EastBayDuckDad

Bo has Denver up on Atlanta 21-6 at the half. 2 TD tosses. 17/19 for 192 yds with an RTG of 144. Spreading the ball around to six receivers including TFrank. The Bronco D is doing a great job. Looking forward to Bolts v Bengals tonight with JH.

There was something clenched during the majority of that game until the final two minutes alright.

All except that last fake FG. DL should have taken the three to force Whisky to drive the field and score a TD.

Time to take the win and limp into the bye week. Get some juice back and heal up. Beat the purple poodles!

There's the stop. Now drive this home. Go Ducks!

This'll fire up the D. Get a stop and another score

Los cojones grandes for WS and DL calling the TFerg pass on 4th and 9

Ok, where the hell was that offense for the first three quarters

Ok, this is where good teams show their mettle. Recover from a crappy first half and win. Defense not playing badly, just not getting any help from the offense. Ducks need to adjust the scheme, execute on this first drive of the 3rd and run the damn ball

So they're up instead. Crappy half for OBD. Something better happen at the half to light a fire.

Manning gets burned. This will be tied at the half

Harmon holding, totally unforced error. Now up to eight penalties. In the first half. DL needs to reset things in the locker room at the break.

TEs getting beat in the run game.

Just not in sync in the pass game. Run the damn ball!

Well this won't be a boat race given the first quarter. More like a tugboat regatta. O-line not performing well yet and offense just stuck in second gear.

That one's on Gabriel, threw behind Lowe. Can't do that and let UW think they can hang. D has to keep the pressure on. Lesson here is run the ball!

Tuioti wth a nice strip sack. Got three on the subsequent series but offense seems not yet in sync. Oregon's defense spending more time in Whisky's backfield than their own players with another strip sack. Hope Manning is ok

U$C wins on a walk-off pick in the endzone where the Nebraska WR was the victim of blatant PI hold. Almost missing the Pac-12 officiating after watching a season of this garbage.

Oregon 36-16 2 TO 3 Sacks 245 yds thru the air While I can appreciate Whisky's fan base desire to avenge the last few high profile losses to OBD, the fact is the Rose Bowl was four years ago with different players and coaching staffs. They have home field advantage, a bye week lead-in and that's about it.

If Oregon is going to lose one, let it be a squeaker to tOSU in the B1G CG. No value whatsoever in dropping one to Whisky. The correction curve will be the same and the Ducks will be in the top five come selection day.

I keep coming back to the talking heads that graded the Riley hire as an A+ and DL as a B-/C+ Some things just age better than others. How sweet it is!

Many of the media sites are aping the cited article about DL being looked at by NFL teams. The old adage that where there's smoke there's fire simply doesn't apply when every blogger and media outlet is scrabbling for content and easy copy. The Harbaugh reference is almost laughable as there are few if any parallels. Harbaugh played QB in the NFL and nearly took the 49ers to a championship in his first league coaching gig. He returned when the time was right with a team he wanted and an all-pro QB (Oregon's very own JH) to coach. As has been mentioned on this thread, the track record for successful college coaches with no NFL experience to succeed at the next level is dismal. The money is no better and there is always a GM looming overhead making personnel decisions, looking out for themselves and brown-nosing the owners. Vacancies are nearly always dumpster fire teams that require a major rebuild, and the HC is the first one to take the blame and get shown the door when things go pear-shaped. The Andy Reids, John Harbaughs and Mike Tomlins are rare in the modern NFL. Maybe after several years of high level success with a NC or two and an open gig with KC (when Reid retires) dangling, things might look different. Keeping his family in one place has been a believable priority for DL. If he could turn down Bama to stay where the grass is 'damn green', it seems pretty unlikely that he would trade Eugene, Oregon for Chicago and Caleb Williams.

To Cristobal, the opposite of physicality is mentality. Physicality- Banging your head against the wall until something gives. Mentality- Noticing there is a door in the wall, opening it and walking through.

Oregon 45-16 2 TO 4 Sacks 285 yds passing

I don't think that Riley is a bad QB coach or OC. I do think he is a middling HC, recruiter, game manager and leader. And a really bad value given his salary and the inherent advantages he has at U$C.