Charles Fischer

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. On the run defense… “The most physical team is going to win, right? I think we’ve all heard they play a physical brand of football, that a good football team, they’ve beat good teams, they’ve played in tough environments, we knew it was going to take our best. Ultimately, if you can protect yourself against shots against that team, shots down the field, and you can stop the run, you’re going to have the chance to be successful so those were our two goals going in.” On Jahlil Florence and Dontae Manning’s performance… “I’ll have to go back again and watch the film. You know we always see those guys and if you’re able to touch the field for us, we see you as a starter. I know Dontae was able to break up some contested balls there at the end, but I want to go back and evaluate the film and see where we’re at. I know that there were some times where we had some good coverage throughout and we gave up late, so we’ve got to figure out how to work those finishes better.” On presenting a different look defensively… “Ultimately, we’re going to match personnel with personnel and what they do. They’re a 12 team that lines up in 12 formation, so we’re going to play with our bigger people in that scenario. To speak on how we played, I’ve got to go back and watch the film, I know there’s some plays I want back that weren’t right. We lost leverage a couple of times and want to do a better job there. We weren’t able to finish the quarterback as much as I’d like, and that’s also a part of how they play the game, they don’t allow you to. We’ll go back and evaluate it, but we want to match our personnel up with their personnel.” On refocusing after “Shout”… “Well, does anybody remember the next play after ‘Shout’? We gave up a third down for a first down, so I don’t know, I’ve got to figure that out. We talked through what we were going to see, what we were going to play, we didn’t finish on the sack, lost contain of the quarterback so I’ve got to get better on coaching in that situation. We got some really good dancers on this team, right? That’s apparent but I hope we can figure out a score margin or rule that you can dance on ‘Shout’ based on what the score is. I love that our players of energy and passion for this game, this game is meant to be fun and our guys had fun out there today but we’ve got to be detailed and finish and that next play we didn’t finish.”

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. On Bo Nix’s growth… “You talk about quarterback, and you talk about decision maker. Obviously we have to go back and watch the film, but I thought Bo made great decisions today. Each week he gets more and more confident in what we’re trying to accomplish. It’s the small things that you guys don’t see that make him a special quarterback. Like letting the play clock go there at the end of the game when a lot of people would just go and hike the ball. He did a really good job of operating and handling what was out there for him today.” On if Bo Nix played with a chip on his shoulder… “I think our team is really good at ignoring the outside noise, we only worry about the opinions in our room. There’s nobody in this building that’s lost confidence in Bo, including Bo, and his ability to go play for us.” On his confidence in Ty Thompson and taking him back out… “Absolutely and Ty didn’t do anything wrong, other than I thought we were in a position as a team that we needed to buckle up, and knuckle up, put our first group back on defense, put our first group back on offense and it was time to make a stand. You know you want to get an opportunity to get other guys opportunities. Ty absolutely didn’t do anything wrong, I have the utmost confidence in him but that was a decision for our entire team there as a unit to go put our ones in, to set the standard, and set the model for how we finish the game.” On Bo Nix’s decision making… “I think Bo is proving he can do whatever we need him to within a game. That means still operating within the system, but I think every offensive coach would tell you that there’s certain plays that have elements of risk or more risks than others. I think at times we want to take the ball down the field like we did today and at times we want to be able to let our playmakers make plays in space and get the ball out quick. There’s certainly some plays that are going to be more risk-oriented than others and games like today where you get an early lead, you don’t necessarily have to work those risks.” On the connection between Bo Nix and Terrance Ferguson… “I think it’s really shown up in the last two games. Terrance is a really talented tight end and I think the other tight ends in that room are very talented as well. He’s been on the right end of the right call and the right coverage to allow him to go make a play. But obviously there’s a level of trust there for Bo and the rest of those guys that he’s throwing to.”

My FishDuck Friends, this is an experiment because usually you get all these in a ton of articles...and now you will see the quotes right here! On Jordan James’ performance… “We make a lot of those decisions going into the game based on situations and I think a lot of the situations you saw Jordan in were on fourth-and-shorts. He’s a big back that runs physical and is able to get tough yards, and we had some tough yard situations today where Jordan was able to go have some success.” Do you have any injury updates… “Byron (Cardwell) was day-to-day throughout practice this past week and he tested himself wanting to be able to push on Thursday, he’s a warrior wanting to go to work. Came out wanting to go through warm-ups and I think it was still lingering, you could see he still wasn’t kind of 100%, didn’t want to jeopardize his health. In that situation if we ask Bryon to, I promise you he would’ve and that is a great example of his character and what he is willing to do for this team. With that being said, we don’t want to put our guys in a position where they are not going to be healthy. Really the same thing for Justin (Flowe), if we had to push Justin and he was able to go through warm-ups today, he could’ve definitely contributed for us today and helped us. With that being said, the next guy up in both those situations, those guys prepare really hard, they earn their moments in practice, you earn the right to go play football with the way you practice and the next guy up in both those positions did a really good job. Seven [McGee] was able to go for us at times but we were in a lot of personnel groups that didn’t always put him on the field, and i think his unselfishness is a great example of Seven saying, ‘I don't care how we do it, I just want to win the game.’” Bucky Irving

Oregon wins 41-20, and Mudslide predicts 42-21, nails the point spread and almost the precise score and tells us to call him "Sunshine." Well good on you mate!

