Oregon Ducks' 2-0 Record Masks Struggles: Can They Turn It Around?
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- What is wrong with the Oregon Ducks football team? To some, that may be a silly question because they are 2-0. But they were favored to win by big margins against Idaho and Boise State. They beat Idaho by ten points and needed a last second field goal to beat Boise State this weekend. It has been a strange start to the college football season for the Ducks. We will explore some of the Oregon football shortcomings. And with a ticked off Oregon State team facing them this weekend, can the Ducks afford to take anything for granted?
If not for Oregon we might be spending more time trying to explain why the Penn State football team is in the same boat as the Ducks. Penn State survived a home scare from Bowling Green in a game the Nittany Lions were heavily favored.
Vegas odds-makers notice the Indiana Hoosiers 77 point performance last Friday and IU is now a favorite vs UCLA in Saturday's Big Ten opener at the Rose Bowl.
Following the Iowa Hawkeyes disappointing loss to rival Iowa State for the Cy-Hawk Trophy, we begin to wonder if Northwestern transfer quarterback Brendon Sullivan might be warming up in the bullpen for Cade McNamara who only threw for 99 yards Saturday.
We have not one, but two observations from this week's AP Top 25 list for college football and we will share them here. And finally, we have Tuesday Tweets right here on Locked on Big 10 with Craig Shemon.
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Early season is so difficult to gauge. If Idaho goes on to win the FCS playoffs - a real possibility - Oregon's close win will make a lot more sense. Likewise with Boise. If the Broncos win out and make the playoffs - also a real possibility - Oregon's narrow win will make a lot more sense. The Ducks definitely need to get better if they want to be championship contenders, but Oregon's first two wins may also have been sneaky good.
Ive said the same. Both wins were against very good teams, inferior talent wise for the most part,. But definitely more talented than a lot of other teams P5 teams are playing
The boos where for the awful play calling on 3rd and a mile
They have talent, it's a coaching void. They tried the retreats around the State to get new players and returning players time to bond, but it's the coaching that is lacking. Dan Lanning is a keeper, but losing Mario Cristobal's expertise on coaching OL is being noticed now that he's been gone a couple of years. Position coaching isn't a quick fix. Oregon is going to have issues this year. Special teams return teams looks great I'll say. Great blocking to get a couple of TDs last weekend.
Oregons biggest problem right now is Oregon, If the ducks can get the O-Line on track it would solve a lot of these problems. Missed or incorrect blocking assignments are causing pockets and running lanes to collapse. The ducks are 5 guys getting it together away from solving the offensive problems.
One of biggest problems iS the ducks, players, fans and coaches think they are elite great won conference titles and national championships just by showing up and believing the hype
And Dillon is holding the ball too long. He needs to take off when the line collapses
@@clarencewalder2985 I agree that the Ducks were hyped like crazy in the offseason (clearly too much) however expectations being high isn’t necessarily a negative thing. They have the opportunity and potential to be a force in the BIG10 not only this year but for years to come. The team just needs to figure out their identity and keep building off positives and correct mistakes.
i think the biggest reason Oregon's struggled has clearly been the o-line & secondly the run game. i think a huge problem for the Ducks has been the loss of incredible talents like center Jackson Johnson & RB Bucky Irving. The RB room may have the guys to work things out via committee with James, Whittington(& hopefully Harris). Pritchards play at center however, has left a lot to be desired. Way too many mistakes when it comes to the guy snapping the ball. Currently the Ducks are favored by around 16pts against OrSt. But i don't see them winning by more than 10-14 if they don't really clean up the o-line play.
I think we have a problem with critical thinking in this country. First, I'm not saying the ducks are all that. They are not clicking yet. But Idaho had one of the top defenses in the country last year and made the national championship playoffs. Bruise State is projected to make the playoffs this year and has one of the best backs in the nation. Most of the rushing yards were on one breakaway run for 70 yards only. But the thing that bothers me is Alkron State, Portland State, Idaho State, and San Diego State are not Idaho and Boise St.
Thank you, people acting like all FCS teams are equal, that's the same as saying beating Tulsa carries the same weight as beating Alabama. As an avid FCS fan the top of the FCS are better than 60 fbs schools probably
I think the run defense was better than the stats show. For a lot of the times there were runs of 0 to 2 yards and then a run of 20+ every now and again and eventually the 70 yarder. But a lot of times their run game got stuffed
Ducks are playing like last seasons Huskies. Allowing everyone to stay close.
This
I think Oregon State might give them some problems this weekend.
