EastBayDuckDad

I see this in part as a response to not only media $$$ but also NIL payouts favoring those same Power 2 programs (I hesitate to say schools, as college football may no longer include the word 'college') and the CFP committee not wanting to lose total control over the process. Out of favor conferences like the ACC, Big12, Pac(?#) and the mid-majors will at least have a fighting chance of landing at least one team in the CFP. Alabama may have clobbered Cincinnati in the semis, but at least they made it there and it was worth watching to see if David could win over Goliath. Whether Oregon scoots to the BIG or stays to lead a revamped PAC, this can't hurt.

Georgia 31-20 2 TO 2 Sacks 265 Passing yards (Nix)

And they appear to have my demographic pegged. Time for another PSA and digital heinie probe.

Yikes Charles, these ads are getting a bit personal and persistent!

Or he'll be distracted by thoughts of weeding dandelions, moving furniture around, hanging curtains, which dishes go where and remembering to put the toilet seat down. Then again, the game might be a blissful respite from regular Saturday domestic life.

I'd prefer 12-0, but if we have to drop a game it might as well be to the reigning national champions that so graciously supplied us with a new head coach.

And the bonus is that Miami ends the season unranked, tho he does say that MC will build a winner in time.

Ouch! Double ouch as it is in the Seattle paper.

Jalen Camp, Johnny Johnson III shine in Texans preseason win WWW.HOUSTONTEXANS.COM Young receivers Jalen Camp and Johnny Johnson III each caught touchdown passes in Saturday... JJlll still hanging on with the Texans. Royce Freeman mentioned as well and may end up as the #2 RB for Houston.

Dont’e Thorton is putting in the work to have special 2022 season DUCKSWIRE.USATODAY.COM “Dont’e is one of those guys that literally lives in the receiver room, like, every time I’m coming in...

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.

Lucky 13! Late New York Liberty Run Keys Upset Playoff Win - Sports Illustrated New York Knicks News, Analysis and More WWW.SI.COM The New York Liberty took the wind out of Chicago with a jaw-dropping sequence in the final...

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.