This game is like the blueprint of the season. Come out and look pretty good. Step on their dicks Fail to get anything of a real passing game going because their QB really isn’t good. Get steam rolled by opponents running game.
Brown misses wide open receivers downfield for easy TDs pretty much every game. Sometimes multiple times.
All things considered, that was a good showing by the Ducks. They could have given up at half but they kept battling.
the Ducks were decimated on defense. They had some 3rd staring defenders playing. Like the announcers said, when Sewell got injured (after Funa got injured) and left the game, Oregon had 1 scholarship LB left able to play. That showed up in all the missed tackles and bad gap coverage. The safeties and corners had to hedge to the LB zones tonight. The Ducks just couldn't get stops. Any time you allow 8 consecutive scoring drives you'll lose the game there was a reason why the Ducks moved a TE to DE, and an OLineman to the DLine. It was because they lacked healthy bodies
tonight he didn't. I still can't believe Franklin made no play on that pass to the end zone. The ball landed 2 feet away from him. Andre Ware was going nuts about that
I would've liked to see 2 from Thompson, Butterfield, and Ashford. The coaches tonight had no interest in preparing the program for the future, for obvious reasons.
it was a 50 yard pass that hit the turf less than 3 feet from the receiver. That should have been at the very least a situation where the receiver got his hands on the ball. They actually need to adjust their routes a little sometimes. Franklin made no effort at all to get to the ball. I don't know if it was because he didn't see it; maybe. But good receivers need to come back to the ball and adjust their direction and orientation a lot of the time, especially on long passes. Andre Ware went off on Franklin for the lack of effort on that play with good reason (and Franklin made up for it some with a great TD catch later in the game) I agree that Brown has not been a very accurate passer. He was low on 2 or 3 shorter passes last night and late on another. But his long balls were really well thrown last night