Jon Sousa

As disturbed as the entire fan base is with the performance of the defense this year, I am 100% certain that DL is even more disturbed. There is no way he is going to run away and hide from this. He is going to face the challenge head on and fix it... no matter what it takes. He is used to leading the best defense in the nation. Is he going to be satisfied with anything less than top 10? I am not a gambling man, but I´d bet my bottom dollar on the answer to that question.

There are going to be a lot of conversations this off season between Dan Lanning and Tosh Lupoi.

Better he goes to UW if that is where his heart is. Every little dissatisfaction would be multiplied anywhere else he goes. Let him have his visit so he can choose Oregon with no more second thoughts.

The question is, will $3M be enough when he/she is offered $5-6M to go be a head coach somewhere?

10 wins is a goal worth fighting for. I'll be rooting for 10 wins for both the Ducks and the Beavers.

David Yost. He was Herbert's first QB coach at Oregon. DY wanted to start JH the first game of his freshman year but was overridden by HC Mark Helfrich. Read his bio: David Yost - Offensive Coordinator - Football Coaches FIUSPORTS.COM Leading the Panthers' staff on the offensive side is David Yost, who owns over 25 years of collegiate

At the beginning of this season pretty much everyone agreed that, with Lanning being a first year HC, there were going to be bumps and learning experiences along the way. People were expecting 3 or 4 losses. Now, at the end of the regular season, with 10 wins a real possibility (especially with the lower bowl bid), we see that we did indeed lose 3 games... with two of them being by a combined total of 7 points. If those two losses would have been to BYU and WSU by the same combined total of 7 points, this conversation would be very different. DL has made some of the very kind of mistakes that he was expected to make at the beginning of the year. Quite different that the previous administration, DL has shown that he can learn from his mistakes. That gives much reason for optimism. I trust DL to pull another good name out of his notebook to fill the OC role.

OK... I feel better now. A whole bunch of defense and I win.

Wait a minute! I predicted 34-24. Why are they going for 2???????

Oregon wins 34-24 2 turnovers 5 sacks 322 passing yards

Down through history there have been "civil wars" all over the world. A civil war is when two factions in the same country are fighting militarily for control of the country. I moved to Oregon as an adult (I immigrated legally, as I married a native born Oregonian). I always thought that the civil war game was so named because it was Oregonians fighting Oregonians on the gridiron for football supremacy of Oregon. The United States civil war - The War Between the States" - never entered my mind. Nor did slavery, nor race relations in any way. I just always thought Oregonians fighting Oregonians.

But, but... but... It's a great reminder of EXACTLY what poor sportsmanship looks like. The only thing worse would be if he was using a different finger.

Nice read.

Oregon 34-31 1 2 321

I'm totally with you here Charles. I was thinking the same just reading the different thread titles. Glad you had the guts to say it, because I wasn't going to. About the onside kick... Right off the bat with my surprise I thought it wasn't the best idea so soon after the UCLA game. I was glad that it was at least not the same exact kick (different direction, etc.). But then another thought came as the announcers were discussing it. - Washington was moving the ball so well that whether or not they started on the 50 yard line or back at the 25, it didn't seem to make much difference... BUT... - Time was running out! If UW would have started on the 25 and we "bent-ed but not not broke-ed" we would have given up the 3 points with no time to score ourselves! - With the lost onside kick we effectively skipped the bending part so that we could get right into the not breaking part - with less field to defend... therefore coming up with a possession with more time on the clock. Time enough to score. Did it all work out? No. BUT, my point is that even if we lost the onside kick (the probable outcome), it may have still been the wisest decision. And if we recover the onside kick... GRAVY! We get a possession with enough time to score without giving up the 3 points first! Almost a win-win... but not, because we failed to score. But did we really give up that much to UW by giving them the ball a little past midfield instead of back on the 25????

Ducks 49-20 2 turnovers 1 sack 307 yards passing

Yup. Looking good! I liked last week's unis except for the helmet. I thought the jersey and pants looked fine together. they didn't stand out as something that clashed. The helmet didn't seem to add anything to the look.

Scoring efficiency. One of the things said about the UCLA game was that with Lanning forcing UCLA to eat up a bunch of clock on their possessions, especially in the 2nd half when they were trailing. This meant that UCLA was never going to get enough possessions to come back and win. In the second half of that game, the Ducks were taking minutes off the clock on their drives... and they were forcing UCLA to take minutes off the clock on their drives. (You know that CK would love to score in less than 2 minutes.) If you look at time of possession in our games, in most of them Oregon has more time of possession. That means that Oregon's offense IS on the field more than their defense is. Oregon's average time of possession this year is 31:33 while their opponents are averaging 28:26.

"Superman"!!!!

Hopefully, Georgia is back at #1 in all the polls, especially the one that counts.

I don't know that the wind might affect whether or not they put in someone else. Very difficult situation for young guy. You want to set them up for success.

Georgia 27-6 in the 4th.

Hope not.

Georgia leading 21-6.

Love that Georgia score...