#3 Georgia vs #11 Oregon (Sept. 3, Sat 12:30 PM ABC)

[DuckzRule]

Man, I just hope Georgia was very good because I'm now afraid of the BYU game, I don't want Lanning to be the next Cristobal and I want the next seasons to be massive improvements, but this game seriously hurt me, I don't want Oregon vs Alabama to happen anytime soon after Georgia beat us up.

But do you guys think we have a shot at a natty someday?

[Duck07]

Man, I just hope Georgia was very good because I'm now afraid of the BYU game, I don't want Lanning to be the next Cristobal and I want the next seasons to be massive improvements, but this game seriously hurt me, I don't want Oregon vs Alabama to happen anytime soon after Georgia beat us up.

But do you guys think we have a shot at a natty someday?

People need to stop with this level of thinking right now as Oregon's next chance at the Playoff is likely in 2024 with Moore in his 2nd season. Even Rob Moseley was tweeting out how the last 3 times we lost our opener we went to the Rose Bowl, as if this team is likely to do that. It's delusional type stuff from fans to expect that level of play right now.

Enjoy watching the team grow this year and hope the Coaches grow with them and that we beat our rivals. The team, players, fans, coaches, administrators and boosters all need to get their heads wrapped around the fact that this isn't the Oregon team from 2012 with just a few tweaks needed. It's a complete re-hauling that needs to happen.

[dthomas=ddixon]

Man, I just hope Georgia was very good because I'm now afraid of the BYU game, I don't want Lanning to be the next Cristobal and I want the next seasons to be massive improvements, but this game seriously hurt me, I don't want Oregon vs Alabama to happen anytime soon after Georgia beat us up.

But do you guys think we have a shot at a natty someday?

People need to stop with this level of thinking right now as Oregon's next chance at the Playoff is likely in 2024 with Moore in his 2nd season. Even Rob Moseley was tweeting out how the last 3 times we lost our opener we went to the Rose Bowl, as if this team is likely to do that. It's delusional type stuff from fans to expect that level of play right now.

Enjoy watching the team grow this year and hope the Coaches grow with them and that we beat our rivals. The team, players, fans, coaches, administrators and boosters all need to get their heads wrapped around the fact that this isn't the Oregon team from 2012 with just a few tweaks needed. It's a complete re-hauling that needs to happen.

The fans trying to factor in how this loss affects our CFP chances crack me up. Hiring Lanning and giving him the reigns was a total commitment to the long game; a reaction to the hired gun strategy we’d employed to try to keep the program’s momentum going.

We essential hit the reset button in order to find a guy who will build the program exactly how he wants it and thus stay here for a long time.

[lukeyrid13]

I like Lanning and liked the hire from the beginning.

I will admit, that I am now fearful what happens if he fails. We are falling further and further from our 07-14 run and if I had to bet, it's a greater chance we revert back to a bowl team than a consistent playoff team. Ugh

[OregonFan4Life]

Man, I just hope Georgia was very good because I'm now afraid of the BYU game, I don't want Lanning to be the next Cristobal and I want the next seasons to be massive improvements, but this game seriously hurt me, I don't want Oregon vs Alabama to happen anytime soon after Georgia beat us up.

But do you guys think we have a shot at a natty someday?

People need to stop with this level of thinking right now as Oregon's next chance at the Playoff is likely in 2024 with Moore in his 2nd season. Even Rob Moseley was tweeting out how the last 3 times we lost our opener we went to the Rose Bowl, as if this team is likely to do that. It's delusional type stuff from fans to expect that level of play right now.

Enjoy watching the team grow this year and hope the Coaches grow with them and that we beat our rivals. The team, players, fans, coaches, administrators and boosters all need to get their heads wrapped around the fact that this isn't the Oregon team from 2012 with just a few tweaks needed. It's a complete re-hauling that needs to happen.

The fans trying to factor in how this loss affects our CFP chances crack me up. Hiring Lanning and giving him the reigns was a total commitment to the long game; a reaction to the hired gun strategy we’d employed to try to keep the program’s momentum going.

