Charles Fischer

Nope. I would never ban anyone without cause and discussion. This is all on me, and I apologize to all for the confusion.

It could not happen to a better bunch of fans, although I must admit the prediction game is pretty tough!

Does it show up on pads? (Let me know!) I know it does on desktops, and I am assuming on laptops as well. It does NOT on mobile. The background picture for the forum is a second after DJ James intercepts the ball and is running down the sideline. The camera is focused on DJ, but nearby in the background is Chip Kelly and I thought it was sweet. (The picture is also below) What would the caption be? P.S. The cost of getting pictures for this one game alone was $150.00 yet that did not pay the photographer's expense to be there. Such great pictures...

Nope, as I politely disagree with my esteemed Moderator colleagues. The real test is the final three of WSU, Utah and Oregon State, IMHO.

I will admit that although I think the Ducks could lose yet, I am pretty surprised at the figure given to win-out the season by computers/software at ESPN. Whew! (Interesting projections on a game-to-game basis though) ESPN FPI Update: Oregon Ducks No Longer Favored to Win Out in Pac-12 Play Down the Stretch by Zachary Neel of Ducks Wire

It is an interesting review of the Miami situation, and beating No. 18 North Carolina State helped the cause for Diaz, but he has a losing record. Should Mario Cristobal Stay Or Leave Oregon? by Kerry Kauffman of Oregon Sports News

They said he is still "iffy" while a ton of other players will be fine for Saturday.

I have two web developers; one here in the US for FishDuck, and the other is in England, and he is a specialist in this OBD forum software. I was fortunate to find this problem in the morning for us, which is evening for him in Sheffield UK...had it gone longer...

With 4.5 TFLs in one game, a big one? No surprise, and deserved! Good Gosh the Ducks are cleaning up on awards! (Press Release from Oregon Athletics) EUGENE, Ore. — A day after sweeping a pair of Pac-12 weekly honors, Oregon defensive end Kayvon Thibodeaux has been named the Bednarik Award National Player of the Week. Playing his first full game of the season, Thibodeaux was a dominant force for the Ducks in last Saturday’s 34-31 win at UCLA with a career-high nine tackles (eight solo) and 4.5 tackles for loss, including two sacks and a forced fumble. Thibodeaux is the third Oregon defender to earn national player of the week honors this season. Verone McKinley III was the Bronko Nagurski National Player of the Week following Oregon’s win at Ohio State, and Bennett Williams was the Walter Camp National FBS Player of the Week and the Jim Thorpe Player of the Week after the Ducks’ win over Stony Brook. The Chuck Bednarik Award has been presented since 1995 to the college defensive player of the year. Thibodeaux was on the preseason watch list for the honor for the second year in a row. Kayvon Thibodeaux – Bednarik Award National Player of the Week » Set career-highs with nine tackles (eight solo) and 4.5 tackles for loss in win at UCLA. » Recorded two sacks, the fourth multi-sack performance of his career and first since 2019. » Forced a fumble for the second time this season and third in his career. » First Duck with more than four TFLs in a game since Jalen Jelks on Sept. 23, 2017. » First UO player since 2007 and one of just seven in the FBS this season to have at least nine tackles, four TFLs and two sacks in a game. » Leads all Power 5 players in TFLs (31.0) since the start of the 2019 season. » Now has 16.0 career sacks. » Pac-12 Defensive Player & Defensive Lineman of the Week » Pro Football Focus National Team of the Week and Defensive Player of the Week.

It looks like it all the buttons are back! Technology is WONDERFUL....when it works!

My FishDuck Friends....sometimes Our Beloved Ducks make mistakes, especially in the heat-of-battle. We make them, and yet the star Tight End for the opponent drops a key pass; mistakes happen to both sides. But this is great information that I appreciate from Coach Cristobal. Question: You guys have been so consistent on special teams, but a couple of mistakes there. On the punt block, can you help diagnose what happened there, and then was there an issues with the snap on Camden’s extra point? He’s just been so consistent. I was curious if anything took place there. Cristobal: "None at all. The blocked punt is inexcusable. Miscount by the shield. The right shield. It’s a very simple count and just miscounted it. Really really upset with that one, but we’ll fix it. At the end of the day if we didn’t get it done, we’ve got to take that on as an entire organization to get better at it. The missed extra point was just, hit it poorly. Bottom line. He followed that by a kickoff that uncharacteristically went out of bounds. Now, what did we see after that? A really good extra point that split the uprights and we saw a ball get kicked eight yards deep in the end zone. You never want mistakes. We know that. But you also want to see the type of response you get out of a player. I thought Cam responded really well after the missed extra point." From 247 on interception in the end zone. 10/25/2021 Erik Skopil