That was the million pundits who don't know much about Oregon slapping their forehead. How many are eating crow right now? Can I cook that egg on your face for you?

So much to talk about on offense! Good grief...did you see the I-Formation early in the game and used often? We had a Tight-End, Patrick Herbert No. 88 as the fullback and we made great yardage on it. Whew! Haven't seen that since the days of Mike Bellotti--wow! Bummer about the Pistol, but we used it effectively... I will have my defensive analyses every other Thursday, but the one from this week--"Setting the Edge" sure was timely with all the examples in this game!

My friends, let's start new threads and discuss in the main forum area. Great discussion!

From Log Haulin UGA up 45-0 through 3 q's. Eleven quarters of football Dawgs have surrendered 3 points. Insane!! I said it immediately after Ducks got throttled by Georgia. Dawgs will do the same thing to most that they did to the Ducks. I will go one further, Georgia just might do to everyone what they did to Oregon. B2B and possibly the best football team in CFB history. Go Ducks! Go Dawgs!

Apparently some Cougar fans were not pleased with this article, as discussed on a BYU board. But we are here to serve Oregon fans first! BYU Fans trying to make headway with us...

We gotta have some fun as we go!

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This is bizarre. With all the jobs out there that would be TONS easier to recruit to--Meyer goes there? He is already wealthy, so I assume he is taking on the ultimate challenge. Proving to all he is still a great coach?

Awesome Alan, as I did not know the story of the "Y" and always wondered. Not a feel-good ending!

From DazeNconfused: Oregon 34-21, 2, 3, 283

Hello My OBD FishDuck Forum Friends! What is your prediction versus BYU? Take your shot and let's have fun with it... Lets get these predictions started and remember I look for the spread with then the closest score that has the spread correct. I need all the data from you! 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 37-24, 2, 3, 287

The FishDuck Feed is the third leg of the FishDuck Oregon Sports Community within two free websites. To learn more about all three parts, read right here about them and the story of this unique community of Oregon fans. About the FishDuck Feed: Look for the Green Pinned Topic at the top of the forum, as that will be the day's Oregon Sports News and Articles, the FishDuck Feed. Can you help? Join our team of Duck News Hunters as anyone who wants to post an article is welcome to, but please do it in the reply posts below this first post. Just pop the URL of the article in the reply post and the article box should appear; if it does not...make sure there is a space above the pasted URL in the post. Please everyone...do not post any thoughts or responses about the articles in this thread as they will be deleted. We do not have room in this thread for all the articles, and the discussion that would ensue for many of the articles. We want discussion, but copy the URL of the article you want to discuss and start a new thread in the main forum area below. It only takes a minute to copy the URL of the article and paste it into a new thread, place a good title on it and put your thoughts in your post. (I've been told that people won't take the time to do that, but this is a very special community; do your part)

I have been studying quite a bit of Georgia defense while Dan Lanning was there, and what I can say for certain is that we have seen almost nothing of the complex tactics that the Bulldogs used. I believe we gradually will over the course of the season, and the pass rush will get better. It is possible that he did not unveil much versus Georgia because our players were not ready, and the 'Dawgs would have handled it fine due to practicing against it every day. And we did not see much in the last game as I believe Lanning was holding stuff out for BYU. I would very surprised if we did not see quite a bit a new defensive blitzes and strategies over the next two games. (IMHO!) And welcome to the forum!

We have beaten teams from Utah in them before.... A good omen?

That is a FishDuck picture and I will elaborate on that game on Saturday morning!

I liked the Chrome helmet with it at the Rose Bowl...

My FishDuck Friends, our fellow OBD member, DazeNconfused, is not available today and unable to respond to the posts you write. But he will be reading them later, and I will give more information a bit later. For now--let's enjoy his take on the game on Saturday, discuss and thank him--and hope he is right!

My thanks to all of you for your words. I will admit that these analysis take twice as long, or longer than Op-Eds to create, but it will now be in the Analysis Library as an important resource. And it will be fun to watch for this in future games; as it was--there were plays where our perimeter was broken and it was interesting to see why, and who could not defeat the blocks. A key component for every defense! Every Thursday over the next five months will be an analysis by either Coach Boles, or yours-truly. Learn more football!

Please post articles as replies, and THANKS from the OBD Community!

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Thanks for the feedback guys!