Me2...go ducks
I loved the Penn state game, I’ve never had anything against them and kind of liked them until after week one a bunch of annoying Nittany lion fans started blowing me up in the comments and talking trash and trashing us. I typically wanna see B1G success out of conference but I enjoyed that game
I’ve watched a few times but subbed today. You’re not wrong about anything, there was a lineup on Saturday that did pretty good and showed some continuity with no sacks or penalties so that’s promising but you’re right they’re still figuring some stuff out and don’t have much time especially against a rival. You should know if you don’t though that there is a storied history against Boise and I never thought that game was going to be more than a one score game when all was said and done. They have a chance to click, big plays, defense and talent is all present. Let’s get the oline at least decent and Gabriel in a rhythm. He honestly missed a lot of reads and looked a little jittery so get those things in line and we might be ready for Ohio state OR we might drop 1 of the next 3.
The line up without Charlie Pickard was doing the thing!!!!
Craig, if Boise state’s qb and Jeanty stay healthy they’ll be in the CFP. Idaho is a top tier FCS team that would beat half of the FBS teams in the nation this year. So they are not teams that are going to get blown out by a team with o line “issues”. That said, almost every duck fan does wish that Dan would just pick a five man lineup for the o line and just let them work. They need cohesion, like you and many have said. Gabriel needs to be much more aware too, he literally never looked to the right side of the line on the first drive against BSU, and got sacked without having a clue.. that is not ok at all!
Oregon is a collection of great football players. Until they figure out how to play together, they don't have any Jim's and Joe's to fill in the blanks
That’s true for the o-line but the rest of Oregon is decent, especially the defense.
Once the offensive line gels, they will get after it
Too much side chatter. Too many ads. Bailed out at 1130
Beavs baby
The O line is the problem. The O line is committing most of the penalties, and allowing multiple sacks in each game, sometimes back to back. When Dillon Gabriel has time, he is picking opponents apart, but the O line has to give him time!
Oregon has taken a step back this year. They may need to lose a game before Lanning rights the ship.
Let’s be real, Ohio state had one less fourth down than Oregon. Regardless of what the box score says, 75% of the game the buckeyes offense wasn’t productive. Once Pancho came in for Oregon, things changed. Boise State will be in the playoffs, let’s stop talking like they aren’t a quality opponent. Idaho was 9-3 with the hardest strength of schedule in the FCS. They have one of the best secondaries in the nation, regardless of division. Gabriel still completed most of his passes. Boise State QB was 17/40, but Oregon had 12 pass break ups! That doesn’t happen very often! Once they get the run game figured out, which they will figure out, we will roll. Let’s not forget what will stein did for us last season. And if you guys are real fans, you would know that tight end under center play was from the Ohio state game which netted in a first down and a win. But yet Oregon fans are sour they did that play even though it worked and it’s part of our history. The hook and ladder was from a Stanford game a decade ago which set up a touchdown. Oregon has really ignorant fans.
Offensive line, and too many penalties. I don’t think the people on the offensive line have quick enough feet. They’re too fat.
They could go 10-0 from here and still end up undefeated in regular season, but that's no reason for them to be anywhere in the Top 15 right now. "They" have been absolutely stinking up the joint against (on paper) significantly lesser opponents; Idaho and Boise.
And when I say "they", in the case of Oregon I mean mostly their coaches. Great roster & an endless NIL to buy that roster, but Lanning & staff are flat-out TERRIBLE. 🤮
As a Duck fan your absolutely correct. Lanning and most of the inexperienced coaches arnt developing players at all.
As a Duck fan I disagree with you both. Oregon has work to do but I’m not ready to throw anyone under the bus.
@@maninthemiddle55 I'm not throwing oregon under the bus I'm want to help them across the hiway of mediocrity.
Could go by the way... Could still win the Big 10 or make a deep playoff bed...
Not really but Ohio State and USC plays like the ducks do then yes Oregon has a chance to win
As a season ticket holder and alum, Oregon has a lot of great individual talent. Team talent, not so much.
😂😂😂
We will get it together boys
You can tell they had a game-plan to use a vanilla offense, and limit what they put on film for Ohio state, since that’s a program changing win…and the other games are not. Lanning n company thought they’d just be able to line it up, run the ball, and dink and dunk it down the field, and they’d win with ease, but during the first game, they realized that wasn’t possible, since they couldn’t run the ball like they wanted too. The second game they tried the same things, but it wasn’t working so they had to put stuff on film for Ohio state, because they couldn’t keep limiting the actual offense.
I do agree with everyone, that Oregons OL is a work in progress, but the last quarter of Boise state, they found their new starting OL for now. Or at least until Bedford and Iuli come back from injury.
To be honest, I’m not worried, I’m just frustrated that they’re messing around with these lesser talented teams, so they can show as little as possible on film for Ohio state. I mean come-on…Gabriel had multiple runs in the Boise state game that would extended drives, but they don’t want the Buckeyes to know that part of this Oregon offense. And in the Idaho game, I counted twelve 30yd passes that were open, but again, that wasn’t part of the vanilla game plan.
