Steven A

"BTW - YTD 1L and #7 Oregon's SOS and SOR are both far better than #5 1L Ohio State. But every game counts, right?" I think Oregon comes out better in the Head to Head category also.

Well, according to USA today, they sit at #80 now !!! Looking forward to triple digits in two weeks. Texas drops again in USA TODAY Sports college football re-rank (yahoo.com)

The next two weeks will tell us more about this team than the last 7 games ... home vs very weak team; on the road vs rival who can make their season with an upset.

NOT HAPPENING. END OF STORY

"We need him to manage the game, hand the ball off, make the passes he is good at, and limit his mistakes, opportunities to make mistakes." Amen

According to his Oregonian article, he is a very solid pledge. Hopefully, the product on the field will keep him in the flock and help add others. Of the main suitors, Texas, A&M & LSU, LSU is a dumpster fire without a head coach, Texas seems to be stuck in the mud with only A&M looking like a team on the rise. Except they have the 2 Ls, more to come and barely beat at putrid Colorado team. https://www.oregonlive.com/recruiting/2021/10/rivals-calls-5-star-ol-kelvin-banks-to-oregon-ducks-one-of-nations-biggest-recruiting-surprises.html

The coaches need to game plan the opposition, both offense and defense, based upon game film, not go in with a mind set for percentages. I think we all agree, AB isn't a deep threat. But what if he starts throwing 50/50 balls to our taller receivers and they deliver. Do we keep that in the games? Might as well since you do want the appearance that you will/can go deep. Unfortunately, the coming game against Colorado could be a pyrite game. With a 4 score spread, this needs to be accomplished midway through the 3rd quarter. However, that could cause an interesting situation, Ty Thompson in the game and looking like a 5* QB. Then, if AB struggles in the future, the chants may return. The Ducks need to make sure they play Ohio St each week and not the competition.

This may be the tip of an iceberg. https://www.oregonlive.com/trackandfield/2021/10/women-athletes-allege-body-shaming-within-oregon-ducks-track-and-field-program.html

I'm waiting for mint chocolate chip so as to get one of our original colors involved.

It's Forrest Gump's box of chocolates team for sure. "Entertaining" ... depends upon your definition as there are plenty of other adjectives to describe what we witness each game. If Joey's '01 team were the cardiac kids, this Duck team might be the "charge the paddles to 200 team".

He also had great podcasts last week with Pac-12 Commissioner George Kliavkoff, divisions will be done away with and 8 game conference schedule as soon as possible with using the Alliance to fill in games; and Aaron Fentress, Ty Thompson is not yet ready for the big time.

Played up to competition this week. Next week we will see if they canNOT play down to CO.

I think I sat behind you....Oregon 42, UCLA 35, 2, 0, 802

Pigeon catchers?

Just eliminating the tie breaker.

Amen

Can you imagine Hebert in this offense based upon the amount of running AB is doing? Hebert probably would have pitched the ball more often ( CJ at the end of the half at Stanford) and easily progressed through the reads better.

A little Jackson Pollockish with the chocolate chips. I like them.

Oregon announces uniforms vs. UCLA (247sports.com)

Why play the game, just use the head to head Fresno State results.

Wouldn't it be awesome if they didn't?

Yes, let's hope this is tOSU 2.0

I think it was the right decision. Kept ESPN from monopolizing the playoffs with no competitive bidding from Fox or CBS. 12 teams is a bad idea: 1) the 4 teams that get a bye are at a huge advantage; 2) the SEC would put a minimum of 3 teams in each year. Have you seen the way they schedule so that the haves play the have-nots every year and cannibalization is very rare where a top team in the East plays a top team from the West. Then they add in TX and OK which will be middle of the road kill for the upper teams. Lastly, when 8+ teams from the SEC are in the top 25 to start the year, it takes at least 2 Ls to get them out. The Alliance kept the leagues from raiding each other and does set up some better matchups which will lead to more $$. The expansion of the playoffs will happen and now the Alliance controls the number and the automatic bids.

12- 2 Scoring average 32.5714286 giving up 23.4285714

I agree with the statement above that this year is frustrating over disappointing SO FAR. This is Mario’s 4th year. Last year really should pretty much be thrown out. But it was similar to this year in that we don’t have an above average QB. Obviously, we did with Hebert and he was absolutely mis-used for Oregon’s purposes, and that is on Mario and his offensive coaches. I am willing to let the coaches decide when the other QBs are ready. If they aren’t, then AB shouldn’t be benched. There is no use throwing out a freshman QB who isn’t ready just so he can get reps and throwing away a season. That is what the off season is for, training. Up North they have a 5 star frosh QB sitting behind an average at best starter (not that I would ever want to compare myself to them); and, at Oklahoma, their frosh QB was the #1 HS QB in the country and is living up to that ranking. In TT’s action so far, he hasn’t looked anything close to what Caleb Williams is showing. Each year the talent is getting better. The talent around AB on both sides of the ball is better than before. Maybe we just have to wait until the QB talent equals the other talent. I don’t want to be a Mets fan and “wait until next year”, so go with what the coaches say is our best chance to win now and develop the next QB later.