Hopefully, when you first gazed upon the featured photo above of the Indiana Hoosiers partying it up at Autzen Stadium, it has fueled something within your soul. Oregon’s loss to Indiana last Saturday better dang well be fueling the Oregon football team.

Sometimes Losing is Winning

Amen Darren....now we will Oregon's Eye-of-the-Tiger emerge!

Teachable moments are usually better from a win than a loss IMHO.

That said, how this team responds this week and the rest of the season will determine whether or not this loss lights a fire under the team and/or the coaches can make adjustments to what was obviously a flawed game plan.

I'm cautiously optimistic as usual, but if the Ducks come out flat against Rutgers I'm going to be a bit concerned.

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If I know Dan Lanning the way I think I do then that picture right there is posted everywhere inside the Hatfield-Dowlin football complex. I'm also going to assume with reasonable certainty that the culture DL has imbued upon this team places a premium on personal accountability.

I believe everyone in that locker room feels that they let the guy to the right and the guy to the left of them down. I believe that they are eager to show that they will hold up their end of the bargain to their teammates. I believe adjustments will be made. But most importantly, I believe that the loss will reinstate the "chip-on-the-shoulder" mentality that the season started with; following last year's Rose Bowl.

The saying that "you learn more from your losses than your wins" is accurate across the board; and come Saturday we will find out just how much they have learned.

Thank you, Darren.

If it's Good Rocky on the rebound, bouncing back against Apollo Creed and Clubber Lane at Rutgers:

Yo! Adrian! 😍

A loss could mean going on the road and coming up short, not to, but in Mason Dixon. Or worse? 🤬

GET RIGHT AT RUTGERS! Knock the SHI out of Schiano in SHI Stadium!

(SHI Stadium! You cannot make things like Tony Soprano (James Gandolfini), being a Rutgers graduate, and the name of the stadium up. 🤪 It's only a movie, right?)

Thanks again for another entertaining and timely read.

6 hours ago, FishDuck Article said:

Hopefully, when you first gazed upon the featured photo above of the Indiana Hoosiers partying it up at Autzen Stadium, it has fueled something within your soul. Oregon’s loss to Indiana last Saturday better dang well be fueling the Oregon football team.

Sometimes Losing is Winning

One problem with these mega conferences is that Ducks vs. Hoosiers could be one heck of a rivalry, but the return game in Bloomington is not until 2028.

Maybe payback in the Playoffs?

I remember our last regular season loss before this (Washington in 2023). I recall us being the most dominant team in the country the remainder of the regular season afterwards.

Hopefully that was a function of the culture that is still in place and we'll see a similar response where Oregon becomes the team "nobody wants to play".

P.S.

It was a similar situation then of encountering a team with coaches that knew how to beat us, and players motivated enough to pull it off.

I'm glad we played IU and lost to their superior coaching and player motivation. It exposed all the flaws of this team so they can be corrected going forward.

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While the home loss to Indiana was a major disappointment on a number of levels, there is an upside to having your butt kicked and your hat handed to you. There are no longer any excuses for complacency.

Last year a 6-5 Michigan team that was a nearly three touchdown underdog went into the 'Shoe and beat the Buckeyes 13-10. Ohio State was the much better team on paper, at home and only a play at Autzen away from being undefeated. The OSU fanbase was apoplectic and calling for Ryan Day's head.

Something happened in the Bucknut locker room after that embarrassing (much worse than Oregon falling to Indiana) loss. Coaches and players stepped up and fixed what was wrong. We all know what happened next.

What matters is how DL, the coaches, the players and their leaders respond to this setback. I just can't see things going the way of Penn State. Rutgers needs to be a get right game and I believe it will be.