Charles Fischer

You and me both Duck-Buddy!

While Oregon was battling Ohio State and USC for receivers....Oregon State was battling Colorado State and Portland State for this WR from Prineville.... Eddie Freauff | BeaversEdge N.RIVALS.COM Eddie Freauff - 2024 3 Star Wide receiver for Crook County (Prineville, OR) on Rivals.com

With the NFL flirting with Harbaugh....a victory with Bair could happen, but we won't know for 3-4 weeks.

Don Pellum as a player at Oregon...

Bully!

Didn't Dr Hilarius write that every time a USC verbal flips to Oregon...."an angel gets wings." ??

Ryan Pellum | DuckSportsAuthority N.RIVALS.COM Ryan Pellum - 2024 4 Star Wide receiver for Millikan (Long Beach, CA) on Rivals.com

More coming, but Ryan Pellum, changed his mind from USC to Oregon just now. A Rivals 4-Star, and offered by Alabama, Georgia, LSU, Arizona, Miami, Florida State, Notre Dame, Ohio State, Texas and Washington! Oregon flips USC 4-star wide receiver commit Ryan Pellum to the Ducks on National Signing Day 247SPORTS.COM Oregon flips USC 4-star wide receiver commit Ryan Pellum to the Ducks on National Signing Day

In the new Pac-2, that is. Even Washington State has recruited better at No. 61, than Oregon State at No. 97! Makes me so SAD!

Jeremiah McClellan, 4-star receiver, flips commitment from Ohio State to Oregon football WWW.OREGONLIVE.COM Oregon’s class moved up from No. 8 to No. 6 in the 247Sports Composite.

As of a few minutes ago--all the class had their LOIs in except for three, and I'm sure they are coming soon. To flip this receiver from Ohio State to Oregon is just HUGE, and would account for why another less-heralded receiver de-committed from Oregon a few weeks ago. THAT is why we don't panic when players change their mind, as the Ducks allowed the young man to save-face and to appear publicly to spurn us. Jeremiah McClellan is a Rivals 4-Star, and has offers (other than tOSU and Oregon) as...Missouri, Iowa, Notre Dame, and Texas. Big recruit! Jeremiah McClellan | DuckSportsAuthority N.RIVALS.COM Jeremiah McClellan - 2024 4 Star Wide receiver for Christian Brothers College High (St. Louis, MO) on Rivals.com

I think he might be trolling everyone...to get this kind of attention drawn to him. Make the Buff fans sweat and appreciate him better later...

Good. We question the coaches on their decisions, and with player performance. As long as we don't get personal with the current players and coaches--the topics are pretty open for us to kick-around. That is what we do here, and many of us have been proven correct over the years, but the coaches generally come out way ahead. Besides. the benefit of pondering what others like you have to say--makes us all better fans.

The coaching staffs after Helfrich--that is true, but the jury is still out on this coaching staff. But they are off to a pretty good start, as one could make a big case that Dillingham and Stein propelled the career enormously of Bo Nix, hence proving the skills of developing a QB further.

Yep. I had many reservations, and in fact have come out in the forum stating that I did NOT want Oregon to recruit Moore in the last month. Throws a flat ball, no pocket presence, and body language of entitlement at times. But the coaches know better than I, so whether it is their decision with Thompson or Moore--I will give them the benefit of the doubt until proven otherwise. Good! We want critical analysis that gives credit where due and grief when deserved. To see how this QB situation plays out? It will be great drama and entertainment.

That was GREAT fun...THANK YOU for sharing it. Never heard it described that way before!

When it comes to having fun with USC....

Key words...."inside gaps." If you run a QB between the tackles where he can get hit at the knees from the side by linebackers, and smashed from in front by safeties...then you only have yourselves to blame when he gets hurt. Scrambles from drop-back passing, open lanes from Zone Reads, and occasional QB sweeps makes sense, IMHO.

