EastBayDuckDad

GameDay’s crew went 6-0 for ASU against BYU. Great job by Dilly turning that program around in one year.

GameDay’s crew went 3-3 tie tOSU/IU. Herbstreet and Fields are Bucknut homers. Not surprisingly Howard went for IU, but so did McAfee and Corso!

Gotta love Cignetti's attitude. Sticks that narrative right up the old Buckeye. I'm looking forward to watching this game. I may have predicted a Bucknut win in our contest, but I'm rooting for the Hoisiers to channel OBDs September 2021 performance in the 'Shoe'.

Did you mean Popo, who graduated last year, or were you perhaps thinking of A'Muri Washington?

Watching the GameDay preview of the tOSU v IU match-up leaning pretty heavy Bucknut advantage. Nice profile of Caleb Downs with loads of big play tape. Lots of TFLs, PBUs and a pick or two on every opponent except..... Oregon. The one clip shows him making a downfield tackle on James after what must've been a big gain. Downs will end up a 1st round pick and is immensely talented but it's gratifying to see that the Ducks more or less kept him from having a big day at Autzen. The GameDay crew had to reach to find a standout play from that October meeting.

This became a tougher call with the loss of the tOSU center. That injury might sink a lesser team against a top notch D-line (like OBD, I hope), but Bucknut will compensate just enough to prevail and face Oregon in Indy on Dec 7. Ohio State to win 28-16 2 TO 2 Sacks 245 passing yds RBs Henderson and Judkins will tilt this game in Bucknut's favor. I hope I'm wrong, though.

One elite edge player a year, that's all we ask. As Charles astutely identified in the lead and many have repeated in this thread, this priority in recruiting and development is the driving force for a championship level defense. . Road block DTs, solid ILBs and lock down DBs are crucial in the 4-2-5, but they allow the star of the show to be the havoc creating Edge, keeping the QB in the pocket and disrupting any throw that takes longer than one-one thousand, two-one thousand. It's why Garrett, Clowney, Watt, Bosa, Hutchinson, Hendrickson and Crosby (and KT) are all household names and 1st round picks. And why OTs like Sewell and Alt are drafted right next to them to prevent those household names from knocking the QB into an MRI scanner. If Burch can stay healthy down the stretch, the 1-2 punch with MatayoU (and Tuioti as more of an OLB) on the edge is championship level stuff. And there is great talent waiting in the depth chart with Purchase, Winston and Rushing. I have no doubt that they would be starting for nearly any BIG team not named Oregon, tOSU and maybe Michigan. To add Elee and maybe another 4-5☆ to that list for 2025 will potentially push OBD into that elite Georgia category. Yep, you can see it from here and it appears that DL and TL can too.

Graves said it, "Tough, gritty wins are hard to come by". Last year's team lacked tough and gritty character and had no chance to pull out a victory like this. The combination of good floor leadership from Peyton Scott, Deja Kelly and Sofia Bell, dominant post play from a healthy Philly Kyei and a deep bench makes these Ducks a potential tournament team. Now if the injury bug stays away...

Losing your O-line anchor and "qb" is a tough turn, particularly when that center is All-American caliber. Even if tOSU has a capable backup, there is no way that their offense doesn't suffer. Witness Oregon's early season woes with Pickard when Pancho was shifted to OG. And from a historical perspective, need I even say it? ...Alamo Bowl. We saw what happened when Bucknuts lost a starting tackle against OBD. More false starts and problems in the run game. Just enough to make a difference. What happens against Indiana this weekend will be telling and the Ducks will be the beneficiary regardless of who they face in the B1G CG. I still see tOSU winning and facing OBD in the title game. With Harmon or Caldwell breathing down his neck, their center will have his work cut out for him.

Boise St's one loss was to the #1 team, in their (our) house, by a FG. They've earned that #12 spot and maybe the first round bye. At the very least they deserve to be in the playoff.

4 of 5 top spots to B1G. #1 Oregon #2 tOSU #3 Texas #4 Penn St #5 Indiana It won't stay that way but sometimes you gotta live in the moment.

And now a TD pass to TFrank to put the Broncos up 28-6. Yep, big mistake to take Nix in the 1st round. But I may be a little biased.

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.