Desert Duck

I'm having a hard time seeing how losing by 11 to Boise State, who went on to a 14-0 season and win the Fiesta Bowl, was more embarrassing than a 46 point loss to Georgia.

Great comment. At least at Oregon, Chip Kelly displayed some sizeable coconuts and rallied his team after his opening game coaching disaster. And at least Coach Lanning doesn't have to deal with his starting RB punching an opposing player in the jaw on live tv.

Although Lanning wouldn't allow this new guy to play yesterday, perhaps this kid, or at least one of our other QBs, will get some PT and experience in a future game 😉

No worries from me. And if anything I said came off as snarky, my apologies. I like your comments. And to one of your comments above, keystrokes are definitely a tough way to communicate -- especially after a butt whoopin' like yesterday 😉 Onward and upward! Have a great rest of your Labor Day weekend.

Thanks for looking this up. This is a great point.

Again, you are absolutely correct. It took a few centuries, in fact, to build Rome. And I certainly wasn't expecting Lanning to come in and walk on water either. But I believe honesty would dictate us admitting that virtually none of us expected to see anything remotely occur like the catastrophe we witnessed yesterday. Fortunately, we are done with the "Georgia's" for the rest of the season and now we're going to begin to start learning exactly what kind of head coach we have at Oregon. And frankly, I'm actually optimistic. We have a rather favorable schedule as well.

Yes... the #7 ranked team lost to an unranked team on the road.

"Probably gotta go back to 2009 for an opener that went like this for the Ducks." C'mon... as bad as that 2009 Boise State loss was, we lost by 11 points. A far cry from 46 points and the 3rd worst opening loss in Duck history going back to 1916. Again, I know we're all looking for some sliver of silver lining after yesterday's abhorrent debacle, but I'm pretty sure there is not much of it to be gleaned --- other than our Ducks doing everything they can to learn from it, and then flush it down the proverbial toilet and press on. This may be where the game of golf comes into play and that need for a short memory. One day, one week, and one game at a time. Win the day... and make your bed.

Tyler Shough started for the Texas Red Raiders yesterday and put up some good number -- before unfortunately leaving the game due to an injury.

Although Georgia has what appears to be a relatively soft schedule ahead of them, I expect that we are going to learn that Georgia is absolutely a Top-3 team in the nation -- and I wouldn't be remotely surprised to see them repeat as National Champions. But I don't care... because there's no chance in heck that a reasonably decent team should have allowed themselves to be humiliated by 46 points... regardless of where we were playing. I realize we're all looking for something encouraging to grab onto, but about the only good news I can come up with is somewhat twisted --- which is that we now play a relatively soft OOC & PAC-12 schedule the rest of the season. And with this remaining schedule, I do expect the Ducks to compete going forward. But I'm not sure that's much of a compliment.

This is true, but only because we now play relatively soft OOC & PAC-12 teams. And I'm sorry to say this, but unfortunately, your true statement only serves to further expose how soft PAC-12 football has become, and how far behind we are relative to the SEC.

Sadly, I think PAC-12 is living down to the level that everyone says it to be.

One of the most glaring questions I have is: "Just how bad are our backup QBs?" To have left Nix in ALL GAME, for what was truly a terrible performance, AND a historically horrendous season opening game, I think begs this question.

Brutal day for the PAC-12.

Well... it's been an interesting one today. I'm signing off and taking my wife out to dinner. In the midst of a lot of Duck pain today, a lot of you have displayed some excellent humor and made me laugh. For that, I am appreciative. I hope you all have a good evening.

No worries at all. Thanks again for all you put into this. And by the way, if some of my "glass-half-empty" comments crossed over a bit to the dark side today, feel free to delete them 😉

LOL. Sadly though, it was 1974 @ Nebraska 61-7, followed by 1975 @ Oklahoma 62-7. I just checked back as far as I could find the scores, which was 1916.

This cryptography might just be the thing to turn the season around. I would encourage you to forward this on to coach Lanning to share with the team.

Hey, at least we didn't make history today. Although, it was the third worst opening season loss we've ever had.

Along the lines of "I'm looking for some remotely positive Duck news after todays total annihilation" --- I'm not exactly sure I found it. After getting completely trashed and losing by 46 points, my fear was that this may be the worst opening loss our Ducks have ever had. However, I believe I have a little bit of good news, and that is going back 106 years to 1916, we have had 2 opening season beatdowns WORSE than today. I know... I'm such a glass-half-full kind of guy.

21/37 - 173 yards - 8 carries for 37 yards. Sorry, but even if we leave reality behind and pretend he didn't have 2 picks, those numbers are still rather pedestrian.

After today, I'm pretty confident that everyone around here is 100% in agreement with you.

Okay... that's just downright hilarious. But that picture is about the equivalent of a 49-3 opening season loss.

I will say that in the midst of the pain, I am finding some good humor around here.

But Charles, on another perhaps rather positive note, it sounds like you had about three times more people on the board during the game than you expected. So that's good news! And I'm looking for good news wherever I can find it at the moment 🙂