I just dropped a couple pole saws off at my son's house which is close to Autzen Stadium and the air is so bad from fire smoke that I don't know how they'll be able to play football without passing out....got home and the air is crystal clear in the coastal range...just called my son and told him to pack up the dogs and our grandson and come out where they can breathe
Verdell and Dye are not doing much of anything with the running game, but nice TD finally with the pass to Johnson.
it isn't the RB's as much as it is the Duck OLine getting outworked. There are no holes. Now, to be fair, I think Oregon thought they could get by with vanilla offense and save a big chunk of their playbook for OSU. There has not been a single sweep or off-tackle play....all runs up the middle and Oregon's zone defense is playing too soft of coverage. May have to go for some man-to-man
Quick question. Still think they deserve that lofty number 11 ranking? Another quick question. Do you still think they will compete against Ohio State?
Oregon is a joke. What’s the point of all these crazy recruiting classes if you can’t coach them and use them.
Have got to get better in the coaching department. There MUST be a way to retain the recruiting and still get the great level of coaching we used to... right?
I'm actually pretty impressed with the way they responded. The Ducks lost a couple starters on defense and took one on the chin pretty hard at the end of the first half. Then they come out in the third and take another tough blow. They pulled it together and dominated the last 7 mins of that game. I'm sure there were some lessons learned. I'm sure they will work on some mistakes made. First game of the season. Needed a win. Hope the injuries are not serious.
to be fair, before Covid derailed college football last year, in Cristobal's 2nd season he led the Ducks to a 12-2 record, and their 2 losses were by 6, at Auburn, and 3, at ASU. They clobbered heavily favored Utah in the Pac-12 championship game and beat favored Wisconsin in the Rose Bowl. And that season, and especially in the games against USC, Washington, Utah and Wisconsin, Cristobal got a lot of praise for his coaching then. He's also coached Oregon to 2 consecutive Pac-12 championships today, there were lots of problems. But there is also some small glimmers to0. To start with, the adage about college football is that teams improve the most between their 1st and 2nd games. This was Fresno's 2nd game and they won their first game 45-0. They are also a senior-heavy team. They's aren't a typical non-conference patsy as for the Duck D, keep in mind this was the first game for the new Defensive Coordinator. The two projected Duck CB's got suspended a couple of weeks ago. Their all-American 'DE' was injured in the 1st Q as well as their starting MLB. The Ducks played a lot of freshman on defense today, again, against a team with a game already under their belt I think there is some mythology build up around Chip Kelly. What he accomplished at Oregon was mainly with Bellotti recruits. He was innovative as hell, but he caught lightning in a bottle. He sure as hell has not looked like a great coach at UCLA...or in the NFL for that matter. Helfirch was a dud, but was able to do the same thing Kelly did in his 2nd season...take a team of talent he didn't recruit to the National Championship game. Taggart was a snake. Personally, if I could take any Oregon coach from the last 20 years, I'd take Bellotti as a coach with Cristobal as recruiting coordinator. But I'm not ready to write Cristobal off as a head coach yet. He does need good coordinators though
As you mentioned earlier, I dont think they played with next week game plan. They didnt play like they practice it was a between the tackles short game plan for the most part. The three injuries were not good.
