Just Ducky

Some of these young coaches seem to treat 4th down like they are playing video games, Madden for instance. Not sure how to get that out of their heads.

One area is the middle of the field on passing downs. Our offense seems to be predictable with wide receiver screens, that hardly ever work, and not throwing intermediate passes to the middle of the field on slants. Maybe our slot guys don’t like the slant pattern very much and I doubt if I would either but we need to use the middle of the field more. Defenses seem to jam the box on short yardage plays and we don’t seem to take advantage of this. Tight ends are valuable assets but our coaching staff seems to ignore them for the most part. Guess I’m saying to the coaches to use the whole field. It’s there for the taking.

With the schedule Colorado has I don’t see any more than 1 more win.

The saddest part of all this is the kids played well enough to win by 2 scores. The coaches blew the game. Steins play calling was very poor in key situations and DL needs to take the points whenever he can get them. On the other side of the ball TL coached one hell of a game against a very good offense. If Penix wasn’t so unbelievably accurate we blow them out. Time to move on to WSU and win big at home. Go s

For me is, now that this game was lost, how will this team respond the rest of the way. Certainly there are no gimmies left on the schedule. Win out sounds good but it will not be easy.

There is really only one blame for this game. Coaches Stien and Lanning. Steins play calling on fourth down reminded me of why I hated MarinoOs coaching style. Where was the imagination of a good offensive coordinator. Washington new what we were going to call but we did it anyway. Always take the points on the road Always Always Always. Lanning that is on YOU. Our kids played their ARS off and coaching let them down No way should we have lost that game….

My problem is we are so aggressive on 4th down but our play calling was way to conservative. Doesn’t work in the nfl or ncaa. Confusing for sure. Deboer new what was coming and it showed.

Lanning gets the game ball.

How big will those 6 points be now.

Both our o and d lines are loosing the battle. A big shock to me. Lot more energy out of the pups.

2 slips so far this half. That hold was caused by him slipping.

That play call cut the field in half. That play call cut the field in half.

Huge mistake. Always take the points on the road.

Dorlouse is to slow to set the edge.

Why do our players keep slipping? Do we have the wrong cleats?

Pennix accuracy is pretty darn good.

Now for the 3 & out

If we don’t open up the playbook we will get hammered. No more penalties.

Once again. Slow start on the road.

Crowd noise already a factor.

espn is one of the group of sportswriters that are always looking for clicks. Take Colorado for instance who quite possibly win one more game but I doubt it.

Forgot how much fun MarinoO can be.

Seems to be very little moss under the feet of this coaching staff. IMO Never have the Ducks been so aggressive. Surprises under every rock!

Since we seem to start slow on the road it depends on the opponent but I too like getting the ball first this week Charles. Not sure I like the idea of Penix getting the rock first this Saturday. I’d be real shocked if Debour will defer if he wins the flip. If he does and it backfires the dogs might be in for a long day.

It looks to me that Dan has learned that bringing the best players he can get for what he needs at each position is where he is targeting. Looks to be working so far.