Each year it becomes more evident that the talent level and experience on the defensive line at Oregon is becoming even deeper over the offensive line, and this year’s eleven sacks in the Spring Game confirmed that assertion. We are familiar with many of the names that have been waiting their turn on the defensive line, but the 2025 Oregon …
How Oregon is Building the New Wall on Offense
Want to see something new about Our Beloved Ducks from the Oregon Spring Game? Yes, there have been tons of summary articles written about it, but I thought I’d share a slight adjustment I noted in the game that I had not noticed before to this degree. I had to take a break from my interesting study of Organic THCA …
Will Stein’s New Shotgun Full House Backfield
Will Stein has introduced a new Power Formation for the Oregon Ducks when they played against UCLA last season. The old jumbo formation may be on it’s way out because the Ducks just don’t have the extra experienced offensive linemen to trot onto the field. But this new formation makes use of a different personnel package, and when deployed against …
Oregon’s New Play: What the TV Analysts Missed…
It is always fun to see new plays introduced over the course of the season, and to occasionally get some commentary about them from the TV analysts covering the games. We witnessed a new play against the Huskies in the first drive that was fun to watch develop, and then see what the analysts had to say about it, but …
Oregon Offense: Will Stein Backs Up His Vow
After the tough loss in Seattle last year, the teeth were gnashing in Eugene about some fourth down-short yardage play calls by Oregon Offensive Coordinator Will Stein. While it was true that quarterback Bo Nix missed an open receiver in one of those plays, the focus of the blame from the Duck fans were directed at Oregon’s young OC. In …
Oregon’s “Sniffer” Powers Duck Running Game
Yes, the “Sniffer” is a thing in college football. While we look at who that player is in the Oregon offense, it is also important to recognize the innovations we are seeing from Offensive Coordinator Will Stein. I had to take some time away from my fun at The Division 2 to break down this new addition to Oregon’s rushing …
Progress Update: Better Blocking Brings Better Results
Last week we looked at some of the worst blocking I’ve ever seen as an Oregon fan and analyst over the years. This week Our Beloved Ducks continued to have some nightmares in the first half with four sacks by the Broncos, but things turned around. In fact a couple of areas that I noted as weaknesses last week looked …
Idaho Issues: We Can’t Duck the Blocking Analysis…
My FishDuck Friends, this is a difficult analysis to do because I cannot sugar-coat it as I would like. You all know that I love what Dan Lanning is building at Oregon and I believe fervently that he is the coach who can take us to a first ‘Natty, but I will not suck-up to any coaching staff as other …
OC Stein’s Oregon Offense: Capitalizing on a Strength
The 2024 Oregon Spring Game did not show much of the offense anticipated this fall, it did give me many clues that got me excited, and made me do some research about two plays along with a strategy by Oregon Offensive Coordinator Will Stein that was intriguing. Imagine my surprise to realize to find one of these plays within my …
Oregon’s Will Stein Offense: Power Runs Deep
It was a delightful surprise in 2022, when OC Kenny Dillingham unveiled an old “I” formation with a tight end operating as a fullback. Oregon would use the additional blocker to the tight end side on the line-of-scrimmage to power many plays into key first downs or touchdowns. We have begun to see the tweaks that new OC Will Stein …
Will Stein’s Oregon Offense: Sequential Plays WIN
Every college football team has their own bread-and-butter plays that are central and crucial to their offense. The Will Stein Oregon Offense has fascinated me because of how he is dedicated to a passing game that scores boatloads of points, but yet he is also absolutely committed to a powerful run game. I took some time out from my fun …
How the 2024 Oregon Offense Will ROCK
Oregon fans cannot help but be curious as to whether the 2024 Oregon Offense under offensive coordinator Will Stein, could feature more points per game than last year’s No. 2 national ranking at over 44 points per game–while being in the B1G? Something to watch for is the development of plays that are variations off the basic Oregon plays the …