Charles Fischer

We need two or three teams to be great as a top-heavy conference....not six! (You forgot UCLA)

No...you sell yourself as something magic and get a multi-million dollar contract that sets you and your family up for life. And you don't even have to win! Try your best, get fired, take the buy-out and laugh to the bank. We dis Taggart, but he got 17 million to leave Florida State....whew!

That is your opinion. Let's not tell others what to think or feel. Analytics are not always the right thing to do, and I have coaches on speed-dial that would tell you that. ----------------------- "How do you post correctly? You give your opinion in a polite and respectful way…and that is it. No reference to anyone else, no telling anyone what to think, feel or write. When everyone just posts their opinions in a polite and respectful way, then we learn from each other and have civilized discourse. Bottom line is that we do not throw shade on others for giving their opinion, or starting a post. What we have in the rules works with over 100,000 posts written and the tiny deletion rate of less than half of 1%." ---------------------------------- If you have a response to this--email me.

While I would enjoy saying you're psycho, I won't. But your observation about the defense is close, IMHO. This defense has badly underperformed the experience and talent, IMHO.

Alamo Bowl loss to TCU. Good gosh, are we really going to wallow in negative? This loss was bad....so how bad was it? Let's think about other bad losses!

Yep. I've been told that I need to go to these and, "show-the-flag" for better access. For what? More blah-blah? This is not on Lanning, as they ALL did it. The only difference among them? At least Bellotti was charming, and made you laugh as he told you nothing.

Wrong. You knew what the deal was when you signed up as a college football player. You get nearly two million dollars in benefits the rest of us never get, as well as being incredibly athletically gifted as so many would love to be. He should be dismissed and sent away immediately. Have others pack his stuff and deliver it. There has been so much showboating and nonsense--there has to be an end to it.

Do not "Throw Group-Shade" at other fans who disagree with your view, or who do not match your level of anger or indignation. "How do you post correctly? You give your opinion in a polite and respectful way…and that is it. No reference to anyone else, no telling anyone what to think, feel or write. When everyone just posts their opinions in a polite and respectful way, then we learn from each other and have civilized discourse. Bottom line is that we do not throw shade on others for giving their opinion, or starting a post. What we have in the rules works with over 100,000 posts written and the tiny deletion rate of less than half of 1%." "Do NOT get Personal with the Players or Coaches. You can write anything about anyone in the world in the forum…including former Oregon players and coaches. But you cannot get personal with current Oregon players and coaches. Discussing player performance (errors) and coaching decisions is what we do on a forum, but we don’t get personal with current Oregon players or coaches." I already have four posts to delete today, and an all-time monthly record for this month at 34 total thus far, when the norm is 15. I am losing my patience babysitting adults...for crying out loud, just be nice! Be a GOOD Fan, as that is what most of the OBD members are here...

From the article.... "Begin thinking as a 56-year-old coach versus a 36-year-old; try not to learn the big lessons the hard way as you just did with Bo Nix please?" "Coaches Lanning and Dillingham are building a bank of coaching experience and knowledge while at Oregon, and I just hope that Oregon fans later get to cash that check owed to us for the “learning losses” when they reach coaching maturity."

Bo showing more mobility in the pocket already and willing to throw long completely changes this game already in a big way for Oregon. Whew!

Here we are my friends, the thread for discussing 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 discussion. 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. Let's Have Fun Posting During the Game!

A Great Mind.....

Power is restored to Reser Stadium...only.

It could be a late game after all? Yikes.

Somebody took down some Oregon State Architecture?

Good! And you did it the perfect way, a great example to all as to how to "politely disagree" with someone. So all of you reluctant to post--this is how we do it! And it is enforced, as we have your back! This thread is another example, as I did not know Rhule's record at Temple, and what he overcame--thanks to Pennsylvania Duck for that and ALL the work done bringing us the articles!

I agree, and am often amazed at the observations of this community. I just wish more would jump in and give us their views, as none are wrong. We may disagree, but have to do so nicely, and thus we all learn from each other. Civility is highly under-rated...

This was covered extensively in threads after the Stanford game. This is from the 2012 game at USC where Mariota would Zone Read a DE on the left side while meshing with DAT running to the right. If the read defender crashed, then Marcus would pull the ball and follow two pulling blockers to the left. If the defender being read "sat" then he would hand off to DAT would run to the right "naked" side, (no blocking) but you had DAT one-on-one with defenders in the open field. It was good-or-good between who ran the ball. We did this early versus Stanford and really messed them up. Then we flipped it and had the mesh with the RB going to the left and Bo could run the "naked" direction. We ran pass-plays off this, and other sequential plays in that game and the next. I called it the "Mariota" play,....just because it was cool in 2012 to see him run behind two pulling big blockers. "Quarterback in the Clear!"

