Charles Fischer

It is a real dilemma for the coaches, because on the offensive line you need cohesion, but you also need to build depth....especially with four of five starters gone next year!

Gadfrie...I got distracted that week and forgot to post the results of the OBD Prediction Contest for the Boise State game! Let us congratulate DuckFan93 as his/her prediction was only eight total points off with 42-31 when compared to a 37-34 final score. My Apologies, and Congrats! Nobody else was even close, so this was a pretty good pick!

He is a former humor writer for FishDuck.com back-in-the-day, and that was his endearing term for the area the Cougs lived in. He wrote some killer-funny articles... You promised me rich farmland with a view, and all I got was Colfax and some dirt! (One of his great lines)

SO MANY good games today, the DVR is going to be busy! Share your thoughts, and do let us know the score of the games you are watching as you have thoughts. Fun day...

I think you are right about Bedford at RG, but Harper seems to play both sides pretty well.

I cannot even imagine how loud and crazy Autzen will be. When Stewart is sprinting for a touchdown--the roar of the crowd will be deafening.

My Duck-Buddies, I normally do not allow any flat-out gambling articles appear in the forum, and I actually quit doing them altogether on FishDuck.com about a month ago. Just placing casino backlinks in articles to help pay the bills, and then I received this article above submitted that truly surprised me. This is a Marketing/SEO company in Denmark, who is promoting a casino site in Costa Rica and the article they sent was the most customized to our audience at FishDuck ever. They linked our forum in the article, and the words of "Our Beloved Ducks" near the beginning is what THEY wrote, not I! I'll be darned...they really read about the Ducks and became familiar with our sites. What a hoot! My thanks for your patience, Charles Odense, Denmark, where the SEO company is located, looks like fun. The SEO company is in Denmark, the casino site is in Costa Rica, and I'm in Eugene Oregon. Sounds pretty global to me!

This was in the 2025 Recruiting thread, and God-Bless NJDuck, Smith72, Steven A., and Jon Joseph for posting these articles and being the best Duck News Hunters on behalf of all of us. This is one of the very rare instances where Rivals rates a player a 5-Star, when the others put him at 4-Star. To make matters more interesting...he is on the offensive line where we need the quality help! It has not happened yet, nor have we fought off the 'Vols response yet, but know that besides Oregon and Tennessee--that this young man was also offered by Washington, (Ha!) USC, Penn State, Oklahoma, Michigan, Alabama, Texas A&M, Georgia, Miami and Ohio State. Whew! Something to watch, as this could be a big impact on a number of levels! Douglas Utu | VolReport N.RIVALS.COM Douglas Utu - 2025 5 Star Offensive tackle for Bishop Gorman (Las Vegas, NV) on Rivals.com Oregon Trending for Four-Star Offensive Lineman - On3 WWW.ON3.COM Four-star offensive lineman Douglas Utu has been committed to Tennessee for three months but Oregon could be making a move.

When Oregon wins....we are awarded the Golden Paddle...and get to use it on the Husky Coach!

Good-gosh there are a ton of interesting games this weekend, so let's start it off now for the Friday games. I am curious; have any of you watched Nebraska or Illinois play yet? Thoughts about them? BTW, I was very impressed with Indiana when I watched the game in 60, as they seem to have a complete team. Are you watching the Cougs play? To me, the USC-Michigan game is another good-or-good result; if USC wins, then it could help us meet them later in the B1G Championship if everything went the right way, and I'd love to see talking-heads spin. Other the other hand if USC loses...

Of course! But it is a LONG SEASON, and you gotta keep some stuff in your back-pocket to refer to later. For like next Friday.... Because I have a backlink order to fill...I will be writing a short article for Saturday with some other tidbits. You know, a title about how the TEs at Oregon block the ISO play--would have been boring as hell. But throw the word "Sniffer" into the title, and everyone is wondering what a "Sniffer" has to do with Oregon football. Fun stuff!

We might benefit from visitors....even in Basketball. Indiana fans really turned out at the Rose Bowl vs. UCLA last weekend..

This article is also in another thread, but I wanted to call attention to it; look who leads in offensive and defensive categories! On offense, the second-best rated player besides the crazy stuff that Dillon Gabriel is doing is....Nishad Strother after three games? This is the guy the coaching staff did NOT want to play...to the point of moving Poncho to guard and starting a walk-on at center vs. Idaho? Then, in all the preseason stuff about Oregon linebackers--Bryce Boettcher was an afterthought compared to the projected starters. But look at HIS rating! It goes to show how hard this is with knowing who-to-play, and that is even for the coaches who see them every day in practice. But I am glad our coaches are flexible to let the talent emerge! Oregon Ducks highest-graded players after three games, per PFF DUCKSWIRE.USATODAY.COM These Ducks are leading the way on offense and defense through three games.

And the benefit to the players who get to start elsewhere instead of playing sporadically. Examples are those in the thread about the four who transferred from Oregon to UCLA and now are starting. They would not be at Oregon, so it benefits the players transferring down, as well as transferring up.

The writer had a deadline, and not topic, thus she tried to create something that was not there. If you look at our starters on defense....where would we be without the portal? And with the views from behind the Oregon offense--how Gabriel was throwing to small windows with quite the zip....where would we be without him? Oh yeah...all three WRs who are killing it right now, (Tez, Holden & Stewart) are transfers, as we watch this offense explode through the season. Lanning has absolutely killed-it in the portal beyond what I could have imagined. The writer is being silly...

But would he? He left before Kenyon Sadiq joined us, thus we have three TEs to play, and Matavao is starting for the Bruins. We need to be playing Sadiq for building future depth; with Matavao--we would have three senior TEs. I'm OK with him transferring..

David, you are a much better man than I, but that is a low bar. I will not feel sad about it...for many years. Their fans will keep that fire alive for me...

Safety No. 4 Bryan Addison Corner No. 6 Jaylin Davies (cited for pass interference twice against Indiana) Tight End No. 88 Moliki Matavao Defensive Tackle No. 99 Keanu Williams These are all good players, but the truth is...they would not be starting at Oregon right now, thus transferring out was the best thing for them.

Yep. Remember how he was shaking as he exulted? Whew!

Love that top photo....got it!

That is a really, really good point David. Higher status, more money and less travel for those two if they are invited to the ACC. I would hold out too, if I was them. Plus, it would be fun to see them reject the Pac-6!

Yeah, me too.

I remember it well....epic!