about Anthony Brown: his career completion% is 55%. That's not good at all, and it's only 56.5% this season. Now, if you just gauged by this season you might think that a big reason for that low completion percentage is him making 'sure' that only his targets had a chance at the ball. But his career TD/Int ratio is 2.33. For comparison: Mariota had a TD/int ratio of 7.5 and a completion rate of 67%; Herbert's marks were 4.13 and 64%; Darron Thomas was at 3.88 and 61%; Jeremiah Masoli's marks at Oregon were 2.54 and 58%
but Masoli was great at making reads after the snap (he was also a QB in a RB's body). Brown is terrible at that and it cost the Ducks the game last night. It's time for a change, IMO. I think that's especially true with CJ Verdell out. The Ducks have to be able to get the ball in the hands of the WR's and TE's now and Brown has shown that he's not accurate enough to do that consistently. Too many empty possessions last night because of AB's reads and inaccuracy
but that also likely means growing pains. The Duck record after they went with freshman Justin Herbert was 2-5
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about Cristobal: I think you can kind of toss out last year because of Covid. The year before that, the Ducks went 12-2 winning both the Pac-12 championship and the Rose Bowl. In MC's 1st year they went 9-4 and beat Michigan State in the bowl game. A poor game manager couldn't have posted those records. Just like a poor game manager wouldn't have beat tOSU in their stadium. He's won 2 pac-12 championships in 3 years. A bad coach wouldn't have done that
Cristobal has had to replace both his offensive coordinator and defensive coordinator over the last 12 games. MC's record as the Oregon coach, including the Covid year, is 29-10. That's a .744 winning percentage. His post-season record is 4-1
compare Cristobal to a couple of great coaches: Mike Bellotti at Oregon and Chris Peterson at Washington
overall winning percentage: Cristobal .744....Peterson .679....Bellotti .678
post-season record: Cristobal 4-1....Peterson 4-4....Bellotti 6-6
Cristobal didn't inherit a very talented roster like Chip Kelly did, or Mark Halfrich did. He had to build a culture and recruit talent like Bellotti and Peterson did. And so far, even counting yesterday, he has registered better marks than either of those long-time coaches.
it's just off-base to slam him for being a bad game manager or for poor coaching. He wouldn't have that record if he was either.
It may be a legitimate criticism to say he's too stubborn. He really seems intent on Oregon establishing an identity as a physical team, and sometimes I think that's yielded conservative play calls. And it might be why Anthony Brown is the QB. He also might have fucked up by hiring Tim Deruyter as the defensive coordinator. I have been unimpressed with the bend-don't-break defense of the Ducks this year. It hasn't been effective at all
