EastBayDuckDad

Sorry to see Breeze get cut. Not surprised to see the others on the list. Glad to see that VMlll, ABrown and DAllen are still in the hunt.

I am happy AB may land a spot with the Ravens as he seems to be a great kid with tons of heart. But all too often, be it a result of MC's anemic passing game strategy or Brown's case of the yips, the "touch" was the hash mark 3 yards in front of his target, the DB's fingertips or the sideline Gatorade cooler. The Raven's QB coach has gotta fix those jai alai windmill throwing mechanics for AB to stick in the league.

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The Liberty was down by 8 in the 4th against the reigning champs Chicago Sky in Chicago and did a 13-0 run to win the first playoff game. Now a three game series. Sabrina pounded in 22. GOAT for sure. Great game to watch.

I would bet my ex-wife's house. The one I paid for.

So Oregon and Georgia OLs are neck and neck. The defensive front seven sees them everyday in practice and appear to be a match, holding their own by early reports. So how does it follow, as predicted by much of the sports media, that Georgia will destroy Oregon by simply running the ball down their throats?

Last year after Flowe was lost for the season (as was Mathis), opponents could scheme around Sewell as his ILB counterparts were either nowhere near as talented (Heaukulani) or talented but much less experienced (Brown and LaDuke) With a healthy Flowe that will not be the case and attacking the middle of the defense will become much harder be it run or pass. Thunder and lightning indeed.

We beat tOSU last year in large part because their since dethroned DC thought he could outmuscle the Ducks and stayed in a base man defense, which Moorhead just schemed around and AB executed well. Vanilla defense can be outschemed. I get the impression that DL will trust his defense to run the more complicated formations that he found so successful when guiding UGA to the NC with the best defense in the country.

There is a separate thread on OBDF this morning on thus article. Worth a look.

Great post. Been in a few weight rooms and those are eye-popping numbers on deads and cleans. Both are related to lower body explosive strength, just what you want to see in a defender trying to stop a runner dead in their tracks. Some of that can be trained but a 650# sumo dead is some serious genetic raw material. With elite speed to boot. DJ (and Dorlus) on the edge, Noah and Justin in the middle and CG at corner. Lordy, what a defense this could be.

I love the idea of VMIII and Jevon Holland in the same Dolphin secondary. The only Miami team I'll root for. Until they play the Chargers, then I want to see Herbie burn the hell out of them.

I agree with pretty much everything DZC articulated about MC in his article. I, like many on the OBDF, probably can't fault him for wanting to return home. But he seems to have given up on the team on his way out the door which does make him open season for criticism. I feel like the Oregon fan base is the jilted BF/GF who's paramour decides to hook back up with their high school sweetheart. There is always a 'lack of interest' in the existing relationship before the ultimate breakup. The new/old relationship gets looked at by the jilted one with a sense of schadenfreude. And the departed paramour gets their personal traits picked apart by the one left behind until it no longer serves the purpose of making them feel better. The way MC left fits with the ham-handed way he approached coaching, not a hell of a lot of subtlety. He got outfoxed by coaches that took his strengths and tendencies then used them against him. Maybe he will improve his coaching at the U and let his coordinators do their jobs. Maybe not. He's not Oregon's problem now.

I too really enjoyed DNC's perspective on this. Great points and counterpoints in the subsequent posts. My two bits: In comparing Nix to AB, I don't think statistics tell the whole story. Both QBs have had 'wow' moments and 'OMG, why did he do that?' moments. Re-watched the Stanford game (yes, I saved it, masochist that I am) and AB frequently underthrew, overthrew, threw behind and to the wrong dude (the DB). It looked like someone had replaced the QB we saw at tOSU (re-watched that one too for comparison) with an out of sync hologram. Granted a lot of players contributed to that debacle, and Moorhead was in an ICU with half his colon in a bag, but in that 1st half AB was abysmal. MC trying to be a HC and OC was just as bad, but that's a whole different topic. In 2022 Nix will face Georgia, but not Alabama, TA$M, Arkansas, Tennessee and Kentucky (all ESPN top 25 teams). The only ESPN top 25 opponents in the Pac12/10 are Utah and U$C. Currently neither the PAC or ACC is the SEC in terms of talent. Nix has played against more talent and tougher teams than AB did. In 2022 Oregon has a better O-line and arguably better offensive skill players than Auburn did the last two years. And Nix looked pretty darn good in that spring game. I'm going to fall on the glass half full side of this discussion, unless the Georgia game is a disaster and blows my optimism all to hell.

