#7 Indiana @ #3 Oregon (Oct. 11, Sat 12:30 PM CBS)

[Everythingsducky]

Seriously worried about the UW game. We could get killed there. SC? Another game to be worried about. I hope this game doesn’t portend future games, but it certainly doesn’t paint a rosy picture. Games at Iowa, at UW, and at home against USC, look much more daunting. The Ducks could be looking at playing in a sh*tty bowl, completely out of the playoff situation. Hell, UW looks better, even though they lost to OSU, which will probably repeat as the champs.

[bdkipe]

This team is young. We knew we were going to have a game like this pop up and bite us in the ass.

The Oline showed they can improve as the season goes on last year.

The “Fire Stein” “Fire Terry” crap is some nonsense.

This is a lesson this team, and maybe Lanning and the staff had to learn.

We aren’t gonna lose 2 more games. That’s just as stupid as all the “fire the coaches” talk.

Good Lord this board needs to get an effing grip sometimes.

[ld2001]

This team is young. We knew we were going to have a game like this pop up and bite us in the ass.

The Oline showed they can improve as the season goes on last year.

The “Fire Stein” “Fire Terry” crap is some nonsense.

This is a lesson this team, and maybe Lanning and the staff had to learn.

We aren’t gonna lose 2 more games. That’s just as stupid as all the “fire the coaches” talk.

Good Lord this board needs to get an effing grip sometimes.

We’ve scored 40 points in 8 quarters. That’s 5 points a quarter. When should the talk start happening? We are literally the biggest NIL buyer.

[GDuck]

Penn State lost to NW and lost Allar for the year. Don’t think we are as good as we think we are. We shouldn’t be talking playoffs, we should be thinking next week. Rutgers has good offense and terrible defense but flying across the country for a night game will be interesting.

[OfaFeather]

This team is young. We knew we were going to have a game like this pop up and bite us in the ass.

The Oline showed they can improve as the season goes on last year.

The “Fire Stein” “Fire Terry” crap is some nonsense.

This is a lesson this team, and maybe Lanning and the staff had to learn.

We aren’t gonna lose 2 more games. That’s just as stupid as all the “fire the coaches” talk.

Good Lord this board needs to get an effing grip sometimes.

We’ve scored 40 points in 8 quarters. That’s 5 points a quarter. When should the talk start happening? We are literally the biggest NIL buyer.

Elite talent and meh playcalling, if they are not going to fire Stein, this will continue. He has the talent on the field to dominate teams in both talent and size, but he keeps trying to get too cute with play calling and has no timing routes, his inability to trust the run is horrible. When they are sticking the box, run it down their throats…the oline is huge and the TE’s are great blockers.

[pezsez1]

We’ve scored 40 points in 8 quarters. That’s 5 points a quarter. When should the talk start happening?

And it's actually worse than that.

Our offense has looked either bad or disjointed in each of our conference games this season. It looked dreadful in the Rose Bowl. It looked bad or disjointed in several of our conference games last season. Heck it even looked bad against nonconference foes last year (thank goodness that got fixed lol).

How long should an elite program with superior talent settle for having an offense that regularly looks bad even against inferior competition? We're coming up on 1.5 seasons now, and we barely play with as much rhythm as me doing the electric slide.

I don't think Lanning should fire Stein now. That would be a bad look. But if the offense herks and jerks through the rest of the season, then yes, absolutely. There's probably someone on our staff right now who'd do a better job of calling plays.

[Everythingsducky]

Tosh one week, Stein the next. But why not call out Lanning? Doing more with less, makes Cignetti looks the superior coach. Who cares about the vids of how Lanning motivates the Ducks. Cignetti obviously, as red ass as he is, does better. With supposedly less talent. I would prefer Cignetti for x’s, o’s, and whatever his motivation is, cuz it snapped a big home field advantage, and kicked our ass.

[StevensTechU]

Well, I didn't anticipate getting beat on both lines. Overall, these losses are a lot less emotionally devastating now that 12 teams make the playoffs.

[QuackininBama]

We’ve scored 40 points in 8 quarters. That’s 5 points a quarter. When should the talk start happening?

And it's actually worse than that.

Our offense has looked either bad or disjointed in each of our conference games this season. It looked dreadful in the Rose Bowl. It looked bad or disjointed in several of our conference games last season. Heck it even looked bad against nonconference foes last year (thank goodness that got fixed lol).

How long should an elite program with superior talent settle for having an offense that regularly looks bad even against inferior competition? We're coming up on 1.5 seasons now, and we barely play with as much rhythm as me doing the electric slide.

I don't think Lanning should fire Stein now. That would be a bad look. But if the offense herks and jerks through the rest of the season, then yes, absolutely. There's probably someone on our staff right now who'd do a better job of calling plays.

Pezsez, I would pay money to see you do the electric slide........can that be a post?

[whosyourwally]

I keep telling myself Lanning is young and a willing learner. It took Day several years to get the right coaches around him. Lanning is still learning how to run and build a program and I’m hoping he sees his staff as a work in progress. Lessons I hope he and his staff can learn:

Experience and success at a high level need to be requirements for future coordinators. Stein and Dilly were both babies when they got here. No matter their ceiling, it takes time to ripen. UO is an elite program and doesn’t need their coordinators learning how to drive while on UO’s payroll.

