Charles Fischer

We did quite a few analysis articles in 2017, and IMHO Taggart was very good at play-calling and having a diverse offense that was difficult to stop. Taggart had the best class in Oregon history when he left and Cristobal had great ones, but not as high as No. 2 or No. 3 when Taggart left. And we have to remember that Cristobal was there recruiting for Taggart, in addition to Willie able to smooth Florida parents. To me, in recruiting and game management--there is no comparison.

Fellow OBD member and analyst Mike West believes that under Taggart--Herbert would at minimum been in the NY as a Heisman finalist. Arroyo was a much better OC/QB coach under Taggart than he was under Cristobal!

To be honest...I do not know what went wrong at Florida State for him. I do believe that the group of assistant coaches he assembled at Oregon was pretty good, and most stayed with Cristobal. Chip was great with the Oregon coaching staff, but when he had to recruit his own at UCLA...not the same. (As he does not care for recruiting)

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"The enemy of enemy still needs to be thrashed."

I do not like this at all. Their QB is telling the Pac-12 Network that "no defense can stop our offense." Lovely...this smells like a Trap-Game to me! Updated betting odds for No. 15 Oregon vs. Washington State 247SPORTS.COM Oregon betting odds.

The defense is progressing slower than the offense, but I did not realize this below. I gotta give credit where due, or is this because of pass-happy teams? Statistically speaking: Oregon Ducks run defense off to best start since early 2019 WWW.OREGONLIVE.COM The No. 15 Ducks are allowing 97.7 rushing yards per game, fourth in the Pac-12 and 33rd nationally, after limiting BYU to just 61 yards on 24 carries during their 41-20 win on Saturday. From the Fabulous FishDuck Feed...(reduced in size now!)

Wow. Great observation, and boy what a conference season it will be!

At every school there are class fans and a few culls. They were young, foolish kids, a tiny, tiny fraction of the attendance of Autzen. They do not represent all Oregon, just as the extreme in any topic don't, but I agree with you that measures need to be taken immediately, and forceful.

No. 18 for us is about right at the moment, as we have a lot more to prove. I do believe that with continued progress and wins...we can be in the top ten by season end. Seeing Washington ranked...makes me respect them, and seeing USC at No. 7 makes me want to hurl.

I think it was after "Shout" in how the team changes back to a game focus. When the game is close--I do not imagine players will take part much, but when you have a big lead...it makes sense for them to have fun with it as it is part of the Oregon experience.

I have been very concerned about pass-protection going into this year, but the truth is...we have not thrown many long balls where the extra protection is needed. Most passes occur quickly, hence why it is easier to prevent sacks. As the offense evolves and we throw more passes downfield--it will be interesting to see how we do with pass-protection. (Especially on the right side)

It can be forgiven because you are new here, but we have had hundreds of posts over the last four years about..."what if Mario brings a great OC here and leaves him alone?" That was the wish for four years, and then he brought in Joe Moorhead, a nationally known and respected OC. And nothing changed. Mario will not change no matter who the OC is, and he is being paid 8 million a year to do what he did at Oregon. He has been given positive reinforcement for doing what he did at Oregon? Why would he change?

I still don't think Oregon fans realize how different this season would be if Mario stayed. I am quite certain we would have had a MASSIVE number of transfers, (most of the receivers) and the season would have a "grim" outlook to it. Hanging out in the OBD forum would not be as fun. I am so thankful for the way things worked out. Even if Mario underperforms in Miami...he is still rich beyond anything I could sniff. So everyone is happy....well maybe not everyone.

My friends....we have had posts maligning many faiths here in the OBD forum in the past. This is why I do not allow anything to be written about anyone's faith--no matter how trivial, because it can start something and someone is bound to be offended. I have deleted three...make that three...posts in the recent past that mentioned a religion of some type. Like Autzen stadium, this is a sports venue with no place for any mention of religion. And yes, we have had pejorative statements written about the Mormon faith here in the OBD forum, and to my many friends of that church...I apologize again. From the OBD Rules: No. 12: No Reference of any kind to Politics or Religion: I do not allow even a hint of politics or subtopics pertaining to politics; no names, no terms, no links, not even a word or any references pertaining to anything political. Do not even use the word, "politics" or "political" in your posts because just the word is a lightning rod that generates discussions in a direction we do not want the site to go in. Any of the aforementioned could initiate a political discussion, and veering in that direction at all will cause a site meltdown in today’s acrimonious climate. We do not allow anything negative directed at any religion, toward anyone in the LGBT community, or toward any race, gender or ethnic group.

