Charles Fischer

I love this play for the stress it puts on the defense. With Bo’s reputation for running-I would think the opponent would move the safety up into the box to add a defender. That would leave the slant, or a hitch-and-go wide open with the WR. I would prefer seeing this on second or third down, and not fourth down, since there is a good chance of errors. Love it! Thanks Coach Boles!

Good grief. If anyone should get it--Schwartz should, considering how I covered him during his playing days for Chip. This defense will be helped by an emerging Matayo, but the key are the portal transfers on defense that Lanning brought in at LB, DB and JACK linebacker. All those transfers will make a MASSIVE change in the defense, and you heard me declare it now a ton of times while the pundits/media do not recognize it yet. Tysheem Johnson (No. 27) is a fast, but stout defender who fits perfectly at the STAR position. He will be a FORCE for Oregon.

Boy....this is not the kind of attitude I recall from when he was playing there and when he left! (Seeing his success at Oregon has to make them a little butt-hurt)

Agreed, but I thought it was relevant to report and an opportunity to celebrate our newfound depth at Oregon.

Great idea, and the Texas Tech game is a good start.

This would be BIG, as he is a perfect profile for the Lanning defense, and he is the No. 1 rated player in the state of Washington. For the Huskies?

Meanwhile, can't you just feel Coach Witt just all puckered up? (He hasn't had a bowel movement in a week)

Remember years back when his opinion mattered?

BTW...their starters at guard were already going to have thin numbers in reserve, and now... Be grateful that Lanning has loaded up the way he has! That is a big Duck at guard, in Steven Jones, No. 74. And another Oregon site says that the Huskies have very little experience in Running Backs behind the starter who was injured.

If it was Oregon State? I'm sure they would be blaming Oregon....

Boy, you read the written transcript of what Tosh said in his interview? Whew! That guy has been in coaching a long time, and knows how to say a TON....and not tell us anything new. That is a skill, you know. And that is what they all do when you have closed spring and fall practices--they tell us nothing. After the actual football games--there is no place to hide; they can't spin off stuff because we all saw the game. We can learn a lot from coaches after a game, but from practices? You could transplant everything a coach was saying at another conference team on the same day....with hardly a difference. A SID (Sports Information Director) once told me...."the only thing more paranoid than a Basketball coach....is a football coach!" Hence the tortuous coach-speak...

I completely agree with this, and I would like to think that in a year or two we can challenge Ohio State for the best.

Cool!

Ouch!

And another building?

See post number 6 below for update.... On other sites they say it is in downtown Dallas.... and considering all the Texas players joining us? Good call.

I completely agree. I believe he is building the core of the team now, and then will add with high quality talent each via HS, and as you said--plug holes with the portal or take advantage of what comes your way. For example...a portal QB coming to us this next winter could hurt the QB room in terms of attitude. Yet do you want to start 2024 with an experienced or inexperienced QB? What to do about that decision?

This was already reported this morning on this forum. Please read all the threads below the top few.... He is not going to be a 2024 scholarship.

This is what Coaches do these days, and Lanning caught on. It does not matter if it was Bellotti, Chip, Taggart, Cristobal or Dano....scrimmage reports leave me with...

Very few in the media know how to line up the defensive depth chart. There is NO Sam, Will or Mike linebacker, as we only have two linebackers in the 4-2-5 MINT defense. We have a JACK linebacker, a MAC linebacker, and a fifth defensive back, the STAR.

What is fascinating to me is how Lanning fixed the linebacker problem by recruiting a ton of defensive backs. The LB recruiting was coming up short, but Coach 'Meat was super with safeties and corners. Thus recruiting a boatload of portal DBs....he could move safeties Bryce Bettcher, and Jamal Hill to MONEY linebacker to help solve that problem. That, and adding weight.