UOducksTK1 wrote:Let's not lie, losing Bryce Brown, Tajh Boyd, Terrelle Pryor, Tommy Streeter, Aarony Boyd, Curtis McNeal, and lots of other in the last few years, made a lot of us angry and frustrated even weeks and months after their decisions.
But this year feels different. Losing Owa and the NC 3 definitely was rough, but I'm already over it. After the Pryor and Brown fiascoes, it honestly bothered me for quite a while. However this class is so loaded right now, that I don't even care about any other players or schools in the country. I'm very satisfied with this class, more than any other class ever.
Go ducks!
we all talk about how defense wins championships and it does, but obviously it comes down to who scores more points...if we can play at a similar level defensively as last year...we have poentially a far more explosive offense next year...with the redshirt recievers and help at rb and tzr so maybe we can largely make up for the defensive deficiencies...
Yeah, sure its nice to have a gr8 defense...No doubt about it..BUT, to win games, means nothing more than outscoring your opponents...And, I dont see the Ducks having much of a problem doing that again next year..and the next..and the next....and...well, thats enuff for right now...
Let all of the Duck opponents score 60 points...As long as the Ducks score 61.....
UOducksTK1 wrote:Let's not lie, losing Bryce Brown, Tajh Boyd, Terrelle Pryor, Tommy Streeter, Aarony Boyd, Curtis McNeal, and lots of other in the last few years, made a lot of us angry and frustrated even weeks and months after their decisions.
But this year feels different. Losing Owa and the NC 3 definitely was rough, but I'm already over it. After the Pryor and Brown fiascoes, it honestly bothered me for quite a while. However this class is so loaded right now, that I don't even care about any other players or schools in the country. I'm very satisfied with this class, more than any other class ever.
Go ducks!
we all talk about how defense wins championships and it does, but obviously it comes down to who scores more points...if we can play at a similar level defensively as last year...we have poentially a far more explosive offense next year...with the redshirt recievers and help at rb and tzr so maybe we can largely make up for the defensive deficiencies...
Yeah, sure its nice to have a gr8 defense...No doubt about it..BUT, to win games, means nothing more than outscoring your opponents...And, I dont see the Ducks having much of a problem doing that again next year..and the next..and the next....and...well, thats enuff for right now...
Let all of the Duck opponents score 60 points...As long as the Ducks score 61.....
I'm so tired of that attitude though! If there's one thing to take from our losses against Boise (both years) and the Stanford and Rose Bowl games is how to defend our offense.
I know people will make excuses for those games and why we lost, but lets not argue that cus we did. What did happen in the Boise and Ohio State games was the defense staying true to their assignments. What we can take from them also is that one team had lower all-around talent and the other had whats considered top talent. That means that teams that can stay strict on defense have the potential to slow our offense down. This is important to remember because not every game is played at Autzen stadium and lets face it, in offensive shootouts it usually comes down to who has the ball last.
Chip has put the "O" in Oregon, can we finally put the "D" in Ducks?
The template for defending our offense evolved over the season-stay at home, don't bite on fakes, stuff the run, and force JM to beat you with his arm. Unless JM can become more accurate and Chip can adjust(they will by the way), your going to see more teams apply that template to defending us. I'm still blown away by the Rose bowl loss; we moved the ball ok against a very disciplined and talented defense, but never seemed to shift from 3rd to 4th gear. I've never heard why our extremely talented te's weren't used against a team that admitted they had trouble covering te's and hadn't done so all year.
To expect our Defense to be as good as our offense every year is just unrealistic. We are still a college team, all college teams have considerale weaknesses. Even national title teams have serious deficiencies. Look at Bama. Great defense but only an average offense. An offense that did JUST enough to win throughout the season. Their D won games for them. Just about every great team is great on one side of the ball & just above average on the other side. Rarely do you get teams that are lights out on bith sides.
Thats all we need. Our D isn't going to be holding teams to 100 yards & 3 points a game. Thats never going to happen no matter who we bring in. We just need our D to be a few points better, hold teams to a few less yards & just make those two or three more stops a game. I don't like NA's defense & the schemes he runs but with our offense (by far the best in the country IMO) we just need the D to be a step or two better next year for us to win a ton of games.
He has a chance to add to what we did last year & have a really good defense. If not there should be some changes made. I give him & his wacky, complex schemes one more year. If he can't step up he either needs to completely change what he does or we need a new guy at DC... the latter will never happen so I really really hope he steps up to the plate this next year.
