Oregon needs to blow the doors off Tennessee in the second half. They should not be struggling with an unranked team, even on the road. This isn't a powerhouse Tennessee team.
I would just like to say that I am 100% ready to punch these two ESPN announcers in the face. They have made snive, idiotic, baseless, and pointless remarks the ENTIRE game so far. God damn I wish I could tune into 95.5 and listen to Jerry Allen instead.
The ESPN announcers have been pretty bad, and I'm not even an Oregon fan. On one drive, Oregon just missed a touchdown when the receiver cleanly beat the corner and the quarterback overthrew the ball...and the analyst took that moment to praise the "speed" of the cornerback to try and catch up. Considering he got beaten and wasn't able to make up the difference and was bailed out by an overthrow, that just seemed like a gratuitous attempt to throw praise at Tennessee.
Defensively Oregon is very small, but extremely fast. Oregon is notorious for having small D-lines. The Haloti Ngata/Igor Olshanski years were the exception.
I don't really think so. They keep repeating over and over about how Oregon is never out of a game because the offense can put points on the board in a hurry. They also keep commenting about how Chip Kelly coached teams never get rattled.
Dude, they are playing in front of 105,000 loud ass redneck hillbilly fans. I'll be happy with a W comin out of there!
James and Barner are a great thing to have. They are going to wear out that defense if they keep on picking up 3-4 yards a carry.
If you get rattled. Wait...isn't that what Chip Kelly teams don't do? Teams with focus and discipline play to their talent, rather than having their performance degraded by a hostile crowd. Saying "Any SEC team is hard on their home field" is just excuse-making or buying into the romanticized mythology that lots of college fans enjoy. It's only hard to play against good teams, if you're focused. The fans aren't on the field...they're only in your head if you allow them in.
