Kevin Cline Is the bye week over yet?! It feels like the off-season all over again. I have already watched each game multiple times and will inevitably be watching them again. While any bye week is horrible for fans, this is a particularly good bye week for Oregon. After getting three games under their belts, the Oregon staff will now …
www.macoberver.com It was suggested to me that I use the bye week to talk about the scandals that are rocking along with Alabama (D.J. Fluker), Tennessee (Tyler Bray and Maurice Couch) and Mississippi State (Chad Bumphis and Fletcher Cox). I sat down to write about it and realized that I would rather drop a hot coal in my left eye …
Craig Strobeck Third on the depth chart behind Boseko Lokombo and Tyson Coleman, is true freshman linebacker Torrodney Prevot. The Texan from Alief Taylor High School in Houston, first committed to USC in July, 2012, but still scheduled visits to Texas A&M and Oregon. Late in the recruiting process, after stating he would not be attending USC, it was rumored …
Kevin Cline The Pac-12 is a better conference than the SEC right now. And now everyone south of the Mason-Dixon Line, and 90 percent of the people above it, will grab their pitchforks and come looking for me. Hold up, let me clarify. I am not saying that the Pac-12 is a better conference historically than the SEC, and I …
Kevin Cline If you’re a Ducks’ fan or an NFL team in the market for a physical defensive back with great ball skills, then Ifo Ekpre-Olomu is a guy you want to keep your eye on this season. Simply put, he is a ball hawk who has the aggressiveness to legitimately project as a boundary corner in the NFL. Ekpre-Olomu can …
Kevin Cline Football Recruiting Visits This past Saturday, a who’s who of elite high school stars made their way into Autzen Stadium and discovered what We, The Oregon Faithful already know; We’re fast . . . Really fast. One of those preps, heralded southwest defensive back John Plattenburg Jr., (3-Star/Houston, TX) had a preconceived idea of what to expect upon disembarking …
The shot across the bow of the college football world has been delivered by our beloved Oregon Ducks. The question of balance concerning the Oregon offense was answered against Tennessee when Marcus Mariota threw for more than an incredible 450 yards passing. The Ducks are known for a powerful running game that, due to execution, is difficult to stop — even when …
Craig Strobeck In light of Johnny Mundt’s breakout performance against Tennessee with five catches for 121 yards and two touchdowns, FishDuck wanted to reflect back on our profile of Mundt from shortly after Signing Day. Be sure to check out our Duckling Profiles to familiarize yourself with Oregon’s first-year players, so when one has a breakout game, you can be …
Kevin Cline One of the biggest fears any fanbase has going into a season is losing to an inferior opponent. These losses aren’t just unexpected, they’re completely contrary to what fans expect, making them absolutely devastating to the fans of the favored team. There’s a reason they’re called “upsets.” Luckily for Ducks fans, the past four seasons have basically been …
Craig Strobeck It has been labeled as the top conference in all of college football. That is the reputation the SEC has been adorned with, largely on the back of its member schools having won seven consecutive BCS National Championship Games; something the conference has no problem buying ad time to remind you about: Amazingly, that streak has been accomplished …
Kevin Cline Mark Helfrich may have just coached his third game at the helm of the Oregon Ducks, but Saturday was his inauguration. A national audience watched the Ducks overwhelm and dismantle the Tennessee Volunteers 59-14, looking every bit the No. 2 team in the country. Not many fans and pundits nationwide looked at big wins over Nicholls and Virginia …
This week we had a few exciting matches that will really let us know who is a contender and who is a pretender. We have fans in Eugene and Tuscaloosa feeling pretty good right now, while fans out in Lincoln wish they only had to play one half of football. I also think we can change a few names on …