My FishDuck Friends...there is some good information below for discussion! Question: I realize Forsyth’s injury may have factored into this a little bit but you started Bass at left tackle and then you had some other shifting around a little bit. Was that anything more than just Forsyth being out? Cristobal: "A lot of it had to do with Forsyth being out and then trying to keep… we don’t have our lineman on a pitch count, but we were a little bit banged up and we were figuring out those pieces. It would take all day to explain that on this conference call, so I’ll spare you the boring details, but we felt that we were going to have a nice rotation of guys that had played beside each other, maybe in different spots. But the matchups were going to fit, what we were running schematically was going to fit as well. Just watching tape it… I mean you had some guys grade out really, really high. That’s hard stuff to block. I know I mentioned it before, I used the term Star Was to describe their defense because, I know some of you guys probably are probably too young to remember Star Wars, was a good movie back in the day, but it comes in all kinds of different ways at you, and you’ve got to have tremendous eye discipline and you’re reaction time has got to be instantaneous. Those guys did a really good job of protecting the quarterback for the most part." Question: Going back to the offensive line. I wanted to ask about Dawson and just how valuable it was to have a guy like that who could jump into both guard spots and perform at a really high level for you guys. Cristobal: "He’s a Swiss army knife guy. That’s what he is. All tools. He’s got them all. He can snap. He also plays right tackle and left tackle. The best part about it is that we teach our lineman to learn the game from he inside out, meaning at the center position you have to know what the front is, what certain points mean on certain plays, all that kind of stuff. Being able to redirect stuff, readjust stuff, repoint stuff. He understands the game that way from the inside out and he’s gotten snaps at every single one of those positions. He’s been here a long time, been through a lot, battled some injuries, has developed his body. He’s become an excellent football player and his value was tremendous on Saturday." Question: Does he do anything that makes him more versatile and more valuable in that fluid role than the other guys? If that makes sense. Cristobal: "I think he just earned it. There’s a lot of other guys who we have that play their positions really well. We have some guys who have more flexibility than others. Guys that are older typically do, right? A little more flexibility than others. He’s just really, really smart. He understands leverage. He understands hat position. He has really good foot and body quickness. He uses his hands well, very technical. His power is getting better all the time. Now the mullet, that’s a whole different conversation, but aside from that, just a lot of positives with him and his development." Question: You really had to mix and match the offensive line a bit that last game because of some injuries and what not. But, I though they were pretty stout. What was your evaluation now that you’ve had a chance to look at that film? Cristobal: "Coach Mirabal and the offensive line did a great job. We’ve had some guys who have been banged up or dinged up and we shuffled some guys around. Other guys had also earned some playing time. We wanted to get those guys in the game as well. The one thing that was a surprise was the pregame issue with Alex Forsyth and we adjusted. The guys went in there and played their tails off. They really did. You have to. Understand that this outfit that we played brings so much pressure and even brought more pressure than we expected, more than they usually do. In the form of sometimes plus one pressures, where they’d have more guys coming than you could block. So you have to sift some stuff and you have to get a hand on two guys with one of your offensive linemen just to provide enough time. I thought not only the offensive line, but Anthony Brown was really good in sometimes having to redirect protections when they were bluffing one side and bringing it from another. Overall, I’m just really proud of that group. They’re not into praise, they just want to get back to work and get better." From 247 on interception in the end zone. 10/25/2021 Erik Skopil

Thanks Haywarduck for posting this and seeing the almost invisible button that IS there, and works. We can still operate, but we have to squint!

