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I do think a better understanding of the SEC scheduling needs to be understood. While Alabama plays a tough schedule, don't get me wrong, their next opponent is 1-8 New Mexico State. They put games into the end of the season so they can be ready for the tough games. New Mexico State has had a winning season once, in over 20 years, by the way. Playing opponents who have won, know how to win, can create losses, from mistakes. When you put a team on your schedule who really is pathetic, the risk for injury, mistakes and the preparedness needed, just isn't there. This allows a team to focus on winning the big games, which they have. In the Pac-12 we play teams week in and week out who can beat anyone given the opportunity. Anyone who plays Utah at Eccles Stadium can lose, just ask Michigan, and out of conference teams don't want to play there. This happens week after week, with, of course, like any conference, games you really have to try and lose to, Colorado this year. So Alabama should be respected, but we also need to understand how they schedule. Maybe, just maybe the Pac-12 can learn from the SEC in how to make their teams look even better than, maybe they are. I also agree, if Oklahom wins out, they are in. I think the voters for the playoffs know this, and the door is wide open for Oklahoma and deservedly so.

I get the pressure Cristobal feels, but what I worry about is getting into a hole we can't get out of. My main concern is getting behind, a coming opponent, and having to pass our way back into the game. This isn't something we can do, like in the past with our riflemen at qb. First off I still worry greatly about AB's interceptions. I hope Moorhead sees what other defenses see in AB's patterns and vulnerabilities. The Dawgs picked off AB with little effort, just get into his blind spot on a sideline pass. Stanford picked him off and should have again, and I could go on. The other item which worries me is Mr. Dye and his fumbles. As much as I love this warrior, he has a propensity to fumble. He more than makes up for this weakness, but it is a weakness, as I see it. The scenario I worry most about is losing the turnover battle and then having to battle back with a game plan this team doesn't have, against a decent passing defense, and game plan. So, I agree, there is huge pressure on Cristobal. I don't mean to be insensitive, but the pressure I feel is knowing this team can win it all, but lose it all with how susceptible we are to losing the turnover battle, and then the battle to win, even against the teams we face going forward.

There is plenty to criticize, from his timeouts, to his at times, seemingly extreme conservative guidance of a once dynamic offense. But with that said, what do you most like about Mario! My biggest like is his winning. Plain and simple, I don't always love the way he has Oregon win, but you can't argue with the outcome he has had after the utter destruction of our once proud program. We are back and going the right direction under Mario's leadership. Just liking his winning worries me a bit, but I do like his earnest intensity. I suppose that kind of defines him as a person. When you look at the guy he seems to ooze integrity and a drive to succeed. The success is what attracts me to his coaching, but I do appreciate having a coach who seems so intensely driven to get us to where we all want the Oregon Football Program to get too. I love the guy, Go Ducks!

Things are looking up at Mountlake, by next spring they should be, once again, preseason favorites. Maybe not predicted to be undefeated, but why not, they do the preseason so well!

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Games like this and teams like the dawgs are the perfect situation to test your emotions. Much like an O-line which has to stay set while craziness happens around it. Offsides kills drives and O-line's have to control that. The big thing I see is, much like an O-line, you have to be in control. The other is it is an opportunity to get the opposing team to lose it. If Pittman or any other player truly wants to win that type of battle, get the penalty on the opposing team. I would think this is coached as kids need to be able to see past their emotions. You're right they will react, if not coached. Kids will go offsides, kids will get PF's called, but the next step is to frustrate the opposing team so much they lose it. That is where Pittman needs to take his focus. I hope and expect he will, I do know it isn't easy, but that is the next level he needs to get too.

But January will be necessary, if we are to win the title, which is vital.

I don't care about the rankings, just win the games. If we end up within the top 10 at the end of the season it has been a success. Right now we are lucky to be where we are, with a chance! I would actually love to see tosu get ranked ahead of us, more fodder for the fire! It is going to take a lot more fire to keep winning, not ranking higher in the short term.

Anthony Brown is who he is, limited passer, but a leader on the team. The players seem to rally around him and respond well to any mistake he makes, along with his weaknesses. The player I am concerned about is Mycah Pittman. Everybody makes mistakes, but selfish penalties where you put your team second can kill a teams energy. Great teams rally around each player and make up for mistakes and weaknesses. They never put themselves first. This is exactly what killed, and will probably continue to kill the sc program. Pittman is only a sophomore, but to me he is becoming a reductive element on the team. We need as many additive players on offense as possible, even if it is just their attitude. Maybe Dye can pull him aside and talk to him. I love his talent, passion, but the guy needs to become a player, that adds to the whole. I look for Mycah to grow going forward. This team is greater than the sum of its parts, a defining component of any great team. We need everyone to continue to make that grow, and can't afford anyone taking away from that dynamic!

