopes to be back in a few weeks, but he did give me HIS prediction... Oregon 46-14 Two Turnovers Two Sacks 268 Passing yards

Hello My OBD FishDuck Forum Friends! What is your prediction of Oregon versus Northwestern? 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. We Have Two New Rules: If two winning scores are tied, and tiebreakers tie? The first one who posted wins, automatically. TerryM9 gets 42-6 locked in every time as his. (I love this guy!) Please follow directions, as I need all that is below for tiebreakers: --the winner --the score --the amount of turnovers Oregon creates --the number of sacks Oregon records on the opposing team --the number of passing yards by the Ducks. My prediction is: Oregon 48-13 2 3 251

Pretty impressive, and to have both freshmen starting corners within an hour driving distance in Maryland, (how far is THAT from Oregon?) shows that Oregon's recruiting nationally is working due to the skills of this staff.

I politely disagree, as I don't want to be the "bad-guys," but would rather stick to an Oregon color scheme. All Yellow?

That is true; we need cannon-fodder...

They've got it SO GOOD, and they want to kill the Golden Goose for everyone?

I disagree with your characterization of the teams. There are NO Power 5 programs or conferences, as it is only Power 4 conferences, and it has been that way for at least two years. In the past we referred to the other conferences as "Group-of-Five" leagues, but now with the "new" Pac-12...it is "Group-of-Six." The difference in the teams is clear, as they cannot afford what we can with their media contract for Beavis at 10 million a year versus our payout for 2025 of 54 million. As for your question...I agree that three easy teams and a bye does not fully prepare Penn State for Oregon, but four easy teams for us does not help us either. Our guys would have a much tougher intersquad scrimmage than any of these four games. I wish we had at least one major challenge before meeting the 'Lions, but it is what it is.

Gotta have some fun...

That is from the past....we don't know if that is available for this year.