The candidates seem to be on offense at the moment? And this is not about recruiting, but simply coaching... --I LOVE the comments about the running backs and Carlos Locklyn, as we are seeing more vision and additional yards added than in the past. --The receivers are young, but getting open. I think Junior Adams is coaching them up... --No sacks and running the ball as well as Oregon has? How can we NOT make offensive line coach Adrian Klemm the winner? But wait...what is that offense out there....with so much variety and unpredictability? With a wonderful balance of run and pass? That is designed to utilize the gifts that Bo Nix has? And I would say we have seen tremendous growth in our QB, and the commentators on TV were quite impressed. (QB Coach) Would that make Dilly the winner? Or does it makes us, the fans the winners when they are all doing so well. We weren't saying all this last year at this time! (And it was his fourth year here? Yikes.)

Night and day--such a good point!

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We had a "Mario" game without Mario. Great offensive line performance, and running effectively out of the Pistol at unpredictable times. Dilly is the "Anti-Mario?"

That was not directed at you or any OBD members, but the media who were not always kind to Oregon in their analysis. In terms of predictions, I've been humbled so many times that I'm just trying to hit 50% where I can.

"First downs at the end of the game when you have the lead is as important as touchdowns earlier in the game. Without both you don't win..."

The quotes from the two head coaches come from Oregon's Press Release sent to credentialed media such as FishDuck, and thus I thought I would pass it along as it will save you a ton of reading elsewhere. From Coach Sitake: "Defensively, it just seemed like it took us a while to get going. I think they have a lot of speed, talent, and athleticism at the skill positions, and they made us miss a lot of tackles. That is uncharacteristic of our defense and our players. Credit to them, they utilized their skill really, really well. I thought we could handle the skill and athleticism, but obviously, we need to go back and figure some things out and put ourselves in better position to make plays.” "I told Coach [Dan] Lanning at the end, I apologize for us taking the timeouts even when the game was out of reach, but we were trying to get our things back on track, getting the team, getting the momentum back on our side. That is more looking forward to next week more than anything else.”

The quotes from the two head coaches come from Oregon's Press Release sent to credentialed media such as FishDuck, and thus I thought I would pass it along as it will save you a ton of reading elsewhere. On inability to establish the run game… “That was a concern for me; you mentioned it. I do not know what the issue is. We will have to keep watching film. We thought that defensive front from Baylor did a good job, and we thought we could find some spots against Oregon. Obviously, they did a good job shutting down the run, so it made us one-dimensional and put us in some tough situations on third down, even on fourth down. We could not even capitalize and make those plays. I think at the beginning, we could not punch it in, we could not finish drives, and we will get that fixed. At the end of the game, we were just trying to get the train back on the tracks, you know, and try and do whatever we can to get some positivity from this and show we are capable of doing things differently. We are going to have to look at this entire game and get better from it. There is no running from it.” On the talent discrepancy impact on the loss… “They have great talent. I think we have talent as well, but talent does no good if you make mistakes. And I say that we made mistakes, but it is also coaching. Overall, we did not do a good enough job winning that game. That is from the players to the coaching and everyone involved, including myself as a head coach. We did not seem like we were ready to go from the get-go, and that is something I have to evaluate and something I have to improve on. I have to do a better job; I have to as a head coach.”