I was going to paraphrase, but instead I will just share the entire post at another site that YukonDuck wrote there, and he has some observations that might be of help... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Someone on here mentioned that Dante Moore sets us up for the next four or five years. Totally agree. If we can convince Moore and Akili Smith Jr. to stay for four years apiece with NIL money and a chance to be develop their craft, we will have a chance to win a national championship each of the next five years. Dillon Gabriel will be the starter next year, but Moore will be a quality backup able to play if needed. With the new playoff format, teams can lose a couple of games, but if they get hot at the right moment, they can win it all. It's not the team with the most talent; it will be the team with the most depth. After the announcement last night, I went back with an objective eye and watched an embarrassing amount of Dante Moore highlights. In my opinion, Moore has a Justin Herbert-type of arm. He clearly can make NFL-level throws, the type of throws that fewer than a 100 people on Planet Earth can make. I found the Utah highlights to be the most interesting. UCLA and Utah were both at 3-0 entering the game and, if UCLA had won, that probably would have changed the trajectory of the Bruins season and of Moore as a player at UCLA. Moore lost that game on his first play with a pick-6. His stats weren't great: 15 of 35 for 234 yards, one touchdown and one INT. He lost a fumble on what looked like a scoring drive in the third quarter. But he threw some otherworldly passes, including one for 45 yards that was incredible in the fourth quarter, a type of pass why so many people on this board are so excited about him. Utah's defense also was as dominant as it looked all season. Moore was sacked seven times and these weren't holding-the-ball-too-long sacks. These were sacks where Moore got the snap and someone was in his face. On the final drive, Utah DE Jonah Ellis took him down immediately twice. Watching all the highlights including the All-American game last year, Moore's arm strength jumps off the screen. It's kind of like you can't teach height in basketball. You got that arm or you ain't got it. He can throw a 50-yard pass that will stretch the field and keep defenses honest. What he needs to do is make the routine passes, the six- or seven-yard passes, what the great Pittsburgh Steelers coach Mike Tomlin describes as making the routine plays routinely. If he can develop in that area, then he could be an all-time great Duck. I don't think he'll ever be a running quarterback. I'm surprised, because he looks athletic. He probably needs to develop better movement in the pocket and sometimes, a quarterback needs to run for a seven-yard gain. He's got a better arm than Bo Nix, but Bo Nix is much more of an athlete when it comes to running the ball. Another poster on this board compared Moore's stats with all of the other true freshmen quarterbacks in this class. Great perspective. Here's Moore's stats compared with the Bo Nix and Justin Herbert as true freshmen: Dante Moore: 1,610 yards passing, 53.5% completion rate, 7.6 yards per attempt, 11 TDs, 9 INTs in nine games Bo Nix: 2,542 yards passing, 57.6% completion rate, 6.9 yards per attempt, 16 TDs, 6 INTs in 13 games Justin Herbert: 1,936 yards passing, 63.5% completion rate, 7.6 yards per attempt, 19 TDs, 4 INT, eight games The numbers that I pay attention to when I look at quarterbacks are completion percentage and yards/attempt. (The best stat I think is processing speed, but I'm not sure who keeps track of that.) Moore's completion percentage ain't great. A 50+% was fine in the 1980s, but this isn't the 1980s. He's going to have to bump that up significantly or he and the Ducks won't do what they need to do. But Nix did. He improved his completion percentage significantly. In his two years at Oregon, Nix completed 71.9% and 77.2% of his passes. If Moore increases his completion percentage by 20% in four years...wow. The other stat that I really value is yards per completion. I think 7.6 yards per attempt is great as a freshman. That's where Moore can really excel. If he can get it up to 9.5 yards/attempt like Bo Nix did his senior year, then we've got something. (By the way, Herbert's stats never really developed. By his senior year, Herbert was completing passes at 66.8% clip and only 8.1 yards per attempt. Thanks, Cristobal! Way to waste an All-Pro talent.) If we're being honest, the players that you would want on your team just based on those stats alone would be Herbert first, then Nix and Moore last. Again, I think Moore wasn't in a great spot at UCLA. Not a great offensive line. That Utah game rattled him. Maybe Moore remains No. 3 on the list after his Duck career is over. If he's in their ballpark, we could still win a national championship. Another way to measure quarterbacks: Moore was 3-3 in the games he started. Nix was 9-4. Herbert was 2-5. (One side note: Chip benched Moore after the Oregon State game when an anemic Stanford was on the schedule. Another chance for Moore to get better and feel better. Chip is a smart guy, as I'm sure he'll tell you, but that feels like losing the war to win the battle to me.) Every year from here on out is all about getting to the playoffs. Again, depth will be key once you get there. That's why I always felt that Moore was the season's key recruit behind only Gabriel next year. Moore will hopefully get meaningful snaps against Hawaii and Idaho and several other games. If we need him against a Wisconsin or a Washington or a run in the playoffs, he's got the talent to win with the talent around him and if we develop him.

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That is fantastic information David, as I did not know that Oklahoma depended so much on Gabriel in their running game. So he must have some good running skills that will be helpful for the occasional scramble or Zone Read by our QB. But I personally do NOT want a QB being a major ball carrier, because as a long time Duck fan--I seen too many seasons trashed by an injured QB. Blocking is blocking regardless of who is running the ball, and if the blocking is not there on a play, then either the blocking technique went wrong, or it was a bad play design. Or it was a defensive call, (a corner blitz for example) that blows up an occasional play. We have more than enough plays in the playbook to be high scoring without a QB running very often, IMHO. Dillion is a gifted passer, and it makes sense to fully utilize that talent, IMHO, again.

I am going to politely disagree. I do not know where you received the impression that the majority of Oregon fans think that Moore is less experienced than Thompson? Everyone knows that Moore started games and played extensively this year, and at times--was not very good. Oregon coaches can't develop young talent? They developed TT with enough progress to sell you on retaining him, and when you consider the high scoring offense this year, and recruiting three 4-Star QBs before he ever called a play? I think Will Stein has shown quite a bit of expertise in his first year. But we can disagree--no biggie.

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