Even at the highest level in CFB, coaching > natural talent. A strong staff balances developing talent and game planning/ game mgmt with recruiting. I’m not in sitting in on practices, so I don’t want to scapegoat Tosh, but the Ducks’ D is anything but consistent in big games. See what IU did today with far less talent and much smaller players.

Stop outsmarting yourself on offense. They spend all game thinking several plays ahead, rather than on the current down and distance. Dante’s countless fruitless drop backs, and their consistently short gains on WR screens were called to keep IU spread out, and keep their safeties from creeping up, but it kept setting us up with 2nd and 8+. The offense threw away a lot of plays trying to preserve the run. Never played downhill. We also went for the short FG to tie the game rather than go for the lead on 4th and 2. I’d put money on Lanning deciding to do that to get his kicker’s head back in the game, assuming he’d need him later. Turns out they needed points more than a kicker with zin….

[bdkipe]

Lanning 100% owned the loss in the press conference. That’s why I believe in him and this staff. Said their plan wasn’t good, they got out coached and that how Moore responds to this will determine the way forward.

[Everythingsducky]

I keep telling myself Lanning is young and a willing learner. It took Day several years to get the right coaches around him. Lanning is still learning how to run and build a program and I’m hoping he sees his staff as a work in progress. Lessons I hope he and his staff can learn:

Experience and success at a high level need to be requirements for future coordinators. Stein and Dilly were both babies when they got here. No matter their ceiling, it takes time to ripen. Elite programs don’t need their coordinators learning how to drive while on OU’s payroll.

Even at the highest level in CFB, coaching > natural talent. Our coaches need to be elite at developing talent and game planning/ game mgmt, not just recruiting. Or maybe we need a better balance of brains and recruiters on this staff. I’m not in sitting in on practices, so I don’t want to scapegoat Tosh, but the Ducks’ D is anything but consistent in big games. See what IU did today with far less talent and much smaller players.

Stopping outsmarting yourself on offense. They spend all game thinking several plays ahead, rather than on the current down and distance. Dante’s countless fruitless drop backs, and their consistently short gains on WR screens were called to keep IU spread out, and keep their safeties from creeping up, but it kept setting us up with 2nd and 8+. The offense threw away a lot of plays trying to preserve the run. Never played downhill. We also went for the short FG to tie the game rather than go for the lead on 4th and 2. I’d put money on Lanning deciding to do that to get his kicker’s head back in the game, assuming he’d need him later. Turns out they needed points more than a kicker with zin….

‘Experience and success at a high level need to be requirements for future coordinators.’

Think about that for a second. OSU had Kelly at OC last year. Now, OSU has Patricia as D coordinator this year. I’m not necessarily in favor of retreads, but to put you over the top, why not bring in coordinators with head coaching experience, or NFL experience? I get giving young up and comers a shot, but when you believe you have a shot at a title, don’t you want someone with a more worldly outlook, and experience? I’m all for it.

[squintsdd]

Honestly, as the weeks went on Oregon and Lanning were coming across as somewhat cocky. I'm ok with the humbling. Ohio State proved last year that it can make the team better. Oregon just needs to get it together fast, because Penn State is looking really bad now, and this might be Oregon's only quality game this season

[greenyellow]

Before the season started, most would say this team was not going to end up winning the title because of their rebuilt OL, youth and inexperience. The Penn State game got people thinking otherwise but now we know Penn State is a complete fraud. 2026 is the very real window for Oregon to make a legit title run.

[squintsdd]

I keep telling myself Lanning is young and a willing learner. It took Day several years to get the right coaches around him. Lanning is still learning how to run and build a program and I’m hoping he sees his staff as a work in progress. Lessons I hope he and his staff can learn:

Experience and success at a high level need to be requirements for future coordinators. Stein and Dilly were both babies when they got here. No matter their ceiling, it takes time to ripen. Elite programs don’t need their coordinators learning how to drive while on OU’s payroll.

Even at the highest level in CFB, coaching > natural talent. Our coaches need to be elite at developing talent and game planning/ game mgmt, not just recruiting. Or maybe we need a better balance of brains and recruiters on this staff. I’m not in sitting in on practices, so I don’t want to scapegoat Tosh, but the Ducks’ D is anything but consistent in big games. See what IU did today with far less talent and much smaller players.

Stopping outsmarting yourself on offense. They spend all game thinking several plays ahead, rather than on the current down and distance. Dante’s countless fruitless drop backs, and their consistently short gains on WR screens were called to keep IU spread out, and keep their safeties from creeping up, but it kept setting us up with 2nd and 8+. The offense threw away a lot of plays trying to preserve the run. Never played downhill. We also went for the short FG to tie the game rather than go for the lead on 4th and 2. I’d put money on Lanning deciding to do that to get his kicker’s head back in the game, assuming he’d need him later. Turns out they needed points more than a kicker with zin….

‘Experience and success at a high level need to be requirements for future coordinators.’

Think about that for a second. OSU had Kelly at OC last year. Now, OSU has Patricia as D coordinator this year. I’m not necessarily in favor of retreads, but to put you over the top, why not bring in coordinators with head coaching experience, or NFL experience? I get giving young up and comers a shot, but when you believe you have a shot at a title, don’t you want someone with a more worldly outlook, and experience? I’m all for it.

Chip Kelly was Oregon's OC before anyone knew him. Dillingham was Oregon's OC before taking over a reeling ASU program that he's turning around. Young coordinators bring new ideas. If teams always went with the retreads we'd still be in the 3 yards and a cloud of dust times.