The Kamikaze Kid

Mario may be able to build a roster that can get itself into the playoffs but Mario will never be able to coach them to a win.

Just win baby.

Yep. Pretty much sums it up. Good find Doctor.

I say if you have an opportunity to destroy the miserable mutts on your home field and remove all doubt, just do it.

As the wins have stacked up and OBD climbed the rankings all the way up to number one, the season began to look almost impossibly perfect. The one point victory over tOSU was the game of the year, and the Ducks just kept getting better and better each week. Flattening every opponent that dared step on the field with them home or away started to seem to be too good to be true. I'm sure I'm not alone in beginning to wonder when the inevitable banana peal shows up. With Lanning expecting the team to get better each week and after going into The Big House and manhandling the reigning national champs, how much better could they possibly get? Coming back down to Earth seemed to be a certainty but would that come with a loss? For Miami and Georgia this week, the answer was an emphatic yes. For the Ducks, it was a twenty one point victory and their highest scoring BIG game to date. I personally am somewhat relieved that the step back game was a mere sloppy but decisive victory. Lanning can now hammer home the need to regain focus and discipline and the team can now truly feel the need to get better this week. The road game at Wisconsin has always look like a dangerous one on the schedule and I'm glad it will arrive when the Ducks feel a need to get back to playing at a high level and not just another game to play in cruise control.

Last week they were gladiators in the arena taking down the defending champions in front of 110.000 people. Add in no Tez and the O line readjusting to new line ups again, a step back this week doesn't surprise me.

Maybe Riley had the team over at his crib this week for an evening of Gladiator on Netflix.

UO 38-10 3 4 315

If Oregon was still in the PAC, Lanning would have Alabama No. 1 right now.

Oregon had kept their pedal to the metal offense under wraps up to that point. In that weeks Oregon vs Them, we saw Lannng tell the coaching staff it’s time to introduce the BIG to Evan Stewart and that was spectacular! So far the in the BIG Lanning has been a Rembrandt in a finger painting class.

Watch this week's US vs Them segment. They took the concept of going into the Big House and converted it into gladiators stepping into the arena. That's exactly what the thumbs down was all about.

Wow. This one was absolutely over the top. Gladiators going into the arena to dominate the opponent and shut up the crowd. Living up to every word Lanning said on Monday all the way to the final time out to soak up the moment before finishing them off. These videos are starting to look like the prequels of a documentary on the rise of the Duck empire. Thumbs down! Are you not entertained?

Michigan fan pregame: The Ducks are good but I think our physicality will wear down their finesse. Michigan fan post game: I can't believe they just ran it up the middle for that last touchdown. Why didn't they show us some mercy?

Coach Prime would be terrifying in SUC land but I'm sure he'll end up at FSU where he'll be worshipped like a god until he retires. At some point SUC will unload the brinks truck to buyout Riley then unload another Brinks truck on the next flavor of the month then rinse and repeat a few years later.

Great post. The only trick play on Saturday came from Michigan. A desperate looking attempt at trickery that went nowhere and accomplished nothing but turning the ball over on downs. Oregon then methodically took the ball down field one play after another just running down the clock one first down at a time. Finally on the doorstep of the endzone, no fake statue of liberty required. Just another run straight up the gut for the final score in the last seconds of the game. Welcome to Oregon football BIG Ten.

I think Michigan takes down Indiana. I think they figure some things out against the Ducks.

Just another day for Florida Man.

"I really hate those guys."- Dean Wormer

For those about to SUC we salute you.

The grass is pretty damn brown down in SUC town.

SUC fans are now looking back fondly of the Helton years.

When the game looks like The Globetrotters vs the Generals, just secure the ball and let the offense go to work. That game should have been 14-0 before the crowd was halfway through their first chilidog. Instead even after two great defensive stops, it was 7-7 and anyone's ball game.

Michigan's passing game seemed pretty good to me. I saw a bunch of NFL caliber plays against one of the best pass defenses in the BIG. Sure didn't look bottom twenty to me. I think they played good enough to beat a top twenty five team but they were just playing the number one team that day.

This is the only slow motion replay I could find on the internet. This video may be behind a pay wall and not viewable for some. If anybody can find an alternate video please post it here. Refs issue statement on Oregon WR Evan Stewart's controversial touchdown against Michigan 247SPORTS.COM Refs issue statement on Oregon WR Evan Stewart's controversial touchdown against Michigan At first I agreed that the ball bounced on the ground incomplete but after seeing this video, I changed my mind. It looks like the ball actually bounces off his forearm not the turf. It may have still also touched the ground but that seems somewhat inconclusive to me. I've seen plays where a catch is ruled a catch even when the ball touches the ground but is not resting on the ground. I don't know the specifics of the rules there. If anybody does, some clarification would be helpful. If the video replay officials felt this was a TD because of what I just mentioned, I wish they would have clarified that during the game. The way it went down live, makes them appear to have made an error. Also on his spectacular catch that was waved off for illegal man down field, can anybody point out the infraction because I just don't see it.

USC is winning big and SUC just lost. What a great night of football.