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Nautique Duck
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On 4/27/2024 at 5:48 PM, Charles Fischer said:
I will have one tomorrow after I am done going through it for analysis purposes. I always create one for our writers/coaches who create articles and analyses. Remind me late tomorrow or Monday by PM.
And anyone else is welcome...
Thanks so much!
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On 4/27/2024 at 4:57 PM, Signoramous said:
I can only find 5-minute streams on Youtube. Am I missing the holy grail?
Does anyone have a digital recording they can send? DM me if available. I was out of town and couldn’t watch.
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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?
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On 1/27/2024 at 5:56 PM, bbmichaels said:
I don't mean to be a Debbie Downer, but I wonder about the price paid, considering the competition for his services. I also wonder how the other DBs feel about it.
I'm excited to see him on the team, but I can't help wondering if the cost (both financially and from a morale standpoint) is worth the difference between him and the next option already on the roster.
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.
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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).
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On 12/20/2023 at 4:04 PM, DrJacksPlaidPants said:
Good flip, but this tells me that Bair is most likely going to be a Wolverine.
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.
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On 12/9/2023 at 5:19 PM, OceaniaDuck said:
I just hope that the Ducks' ability to recruit QB's is not damaged down the road.
Just concerned that in the future, good QB's coming out of high school may have second thoughts about coming to Oregon as they will probably think they'll just be riding the bench anyways in favor of someone coming in through the TP and thus will hardly get a chance to start, if ever.
It's a Catch-22 situation, balancing decisions between the "win now" mantra vs possibly going through some seasons with maybe 3-4 losses while the QB develops. Probably the last QB we had that was developed by Oregon was Marcus Mariota.
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!
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On 12/9/2023 at 11:57 AM, DrJacksPlaidPants said:
I’m sure Mario will take a run at him. I would also expect DeBoer to consider him.
That would really be a kick in your plaid pants to have Ty Thompson start for the Huskies and beat us in Autzen!
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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.
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On 11/5/2023 at 5:37 AM, Haywarduck said:
If anyone was hard to follow it was Justin, but that was more a coaching situation. Oregon tends to reload at QB, but I will agree the bar is high.
My bet is we will reload, as Stein seems to know what he is doing in development and play calling for the QB's. What I saw was play calling for Ty was atrocious under previous coaches. Yesterday was a perfect example of giving Ty a fair chance to lead, throw and score.
I think there will also be a competition through the fall. There just might be another Justin waiting to sling it for four years. Wouldn't that be fun to see again.
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.
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On 10/28/2023 at 7:26 PM, Log Haulin said:
Stanford taking it to Fusky. Uw hasn't been the same since they played the Ducks.
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.
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Targeting on the crack back block on jackson
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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.
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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.
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On 9/11/2023 at 1:16 PM, Augduck said:
Mr. FishDuck- I 1000% agree with you.
I saw the exchange you referenced between DL and Lupoi and took note as well. It clearly looked like Dan was emphatically making a point to Tosh and I am not saying he was calling him out, but rather ensuring Tosh understood his point.
No question Tosh was the uncertain understudy in that exchange.
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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.
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On 9/3/2023 at 9:26 AM, Jon Joseph said:
There has never been a makeover in CFB like this. 1 CU player who started on D in 2022 started yesterday against TCU. Only 10 Buffs players on the roster in 2022 are on the 2023 roster.
And I see comments above, which I respect, that credit Deion's assistant coaches for having the team ready to play in game one but not Deion. Yes. assistants do not get enough credit but it's the HC who has to face the slings and arrows and Deion in spite of a whole lot of criticism, never apologized for or backed off his methodology to make the Buffs relevant again in CFB.
You can bet that DL's, 'What have they ever won?' CU observation will be up on the bulletin board in Boulder.
Frankly, I can't think of another coach including Smart, Dabo, and Saint Nick, who could have had the 2023 CU team ready to defeat the #17 ranked team out of the gate and on the road.
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.
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On 1/26/2023 at 8:27 AM, Tandaian said:
No player in any sport should ever receive a contract longer than 5 years. It is 100% silly. Do some guys deserve it, yep. However, things change so fast, it is terrible business practice. Like Just Ducky said, it would severely handicap the Chargers. Justin is that valuable to that team, but we have seen what paying 1 guy so much does to the overall team.
The guy is a cheater, but Tom Brady never took too much. His highest average salary was this year at 25 mil. 15th highest this season. Half of Rodgers and Wilson.
Most of these numbers are inflated and not what they really receive, and the salary cap just increases. This will be the normal salary for an average starting quarterback and will be a bargain in 6 or 7 years. Look at mahomes’ salary. Blew everyone away and now isn’t sniffing the top of the list.
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On 1/10/2023 at 10:13 PM, McDuck said:
Sorry to see him leave but I can't be mad at the young man, he gave his all for the team. Maybe Oregon doesn't offer a doctorate program in his chosen field?