We essential hit the reset button in order to find a guy who will build the program exactly how he wants it and thus stay here for a long time.

I too was surprised to see people talk CFP, I even say someone say Natty next year, we’re clearly a ways away from that. I’m definitely not losing confidence in Lanning, just how good this season May be lol. Could be a long season, we’ll find out a lot more about this team next week.

[Duck07]

Drive 1 - 8 plays 33 yards: 2 First Downs, drive ends on dropped pass to RB
Drive 2 - 6 plays 22 yards: 2 First Downs, drive ends on 1/10 INT (tv replay shows the outside curl route was the correct read)
Drive 3 - 7 plays 46 yards: 2 First Downs, drive ends on 1/10 INT (bad read)
Drive 4 - 12 Plays 58 yards: 4 First Downs, drive ends with FG after RZ struggles
Drive 5 - 4 Plays 39 Yards: 1 First Down, drives ends with blown Hail Mary attempt

I know everyone is going to focus on the 2 bad throws and you can't take them out of the game, BUT, you can look at what the Offense did on all the other plays in the first half against that Defense and find a lot to like. Every single drive picked up at least 2 first downs and the final drive of the half looked amazing minus whatever the hell that was on the final play but to to even get in that position was a great thing to see. Further, it isn't crazy to think that if we hadn't had 2 pick thrown on 1st down, we could have come away with points on each of those drives, certainly we were within Lewis' range on Drive 3.

We had 9 Offensive series and it wasn't until Drive 8 that we had our first true 3 and out. (Drive 7 we got our first down via defensive holding on the first play and then had 3 incompletions).

Kenny Dillingham may have only had 3 points to show for his efforts but his game-planning and play-calling wasn't the issue in this game and that's a good thing for us.

[duck023]

Man, I just hope Georgia was very good because I'm now afraid of the BYU game, I don't want Lanning to be the next Cristobal and I want the next seasons to be massive improvements, but this game seriously hurt me, I don't want Oregon vs Alabama to happen anytime soon after Georgia beat us up.

But do you guys think we have a shot at a natty someday?

People need to stop with this level of thinking right now as Oregon's next chance at the Playoff is likely in 2024 with Moore in his 2nd season. Even Rob Moseley was tweeting out how the last 3 times we lost our opener we went to the Rose Bowl, as if this team is likely to do that. It's delusional type stuff from fans to expect that level of play right now.

Enjoy watching the team grow this year and hope the Coaches grow with them and that we beat our rivals. The team, players, fans, coaches, administrators and boosters all need to get their heads wrapped around the fact that this isn't the Oregon team from 2012 with just a few tweaks needed. It's a complete re-hauling that needs to happen.

Oh, so now Moore is going to save the program? Two years ago you said Ty Thompson would save the program. I guess you jumped off that pretty quickly. You don't know if Moore is going to be good or not and my guess is he won't be. Oregon needs to go with Butterfield now.

[duck023]

Man, I just hope Georgia was very good because I'm now afraid of the BYU game, I don't want Lanning to be the next Cristobal and I want the next seasons to be massive improvements, but this game seriously hurt me, I don't want Oregon vs Alabama to happen anytime soon after Georgia beat us up.

But do you guys think we have a shot at a natty someday?

People need to stop with this level of thinking right now as Oregon's next chance at the Playoff is likely in 2024 with Moore in his 2nd season. Even Rob Moseley was tweeting out how the last 3 times we lost our opener we went to the Rose Bowl, as if this team is likely to do that. It's delusional type stuff from fans to expect that level of play right now.

Enjoy watching the team grow this year and hope the Coaches grow with them and that we beat our rivals. The team, players, fans, coaches, administrators and boosters all need to get their heads wrapped around the fact that this isn't the Oregon team from 2012 with just a few tweaks needed. It's a complete re-hauling that needs to happen.

The fans trying to factor in how this loss affects our CFP chances crack me up. Hiring Lanning and giving him the reigns was a total commitment to the long game; a reaction to the hired gun strategy we’d employed to try to keep the program’s momentum going.

We essential hit the reset button in order to find a guy who will build the program exactly how he wants it and thus stay here for a long time.

