Desert Duck

So damn funny. We've got next level coaching, and next level fan signage! I nearly spit my coffee out laughing when I saw that yesterday morning on GameDay.

But in the end, Herbie may be right: Ducks win the National Championship.

"Coach Lanning said, in his post game press conference, that the kickoff that hit the Ohio State player was intentional. If it missed, it would have been a squib kick. I've never seen that." Keep in mind that OSU had incurred a 15-yard penalty on the previous play which was going to be assessed after they got the ball. So, even if they did recover the squib on their own 40, after the penalty, they would have been on their 25-yard line. Rather low risk, with high reward potential. And my goodness, did it pay off or what! IMHO, I would say that is some rather next level coaching stuff going on right there.

I'm not convinced. The 5 yard penalty put OSU on the 38, making that a 55 yard field goal attempt -- which is in range for their FG kicker. 6 seconds gave them enough time for them to have attempted a quick slant route to pick up another 5 to 10 yards to shorten the FG attempt. While I'd like to believe the 12 men on the field was deliberate, I'm going to need to hear one of our coaches say it was... like Lanning did on our awesome kickoff play. I think OSU just melted at the end and the QB finally made a bone head play.

I'm not sure on this one, but you certainly could be right. That's a lot of CPU processing in a very tight window. But if he did deliberately do it, that's some rather genius stuff right there. What I do know for certain is that kick-off play where our kicker drilled the OSU player was absolutely deliberate. Lanning, knowing that we had a 15 yard penalty on OSU to enforce, decided to go for the semi-onside kick. Even if OSU recovered the ball on say their own 40, after the 15 yards was enforced, they'd be on their own 25. No big loss or deal. When I watched the play, I thought the whole thing was a mistaken kick. This decision making process seems like some next level coaching to me.

In the last decade, we are now 2-0 against Ohio State. Yep... there's a new sheriff in town and he goes by the name, "Duck"

That kickoff play where we drilled the OSU player was deliberate. I can't believe the call, but we had the 15 yard penalty on OSU from the previous play so Lanning decided to go for it. So even if OSU recovered it on the 40, they would have ended up on the 25. Crazy, genius, massive big coconuts call!

So many Duck mistakes, and yet we're leading by 1. Just amazing. GO DUCKS!

Going for two made sense to me. Unfortunately, it was not well executed.

That was simple shameful. What an embarrassment for the program.

We got totally "Miami'd" on that no call.

With those ACC refs, Miami provides an entirely new meaning to the term "12th Man."

If this keeps up, Kalen DeBoer is going to be looking for another job soon.

Please tell me that we didn't actually agree to sell 41% of our seats to the Bucks.

This is also excellent advice when singing opera.

Great point about rolling the newspaper into a megaphone. It makes a serious impact in directing the sound straight down to the field.

OBD 34-28 2 3 288

"I love you, man."

Or perhaps the defender (aka. The Mugger), was just wanting to hug it out.

Best defense ever at Oregon? Through 5 games -- arguably, yes. If we just looked at average points per game allowed as the measurement, they could end up being the best Duck defense... at least over the last 50 years. So far, OBD D has only given up an average of 17 ppg. Over the last half century, I could not find an Oregon defense that has given up an average, for the season, of less than 17.5 ppg --- and that was in 1980... way back when the average points scored per game was quite a bit lower, and reportedly, some dinosaurs still roamed the earth. All I know for sure is that, so far, our defense has been absolutely nails.

Ahhh... the voice of reason. I vaguely recognize it. But wait a minute, they call us Fans (aka. Fanatics) for a reason. Great post. Thank you.

Hoping for a mostly healthy season, because this squad has the studs to make a deep run in March.

"IF" the Ducks put together their first complete game of the season, Oregon wins this game by 6.

If it's a close and well played game, I think the loser will only fall about 4 or 5 spots.

I love my Ducks as much as the Duck, but I have to say that through five games, I don't see the No. 2 or No. 3 team in the nation. Top 10 for sure, but not No. 2 or No. 3. However... and this is the awesome part -- I do believe that we have all the pieces to be No. 1. And I can not imagine a more tremendous opportunity to prove that than this Saturday in Eugene. All the eyes of college football will be on Autzen Stadium & Rich Brooks Field. It's almost like all the stars in the universe aligned for this moment in college football space & time. Over the past 50 years, off the top of my head, I cannot remember a bigger game/opportunity in Eugene than this one. GO DUCKS!