Charles Fischer

My FishDuck Friends, something that made me very excited about the Stanford game was how Coach Dillingham not only pulled out the Counter from the old Taggart playbook, but then did Zone-Reading off them and flipped who follows the pullers, and who would run to the naked (no blocking) side. (As Chip Kelly and Mark Helfrich would do) Pulling out an old play is a strategy we have not witnessed with the Ducks for six years, and when the OC does that--the opponent is caught off-guard and it creates a ton of yardage. Then set up constraint plays off the original play, (as Coach Boles showed us today) and you shred them for more. Another return to the high-scoring days of the past is the Bubble Screen threat you saw in the analysis by Coach Boles. In the screenshot above, you see the handoff/mesh taking place in the blue circle, but below (red arrow) is the threat of the Bubble Screen. Note how it effectively pulls three defenders out of the box, thus helps the running game. If that safety (on the yellow 'O' in the screenshot) slides up into the box, then all it takes is one good block and one good open field move for an explosion play from the Bubble Screen threat. This is underlying stuff that helped those previous offenses run the ball so well and create explosion plays. I have been stating for years that these plays can still work if executed well, but as you see--it is more than just execution...it is the underlying strategies associated with them as well. I was critical for "Mari" moving away from what worked for so long, and note that when we begin to adopt those tactics again...what happens? We score boatloads of points like before. (Averaging 40 points per game thus far in 2022 including the game vs. Georgia) God love Dilly.

By his own admission he runs about seven plays, but does so with precision and timing.

We are averaging 40 points a game...even with only three points vs. Georgia. We have not scored this many points per game since Taggart left, so no...not every play call is going to work. As it is, Dilly pulled a play series out of an old playbook and surprised the 'Furd with it. To me, it was brilliant. In spite of the misses in play-calling...Dilly is doing better than what we've seen in years.

His most well-known remarks... (Warning...very cringe-inducing)

This is another BIG subject, but I do not believe the Tunnel Screen was an RPO, but the whole series of the counter going one direction, with either the QB or RB running naked to the other side did have a Zone-Read element to it. It is an old play out of the Chip Kelly playbook from 2012 vs. USC; either you had Mariota following the pullers, or you had DeAnthony Thomas one-one-one with DBs in the open field. It was good-or-good. In this game we had how the QB follow the pullers at first, then they switched it so the RB would follow the pullers, and then with the defense's eyes going all over the place...we had play-action passes off of it? Fantastic stuff by Dilly.

Read Drex's article below from Tuesday... Oregon Head Coaches: If You Leave, Your New Team Will Fire You FISHDUCK.COM From a couple of bleacher bums, here's a revelation that every Oregon head coach should consider: if you jump ship for a new head coaching position, you won'

Got it fixed. No sweat.

Sorry, but I cannot contain myself. I think those uniforms look stupid-as-hell. How else are we going to embarrass ourselves? And some would call this guy "cute."

I was pondering about how this entire team has a weak mental background...a history of playing down to the opponent, and losing at least one game a year under you-know-who that we should not have. As I consider it--it is quite a task to win the games you should when this team mentally has not in the past. This is big hurdle for this team to overcome, and Tucson is an example of how Our Beloved Ducks need to show up and take care of business. And thanks to FishDuck writer Drex Heikes for giving us a new verb to describe this losing mental approach.

Not at all. I want to see all opinions, especially those I disagree with. No matter what your opinion--everybody here still has to be nice to each other, and I've been humbled by what I've learned from the astute members of this forum. The only way to see all the opinions is if we all feel safe. It is comforting to know that the moderators keep this site clean; we take out the trash you will never see! The only place where shouting and bullying does not work...where reasonable people reign.

What do any of us know? We are all just guessing, giving our opinion and enjoying learning from each other.

We have a history of dressing badly for the Wildcats; perhaps it is in preparation for the 'Zona-Zoo? Although it has worked out on occasion...

When he is playing, Flowe is very similar to Sewell in 2020...a lot of great plays, and inexperience that takes reps to overcome. And being injured prevents that from happening. He may never reach his potential here unless he does the McCormick route of patience.

I am sticking with my original prediction, of four years. Due to recruiting alone, he will improve them from where they were and fans will be patient but antsy as he loses games that he shouldn’t. By the end of the fourth year, they will be thinking as Oregon fans dead at the end of our fourth year of him.

I miss him like that strange rash that I had in an area…never mind!

As I stated before...Washington State could help decide the conference by slapping an unexpected loss on teams like USC, Utah, Oregon State and Washington. Thus I like much of what you have David.

No, that occurred in 1995, IMHO.

I politely disagree. Helfrich was a brilliant offensive coordinator and QB coach, but 1) he was not a leader and lost the team once Mariota left, 2) could not recruit at the level needed being a consistent Playoff contender, and 3) like Chip at UCLA, was not good at selecting and recruiting coaches. Days before he was fired MH asserted that he is sticking with Brady Hoke, the worst defensive coordinator since Stubler. I give Cristobal credit for not just recruiting players well, but coaches too. Now some of his picks, (Minnie-Me, Bobby Williams and the RB coach) have been upgraded with Lanning, but overall he would make a change when needed. Lanning seems (thus far) to be giving us the best of both worlds and coaches...

A popular notion by Beaver fans is, "you would be nothing without Phil Knight." What I remind them of is...winners want to work with winners. Only after we got to the 95 Rose Bowl without Phil, and then to the Cotton Bowl did Phil accept our invitation to talk about helping. We had to do it on our own first.

In other words, the conference needs to be "top-heavy" for multiple or any Playoff participants in the current formula. But the good news is... 1) The number going into the Playoff is about to change to 12 over the next couple of years, and 2) Oregon could become a "Clemson" of the Pac over the same couple of years and make a high seed in the Playoff, IMHO.

Drex has put together quite the informative and entertaining article for the Irregulars of the OBD forum. (I love that reference to us!) A new verb for Oregon fans? When a coach is "Stony-Brooking" it? 😆 Oregon Head Coaches: If You Leave, Your New Team Will Fire You FISHDUCK.COM From a couple of bleacher bums, here's a revelation that every Oregon head coach should consider: if you jump ship for a new head coaching position, you won'

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We might, but that’s not the profile at Georgia. They did not have anybody as big as Sewell at linebacker at Georgia, they were lighter, faster and athletic. One of the touchdowns by Stanford in the second half was the running back beating Sewell on a wheel pattern out of the backfield. He was slow to recognize it, and could not stay up. Not a problem for Bassa…

Agreed. Give him the same chances!

We are doing just fine without Flowe because of Bassa, who could end being an acclaimed star on his own. Keith Brown is playing well too, and we have some young-guns on the move upward.