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I don't like playing Chip coming of their bye week.

UCLA look good last week, I am with you. But we do have them in Autzen.

Let’s see if DTR is as good away from home. He’s only played one game this year away from the Rose Bowl, and it was at Colorado. Not exactly Autzen, nor the competition.

Everythingsducky wrote:Let’s see if DTR is as good away from home. He’s only played one game this year away from the Rose Bowl, and it was at Colorado. Not exactly Autzen, nor the competition.

We saw what happened to the Huskies when they went on the road. I like our situation here.

Just realize both teams have a bye this week.. I wonder how many top 15 matchups there’s been where both teams are coming off a bye?


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DTR has only played 1 game against Oregon and each of the last 2 games against the Bruins have been close, 3 point wins for us.

You have to go back to Jim Mora for the last UCLA win over Oregon and in last years win, we held UCLA to 2.4 YPC on 45 rushes. If they run the ball 45 times and barely crack 125 yards we're in a great spot to win. Would be a good time for a Flowe/Sewell breakout game.

snapt wrote:I don't like playing Chip coming of their bye week.

Me neither, hopefully our staff is equally as advantageous with the bye week.

UOducksTK1 wrote:

snapt wrote:I don't like playing Chip coming of their bye week.

Me neither, hopefully our staff is equally as advantageous with the bye week.

I think both teams are on equal footing in having a bye week at the same time.

Put me in the camp that the bye helps Oregon more because the Oregon players are all learning a new system this year. Most of the coaches are new at their current jobs and can use this time to tweak and integrate what they have learned from their first half season. For UCLA it's mostly rest and recovery with some game planning, but they started the year knowing their systems. Theatrically Oregon has the most growth and improvement potential.


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GrandpaDuck wrote:Put me in the camp that the bye helps Oregon more because the Oregon players are all learning a new system this year. Most of the coaches are new at their current jobs and can use this time to tweak and integrate what they have learned from their first half season. For UCLA it's mostly rest and recovery with some game planning, but they started the year knowing their systems. Theatrically Oregon has the most growth and improvement potential.


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I was this close to starting a committee to review your performance this week. Glad we can avoid that!

If some rest helps Sewel, it’s in Oregon’s advantage. We need him to blow up Charmin-eh.

UofDuck wrote:If some rest helps Sewel, it’s in Oregon’s advantage. We need him to blow up Charmin-eh.

It will be a key to stuff the run, both from Charbonnet and DTR. Then make sure on 3rds to cover Bobo and Allen. That right there would negate like 70% of their offense.

But Kelly is a tricky little devil. Don’t be surprised if he is ready for that game planning. Possible more TE involvement in the offense.

I don’t see an easy win, and this could also easily be Oregons second loss this year unless certain things go right. I hope they win, but either way I hope they play a 4-quarter game and learn from the experience.

UofDuck wrote:If some rest helps Sewel, it’s in Oregon’s advantage. We need him to blow up Charmin-eh.

Same goes for Flowe. Both guys are hobbled and much of our struggles on D can be traced back to them.

Bridges and the secondary catch a lot of flack but we’ve actually performed well against vertical passing attacks; we held Arizona to 82 yards below their average through the air. It’s the underneath and sideline to sideline stuff that’s killed us.

I don’t put a ton of stock into PFF grades but just for reference our LBs are grading out really poorly so far this season. By far the worst unit on the team.


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"Same goes for Flowe. Both guys are hobbled and much of our struggles on D can be traced back to them.

Bridges and the secondary catch a lot of flack but we’ve actually performed well against vertical passing attacks; we held Arizona to 82 yards below their average through the air. It’s the underneath and sideline to sideline stuff that’s killed us.

I don’t put a ton of stock into PFF grades but just for reference our LBs are grading out really poorly so far this season. By far the worst unit on the team."



At times it seems our linebackers are more interested in making a "big hit" than breaking down and tackling and fulfilling their gap assignments. Pretty disappointing so far.