Ducks Defensive Scout Team Needs to Run 100 Laps...

..led by our scouts and analysts and Caboosed by Will Stein.

Rewatching this game it's like the Oregon offense prepared for a completely different team.

Our RB's thought they could juke tacklers out of their shoes for extra yards, lead blockers thought our RBs were past the tackers they left untouched, consistently playing a man or two down blocking at the point of attack or in protection.

That doesn't happen if the scout team plays a competitive representation of the opposing team's defense.

It's like we were expecting them to run a 3-4 defensive scheme with players as talented as Oregon State, and instead we got a team full of ballers running a 4-3 front that the stunted, simulated pressures and dropped back in coverage based on the predictable looks we gave them.consistently.

At some point Lanning and the coordinators needs to evaluate their scouting methodologies. Does he need to find better scouts, does he need to listen to his scouts better, does the scout team need to better understand how vital their role is in preparing the starters?

Our last two losses can be pinned at least 50% on significant schematic and preparation failures. I use to think it was because our coaches were busy recruiting instead of scheming, but I don't think that was the case here.

Something else is going on here