Go to a B1G forum somewhere and you'll likely find out they're REALLY important.
Until the Rose Bowl when all that time off after all of the B1G teams 'beat up on each other' takes hold.
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Go to a B1G forum somewhere and you'll likely find out they're REALLY important.
Until the Rose Bowl when all that time off after all of the B1G teams 'beat up on each other' takes hold.
Yes and no. The stats for ISU (not ranking) are more useful because we've had a "more normal" season. For UO, I'm not trusting the numbers...I'm agreeing with you and trusting the line. My sense is that our defense is better enough than yours to warrant being a slight favorite.
Our CBs have been better than our Safeties this year on the whole. Jamal Hill obviously had a huge game with the 2 picks as we play a Nickel Safety rather than a Nickel Corner.
Noah Sewell will stand out on the field at LB due to his size/speed. He'll make a play and then be out of alignment for the next. It's also possible we get one our better coverage LBs back for his first game of the season in this one. I think it comes down to our ability to get Purdy on the ground or throw it away enough that we can limit drives and get off the field on 3rd down. If you want a LB to focus on though I'd go with Mase Funa. If he has a big game it likely means others are having big games too by just doing their job.
Final two games were against California and USC...
California:
- Rushing Offense #102
- Passing Offense: #101
- Rushing Offense: # 120
- Passing offense: #13
Kedon Slovis has played 2 games against Oregon and has thrown 6 INTs.
Since Pete Carroll left, we own Los Angeles.
The thing I will continually go back to in the Cal and Oregon State losses are that the offense/QB did not make the plays that were there. I know the Defense has a lot to do with that, but when you watch the film its clear that guys were schemed wide open and the QB couldn't find them. If Shough plays better in those games, the Defense looks better by virtue of not playing so many snaps because the offense didn't give the ball back right away.
Since Pete Carroll left, we own Los Angeles.
The thing I will continually go back to in the Cal and Oregon State losses are that the offense/QB did not make the plays that were there. I know the Defense has a lot to do with that, but when you watch the film its clear that guys were schemed wide open and the QB couldn't find them. If Shough plays better in those games, the Defense looks better by virtue of not playing so many snaps because the offense didn't give the ball back right away.
We also barely saw Milton until the third quarter for some reason too. I like the heart of Akers, but Milton just does everything Akers does better than Akers does (on offense, not Special teams). I don’t understand why we had him out so much in the first half and I don’t think Milton got even an offensive snap until midway through the third.
I know he’s been hurt but Milton is due for one of those massive, momentum shifting gainers
You really can’t really look at Cal’s stats. They had the most experience on offense coming into the season for the PAC 12 North and basically had their entire oline contact traced out of games except for the Ducks. They were probably the most impacted team in the country being in Berkeley.
We have some D-linemen that are really good at eating up multiple blockers and are comfortable with doing so. They do a good job of freeing up our LBs to plug gaps and play downhill.
Teams that are committed to long slow drives churning out 3-4 yard gains have been dangerous to us in past seasons, but our defensive players have been much better disciplined this year. Having depth and fresh bodies have been some of the best things Campbell and Heacock have done since arriving here. Both have enabled our defense to play much faster. I have seen more goal line stands and snuffed 3rd and shorts than I ever thought possible.
I haven't watched much Duck football this year, so I need to check out some footage. Your team speed from previous years always stuck out to me.
Glad a bunch of Oregon fans came over here to visit. We appreciate the chatter from a good fan base.
Everybody thinks that would be an easy approach, but it’s not that simple. Since this defense was implemented we have played Iowa twice. Iowa is built for that and has had lots of success running the ball with that personnel against the “good” defenses in the Big 10. They averaged <3 ypc.
You can buy Rogue Dead Guy Ale in Des Moines and some surrounding bars. It’s pretty good.
Yeah, I looked up the Iowa stats already. On Scoopduck some were saying it basically becomes a 3-4 defense with one of the OLBs at safety depth against big sets.
In fact, a coach said the like wider splits and trip sets to get another DB out there in order to run.
OK, that I agree with. BUT, the other part of the conversation was that all Tier 1 and Tier 2 revenues were shared equally from there on. Before that, teams got a bigger portion of the revenue for more TV appearances. Up until then, it was an almost yearly vote to try for equal revenue with only UT, NU, ATM, OU voting against. When you think about it, that $15M that Texas was getting from the LHN is pretty small vs the bigger ESPN and Fox packages for first and second tier rights...especially when all the other schools were able to market their third tier rights on their own. A school like Nebraska wouldn't have gotten $15M, but it might have been worth 8-10. I'm guessing they are regretting their decision about now.
Yeah - it's a unique animal.. First tried (and made successful) at ISU. I think they even call it the 'ISU Cloud' now. I remember hearing broadcasters mention a couple of times that some big-time schools came to ISU to get info about it (and even at least one NFL team). We have guys on D that are "max effort" every play. I think if we had guys that might "rest" on a play or two, we'd be vulnerable, but that's not the kind of team we have.
Basically, we really turned the tables on the Big XII with it. You don't see teams scoring 40-50 points on us.
There are still frustrations at times, but overall, the D is usually very sound in positioning and tackling.
The one thing I found interesting in reading the thread there regarding what they know about ISU is that they don't really seem to know much about ISU. A few people said ISU is good, and a few people mentioned Purdy. What they didn't even mention is the fact that Breece Hall is the leading rusher in college football, and tied for 2nd in TD for a RB, and an actual Heisman candidate (outside shot but still). Kind of weird to me since this year he's actually been more high profile nationally than Purdy.
Will be interesting to see the matchup of our WR/TE considering we have 4 WR and TE that are 6'6" and above, and a few more at 6'2" and 6'3"
Thank you for the detailed info. I’ve been going through the games chronologically, and it’s been a very impressive season on both sides of the ball.
Let us hope that Pac-12 refs will not be involved, because at that point a well officiated game is out of the question. We may be the only conference that hopes that we get refs from the opponents conference. In the Pac-12 everything is defensive pass interference, offensive holding can only be called once per game, and almost every audible hit is reviewed for targeting. The Cyclones statistically haven’t been too penalized, but I can relate to the drive killing penalties part. Oregon isn’t too bad either, but you can count on us for one or two stupid unsportsmanlike penalties.
I checked out the WVU game, that was impressive. Oregon will hopefully not allow Purdy to be that accurate, one of the few areas the defense excels in. That Hutchinson receiver looks pretty good, so our corners will have their hands full - both were just named All Pac-12 so it should be a fun matchup. The TE Kolar will probably see a bunch of different people matched up with him from the nickel safety to the LBs. He’s a big dude. I’m also wary of the back up RB, looks like he has some wheels on him and we’ve seen the defense get burned by chance of pace backs.
I was pretty disappointed with our tackling against OU. Normally we're very sure tacklers in the open field, but the OU backs and WR consistently picked up yards after contact that most other teams weren't able to get. That OU RB was pretty big (holy cow, 246lbs) but even their wide outs didn't go down easily.
Blahahaha you want to complain about YOUR refs?? Pull up a chair son...