Seems like this was the tOSU logic going into last year's game at the 'Shoe. As if the B1G and the SEC have the market cornered on bringing the wood. It goes back to the old 'Oregon is soft' narrative and that the Ducks play 'finesse' football. Tell that to the O-line and see what happens. If anyone on that field sends an opponent into the 2nd row it'll be Noah Sewell.

As a comparison since the start of the Chip Kelly era: Oregon v B1G 7W 4L Rose Bowl x 3, Natty (+1 vs SEC) USC v B1G 5W 3L Rose Bowl x 2 No CFP Yep, the competition is stiffer than Pac12 (now 10), but Oregon is the premier program against the B1G. They should do fine.

College Football Preseason Offensive Line Unit Rankings: Preview 2022 COLLEGEFOOTBALLNEWS.COM College football unit rankings – the offensive lines. Ranking the top 10 overall, and then ranking... Ducks are #1. I like the line about the nastiness of Oregon O-line and how finesse is no longer in the lexicon.

Sorry to see Jackson go, but maybe playing time was going to be iffy. Picking up Winston as a transfer would be a lateral or slight net negative move, IMO. Seems like the LB room is pretty stacked with Funa, a healthy Flowe and Bassa stays at LB and LaDuke, Flowe 2.0, Brown and the entering freshmen develop.

Thanks for the posting, Charles. Speedy recovery for Madame FishDuck Home Boss. My daughter is a flight attendant for Delta, is vaccinated and after a Europe stint still got hammered by one of the Omicron variants this week. The virus is craftier than we are. Silly thought Charles, but would it be an option to have a special "Troll Vault" for the toxic spewings, like what the USC fan posted? Nothing political and no back and forth, but a file we could all access and enjoy a little chuckle at how inventive some folks that do not share the love of OBD can be. Kind of an alternate universe Axel, but not as funny or entertaining, as it were.

Eugene, Springfield, Crow, Veneta, Elmira, Mapleton, etc kids hit those rock slides at Triangle Lake every summer. My son spent tons of time there and used to say how careful you had to be to avoid getting hurt. Whosever child it was that lost their life there, it's just tragic.

Back when Canzano was with O-Live during the Chip Kelly era he could be a bit tough to stomach but always seemed to be well informed. He certainly had Larry Scott's number early on. Never. A. Big. Fan. Of. His. Prose. Style. But I've listened to his BFT radio show a fair amount and have enjoyed it.

I'm convinced half of ND "fan base" watches the games to see them lose.

Yep, she's the GOAT. If you have a few minutes, watch her record setting game against the LV Aces. 31 pts, 13 rebounds and 10 assists, the first WNBA triple double ever with more than 30 points scored. NEW YORK LIBERTY vs. LAS VEGAS ACES | FULL GAME H…:

Twice! So 6-0. Didn't we beat Michigan State as well at Autzen and in the Redbox Bowl? So 8-0! Fear the Duck!

Not sure we should see him making a Friday announcement as favoring the Ducks, but with the Oregon push in the last few weeks and all the crystal balls swinging green and yellow (and black and gray and white and silver and, heaven help us, occasionally pink), I like the odds.

I as well am glad you are here, McDawg. I'll add my own two bits. Most Hated Rival: Butt-sniffers by the Lake (though U$C is a close 2nd for me). Favorite Recent Games: 2014 Fiesta Bowl v K. State. DAT's opening KO return to the house was a revelation to the KSU fans. 2015 CFP semi at the Rose Bowl v FSU. Never seen a team quit and just shut down like they did when Oregon went off in the 2nd half. Winston's oopsy-doodle fumble was the coffin nail for the Seminoles, a thing of beauty. 2012 Rose Bowl v Wisconsin. Oregon beat a good B10 champion and a future NFL champ MVP QB. 2020 Same as above. Tighter game but every Oregon fan came away from that win thinking, "why the hell wasn't Justin Herbert allowed to do THAT all year". Greatest Heartbreaker Games: 2011 CFP NC game for all the reasons others have noted. His knee was down. I'll add the 2014-5 season home loss to Stanford when Zach Ertz was gifted a TD at the end. He was out of bounds. If DAT had turned around and made a block to get Mariota into the end zone in the 1st half, that game ends differently and Oregon would have been in the NC game instead of the Fiesta Bowl. Looking forward to watching our respective teams meet in Atlanta in September. Go Ducks!