But here we go again. We are gonna see if we can run the ball, and dink and dunk our way past Oregon state on Saturday…and if that doesn’t work, they’ll open up the offense a little bit again…even though they can easily score 60 on this team, and the other two, but again, they chose to go vanilla.
Oregon needs to clean the offensive penalties killing drives and hold up better on the line, the wr are absolutely cooking the opposing secondary
No we arnt Gabriel had 4.5 yards average in the air for each completion which means we're mostly hitting short passes around the linebacker zones.
@@MrBigdaddy2ya so you missed the 2 wide open passes Gabriel missed back to back where Evan Stewart and traeshon Holden were about 5 yards away from the nearest defender.
Gotcha.
@@ninefingerjack if the wr were cooking then why did we almost lose. Why were there only a couple longer catches. Holden had one good play in 2 years so far has underperformed in my opinion. Had way bigger hopes for him. Stewart can play.
@@MrBigdaddy2ya There's a reason for that. The Oline isn't consistently giving enough time to allow for plays to develop which means Gabriel has to dump the ball to his 1st or 2nd progression at most, this results in a short passing yard average. He doesn't have a choice since he's under constant pressure (and sacked 7 times so far) because the Oline performance is terrible.
@@glenpark4373 its not the o line fault its Dan Lanning. in the run up to the season he was moving the o line all over the place not giving them a chance to gel. If he doesn't know what player belongs where at the start of the season then thats on him. You ever wonder why James Crapea was always annoying Dan with o line questions through training camp it was because Dan was making dumb moves that ment our o line didn't get great practice together. Some of the o line was practicing 3 different positions in a single practice. We are seeing the product of bad coaching.
But I thought O won in the portal and in recruiting with Phil's money. Lanning was smoking that stogie off-season like he knew something we didn't know. We find who they are against Oregon St. That will give us a good read on whether their issues will be resolved or if they are overhyped.
Boise state is better than Oregon state this year
You know both Oregon State and Washington State are going to play their hearts out when they play a former PAC-12 team, and I wouldn't be surprised if Oregon State pulls the upset with the way Oregon's been playing.
I believe if Dan Lanning doesn't give them a quick dose of reality this week, The Bevs will beat them. Oregon fans fear the Beavers more than any other program. If they tell you different, they are lying!
I have to correct you Craig….it’s called Meth Stadium , the 🥚reg🥚n ducks have never won a championship , 108 years of a Duck that lays goose eggs 🦆🥚
Ohio state has played two back to back Mac schools…bad ones at that…I’m not convinced yet 0-4io state
And what have U done? At least Ohio State and now USC has Not played like Oregon so I am kinda convinced they are better than Oregon and both have history of winning titles and national championship Oregon does not
Until they lose, they’re doing just fine.
I called it last season, from a USC fan Oregon is a good team, I used to hate Oregon, but I have so many kids I cut and coached over the years go there and plus Vernon Adams is my dawg like no other that I gave up the hate lol. But Oregon and Nike has built a program on uniforms, swag, all the bells and whistles of a football program but nothing that ever sticks like it does with a blue blood like USC or Georgia or tOhio State, Bama, etc. Oregon will always be good but, to win a National Title it’s going to be rough. Oregon needs to pick 4 uniforms and build a solid program that has culture and try to recruit and build a roster of more local kids vs out of state kids. Their roster has 22 kids from in state and 85 from out of state, that’s crazy to me.
I love vernon Adam's if he hadn't been dinged up all season we would have gone places...
Bro you talking like there’s 100s of college prospects in the state of Oregon every year 😂😂😂😂we have to recruit out of state!!!! And our program is built on innovation staying ahead of everyone else the uniforms is part of the recruiting!! You have no clue what you talking bout just focus on USC fam 😂😂😂😂💚💛🦆
Oregon passed on 2 in state kids who will be hall of famers. Troy Polamalu and Talanoa Hufanga. Can’t keep doing that.
The disrespect the top conferences breed is nauseating, no concept that there are good solid teams all over college football with pretty solid talent in their own right. Im sorry but a good, well coached team thats used to winning doesn't just let you walk over them no matter how talented you are, Idaho was never going to come in and give in and fold and lose by 7 TDs, they have too much pride for that. And lets not act like Boise is some second rate 6 win mid major team, how many times do they have to prove they can hang with the big dogs before people start getting it, id think Duck fans would get it more than anyone
These errors Oregon commits in their two games will tell anyone that Lanning"s coaches are not paying attention to details and discipline. Lanning in fact may be trying to be their best friend because a lot of his players were "bought" instead of telling his payers where the bull sh*ts behind the buckwheat and knocking down some of their egos. He has to do this soon or they will continue to believe all the adulations they receive and continue believing they are entitled just like Notre Dame.