I disagree Lanning was a short term hire meant to keep Oregon on top. He'll likely leave in 4 years whether he is 8-4 or winning something big.

[duck023]

I like Lanning and liked the hire from the beginning.

I will admit, that I am now fearful what happens if he fails. We are falling further and further from our 07-14 run and if I had to bet, it's a greater chance we revert back to a bowl team than a consistent playoff team. Ugh

The reason I liked the hire is because even if Lanning is a terrible coach Oregon set the precedent that they take young unproven coaches that are at the top of the game and I'm sure the next one will be a great one.

[Duck07]

Oh, so now Moore is going to save the program? Two years ago you said Ty Thompson would save the program. I guess you jumped off that pretty quickly. You don't know if Moore is going to be good or not and my guess is he won't be. Oregon needs to go with Butterfield now.

Did I say that? I don't recall that as I've typically always liked JB as a passer but since you want to be a pompous ass about it...

[duck023]

Oh, so now Moore is going to save the program? Two years ago you said Ty Thompson would save the program. I guess you jumped off that pretty quickly. You don't know if Moore is going to be good or not and my guess is he won't be. Oregon needs to go with Butterfield now.

Did I say that? I don't recall that as I've typically always liked JB as a passer but since you want to be a pompous ass about it...

Sorry it's just I remember you were extremely hard on Shough and I felt that was unfair especially now that Oregon hasn't had a qb that can complete a pass since him. One of your justifications for wanting to kick Shough out of Oregon was that Ty Thompson would save Oregon. I wouldn't mind Shough as a senior leading this team right now. However, since that can't happen, I wonder if there is a better solution then waiting for a random high school kid to save the program. I'm glad you like Butterfield I do too, and I think that is the direction Oregon needs to go before he becomes a senior

[Duck07]

Sorry it's just I remember you were extremely hard on Shough and I felt that was unfair especially now that Oregon hasn't had a qb that can complete a pass since him. One of your justifications for wanting to kick Shough out of Oregon was that Ty Thompson would save Oregon. I wouldn't mind Shough as a senior leading this team right now. However, since that can't happen, I wonder if there is a better solution then waiting for a random high school kid to save the program. I'm glad you like Butterfield I do too, and I think that is the direction Oregon needs to go before he becomes a senior

Again, I'm pretty positive I've never said that but I won't dispute I didn't like Tyler Shough in the Pistol offense we were running and I still stand by it. It was clear watching him process the game that he wasn't ready for a major D1 role nor that he's a future NFL pro (he still isn't but I wish him well at TT). It's also clear that AB running that stupid Pistol was a major issue and that we were handcuffing our QBs in the Mario system. You can pretty much tell from the 1st series or 2 whether a QB has what it takes to play at a high level. Darron Thomas coming in against Boise St as a True FR showed it, Herbert doing it against the best UW team of the last 21 years showed it and I'd even throw in Nate Costa against Portland State taking a big hit from the LB but completing the pass over the middle showed it. It doesn't mean a guy can't grow into a high-level player but Dixon is the only QB I can think of who fits that mold in our recent history.

I've stated how I felt about the Offense already and I think based upon Moore's JR year film that he has the ability to become a high level D1 starter and that this Offense will suit his skillset just fine. I'd also add that there isn't anything that would preclude JB from taking the reins and I wanted/expected to see TT on that final drive.

If you're just pissy about the 2024 comment and not expecting us to compete for the Playoffs next season, know that we lose our entire starting OL and likely 6 of the Front 7 (and 7/11 defensively) to graduation/draft from yesterday's starters.

[lmduck]

Man, I just hope Georgia was very good because I'm now afraid of the BYU game, I don't want Lanning to be the next Cristobal and I want the next seasons to be massive improvements, but this game seriously hurt me, I don't want Oregon vs Alabama to happen anytime soon after Georgia beat us up.

But do you guys think we have a shot at a natty someday?

People need to stop with this level of thinking right now as Oregon's next chance at the Playoff is likely in 2024 with Moore in his 2nd season. Even Rob Moseley was tweeting out how the last 3 times we lost our opener we went to the Rose Bowl, as if this team is likely to do that. It's delusional type stuff from fans to expect that level of play right now.

