“Didn’t deserve to win” What the fuck does that mean? In about 6 weeks look back and this win counts just the same as a 75 point blow out. No such thing as a bad win. Had TT squeaked this one out, would they have “deserved” it? On to the next one.
I think they learned more than a 1st game of the season loss to Georgia or Auburn. Ducks learned that a 1st game matchup against a super power isn’t really their thing, and I’m cool with that. I’d rather they play tougher teams than PSU, but I’ll stay away from the giants.
I will point out though that the Red Raiders had won something like 23 home openers in a row, so they’re extremely hard to beat at home. I think that was the number they threw out at the start.
they were 7-1 at home last season with wins over Texas, Oklahoma, Houston, and Kansas still, hard to excuse 12 penalties for 124 yards, 4 dropped catches, and a 3rd down defense that gave up 7-12 conversions; and not putting a 'spy' on Shough
First real game of the year and empty cliches are being passed off as insight... whatever. At the beginning of the year lots of stuff is still getting sorted out as the coaches learn what the team can do well. Those games are often messy with penalties and communication, it's a complicated game. The important things early on are to avoid injury, win & learn. To me they showed some promise, but we shall see. I was wondering why Bo wasn't a running threat the 1st half but then he showed out the 2nd as they turned it up. Happy for a quality win on the road STOMP
*home OPENER winning streak. Which is even more impressive. They had won their home opener for 23 straight years…… until now.
After their comeback yesterday against CSU, all eyes are going to be on Colorado as they come to Eugene this Saturday. Gonna be big-time. I tell you one thing though--I do NOT understand the current spread on that game. Vegas has the Ducks as a 16-point favorite?? It's like they're begging you to bet on the Buffaloes.
Colorado is overrated; IMO, by a lot. ESPN is behind it as they have always been extremely cult-ish about hyping personalities, and Deion is their newest star attraction. It's self-serving as well because ESPN owns the current and next Big-12 media deal so they are simply promoting current and future product Colorado should have lost that game, but their coaching staff turtled the offense on the last drive and went into a cover-2 prevent defense on the last 2 Colorado drives; the only thing that prevent defense has prevented is wins. The Buffs gained 170 yards on their last 2 drives while they had 250 yards in the first 53 minutes. Terrible coaching. Truthfully, neither team deserved to win but 16 points is a lot to favor the current Oregon team by. They are a very imperfect team right now. There's lots of talent on both sides of the ball but they have way too many negative plays, and most of them are self-inflicted wounds. And the rate isn't decreasing. The biggest worry on offense is that the OLine hasn't jelled yet; not in the same zip-code of jelling. Too tentative; too confused; and too passive in run-blocking because of the confusion. Lots of missed assignments which allows opponents to constantly run-blitz. It's understandable considering they returned only one starter, and he was the lowest rated starter from last year's team. Oregon isn't doing as good of job of disguising their plays as last season, but again, I think that's because the OLine is not dependable. It didn't help yesterday that the first 2 TE's in the depth chart, Ferguson & Herbert, were banged up and didn't play much at all the defense still has the same vulnerabilities as last season. Now, the DLine is a lot better and that should help. But Tosh's defense is just schematically unimpressive. I don't have confidence in the Duck D at all right now, I'd rate USC/Washington as the top-2 in the power rankings; Utah/OSU as the next tier; and Ducks in the 3rd 'they-should-be-better-than-this' tier. I haven't really seen UCLA/WSU/Cal, but they may be as good as Oregon in a couple of weeks if the Ducks don't dramatically improve
Because Vegas knows that Colorado will get exposed against a good team in a road environment. The spread was 13 pts before Hunter got hurt. They’re begging people to take Colorado because they know the general public will take the bait on the flash in a pan team. Colorado’s defense is going to get lit up.
I was super torn. I wanted to root against Colorado, but I wanted them to come into Eugene undefeated and ranked so it looks better when the Ducks smack them.