Dumb statement!!! Who’s roster isn’t BOUGHT in this day and age 😂😂😂that has nothing to do with the issue we having fam
@@Ducks4Life91 Few if any, maybe just Ohio St. like your program buddy.
You better hope what happened to Texas A & M a few years back doesn't find its way up your team. So far, it looks very similar wouldn't you say honestly?
Beavers are never overlooked by the Ducks , if we play like we did the last 2 games we will win again in the 4th . I do not care what they say about the 2 Idaho teams. Idaho state destroyed Wyoming by 28 . And Wyoming is no slouch. And Boise Stare has had Oregons number . This is the first time since the LeGarrett Blount Punch in 08 since we have beat this team out of 4 meetings . And mind you I remember Boise State beating a SeC teams and ACC teams . That has been a great program even after Peterson left
Watch those 2 teams be at the top of their divisions.
What I hired more is C playing game where you are dismantling the team your playing and you give up 28 in the 4th and lose . To a team you should have pummeled . That team were play Sat and do not expect a blow out but another nail biter .
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The comments in this comment section are hilarious 😂😂😂a bunch of folks who have no clue wtf they talking bout!!!
Can they turn it around...No. Their defense is swiss cheese against the run and has been pushed around and beaten up for the past 2 weeks. Arrogance does not make a good football team. Last year they had their ass handed to them 2 times by Washington. They are not physical enough to compete with the big boys.
You have no idea what you’re talking about. The defense is Swiss cheese? Did you watch the 2 games? I didn’t think so. The defense was dominant in the Idaho game and against Boise, they held the QB to 17/40 with 12 pass breakups. 70 yards that they gave up to Jeanty came on one play, they pretty much bottled him up the rest of the game. And he might be the best back in the country. We have some O line issues to work out and penalties and turnovers are a problem, but we will be fine. Idaho is one of the best teams in the FCS and Boise will be in the playoff, those are two good teams.
@@oregonreign75 No argument there sir. Let's see how the season develops. Early season ratings are typically faulty. Most teams nowadays have good players regardless of where they play. Just look at how many Pro players come from non power 5 teams.
Oregon's Offensive line SUCKS! They ain't winning a Natty this year!!
Bring back Mario.
Giving the Ducks could be in Trouble! That could likely mean those Cheaters will finally be punished for their CHEATING WAYS. They should’ve been a long time ago. I hope those Cheaters FINALLY LOSE WAY MORE GAMES. EITHER THAT OR GET PUNISHED. Those Oregon Ducks deserve the Harshest Long Term Sanctions ever. Or better yet! Being forced to DISCONTINUE THEIR FOOTBALL PROGRAM ALL TOGETHER. That would do those schools that have played them that have been victims of them & their Doping Drugs a favor. And that would do me a favor too! Knowing that all along they have cheated that bad! And due to that! For the first time ever! I am wishing I was out of this Nation. Giving how Traitorous they have become since they won last year’s Fiesta Bowl when they were supposed to have been BANNED FROM POST SEASON PLAY. This US due to have have turned themselves into traitors. Which means I am not supporting the US National Team until the worst finally happens for those Ducks! And God Forbid! Should they make a Bowl Game again! They had BETTER LOSE IN IT. OR MY GRUDGE WITH THIS NATION IS NOT STOPPING ANYTIME SOON!
Think that Nebraska is a top 15th team. As for the SEC teams they will cannibalize each other. In other words there will be more Big Ten teams in the top 10. Fight On!
Don’t cry because it’s over. Cry because it never actually happened and the seasons and natty are all getting vacated. Cheaters of the west
Oregon fans need to accept that ducks are not gonna win all their games this year in spite of the manageable schedule
They won’t be as good as last year
Watched Ducks game for the second time on Big10 Network and they looked worse in the replay. For the enormous amount of talent they have the performance has been underwhelming, disjointed, undisciplined and frustrating to put it mildly. Preseason hype had us believe Ducks were moving into a new era of dominant line play just like the big boys in the SEC. Haven't seen that. Hoping for the best and preparing for something else.
there offices line is tar able
Oregon is not in trouble at all!
Idaho is ranked 4th in the FCS and BSU is a perineal top 25 school
Title contenders should kill those teams by 20+ points. Oregon should be very concerned about their performance so far
If Lanning sees it that way he’ll be out of a job in a few months.
What’s wrong?
They aren’t that good
They are never that good. They run a self hype train, and stupid people buy into it.
Sorry we beat your ass so bad last time.
You're an Arkansas fan😂
100% correct.
Bingo
Good enough to beat Ohio st last time we played them so joke is on the big 10 i guess
Oregon is gonna leave them behind 52-3 BOOK IT 😮😊😅😂😢😢
Oregon is one of about six teams that have beat a legitimate Playoff contender...