Charles Fischer

That is a great description of how I've felt at those sites after I post a strong opinion. Get the flak jacket on!

Count Our Blessings, Our Beloved Ducks Forum Members...because this is the only place right now that is SAFE to post, regardless of your opinion. At other sites right now? People over there on both sides judging the Ducks' performance are being ridiculed and belittled for their opinions. Sure...there are many here on the OBD forum that I don't agree with, but I am glad they have a safe place to post...as I do. It is times like these is when you want to discuss it all, but dealing with the topic and not each other. Sorry to keep belaboring it, but when you have had 97 disparaging posts about you on another site as I have....you come to appreciate safety all that much more. And all the more reason to disagree and debate here, because regardless of how you feel? People still have to be nice to you! Love-it! Isn't it lovely we can all coexist? Buddy-hug!

Yep. I was at his introductory press conference and he promised to continue playing "the style of entertaining football that Oregon fans have grown to love."

Ouch! Ouch! Ouch! Damn that hurts....but true.

There we are!

His predicted score of 31-24 nailed the spread and was not far off in actual score. Thanks to all for playing... It is amazing how far off I am each week!

Maybe I will turn into an Oregon version of Kansas fans...."look at the bright side....Basketball season begins in just a little over three weeks is all!"

I am beginning to accept that this is not a great team, and we will have a fair amount of losses ahead of us. If Helfrich, Chip or Bellotti were in charge of the offense--we would be a good, bordering on being a great overall team, as this defense is not quite what I hoped, although it made great strides tonight. This team feels like an NFL team that barely wins...not the quality, but the style. But in college football it feels like a 7-6 or 8-5 team... I am going to have to accept it and be a loyal fan no matter what. I am getting past being angry about Cristobal dumping two high-scoring offenses at Oregon over an entire decade and four coaches preceding him--this is what he is, and it isn't going to change. So I, Mr. FishDuck have to change. (The fans booing did not get the memo yet) \ Scoring 24 points at home after a bye against Cal is a disgrace, but I have to get over it. (Because Cristobal isn't going to change)

We have to keep in mind that the Cal offense only scored six points at home against Washington State....

The best humor is based upon the truth...and T-Bone...you get the best of the week award for innovative selection of a GIF and caption. I laughed my head off... It is breath-taking to me how much the offense has declined under Cristobal when the decade of coaches before him did so well.

I am encouraged by some blitzes on defense, and setting the edge better on some plays. Play Rich Brooks style..."win it with defense?"

After all this time to prepare....yikes.

GameDay Thread! JJ III.... super-senior making a dumb penalty like that. Are there any consequences to him?

Entries cannot be submitted once the game starts...

Only the Huskies would celebrate a NC arrived at by massive cheating. You would think they would ashamed and never mention it...but no, they celebrate it!

To me the character and resolve of this Oregon team is on display in the first quarter of this game tonight. If they come out flat--it is quite an indictment of the "Culture" that is being built at Oregon. They have every reason to come out ticked off...they lost to this Cal team last year, should not have and should badly want revenge. They lost a game at Stanford they should not have and they know it. And they know that everyone is watching for what I am writing about right now.... What are they made of? If the reasons above are not enough incentive....what is?

Great point. If he needed a year, then so would a ton of other young QBs. This is a great example again of this community coming up with points I hadn't thought of--and appreciate.

I do not like to use the word, "depressed," but I do think "feeling bummed" at the moment is apt. I had to ban/blacklist a fellow who, the majority of the time, was a good contributor here. But when he went off-the-rails...it was something I could not allow to continue. This actually was his second time, as I banned him a year ago, but I do like to give people second chances. The negative and the positive to giving people a second chance is that it works out about half the time. But the half that it doesn't is a downer, but I must protect everyone from the nastiness of the rest of the world. And I genuinely liked the guy, but he could not summon impulse control within him. The problem is not with the rules since we had so many thousands of great comments with so few deleted. The problem is with just a few people on occasion who cannot control their behaviors. If this seems like I'm laying on the therapist's couch talking to you--I am. I love the community here, and I love reading all the posts that are so remarkable due to the absence of any tension or aggression. But like everyone else--I hate being the bad-guy. But I do it, as I promised I would, because if I don't...things can get ugly in a hurry. The GOOD NEWS? Thankfully the vast majority of you never saw the offending posts as we eliminated them immediately. And the last offending one was actually in the middle of the night! Can you imagine getting out of bed, going downstairs to the computer (I saw the post on my phone) and then deleting the post and then banning the guy at 2:43 AM? Geez... And the good news is that I rarely ever have to do that, or even delete a post. And usually when I do the offending party writes, "sorry, my-bad, love what you are doing and I won't do that again." And I tell them "thanks, and let's forget it and move on." And we do. Most everybody here are really reasonable people, and that makes it easier. But there are some messed up people out there and a free forum like this is going to have some turn up that I have to deal with. But you don't, and all the squabbling done in the email exchanges and ugly stuff? You won't ever see it. We don't need the buzz-kill to our fun atmosphere, and I am not going to let the half-of-1% make things dour for the rest of us. Hug a Moderator! These guys cover a shift where they check in every so often and in the process of reading posts as they normally would--check for violations. It is easy work, and they agreed to a schedule so that things are caught within an hour or so, and we all should express our appreciation to Steven A., Haywarduck, Smith72 and 30Duck. Their posts are in light green and mine are in yellow so you quickly know who is keeping an eye on things for the benefit of all. Can you spare a few hours out of the 168 hours in each week? Email me charles@fishduck.com and join the team that makes this forum so incredibly special. YOU can REPORT an Offending Post Anonymously You have to follow the rules so if someone is violating a rule and we haven't seen it yet--let us know! It takes ten seconds and you can learn how to do it right here. The violator and the community does not know you reported it, and everyone is grateful when you do! The objective with this post was not to dump my "being-down" on you, but to let you know that people are actively working to protect the community--and it happens every day to keep this GREEN REFUGE the special place that it is. And my thanks to all of you who create the 99.50% of the posts that are fun and informative to read. Charles

We are all in that boat...although the boat is quite a bit lighter. The number of people posting compared to normal is way down, as I believe it is now sinking into people--the truth about Cristobal. And they are checking out of Oregon football.

THAT is pretty funny and so true Duckman. We are all running at the football....with only one eye open!

This is a good ESPN article about Kayvon and his longer term goals outside of football. Oregon's Kayvon Thibodeaux is More Than the Next Potential No. 1 NFL Draft Pick by Tom VanHaaren of ESPN

Amen, Duck Brother.

Hello My OBD Forum Friends! Lets get these predictions started today and remember I look for the spread with then the closest score that has the spread correct. The data I need from you is: (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) --the winner --the score, and the tiebreaker information needed from each of you is... --the amount of turnovers Oregon creates --the number of sacks Oregon records on Cal --the number of passing yards. My guess is: Oregon, 34-16, 1, 3, 224

While I wish we would stick to our traditional colors--this is cool. Now if the fans wore yellow--it would be better on TV. We've looked pretty good in black before...

You really know how to get to me...