Dawson Jamarillo doesn't understand why everyone doesn't love the Mullet...

The tougher Rivals rankings have Oregon No. 12 in the nation with 11 of the 4 & 5-Star players, while USC is No. 13 with nine of them. Donte Dowdell

Meh. I think he is a good coach, but could have waited for a better opportunity. Nebraska overcame their recruiting difficulties in the past because of their national reputation, but now is a tough road. He should have waited for a better opening near a major well-funded metro center.

I hope going into every year that Oregon wins 10 games, because if you win 10...you are a respected, good team. You will be nationally ranked, and probably in a good bowl. Ten is my benchmark!

Always fun having a Xs and Ox chat with Dazed, and I agree with his contentions listed in another thread. Defense: Coach Lupoi is not on any chopping block; I believe that when he announced that he wanted an attacking defense at Oregon when hired--he meant it. He also told us another reason for coming to Oregon was due to his admiration of Lanning's brilliance on defense, hence he wanted to learn from Dan and improve his DC expertise. I still refer to earlier articles where both Dazed and I concluded independently in the week after the Washington State game, that Lanning decided that with this high-scoring offense....a Cover-2 Bend-But-Don't-Break defense was in order. As Dazed wrote, you don't look at the usual metrics; the scoreboard is the one that matters. Against Washington, the Cover-2 was exploited, there was not any mixing up the defenses, and a number of other factors had to play out perfectly for the Huskies...and they did. Thus with Utah, Lanning did not take over, but realized that with a defensive reboot in only a week from primarily Cover-2 to Cover-1...it is all-hands-on-deck to help make it happen. Thus why we saw more involvement from Lanning on the sideline assisting Lupoi, and creating a great learning experience for our DC. I agree with many here as well that we will mix it up for the Beavers, but primarily run Cover-1 to slow the Beaver rushing attack, and make the OSU QB try to outscore us through the air. That is an "iffy" proposition for Oregon State. Offense: It has been asked often "why" we did not run the ball well versus Utah, and I point to a couple of factors; the first is the loss of veteran offensive linemen of which may not be the case this week. Rumors of Alex Forsyth returning are being hinted. Ryan Walk and Steven Jones are back at guard, thus run-blocking will be improved a touch. Why just a touch? A massive element in running success has been the introduction nearly each week of new running plays and formations to confuse the opponent. Surprise can work as well as a block, and then as the opponent adjusts--you run sequential plays off the original new play. Pulling out the Jumbo formation, the "I" formation, the Twin Backs, the "Mariota" play, etc. all contributed in a BIG way to our rushing success. But last week the offense could not roll out any new running plays as it was assumed that Ty would be starting, hence the practices were focused upon the basic plays and the new perimeter passing plays used to attack the Utes. There was not enough time to roll anything new out, and you don't do that to a new QB. (Exhibit "A" was the Jet-Sweep Reverse vs. Utah) I believe Dilly has quite a few new surprises up his sleeve, and this will help take tons of pressure off of Bo to make plays on a hobbled ankle. As Dazed and I discussed--we would not be surprised to see some deep passes thrown early along with some bootleg and even Zone Read (to the outside) mild runs by Bo to establish to the Beavers that, "you better not pack the box or we will hurt you." New wrinkles on offense might help make up for lack of complete speed and mobility of Bo. And this is the time for our wide receivers and tight ends to prove their separation talents, and get-open against the sticky Oregon State defensive backs. This could be a superb "step-up" game for them, as there is great pride from beating a great secondary. Setting Things Straight at Reser The majority of this team has a bad taste in their mouth just thinking about being at Reser the last time. A game Oregon should have won, but so many mistakes gave it to OSU in the end. I would like to think the respect factor and the revenge factor is going to be present for many of these veteran players. Unlike many games under a prior coach where the team came out flat--I don't see that happening here. Beat the Beavers! Mr. FishDuck

Hello My OBD FishDuck Forum Friends! What is your prediction versus Oregon State? Take your shot and let's have fun with it... Lets get these predictions started, (since the game starts at 12:30 tomorrow--I thought I'd get it started early on Friday) 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 as I am not going to hunt them all down. I am no longer going to PM three or four people who don't read directions each week. 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 30-27 1 1 343