Nautique Duck

I unfortunately will be out of town and will miss the game for the first time in years. I can’t find any broadcast info. Is it not going to be televised this year?

Dan Lanning has said openly that he tells all players that once they are here he will continue to recruit and bring in players that will push them to take their job and make the team better. If they want to play they need to be the best on the team. The bar has been set. I’m sure there were several players that the coaching staff was hoping would push Steve Stephens for minutes and force them to play that player instead of him, but he was the only one they could play. Maybe they didn’t learn the defense or signals well enough, maybe they didn’t show up for meetings or watch film. Whatever it was, the opportunity was there. When Florence and Jackson went down and manning wasn’t perfect in coverage, there were openings at corner and nickel. Lanning knows what we need and he has told the players he has recruited he will do everything he can to get it if they aren’t going to meet that standard.

I’m surprised at some of these takes. Penix shredded us twice while under the gun, in the face of pretty steady pressure. He can make throws with a pass rush in his face. He did the same to Texas last week. What he can’t do is hit those throws when he is hurt. He was injured, guys, plain and simple. We injured him toward the end of our first game against him this year, and he was not himself for the next several games, including missing throws he normally makes (Identical to the second half of the NC game). Unfortunately for us, he had enough weeks for his ribs to heal up before the conference championship, and without Jordan Burch, we didn’t have enough pressure to get to him and rough him up a bit, so he could pick apart our secondary again. He was healed up or the lidocaine shot worked a bit better for that game than it did at half time of the NC game. When the writing was on the wall, he definitely tried to let the world know through grimacing and limping and grabbing his side that he was hurt. Something he had refused to do when he still winning and competing. But once it was over, had to make sure we knew the reason (excuse).

Not necessarily. Bair is going on a mission so he realistically won’t play for 3 years. 2 years gone and then a year to get back in playing shape. They really aren’t in the same class, even though they technically are.

There are 90+ FBS quarterbacks in the portal. Including those who started at Ohio State and Duke and Miss St. Oregon is nowhere near the only program with turnover at QB and it is definitely a 2 sided equation. If someone doesn’t get a shot to play, or doesn’t like the offense/coordinator, or doesn’t like the NIL deal, they leave. if a team doesn’t think a player is good enough to play or finds out through back channels that a better player wants to come play for them, they bring the better player in and don’t play the player they have. It is not unique to Oregon at all. I mean, Dillon Gabriel is probably coming here because Oklahoma wants to play Jackson Arnold next year and Gabriel didn’t want to take the chance on being forced out of the starting slot. It’s just more mercenary environment causing annual adaptation by all involved because there are no real employment contracts. Dante Moore snubs us, then gets humbled and realizes starting in P5 isn’t as easy as he thought and now is, by accounts, considering coming to Oregon to learn and develop for a year before taking the reins in 2025. 90 QBs in the Portal!

That would really be a kick in your plaid pants to have Ty Thompson start for the Huskies and beat us in Autzen!

I think this is just a case of game day having already covered some big pac 12 games this year. In fact more than normal. They often later in the year throw a bone to a big fcs game between undefeateds.

I think that will steins offense appears to be simpler to approach/digest for Ty and he looks more assertive. Additionally, Stein has not put him in 3rd and longs each time he comes in just because he hands it up the middle twice on 1st and 2nd down, so he has the chance to really get his feet wet and actually run the offense.

I am pretty confident Penix is not 100% after we beat him up. He was sailing throws last week against ASU. He simply does not miss those throws when he is right. I think he is nursing a rib or shoulder injury that tightened up on him after the adrenaline from our game wore off. It reminds me of what happened with Herbert his Junior year I think it was. Had several games where he just missing throws that he didn’t normally and it came out after the season that he was pretty banged up, but wasn’t going to sit.

Targeting on the crack back block on jackson

Stephens killing us on defense. So slow to react and not aggressive/making plays. Really missing Addison. Wish they would try anyone else at deep safety.

Even after it is over and at the press conference he still didn’t even understand or realize they had gotten enough first downs to run out the clock! He says we thought we could get the first down. What??!! You already did. He literally honestly doesn’t even really understand basic key strategy or rules. just not a smart coach. Heck of a recruiter. Terrible X’s and O’s and in game strategist.

No question Tosh was the uncertain understudy in that exchange.

He was being double teamed a lot throughout the game and that is part of what allowed Dorlus to be so disruptive. They rarely ran towards him as well.

Bingo. People may not want it to be true, and Colorado may still lose a bunch of games, but you can’t act like Deion had nothing to do with this but hype and that it is all his assistants. A huge part of being head coach is establishing a culture and belief. A+ grade for that for Deion, and he was right and most of the media and fans were wrong. It’s a long season, and I don’t doubt he will also have a turn to eat some crow, but he never doubted himself for a moment on the football field as a pro and that is a huge part of what made him so good. He is instilling a portion of that to his team, and that can make any team scary. So much of football is mental, and he gives any team he coaches an edge. I think we still have a good chance of beating them, but I was surprised and grimaced a bit the second I heard Lanning give them bulletin board material. Deion (and MJ and Mahomes, etc.) don’t need a reason to manufacture fuel from others doubting them or hating on them, so why give them extra fuel? hopefully we won’t underestimate them when it is our turn and DL will have them ready and our overall talent edge will win out. I saw this mentality from the huskies bench last year when they visited us, and were supremely confident. There was no doubt in their mind they were going to score enough to win.