Enjoy watching the team grow this year and hope the Coaches grow with them and that we beat our rivals. The team, players, fans, coaches, administrators and boosters all need to get their heads wrapped around the fact that this isn't the Oregon team from 2012 with just a few tweaks needed. It's a complete re-hauling that needs to happen.

The fans trying to factor in how this loss affects our CFP chances crack me up. Hiring Lanning and giving him the reigns was a total commitment to the long game; a reaction to the hired gun strategy we’d employed to try to keep the program’s momentum going.

We essential hit the reset button in order to find a guy who will build the program exactly how he wants it and thus stay here for a long time.

I disagree Lanning was a short term hire meant to keep Oregon on top. He'll likely leave in 4 years whether he is 8-4 or winning something big.

And how do you know? Crystal ball? Ouija board? Fortune teller? Zodiac signs???


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[duck023]

Sorry it's just I remember you were extremely hard on Shough and I felt that was unfair especially now that Oregon hasn't had a qb that can complete a pass since him. One of your justifications for wanting to kick Shough out of Oregon was that Ty Thompson would save Oregon. I wouldn't mind Shough as a senior leading this team right now. However, since that can't happen, I wonder if there is a better solution then waiting for a random high school kid to save the program. I'm glad you like Butterfield I do too, and I think that is the direction Oregon needs to go before he becomes a senior

Again, I'm pretty positive I've never said that but I won't dispute I didn't like Tyler Shough in the Pistol offense we were running and I still stand by it. It was clear watching him process the game that he wasn't ready for a major D1 role nor that he's a future NFL pro (he still isn't but I wish him well at TT). It's also clear that AB running that stupid Pistol was a major issue and that we were handcuffing our QBs in the Mario system. You can pretty much tell from the 1st series or 2 whether a QB has what it takes to play at a high level. Darron Thomas coming in against Boise St as a True FR showed it, Herbert doing it against the best UW team of the last 21 years showed it and I'd even throw in Nate Costa against Portland State taking a big hit from the LB but completing the pass over the middle showed it. It doesn't mean a guy can't grow into a high-level player but Dixon is the only QB I can think of who fits that mold in our recent history.

I've stated how I felt about the Offense already and I think based upon Moore's JR year film that he has the ability to become a high level D1 starter and that this Offense will suit his skillset just fine. I'd also add that there isn't anything that would preclude JB from taking the reins and I wanted/expected to see TT on that final drive.

If you're just pissy about the 2024 comment and not expecting us to compete for the Playoffs next season, know that we lose our entire starting OL and likely 6 of the Front 7 (and 7/11 defensively) to graduation/draft from yesterday's starters.

I remember that Darron Thomas Boise game I actually predicted an undefeated regular season after Masoli was kicked off because of that game and I ended up being right. That was a good time for Oregon. Usually if you are talking about a 2 year rebuilding effort it usually just gets worse. If the rebuild isn't in one year it becomes a chain reaction. I'm worried that is what is going to happen. Losing the whole offensive line is just terrible you are right about that. So, if Oregon has two losing seasons in a row at that point they will be used to losing sort of like how Cal is right now. Cal was pretty happy when they got Jared Goff but getting a great qb couldn't stop the losing momentum. So, I do hope Dan Lanning can have some sort of success before that point.

[Duck07]

I remember that Darron Thomas Boise game I actually predicted an undefeated regular season after Masoli was kicked off because of that game and I ended up being right. That was a good time for Oregon. Usually if you are talking about a 2 year rebuilding effort it usually just gets worse. If the rebuild isn't in one year it becomes a chain reaction. I'm worried that is what is going to happen. Losing the whole offensive line is just terrible you are right about that. So, if Oregon has two losing seasons in a row at that point they will be used to losing sort of like how Cal is right now.

Man there is a vast canyon between competing for the playoffs in 2024 and saying that we're going through 2 losing seasons. There's no need to be so hyperbolic over what looks like a team that's somewhere in the range of 7-5/9-3. We'll know after BYU where this season looks to go.