Chip better hit the recruit trail hard in the next month

[sx1080]

The only thing that's really going to keep us alive on this board for next month will be recruiting as basketball doesn't look promising.

Can't wait for baseball, though!

i can.. Baseball sucks.

[UOducksTK1]

Having this sweet recruiting class has taken some of the load off losing to Auburn in the championship. The future is still bright, and Chip is still a great coach. I expect us to compete for the Pac-10 title, and the natty again next season.

Finishing strong in this class would be sweet. We need some Dlinemen desperately.

Hell, after watching the game, we need some more Olinemen as well. Ones we currently have sure aren't cutting it.

I think that had more to do with Auburn having an amazing D-line. Our OL is usually fairly sturdy (no pun intended).

[karlhungis]

Having this sweet recruiting class has taken some of the load off losing to Auburn in the championship. The future is still bright, and Chip is still a great coach. I expect us to compete for the Pac-10 title, and the natty again next season.

Finishing strong in this class would be sweet. We need some Dlinemen desperately.

Hell, after watching the game, we need some more Olinemen as well. Ones we currently have sure aren't cutting it.

I think that had more to do with Auburn having an amazing D-line. Our OL is usually fairly sturdy (no pun intended).

Our OLine is good against average competition and below. Thomas' ability to get the pass away with little to no time has really masked how poorly our O-Line has done in protection. Even Portland State was pressuring us. We know that Chip and Greatwood have been successful at scheming around weaknesses but it seems like eventually people can figure out that scheme and shut us down, or at least contain us. I am curious what they can do with the influx of higher caliber athletes. It should be exciting to watch.

[greenyellow]

Having this sweet recruiting class has taken some of the load off losing to Auburn in the championship. The future is still bright, and Chip is still a great coach. I expect us to compete for the Pac-10 title, and the natty again next season.

Finishing strong in this class would be sweet. We need some Dlinemen desperately.

Hell, after watching the game, we need some more Olinemen as well. Ones we currently have sure aren't cutting it.

I think that had more to do with Auburn having an amazing D-line. Our OL is usually fairly sturdy (no pun intended).

While they got the job done this year, they did allow DT to get hit a lot in passing situations and couldn't get a running game going once they played physical, athletic DL such as Cal and Auburn. A lot of short yardage situations resulted in Oregon having to go for it on 4th down to convert first downs.

[buckmarkduck]

Agree Karl PSU pushed our oline around in the first half. I was yelling at the line to wake up and to top it off I forgot my rain gear so my legs where soked. Thata was the first time I stayed in the MO for most of the 3rd quarter.

[wvduck34]

I don't care if God sends a message down to earth saying, "Only SEC or Big Ten schools can attract the quality of lineman that
Oregon needs." Anything is possible, if that's what we need, Chip Kelly will get those prospects.

[The411]

OL needs more wrestlers. You put a kid who was a high school champ wrestler with a good frame 6'5 300 or so and he can handle Fairley.

Usually if a guy is that dominant on pash rush you should move towards letting him through and pushing him past the point of attack. I know it's easier done in theory than in reality but I was surprised that there weren't schemes developed to allow him throw and have an RB go right past the space he vacated.

[dthomas=ddixon]

OL needs more wrestlers. You put a kid who was a high school champ wrestler with a good frame 6'5 300 or so and he can handle Fairley.

Usually if a guy is that dominant on pash rush you should move towards letting him through and pushing him past the point of attack. I know it's easier done in theory than in reality but I was surprised that there weren't schemes developed to allow him throw and have an RB go right past the space he vacated.

I think you're on to something. Size obviously helps but to me it looks like a lack of technique. I'm not sure what style Greatwood employs but maybe thats where the issue lies. Look at games like Portland St. Their guys weren't bigger than ours but we still couldn't block em. Our Oline isn't THAT small, they just get owned anytime we face a good pass or bull rusher.

[Bigducker]

Don't know what kind of weight training the O-line has been doing whether it's for speed, quickness, and agility, but what I think our O-line needs besides a little more than weight is strength training.
When I look at our O-line and they seem like they have pretty small arms and tone compared to other O-lineman. I noticed Weems in particular seemed to have pretty small arms for an O-lineman. Am I the only one that noticed that ?
And it seems like the D players at UO are always the strongest players. Can't remember a O-lineman being one of the strongest on the team.

[Phenom]

We've actually been recruiting quite a bit of highly ranked OL in the last 2-3 years. What we need is more D-linemen like Auburn.

[SunnyDuck]

Agree w/ Bigducker, soft and physically large but certainly don't look athletic compared to the good Dlines that have owned them. Clanton is the strongest O-lineman from what I read and watched Andre Y in the UA game. He's a straight up stud and was not beat from what I saw at RT tackle by the best
recruits in the country. They are on the right track on O line in my opinion.
Agree they are good but definitely not elite these past two years.

[chapelhillduck]

Um...we allowed like five sacks this year and LMJ had a crazy amount of rushing yards

Our O line isn't bad, The Auburn rushing D is god and Fairley is going to be the number 1 pick overall. Can the O line be better? Yes, but they were by no means bad.

[Phenom]

Um...we allowed like five sacks this year and LMJ had a crazy amount of rushing yards

Our O line isn't bad, The Auburn rushing D is god and Fairley is going to be the number 1 pick overall. Can the O line be better? Yes, but they were by no means bad.

They were dominated throughout the year it's not like it was the first time.

[greenyellow]

Um...we allowed like five sacks this year and LMJ had a crazy amount of rushing yards

Our O line isn't bad, The Auburn rushing D is god and Fairley is going to be the number 1 pick overall. Can the O line be better? Yes, but they were by no means bad.

They didn't allow a lot of sacks but they did allow DT to get hit numerous times throughout the year. A lot of DT's incompletions this year came as the result of him getting hit or under pressure. An argument that helps the OL though is Auburn's OC, Gus Malzahn, thought his OL sucked when going against their DL in practice, but after watching the DL do that to everyone this year, his OL wasn't as bad he thought. Oregon's OL was good for most of the year except against Cal and Auburn.

[Supreme]

Um...we allowed like five sacks this year and LMJ had a crazy amount of rushing yards

Our O line isn't bad, The Auburn rushing D is god and Fairley is going to be the number 1 pick overall. Can the O line be better? Yes, but they were by no means bad.

It's not about how the perform against mediocre competition, rather if they're talented enough to hold their own against the Nations elite. That's what makes champions.