New Info about Cristobal Changes

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A fellow who played college football, and has connections with college coaches on the West Coast has pulled together their and his impressions of Oregon’s changes in a recent article. I learned some new things and it is an interesting read...

http://fishduck.com/2018/02/laying-the- ... are-built/

Read over there and let’s discuss here as usual...

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Very interesting read. Some very compelling points.


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Seems overly optimistic but a good read.
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It is a bit optimistic. The top concerns depth wise I had for next year are LB and DL but the article says it will be strong.... I'm a noob at this so I sure hope he's right
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ducks5ever wrote:It is a bit optimistic. The top concerns depth wise I had for next year are LB and DL but FishDuck says it will be strong.... I'm a noob at this so I sure hope he's right
I'm of the opinion you can never have too many DL and LB.
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FishDuck did not say it....the writer Justin Samples did. I do not censor writers, and that is why we have had a wide variety of opinions in the 1.5 years when I opened things up for everyone.

He did not predict ten wins next year, in fact said the opposite as he is looking for the incremental increases that can build up over 2-3 years.

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Good article and points. Agree with his view on the national championship game. Carrington was also suspended for that game. OSU also had its fair share of injured and missing players but when you have two teams that are well coached and have good starters, thats the difference between a team that is a perennial top-5 recruiting programs and one that's is a top-20 recruiting program. They'll have depth and capable players waiting to fill in when one goes down. (ie Alabama with their LBs this last year)

I would debate that we are not the third most talented team in the Pac12. Stanford definitely has had very highly rated recruiting classes and imho is third or even second, depending on how you view UCLA. We probably sit at fourth or fifth with UW. However, UW has had great classes and developed their recruits very well these past few years. So we could be very well viewed as the fifth most talented team in the Pac12 right now. However, we all know talented teams dont necessarily equate to more wins. :lol:
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FishDuck wrote:FishDuck did not say it....the writer Justin Samples did. I do not censor writers, and that is why we have had a wide variety of opinions in the 1.5 years when I opened things up for everyone.

He did not predict ten wins next year, in fact said the opposite as he is looking for the incremental increases that can build up over 2-3 years.

Cheers--thanks.

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Nobody said you wrote it and nobody said anything about 10 wins. We said it was optimistic, which it is.
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I'm fascinated at this "Great teams are built from the inside out" concept.

Great teams have great players at all positions. That's why they're so great - they don't have weaknesses. This concept that we're going to reallocate some resource from outside positions to interior positions and that will make us better is utterly ridiculous. Alabama, Clemson, tOSU in recent years have had NFL-caliber players literally all over the field - that's why they won national championships. If Oregon beefs up in the middle and are weaker on the outside (like how our current WRs and RBs look compared to recent years), we're still not going to win a 'ship.
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I don't think he's saying that Oregon will overlook the importance of skill guys but that they'll be making sure that the lines are addressed like they've not been done before at Oregon. With how they were going after skill guys this past recruiting class, they recognize you need top-flight skill guys to go with your top-notch lines.
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karlhungis wrote:
FishDuck wrote:FishDuck did not say it....the writer Justin Samples did. I do not censor writers, and that is why we have had a wide variety of opinions in the 1.5 years when I opened things up for everyone.

He did not predict ten wins next year, in fact said the opposite as he is looking for the incremental increases that can build up over 2-3 years.

Cheers--thanks.

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Nobody said you wrote it and nobody said anything about 10 wins. We said it was optimistic, which it is.
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greenyellow wrote:I don't think he's saying that Oregon will overlook the importance of skill guys but that they'll be making sure that the lines are addressed like they've not been done before at Oregon. With how they were going after skill guys this past recruiting class, they recognize you need top-flight skill guys to go with your top-notch lines.
Right. The insinuation your statement is that they were trying to get skill guys harder before and interior guys less hard. Now they're going to try get skill guys less hard and interior guys harder.

That makes no sense. 1) Because you need all to win a natty. 2) Because I doubt the previous staff wasn't trying as hard with linemen and this group isn't trying as hard with skill players.
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StevensTechU wrote:
greenyellow wrote:I don't think he's saying that Oregon will overlook the importance of skill guys but that they'll be making sure that the lines are addressed like they've not been done before at Oregon. With how they were going after skill guys this past recruiting class, they recognize you need top-flight skill guys to go with your top-notch lines.
Right. The insinuation your statement is that they were trying to get skill guys harder before and interior guys less hard. Now they're going to try get skill guys less hard and interior guys harder.

That makes no sense. 1) Because you need all to win a natty. 2) Because I doubt the previous staff wasn't trying as hard with linemen and this group isn't trying as hard with skill players.
That's not what I was saying. I was saying they're changing the way OL/DL are handled in both recruiting and development so they can compete with the top teams, not that the previous staffs didn't care at all. I think we can all agree that while Oregon's OL and DL worked well in getting them to 2 national title games, they got worked a bit by teams that had bigger, stronger, and seemingly better coached lines. I was also saying that the current staff values all the positions and you could tell that by them going hard after top-flight guys at all positions.
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I think the Auburn and Ohio State games, our defensive line played well both games. Buckner had a hell of a game against Ohio State. Our coordinator and linebacker play were ATROCIOUS against Ohio State. We had Danny Mattingly who ran that wrong way nearly every play and guys like Hardrick who I swore got tripped more by the turf than he tackled opposing players. That D underachieved under Pellum all season, save for 2-3 games.

Offensive line was a MAJOR issue against Auburn. Against Ohio State, after the 1st series where we ran it down their throats, they stacked the box and played lots of cover 0 against our depleted WR core.

I don't think that narrative about line size is accurate, but it's one the national media loves to say about "spread" teams.

I think both a zone philosophy with athletes as well as a man/power scheme can be successful, it's more about execution and coaching.
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GrantDuck wrote:I think the Auburn and Ohio State games, our defensive line played well both games. Buckner had a hell of a game against Ohio State. Our coordinator and linebacker play were ATROCIOUS against Ohio State. We had Danny Mattingly who ran that wrong way nearly every play and guys like Hardrick who I swore got tripped more by the turf than he tackled opposing players. That D underachieved under Pellum all season, save for 2-3 games.

Offensive line was a MAJOR issue against Auburn. Against Ohio State, after the 1st series where we ran it down their throats, they stacked the box and played lots of cover 0 against our depleted WR core.

I don't think that narrative about line size is accurate, but it's one the national media loves to say about "spread" teams.

I think both a zone philosophy with athletes as well as a man/power scheme can be successful, it's more about execution and coaching.
Against Auburn we were pretty even line wise. Chip was way to stubborn tho trying to run
right at Nick Fairly. Could have won that one. Against Ohip State Ezeikle Elliott had 246 yards and 4 tds.
Their O-line opened up lanes all game for him to run thu.They had over 5 hundred for the game.
I remember being frustrated watching them run at will and making every 3rd it seemed like. All that
said Oregon makes a few stops and they win that game as well.
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