Unfortunately, there’s no getting around it: Our Oregon football program had a lackluster performance against the Badgers over the weekend. Wisconsin’s defense held the Ducks to only 21 points, where Oregon entered as a 31.5-point favorite at home, and this was just a poor showing overall. The Badgers were thin in the secondary, down to their third quarterback on the ...

Oregon Football: Time for the Ducks to Panic?

Thanks Alex good food for thought. I actually am concerned with a Panic Meter of 5-6. My concern is which Dante Moore is going to show up? He can be absolutely marvelous at times and at other times he looks like a deer caught in the headlights. It seems if everything is close to perfect with the running game working, great blocking etc, he will be quite good but if things are not perfect, his performance seems to plummet.

Alex, although I agree with your sentiments, I still have concerns that they will overcome the challenges they have ahead of them. As fans, we go from wanting landslide victories, to just any kind of win...and one point is fine!

The bye week timing is perfect for players to hunker down, study, practice, and improve.

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CBS's Tom Fornelli's weekly B1G take has questions for OBD. But 'facade' is a bit harsh, no?

Penn State's meltdown is hurting the entire conference and OBD in particular.

https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/b1g-time-cracks-starting-to-show-in-oregons-facade-marylands-youth-movement-might-save-mike-locksley/

12 minutes ago, Jon Joseph said:

CBS's Tom Fornelli's weekly B1G take has questions for OBD. But 'facade' is a bit harsh, no?

Penn State's meltdown is hurting the entire conference and OBD in particular.

https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/b1g-time-cracks-starting-to-show-in-oregons-facade-marylands-youth-movement-might-save-mike-locksley/

It's strange how a similar outcome is portrayed depending on who is writing the article.

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1 hour ago, Jon Joseph said:

CBS's Tom Fornelli's weekly B1G take has questions for OBD. But 'facade' is a bit harsh, no?

Penn State's meltdown is hurting the entire conference and OBD in particular.

https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/b1g-time-cracks-starting-to-show-in-oregons-facade-marylands-youth-movement-might-save-mike-locksley/

"Facade" is absolutely the wrong term. Perhaps Tom just needs a dictionary. Facade typically indicates deception, fake, etc. Totally the wrong word in this situation.

For one to be in panic mode, would require me to recall what my expectations were for this team at the beginning of the season. I expected us to primarily have a rebuilding season. I felt like a two loss season would be a solid one for us this year.

Expectations certainly changed overnight after the Penn State win. And then a week later, reality struck.

The talent is there, and, while it will be a huge challenge, I think this team is quite capable of winning out the season.

Frankly, I still have no idea how good this team is in regards to the playoffs. We played poorly against Indiana and only lost by 10. That gives me some hope that we can compete with the big boys when the time comes. But, at this point, I'm absolutely not convinced of that. I'm concerned that if we do get into the playoffs, that we will potentially have another beatdown like OSU gave us last year.

Finally, with all of that being said, this team has a great opportunity to grow up fast over the next several weeks. Here's to hoping that they do.

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I can't get away from the reoccurring disappearance of Kenyon Sadiq. Either our coaches are doing a masterful job of disguising his immense abilities, or opposing coaches are finding ways to nullify his impact on the game. My feeling is, as Kenyon goes, so go our playoff aspirations.

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38 minutes ago, Chas Man said:

I can't get away from the reoccurring disappearance of Kenyon Sadiq

Kenyon is 3rd in (22)receptions, and 2nd in yards (311). Dakorien is 1st in receptions (28), and yards (443). Oregon ranks #9 in passing yards/game.

Receptions are really spread out this year amongst receivers, and running backs.

I suspect that if he stays healthy, we will need to target Sadiq more often, just based on our competition.

Panic? It is a fair question to ask.....

After 8 games, the Ducks are doing a number of things correct and improving in most areas.

As a fan, they are fun to watch, then difficult and painful to watch! At times the Duck O is unstoppable. Then the O cant get a first down. Hard to understand.......

The D can be dominant, however they let teams run the ball and dont tackle low. Opponents have near perfect score ratio in the red zone.

Sadiq and Dak Moore have almost disappeared because the O line gives up too many sacs. Dante needs time for routes to open up.

It is not rocket science. The line needs to pass protect as well as they run block. Fix that and OBD's puts up 40 plus points.

No need to panic......this Duck fan just lowered my expectations for video game numbers.

GO Ducks......

Panic is such a strong word choice.

Was I expecting us to win it all this year? I thought there was an outside chance, but no, I expected 10-2 and a home playoff win.

Are we a top-4 team at the moment? I don’t think so, but we’re on the fringe with a pretty young team that could keep improving.

Unless something radical happens, next year we should be one of the top contenders. I still hope we can keep improving and take it all this year, but I certainly wouldn’t wager on it. That being said, anything can happen in a tournament format.

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