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Right up there with Johnny Manziel as one of the major "What-Ifs" of football.

Will Stein didn't have Moga passing nearly as much after he went in, which was likely by design; allowing the O-Line to continue to dominate the line of scrimmage and get our yards on the ground. However, he looked completely poised out there, as if he already has a starter's mentality. He made checks to plays and got us in to the right runs with great efficiency; also showing off his speed once again. Sadly, I won't be surprised at all if Novosad transfers. However, Moga already looks like a future QB1 here and the battle between he and Akili Smith Jr will be exciting to watch when Dante Moore is done in Eugene!

I agree that this is definitely the "prove it" season for Tosh Lupoi. He needs to show what he can do with an exclusively Dan Lanning team of players. If we don't see an improvement from our secondary and linebacker play then we and more importantly, Lanning, should seriously question the need for a change at DC. With the move to a 12 team, and eventually 16 team playoff, Oregon should absolutely be in the playoff picture every year. And getting there no longer requires teams to bet everything on the huge matchup of the year, and be so demoralized if they lose, that it kills all momentum for the rest of the season. Play within the game plan, stay disciplined, don't commit egregious penalties, don't get caught in trap games and we will almost always be a lock for the playoff every year. It is at that point that we start dialing up the offense as Ohio State did. We start adding extra coverage packages. We make sure we are healthy for the post-season stretch. This is how NFL teams win Superbowls, and it is now how college teams will win the whole thing with extra games added.

Oregon 42-17 2 3 295

Expectations: Ball control game. I see Will Stein making use of the amount of time we have the ball in order to limit Montana State's time of possession. Could likely see some extended offensive drives. Run heavy scheme complimented with a lot of short/intermediate passes to build Dante's confidence. We should see an improved secondary. These are finally all Dan Lanning players on defense that have had multiple years to learn the scheme. Return to dominating the "middle eight". We were masters of this during Kenny Dillingham's only year and Will Stein's first year here. Most games can be decided by creating scores in the last 4 minutes of the first half and first 4 of the second half. If we can get back to owning this our team can be lethal. We will cover, not blow out. This will likely be due to succeeding at item #1 on the list. We should control the time of possession throughout the game. While not necessarily leading to "lighting up the scoreboard", it will be reflective of how both sides of the ball keeps the game within their control.

Ah Ol' Slick! Quite possibly the only thing better than watching him get fired at FSU was watching him get fired at Florida Atlantic. Nothing breaks a locker room quicker than mistrust coming from the highest position. Had he at least hinted at the possibility of speaking with other teams it might've been different. Popular? No, but different. However, his notorious private jet flight to Florida for "recruiting purposes" only to meet with, and be offered the job by the 'Noles, will forever leave a taste of sour Lochmead milk in my mouth. How should he be remembered? Rob Mullens should be thankful to the FSU boosters for the influx of cash and for being shown it is possible to recruit nationwide to Oregon (hey Scott Frost).

I hope we don't have a tie-dye uniform set. We need to win a natty before we pull out another gimmicky set (Ex 2015-2016). But this guy might know something that makes me slightly nervous.

OBD is finally 24 hours from the start of fall camp! Lanning stated in the Ducks media day that he still considers the QB position an open battle. As camp begins this likely means the majority of first team reps will be split between Moore and Novosad. With 25 practices allotted over the 29 days leading into the season; how long do we want to see this battle play out before we see a singular guy getting all of the #1 reps. With so much untested talent on this years team, I feel like early continuity will be vital to the teams success. We will be tested early in the season with Penn State in Happy Valley. This is ,quite possibly, as tough a game as last year's tOSU in Autzen. We need our defense to be stifling but we need our offense to be humming by Sept 27. Whoever wins the job needs to be getting as many reps as possible with a mostly new offensive line and skill pieces. Sure there will be warm up games. But Montana State isn't a slouch, Oklahoma State will try hard for an upset, and little brother to the north will try to get at the new QB early and often. My question again is, how long do we want to see this battle play out before a guy is getting all the first team reps? I say a starter should be named (publicly or not) by the second scrimmage.

I feel like the roles of the two teams were also flipped compared to when we played them two years ago. in 2016 we were the undisciplined team that was all about flash and then the wheels fell off. In 2023 they were all the college football world was talking about until they stepped into Autzen...

Someone said in another topic that the 2015 and 2016 seasons were when OBD had officially Jumped The Shark with the uniforms and I have to agree. Oregon's design team and Nike had essentially been given carte blanche to make whatever they wanted and the result was, at times, absolutely insane. The Lewis and Clark uniforms wreaked of desperation The Green camo for the 2015 Civil War and helmet had zero flow and looked like something the All America Bowl teams would wear The Oregon Duck uniform against Colorado. Nothing more needs to be said... The Oregon Webfoots getting rolled in 2OT against Cal Not saying Helf got fired because of the uniforms, but someone definitely did.

I'm sure the situation isn't nearly as bad as the media is making it out to be. After all, they are essentially saying the same thing about Dante Moore. We will all know just in a couple weeks when practices get rolling though!

They badly need to rebrand their logo as it is no longer even representative of the geographical locations for most of the schools! two total schools in the new conference can be considered as "mountain" schools (Colorado State, Utah State), yet it is one of the predominate features in the current PAC-12 logo. The new logo needs to be as boring as possible in order to properly highlight the generic, no-name places in each state that their respective schools call home! And a name change to the Left Behind Land Grant State Schools Conference should be legally required!

One single instance of the Big 10 Championship Game unis with the green helmets should have been enough to set them at the top of the pack. Frequent uniform changes or not, those ones were 🔥

Sadiq and Dakorien Moore look to be the primary targets. I think Sadiq was already trending that way without the injury; but we'll get to see that Moore-Moore connection early and often this year!

I wanna see what Luke Moga can do with a full playbook and live tackling. He could be a serious dark horse.