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High school QB recruits since Marcus (11 classes) Jake Rodriguez Jeff Lockie Damion Hobbs Morgan Mahalak Travis Jonsen Kristen Wallace Terry Wilson Justin Herbert Braxton Burmeister Tyler Shough Cale Millen Jay Butterfield Robby Ashford Ty Thompson With the exception of Herbert, "finding and developing" high school QBs hasn't really been too successful in quite some time (and the Herbert story generally has him pretty much coming to the UO ready to play at a high level). If the coaches and staff are able to hit on 2/3 or 3/4 portal or graduate transfer QBs, the numbers/history (since 2011) sort of suggests it's a no brainer.

Tucker returned close to home to San Diego State and is listed as a WR. Caught 21 passes for 296 yards and 4 TDs as a high school senior (though doesn't look like he got on the field for SDS this season).

Rumor from the Oklahoma side of things is he is being "Darron Thomas-ed". That is, OU has a former five star, 2022 Elite 11 MVP (Jackson Arnold), who sat this year; and, would be a portal candidate if facing another year on the bench. Oklahoma fans saying this was no surprise and has been in the works for weeks. Interesting because OU fans seem to have nothing but positives to say about DG. A little bit of a dangerous game for OU maybe; but, I guess it worked out for the UO staff (handing the keys to Marcus).

I am still attempting to come to terms with the idea the Huskies actually have a very respectable chance at winning the National Championship this year.

If it is ok to link to YouTube, some extended highlights

Not kicking deep for a <5% chance for an inside kick with the time left is definitely open to be questioned. Midfield changes the dynamic.

Too easy.

No. Kick it deep.

Muhammad has been grabby all season. I really don't understand how two very experienced announcers (and one "rules expert") struggle to see a DB with both hands grabbing and holding the WR's jersey for several seconds 15 yards down field being called a penalty.

Muhammad has been good all year. Absolutely very grabby.

Didn't work the first game. Looked exactly like the first game tonight. Only 1/3 of the field for the Huskies to defend, 3 WRs all appearing to run to the same spot. Ugh.

Might qualify as a "hot take" but: I'd probably look elsewhere than DJ; but, he has about 1,175 career passes attempts, of which maybe 700 have been "meaningful" snaps. TT has 66 career snaps of which maybe about 10 have been meaningful (depending on how you feel about 9 attempts in the second half in the Sony Brook game). I'd be hard pressed to put DJ at the top of my portal list; but, if nothing else comes together, I'd definitely let DJ compete against TT (nothing against TT, I'm still pulling for him about as much as most Duck fans -- but realistic).

What an absolutely poor call on the 4th down PI. So poor, it shouldn't happen.

Coach Petersen on the FOX Post game just said of the Michigan/Penn State game: "I don't get it, if this game wasn't in color tv, I would have thought it was 1950s football. It's all about winning the game and they did a great job with that with all the controversy surrounding that but I don't get it ... JJ McCarthy, is he hurt? He is supposed to be a Heisman candidate and threw for 60 yards... I didn't get it..."

I can't root for Washington. I want them to lose to Utah, lose to Oregon State, and lose to WSU. I don't expect it; but, I can pull for it. I find it easiest to root against UW and root for chaos. I can't see Old Miss beating Georgia, need Georgia to beat Alabama in the SEC Championship game, Texas to drop a game, maybe somehow Florida State drop a game (and Michigan and tOSU can drop as many as possible as well).

Some possible transfer portal names for 2024 I've seen listed (most reported from 247 Network): Michael Pratt (Tulane) Grayson McCall (Coastal Carolina) Max Brosmer (New Hampshire) Brock Vandergriff (Georgia) Gunner Stockton (Georgia) Maalik Murphy (Texas) Cade Klubnik (Clemson) Ty Simpson (Alabama) Tyler Van Dyke (Miami) Jacurri Brown (Miami) Chandler Morris (TCU) Jayden de Laura (Arizona) Brayden Dorman (Arizona) Devin Brown (Ohio State) Sam Horn (Missouri) Ethan Gabbers (UCLA) Max Johnson (Texas A&M) Michael Pratt would be a big name; but, if he decides to move from the AAC to the P5, I imagine every major program in need of a QB will be in the mix. Miami fans do appear to be ready to run Van Dyke out of town, what a wild storyline TVD to Oregon would be.

What happened to punting and pinning someone back? 53 yards, maybe 10 yards beyond our kickers realistic range, with a wet ball, just doesn't make any sense. I mean no sense.

One of the things I have been happy to see is the emergence and strong play of "big package" in third and fourth situations, with the Ducks playing both their NT together. I'm the goal line stand against UW, the defense had both Aumavae and Tamaini out there with Dorlus, with both their bigger OLB/Ends in Funa and Shipley. Early in Utah game on 4th and short on the Oregon 25, it was Funa-Dorlus-Aumavae-Tamaini-Tuioti with the addition of their biggest LB in Jacobs. Great to see the Duck's rush defense sitting #12 in the nation in rush defense at 95.6 ypg and 3.19 ypc. Another Lanning hire (Tony Tuioti) looking good.

Truer words have rarely been spoken!! I suppose the bright side of the thing is one of them indeed will lose!!