I think he knows NFL isn’t in his future and wants to use his eligibility to get the best doctorate he can to set himself up for the rest of his life. Smart move, frankly. He actually has 2 more years left and that takes a big chunk out of graduate school costs.
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On 12/6/2022 at 11:58 AM, lownslowav8r said:
Auburn football: Dan Lanning reveals Bo Nix’s future plans
FLYWAREAGLE.COM
Bo Nix isn't following the offensive coordinator that got the best out of him on the Plains and in Eugene, Kenny Dillingham, and he certainly isn't going t...
This whole article is based on a misquote. That question was about Dj Johnson, not Bo. I have not seen any Oregon reporters show that quote about Bo.
I think this is turning a quote into an article and unfortunately, they got the foundational quote wrong.
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I think Klemm is leaving anyway if USC job becomes available, so I’m not sure if it has anything to do with klemm. I’d guess not.
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On 12/1/2022 at 5:56 PM, DazeNconfused said:
The recruiting players for your schemes and installing new schemes line is overblown. I think it's a cop-out. Our players were recruited by all the top schools - its' not the talent. It's coaching and development that decides if you win with the talent you have. Sure you might have couple busts.
It's not like Mario brought in a bunch of kids who ran the Wing-T for offense and a 4-3 defense. Most of the players are blue-chips who were inn spread offenses and modern defenses to defend them. QBs aren't coming in never taking a snap out of the shotgun.
Mario took this roster with AB and went 10-2 in the regular season and made the pac-12 Champ game.
Lanning with a much better QB went 8-3 and missed the Pac-12 Champ game. Lanning was more competitive with the last two games lost to top 25 teams coming by 7 combined points. But Lanning has a much better QB and offensive scheme.
The reason why the Lanning's team fell short of the Playoffs and Pac-12 Champ game was coaching.
Dilly was good but a green play caller. Think about all the first half poor play calls at WAZZU inside the red zone. Dilly had some bad 4th down play calls in the last two losses, the cute formation and fumble in the UW game. The Ty reverse call in the Utah game. The 4th down jet sweep to Franklin in the OSU game.
Dilly choked on some big calls this year, period.
We all know how Lanning choked on some big high risk decisions that also cost us games.
With a new staff the growing pain mistakes you expect is not getting the best out of players, the staff needing to learn to coach players up better.
You don't expect the new staff to coach up the players well enough to go to the Playoffs and then have the coaches make ridiculous in game decisions and calls that robs the players of all the hard work they put and crushes their dreams.
It's not the players or the coaches ability to get them game ready that tanked the dream. It was the coaching game calls that is to blame.
We have never seen a coach at Oregon choke like this ever - at the same time his team was melting down to boot.
I just don’t get the (massively) overblown negativity. I disagree with basically everything in this post, except Dilly making some bad 4th down calls. The pac was waaaay down last year. Our team this year would have steamrolled everyone except Utah and would have probably been toe to toe with them. So comparing to last year is very faulty logic.
Additionally, calling a coaches confidence and determination to go for it sells short that this is his mindset and part of his MO to run this program and part of what over time tells your guys you have confidence in them to get the first. It is a philosophical decision, and not a choke. You may not like that philosophy, but that is how he wants to run his program. Saying we have never see an Oregon coach choke like this is some incredible hyperbole. Pretty unreasonable expectations for a first season and first time head coach to be that negative about him over combined 7 point deficit in his only 2 conference losses.
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On 11/22/2022 at 5:21 AM, Quackanadian said:
Great article Charles.
What also sucks about the W game, is the RBs were running well for most of the game. So why bother with the silly play call?
Also, the 4th and 1 call to go for it with Ty in.... just put Bo in for 1 play if that's the case and ice the game...
Me thinks Danny L was guilty of "Cristoballin" in this game, as well as the Utah game. Over thinking. Too cute.
Cheers.
I am surprised you think a quarterback run in the empty set that has resulted in multiple first downs and touchdowns is a silly play call. Lanning already admitted he should have called a timeout to get the word from the staff on if he could enter. He knew Bo wanted to go in, but he hadn’t gotten the clearance from training staff. A timeout would have allowed him time to get that info and get Bo back in the game. The play wouldn’t have worked even if Noah doesn’t slip because they were selling out like crazy to get the running back. I wouldn’t call this cristoballin at all because those were split second decisions, not a result of an inflexible macho mindset.
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On 11/16/2022 at 12:51 PM, David Marsh said:
Can't be targeting because there was no helmet-to-helmet contact between the players and the crown of the helmet did not strike another helmet.
It was mentioned above this would count as spearing because the defensive player really did lower his helmet and lead with his helmet into Nix and it hit around Nix's leg by the look of it. There probably should have been a call but there wasn't.
This is incorrect. It can be and is called targeting if contact is initiated with the crown of the helmet. I believe this has replaced the old call of spearing.
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