The impact of the Dye family continues to grow on the Oregon Football Program. I am not sure there has been a more impactful family on the program. Troy Dye willed us to the Rose Bowl and a win. Travis Dye is the heart and soul of this 2021 team. In the coming years we will talk about that Rose Bowl team and also this years team and the legendary Dye brothers who carried us to great heights. The only question is just how far can this 190lb. running back carry this team? Right now it is limitless with heart this guy is showing!

A focused passion, is the key. We have seen the intensity against tosu, teams from socal, but have often struggled to find the same feeling when playing just another Pac-12 team. Maybe The Ducks are finding their dedication to winning against all teams. While the penalty against Pittman was a selfish and foolish penalty, the rest of the game I saw a team fighting for each other. Maybe the dawgs have awoken a component we need to win it all. Going forward, a team with dedication to winning, and defeating all teams together, will be a hard one to stop, if we can just pass! I will put the lack of passing on the miserable weather. Why would anyone want to go to that school, oh yeah, research. Certainly not to play football!

The Meltdown At Montlake By Jimmy Lake Not quite the pick, nor the end zone lay down, but definitely defines the game. I predicted the dawgs would do something stupid, and we have another stupid coaching move. The lay down was embarrassing, this one goes a bit beyond embarrassing, stay tuned how much beyond. The dawgs seem to always make losing even more entertaining, and for that we are grateful.

Between accusations of having Margaritas for lunch and now alleging better coffee for breakfast, what will the assertions be for my dinner, evening drinking habits be with my Duck postulations? All I know is my cup is always getting filled when it comes to my Ducks! The funny thing is my estimates have been pretty close this year, except the Stanford game, once the refs came into play.

Stanford gave it all against Oregon and Utah will do the same. Expect a similar effort by the dawgs until they get distracted by their tail.

--the winner, OREGON --the score, and the tiebreaker information needed from each of you is...71-20 --the amount of turnovers Oregon creates 3 --the number of sacks Oregon records on the opposing team 5 --the number of passing yards. 250 yds.

You bring up a good topic, which raises a question about their mascot. Should Dub really be Deb? I mean if the women win everything at the University of Washington, it only makes sense.

I get excited when they commit, hopeful when they sign and ecstatic when they see the field. It is truly a process where the Canton's fizzle and the Kingsley leave, while the Walk's, walk-on and become stars. We can hope for the top star ratings, but the stars on the field come from effort and passion, something the camps and pundits, often, can't measure. It really takes getting them on the field, the real field, when the rubber hits the road and to see if they really have talent, and maybe just maybe the ability to lead men on the field. There are so many variables that when a prospect says he is looking elsewhere, oh well, that is part of the process and maybe Kingsley didn't look enough. Maybe we didn't look hard enough at the Canton's. It is a process where boys become men and mens dreams just might come true. Our dreams, though, are just that, dreams of others processes. The real story is the lives and the impacts becoming a Duck and playing on the team have on individuals. The wins and losses matter, but only so much that they are lessons on the way to generate outcomes for creating men of integrity and strength. Long week, have a great Duck Weekend!

Whoops, Rob Mullens made the top ten list, not the list you want to be on.

Walk away with class, dignity and integrity, something the dawg program has little of.

My only story happens just about every day. It use to be when you saw a dawg fan they acted like they owned the sidewalk, the street and half the city they were in. Now you see a dawg fan, and you may not even know they are a dawg fan, just the way I like it.

If there is ever a time to expand it is now with the financial hit the schools have taken with no NCAA basketball tournament and limited football with the pandemic. Money talks and it might happen with this backdrop for the schools with a little broader view than just $$$$$$$'s.

A pay site, I didn't get past Lakes achieved something nobody thought possible, blowing a 4th quarter lead against Montana at home, enough for me to say it is a good article.

Love it, same colored helmet Kenny Wheaton wore. We should always wear something to honor that day when playing the dawgs. In the big loss, we wore blue, never again!

Sounds like a great question, if you don't know the dawgs. Talent and arrogance cancel themselves out.

It is nice to see a kid spiritually connected and making decisions based on his social needs. I also give props to Cristobal for handling this situation with class and grace. I wish him the best, and agree with Jon most of these kids are either reaching out indirectly or directly to check things out. You call an old teammate, friend and see if the program is needing somebody like you to play at the school. They all know each other, been to camps, recruiting visits together. That student athlete then talks to coaches, all indirect, but they all know what is going on. The individuals who just up and leave, may end up school less, but the game with the big names is a pretty easy one to see how it works. I am not insinuating Kingsley did this, but I have no doubt it happens. Seems like a great kid, wish him well. I will also note Kilani is building something special at BYU, and we should all take notice. We will have to take special note next year when we play them the third game of the year, and we could be a bit unsettled after our first couple games with a new qb. Fortunately our O-line should be seasoned by then!