Charles Fischer

Duck 1972, I would not be surprised to see movement at Oregon in terms of position if the Ducks do not find a TE in the portal in two months. For example, the defense has TWELVE edge rushers on the roster, when you only need four, five at most? Most are TE size and probably played it on offense in HS as well. The coaches could find the best five edges, and let the bottom two know there are options elsewhere on the team? DJ Johnson transferred to Oregon as a TE/DE combo, so taking a freshman or RS freshman or two from the Edge position would not hurt depth, and yet give the young guns some potential PT this next year. Patrick Herbert is going to score!

And....to make the Bulldog defense work--you need athletic freaks at three positions on the field; the Jack linebacker, the Money linebacker, and the Star Defensive back. These players are called upon to do incredible assignments that only the most talented, well-coached, and disciplined can pull off. We are in stage one of assembling the talent, then comes teaching it and refinement, hence my four-year install. Last year? It was....

Joshua....your article had a ton of "ouch" moments for me, and while you are right about the defense--I still maintain that some bonehead decisions to eschew field goals, and to run Nix between the tackles decided our fate regardless of the weak defense. Now granted--we would have been chewed up at the upper levels, but it was there. I did not think that Oregon would give up 27 points per game in 2022 as they did in 2021; I looked it up and yep--you are correct. No improvement, it just seemed worse than it was at times. I believe now that the Lanning defense is a four year install, and a month ago--I thought it might be three. 2023 will be improvement, but not enough to satisfy most. 2024 will be a big jump, and 2025 we will "arrive." In 2019, Oregon gave up 16 points per game, but had an underwhelming offense. In 2014 Oregon gave up 23 points per game, while in 2012 we also finished No. 2 in the final poll, the Ducks gave up 21 points per game. For the 'Natty year of 2010, the Ducks gave up 18 points per game. What is a reasonable goal? Well Georgia gave up 14 points a game last year, and if the Ducks could split the difference and give up 20 or 21 points per game? If so...

Our forum behavior, as defined by the number of violations and percentage of total posts, went up a bit in 2022, from 2021. The bottom line? Over the life of the forum from late September of 2021 through the end of February of 2023--we have had 72,788 posts written with a total of 325 violations or edits done. That is nearly 45ths/100ths of 1% of all posts written, or rounded off going from 3/10ths of 1% violations up to 4/10ths of 1% of violations. Now I think that is a low number, but as a percentage of increase--it is not good. The problem is that most people want to write whatever they want to write--when they want to write it or they are out. Never mind the impact on the community, and that is today's selfish culture I've written about before! I would not wish the notifying/haggling 325 times on anyone. (Oh goody...I get to do that the rest of my life?) It is a shame that we lost a number of people because they loved the rules until the rules were applied to them, and they could not handle even a notification email. But the good news is that we attracted a number of great new members who write great posts. I love this community, and look forward to the great times ahead! We get along just fine, and then....

Thornton to Tennessee, and Swinson to LSU make no sense. They will play as much there as they did at Oregon!

IMHO, Dante’ is ready for the next level, and Ware is not. But I’m sure he’ll go anyway.

Especially if Oregon can negotiate a surplus amount compared to the OSUs, and WSUs of the world to reflect our bigger audience and market. If the Pac-12 can give us more than an equal share, and we can make the playoffs easier in the Pac-12 and thus make LOTS more money from that, (and national exposure that elevates the brand)...does it make sense to leave under those circumstances?

I doubt all of it... And Dodd has lost a ton of my respect in the last couple of months.

Incredible post Jon, and I think you bring up some superb points that nobody has anywhere. Thanks! Let's Fight Back!

Perhaps they projected that football players will be ruled as employees in the near future, and thus there will not be many non-revenue sports left to worry about travel hardships?

Not thinking ahead? What could possibly go wrong?

This is a hot-button topic with me, as I think they are all bogus--a way to get an extra team into the NCAA tournament. I am not just stating that just when Oregon has a great year, I am stating it NOW when Oregon could benefit from the conference tournament. I am against conference tournaments for all conferences in all sports, thus they would ALL have to be eliminated because you cannot have one conference getting an extra advantage. The Pac-12 just added a conference tournament in Baseball...how ludicrous. They play 50 games, and three against every conference foe and THAT is not enough?

That makes me ill. I LOVE Tom Petty, and am so sorry at his passing. So much incredible music...now forever tainted knowing this! Gators: 🤮

A Duck-Buddy of mine was able to personally talk to Rich Brooks in the last couple of months. When asked about what he thinks of Lanning? "Great coach...the best since Bellotti."

Your play explanations are just the best, and this helps us see how offenses attack secondaries when they could be running split coverage. Very cool and....

BTW....we have a stud relief pitcher up, Austin Anderson, who is from Roseburg--just as relief pitcher Matt Dallas is! (below) We got a couple of scoreless innings the other day from Dallas, and we have two from Anderson thus far today. We love the in-state Oregon players! Gotta love a guy with a Mullet!

My friends, I am a big Oregon Baseball fan and love to listen to the pre-game coverage, and watch on live-stream. In all the years I've been watching, (since they brought it back in 2009) I do not ever recall a game starting time being delayed because of a covering of snow on the field as we had today. Now they are in a rain delay at the bottom of the 5th inning with Oregon leading 3-1, but WOW is it coming down! It was blowing rain sideways, then hail, and even some snowflakes mixed in. Every home field has its own advantage, and we saw that already today as San Diego base runners slid into a base, but with our turf.....slid past the base and our alert infielders stuck them with the tag---twice! Gosh, the superb announcers for Oregon Baseball, Joey Mac and Jordan Brenner were promoting a line similar to what Don Essig says at Autzen, (It never rains in Autzen Stadium) but theirs appeared that much funnier today. "It is ALWAYS sunny and 75 degrees at PK Park!"

Uelmen is a stud pitcher--what a freshman!

Jackson was offered by some pretty good basketball schools....Texas Tech, Houston and Kansas. Jackson Shelstad | DuckSportsAuthority N.RIVALS.COM Jackson Shelstad - 4 Star Point guard for Oregon on DuckSportsAuthority

The damage by Larry upon us is so vast--unbelievable.

So....we are talking about 13 years old? Is it possible that he is peaking early in terms of athletic talent?

The KING of one-liners strikes again!

Repeating the same content does not convince people. We have separate opinions, no sweat and it will be fun to watch for.

Good gosh....I don't know which idea I like better--KC or SF, as both are great match-ups for Marcus. Play it out a few more years! Of course I'd love to see him being a backup at Philly as well; they do design a few running plays there for QBs!

Tom Osborne was not appreciated to the degree he should have, and those stats confirm it. The rules are being suggested to shorten the game by eight plays or so, which would be over 100 less over a season for the reduction of injuries. Not referring to the suggestion of the clock continuing after an incomplete pass, but the new one reported today--after a first down is made. With a shortened game and fewer drive opportunities....it means that the efficiency you researched above becomes that much more paramount. Dilly stated before the season that he did not have a point goal per game, but wanted to be as efficient as possible. And boy was he--wow. (THANKS so much for this!) Stein will need to adhere to that as well...