Question: You talked about how Devon has improved his practice and obviously again another week where he has the performance and production that he had. Speak to that and how he’s made that consistent now the last couple of weeks. Not just him, but Mycah has he done things not just on the field during games, but has he taken things differently in practice to get the product that he got because that’s I think near or close to a career-high by way of receptions. Cristobal: "We’re going to keep pushing both those guys. I’m going to say that. They’re continuing to things in practice that are affording these opportunities, but there’s more in the tank. There more in the thank for both those guys. The expectation is full throttle every single day, having a determination to continue to improve and push themselves and their teammates to do whatever it takes to improve. I want to stay along those lines, because I really appreciate these two guys. I know and I watch the potential and impact that they have and to me there’s more in the tank and we’ve got to get it out of them. I’m excited for them, about them. They’re great people. They’re on their way to being great players. I want to do nothing more than to challenge them and help them in any way that we can beach look, coach McClendon he doesn’t do a good job, he does a great job with those guys. We feel like every single week they’re getting better and better because we’re demanding their best, and we’ve got to keep doing it." From 247 on interception in the end zone. 10/25/2021 Erik Skopil it is real interesting to me to see what happens with these two receivers, but both, especially Williams, has been known to shine and then disappear. Thoughts?

Chris Duarte from Oregon Pacers is having a superb start to his NBA career with the Pacers. Pretty cool Shake n Bake move against a great defender in Giannis A

The Monday Mario Cristobal Press Conference was covered by most media and below is a very interesting section about Anthony Brown and this throws downfield. (Contained in an article by Erik Skopil) Question: You had 11 different players catch passes and I think probable one of the better passing days we’ve seen this season. After watching the tap, what did you see from Anthony Brown and kind of the offense as a whole that allowed you to have so much success? Coach Cristobal: "No. 1 play design. No. 2, they stack the box and with what they bring up front and the issues that they cause up front, you’re going to have to make plays in the back end. So, him being able to diagnose coverages, get the ball out on time. I believe he was 29 of 30. So he was pretty accurate on a lot of ball. Some balls he’d like to have back and of course the interceptions were ones that were not good throws. But there’s a lot of good, a lot of good plays, and a lot of really good throws that he mead that changed the game. Then he changed the game with his feet as well, on the big run and some of the other runs. Just the threat of being able to run like that also has an impact on the defense, and what you see. He also was a very good decision-maker in the running game, which also impacted the game. So, all in all, just a lot of really good execution by him, by our receivers and by our offensive line, the running backs in protection were very valuable. I’m sure you guys saw some of those clips. We starting to get more in sync. We have to show just a greater determination for executing at a higher level because there was more consistency, it’s not all the way to where it needs to be. There is progress. We’re excited about that, and it against starts with the quarterback and the guys up front." My OBD friends, this sounds like important improvement from Brown and significant flexibility by Cristobal. Thoughts?

This has not received as much press as it should and Nemec covers it well it his article, with a few other recruiting tidbits. Eighth best recruit ever in Oregon history? Whew! Rivals calls ‘5-star OL Kelvin Banks to Oregon Ducks’ One of Nation’s Biggest Recruiting Surprises by Andrew Nemec of OregonLive

Washington beat Cal in the head-to-head game.

Gosh...looking at the top two teams does my heart good. Now to keep it that way! We love your work David, so THANKS.

We have covered this subject extensively and I think everyone has been able to state their perspective. This "booing" topic is like a COVID thread, in that it quickly goes off the rails. People write things regardless of the rules, and it creates a ton of work for me, and creates disharmony among members. Thus I am locking this thread before it gets going. Everyone...don't start any more topic threads about this subject. For more examples and threads....go here and here.

It reminds of what Ol' Minnesota Viking Coach Bud Grant used to say...."to have a successful life as a football coach--you need a good wife, a good hunting dog and a good quarterback. And not in that order..." Oregon and Clemson share some similar frustrations this year. How good would Oregon be a GREAT quarterback right now? (Whew!)

I think it is a reasonable question, and if we could get a sizable lead this Saturday... Bellotti ran a two-QB system many times. (And people cannot mock you on football knowledge....see No. 4 and No. 10 in the rules as they protect you, me and everyone.)

That was incredibly funny...I burst out laughing as soon as I saw it! Thanks for prediction and the fun...

Not any "Critical Analysis" done at Oregon's own "Pravda."

Made me guffaw with that one! And thanks to everyone who inject some humor into their posts--it makes all that much more fun.