The quotes from the two head coaches come from Oregon's Press Release sent to credentialed media such as FishDuck, and thus I thought I would pass it along as it will save you a ton of reading elsewhere. From Coach Kalani Sitake: “Obviously not the result we were looking for, but you have to give a lot of credit to Oregon. They showed up ready to play, more than we did, especially at the beginning. I did not have this team ready, so that is on me. We have to figure out ways to start better, start faster. We dug ourselves too much in a hole to climb out of, and the momentum, all of that stuff that is on me and the staff." "We made a lot of mistakes, but I do not want to take anything away from Oregon. They played a great game. They played exactly like we thought they could. They have tons of athleticism and speed on their team, and they are a great team." "They are ranked for a reason, and they definitely should climb up the rankings. We even saw that. I mentioned this before; we saw some of the things that were working well against them in the Georgia game." On the BYU defense and Oregon’s offense… “We just could not get off the field. We could not do much to them in terms of stopping the run. You know, we were down a couple of guys on defense, but that is all right. We feel like we have some great depth. They just could not settle in. The guys made a lot of mistakes. You have to give credit to Oregon because they did some things differently on offense utilizing personnel." "They utilized a lot of empty sets; they went big and went a lot of spread sets. We were ready for that in practice, but it seems like whenever we made a mistake, Bo Nix and the offense capitalized on it. When you are just looking at scheme, that is how it works, but we were just missing tackles, and that is honestly just not our type of play." "We had a lot of players that were missing tackles from top to bottom, and it was not one person or position that did it. That is my fault; I have to get these guys better and make sure we focus on the fundamentals of the game. I keep mentioning the fundamentals, and they play a big part in the success for us, and we just did not do it well enough on defense.”

My FishDuck Friends, this is an experiment because usually you have a ton of articles in the 'Feed with all these quotes, and I wanted to bring them down here for discussion. From Dan Lanning: “Well that was fun. That was a lot of fun with a special, special crowd. We knew that they were going to come out there and be there for us. It’s hard to coach at the end of the third quarter during ‘Shout’, so I’ve got to figure that out. I thought we stumbled a little bit in the fourth. That being said, we came out to this game and said we wanted to be a physical team and I think we were that. We wanted to win critical situations, we were good on fourth down and able to stop them and get ours (fourth down conversions) whenever we had opportunities to go for it. We wanted to out-rush our opponent, that’s a brand of physicality we were able to show. We wanted to establish an identity. I think everybody in the stadium at some point probably realized what we were doing when we ran Josh Conerly (Jr.) out there, our big group with three tight ends in the back and we were about to get big and go play ball. We didn’t really care if you knew what we were going to do, you had to stop us. I thought our offense did a great job of that. We had some big defensive stops as well, played contested ball and I thought this was our cleanest game from a special team’s standpoint. That being said, there’s so much we can improve on. We played BYU today, but we also played Oregon. We want to finish games, we want to be able to capitalize at the end. On if he has a sense of who they are as a group… “I know this, I know we’ll work. Where we’re at as a team, I still think there’s something to be decided. You’re only as good as your last game and you’re only as good as your last play. We’ve got to live in the moment, we’re not resting on our laurels, we’ve got a lot of things we can go work on, but we’ve got a team that will work. I told the guys in the locker room, the more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war, and that’s because of what you do Monday through Friday in practice. We’ve got to go work on the practice field to be able to achieve in the game. What you saw on the field today was a result of the hard work that happens Sunday to Friday.” On the team’s identity… “We want to be the team that you don’t want to play again, we want to be the team that when you walk out onto the field you are sore and you’re feeling it, felt physical, we are relentless, and we just continue to nag at you. There were certainly some moments where I saw today where we showed that and there certainly were some moments where we could have finished, and we didn’t. So, looking for moments of growth but relentless is biggest word I would look to use.” On where this team is at headed into Washington State… “I’ve got a lot of respect for their head coach and I think what they do, they’ve proven to be a tough team that can go win tough games. I know they had a battle with Wisconsin, I know they had a battle with Idaho and were able to go out there and compete and do a really good job. They present some different stuff, especially offensively. I’m anxious to get into the film, I’ve been able to glance at them a little bit already, but I’m looking forward to touching base on them even more.” I don’t know that we did as well there at the end as we want to. We’ll continue to grow, we’re about to go play a really good Washington State team and have to get ready for them. That being said, we appreciate Duck Nation for the job they did today.”