"With Oklahoma's loss at Kansas yesterday, a 1-loss Pac-12 champion is a playoff lock. A 1-loss Pac champ will have a very good strength of schedule. But could be a 4-seed if UGA, Michigan/Ohio State, and FSU win out.". Likely a few too many games left to be played to be looking far ahead; but, it's pretty hard as a fan of a team (potentially in the mix) not to. Obviously Florida State losing would be great but they look to be in a pretty good spot (with maybe Louisville looking like their CG opponent)? So, I think it is Texas that Oregon fans really need to be worried about; and, tOSU beating Michigan would help too. Georgia beats Alabama, FSU runs the table, tOSU wins the B10, leaves one spot. If Texas wins the B12 and perhaps beats OU in a rematch, with their win over Alabama, I think a one loss Pac-12 champion might be left out. I think a one loss Michigan, with a loss to tOSU would be out, with a pretty soft schedule, not winning their conference -- against two one loss conference champions (plus I would imagine some backlash fair or not from the selection committee due to the sign stealing thing). If it is a one loss tOSU, I think the outcome is similar (but not as assured). While a one loss P12 champ may have a strength of schedule argument, a one loss conference champ Texas team beating Alabama and avenging their one loss to OU in their championship game I think would be hard for the committee to pass over a one loss Pac12 champion (especially if Oregon and Washington end up splitting two games -- don't have to even argue between the two if you just take Texas). If the committee is going to have to leave out one -- one-loss conference champion, most likely it is going to be the conference that is vanishing. Plus Texas is still "blue blood" (still a thing in college football today). All this said, with the number of games remaining, if Oregon keeps winning, I think they are in a good spot.

I would say odds are 98% there will be a transfer QB next year. That doesn't mean TT won't get every opportunity to win the job; but, I can't imagine really any scenario where it is TT, Novosad, and two true freshman. After what Bo has accomplished as a transfer at Oregon and the last two seasons of Oregon's offense putting up numbers, I would be mildly surprised if it wasn't either a big name (from prior recruiting cycles) or an already accomplished QB looking for a new start.

I always thought it was "Dull-wig"? In Oregon lore, I believe Ludwig is most remembered as the guy who drove Mike Bellotti to hire Gary Crowton and bring in a version of the spread offense, which eventually led to Chip Kelly after Crowton left after two years for LSU (where he was OC for the 2007 NC team that many thought Oregon was headed to face prior to Dixon's injury). I don't recall Ludwig being completely terrible as OC at Oregon, just a bit young then (came to Oregon at age 38 with five years of experience as OC at Cal Poly and Fresno State), with offenses that didn't match the previous generally very successful Tedford years. Bellotti and Tedford had led Oregon under a more traditional "pro style" offense to national average in points scored: 1998: 7th (8-4) 1999: 11th (9-3) 2000: 47th (10-2) 2001: 20th (11-1) After Tedford (and Harrington) left Oregon, Ludwig came in continuing the "pro style" approach (inheriting Jason Fife and a young Kellen Clemens) and went (points scored): 2002: 76th (7-6) 2003: 70th (8-5) 2004: 63rd (5-6) That 5-6 in 2004 proves especially poor as Oregon starts the season losing at home to an Indiana team that finishes 3-8; and, doesn't end up beating a team with a winning record and misses a bowl -- and ends up being Bellotti's only losing season at Oregon. But Crowton comes in, Oregon goes 10-2 (losing in the regular season only to then #1 USC), Clemens looks great as a senior before being lost for the season after 8 games, and Oregon finishes AP #12 finishing #12 in the nation in scoring.

Interesting in the bottom photo you can count all 22 players on what is essentially half the field. Maybe a good first or second down call; but, in a key late down situation, I would understand thoughts that the play doesn't seem to offer many options? You can count 8 Ducks around the pocket so 3 receiving options and you can count as many as 7 UW in pass defense. So 3 versus 7 with only about half the field to defend? And while Franklin is probably more open than the other two WRs, that looks like a pretty tough throw. It would have to go over the LB and fit between two nearby DBs, with Nix facing a soon to be oncoming rusher (so it might be hard for him to have time to step into a throw).

At the time of the kick, I believe Maldonado was 6-10 on FG in his career with a long of 37. If memory serves me, the Ducks got down to the USC 18 yard line with about 0:20 seconds left. Maybe a bit like today, they threw a safe short sideline incomplete pass then followed it up with a safe horizontal line-of-scrimmage pass that lost about 3 yards. The Ducks tried to center the kick for the 37 yard kick, but got a false start penalty pushing it back to 42 yards, then USC jumped offside and it went back to 37 yards for the final kick. Of course the Maldonado kick wasn't close that day; but, the mention of 2011 sort of started me thinking (again) about playing at the end of the game for a (long) kick that is right at the very, very, very edge of the kicker's reliable range. Both games, if you have the ability to run two more plays, don't stop playing (aggressively) if your kicker isn't in his reliable range -- not Maldonado -- but probably not really CL either (I went ahead and looked and ESPN has CL 12-18 on 40+ yard FG in his career, so 67% without the pressure of a game tying kick in a huge pressure spot).

I don't mind moving the pocket around occasionally but I think WS is relying on too much on that "sprint out" with Nix at key moments. Not to say this is accurate; but, it sort of seems something like, "I'm not sure what I want to do here, so I'll put it in Nix's hands and hope he makes a play." Would like to see the ball go to Franklin more. If the UW is going to go down, it probably will be throwing to their best guy(s). The 25 yard pass to Franklin with 3:33 almost was enough to put the game away. Third and two with 2:22 we run a very predictably in between the tackles and James slips then the "sprint out" on 4th where the throw to Johnson isn't close. Would like to see Ferguson get more routes other than that two yard throw from the LOS the team seem to give him a couple times a game. Toss to the TE on 4th and 2? TE doesn't even leave the LOS on that play.