How to beat the Ducks....

[Ghost Pepper]

This only applies to the top 10 teams in the nation.....

Everyone knows that the Ducks Offense is brilliant, fast, fun, electric and on and on.... Best show on turf since the Rams of the 90's! HAHA!

So what LSU, Bama, Oklahoma, Stanford and Wisconsin will do is very easy..... Keep our offense off the freakin field.....


These teams offensive lines are tall, heavy and punishing and all have very skilled players in their backfields. So what do they do........

Nothing glamorous... just easy 4 to 5 yard shooting the gaps running plays and ball control. Tire the hell out of our front D line and that will open up the pass for the deep ball. I think Stanford actually will be the best we've seen because they have two huge talented TE's and a punishing RB. Luck doesn't have to be spectacular just accurate to make this a very low scoring tough game for the Ducks to be in the kind of game they don't want to play. For those of you who remember last year, Stanford kicked our ass for the first half and then forgot how to do it in the 3 and 4th quarter. I don't expect them to repeat that let down this year and our defense is not like last years. This game worries me especially away from Autzen.

For teams such as Bama, Sooners and LSU they just punch holes in our D line with their huge O line and let their amazing backs pick up 5 to 8 yards a carry and work the hell out of the clock. Once our defensive secondary pulls in to help stop the run they hit their TE's or WR's for substantial gains like we saw first game of this year.

So against these teams when our Ducks offense does finally take the field they have to be flawless cause they only have a fraction of the time to be on the field and get in the enzone, than it's back to our tired defense to be dragged out for another 30 plays and 10 minute drives.

How do the Ducks combat this plan in the future? Go to South Dade County in Miami and pick up 15 D lineman from the best high schools that didn't make Miami, FSU and Florida squads and coach um up here! Chip is a master at molding players and what's really needed here is SIZE!

Could you imagine if the Oregons D line was like LSU's how many points the Ducks could put up a game? Holy SHIT!!!!

When the Ducks have that kind of size on D... National Champioships will be in handfuls... not till then!

I still think we should open up an in state tuition with Samoa and Fiji like we have with Hawaii. That's where we can get some evil huge lines! HAHA!

 

[Targus]

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We can all probably agree that the winner of the Pac championship will most likely be decided Nov 12th.

I disagree, in part, with your assessment of last years Stanford game. It took Oregon one quarter to get going...and in the second quarter we laid 21 points and a shift started and stayed. Stanford dominated for one quarter. Oregon for three. People forget our defense held Stanford scoreless for the entire second half - while scoring 4 TD's. We picked Luck twice and LMJ ran crazy for 257 yards and 3 TDs. Interesting in that game was that Maehl was relatively quiet with 3 catches, while Huff, Davis and Tuenie combine for 16 rec and 2 TDs.

I'm in no way saying Stanford is going to be a cake-walk. But, only two OL starters return from last year. Their wins have not been that impressive so far... They have played Duke and San Jose St. Cake. In their only game worth noting, with UA, the score was 16-10 at halftime (Oregon was 35-9) and they were not very efficient or productive in the first half. So far, their OL has not been that impressive.

On defense Stanford graduated two starters from their three man front. Their secondary is solid...and unfortunately, their defensive leader (think what Matthews was to us last year) Skov - a dominate LB - is out with a terrible knee injury.

On the OL, they only have one starting SR and they go: 297, 290, 284, 302, 278.
Across the DL, again only one SR: 278, 263, 287.

Luck is a gamer...but historically, QB's who have extraordinary seasons, then return, don't perform as well...think Leinart, Bradford, Locker and others...

We can't underestimate the value of an experienced/veteran coach and staff... Stanford...all new - including the DC, I believe.

 

[Wheels]

man our schedule would suck having to play 9 of the top 10 teams.

 

[Natebishop3]

I think the first key to taking away the Ducks is stopping the run. LSU shut down our run game and that was it. If you keep LMJ/Barner/DAT from beating you, you beat the Ducks.

 

[BLAZER PROPHET]

I think the first key to taking away the Ducks is stopping the run. LSU shut down our run game and that was it. If you keep LMJ/Barner/DAT from beating you, you beat the Ducks.

I think was how to, but not now. I think Kelley will be much quicker to use screens, flairs... getting people the ball in the open field... I think he has really learned froim those games,

 

[STOMP]

I think the first key to taking away the Ducks is stopping the run. LSU shut down our run game and that was it. If you keep LMJ/Barner/DAT from beating you, you beat the Ducks.

well, I'd like to think that the new WRers will be better integrated as we progress this year and that they feature more then one way to gash teams. In fact, I recall them moving the chains through the air pretty well against LSU. I also expect we'll see them air it out against Cal.

STOMP

 

[Natebishop3]

well, I'd like to think that the new WRers will be better integrated as we progress this year and that they feature more then one way to gash teams. In fact, I recall them moving the chains through the air pretty well against LSU. I also expect we'll see them air it out against Cal.

STOMP

So maybe it should be; if you want to slow the Ducks down and keep the game close, stop the run. We are definitely not as formidable if LMJ has a bad game.

 

[Targus]

Flairs? Ric Flair?

 

[BLAZER PROPHET]

Flairs? Ric Flair?

Oh yeah. Da man himself.