The Tucker Chicago, 1947. An independent company operated out of Preston Tucker’s family barn begins the production of a futuristic car unlike anything that had ever been seen before. Tucker Car Corporation had developed something beyond the wildest imagination of big automobile companies in the midwest, creating a vehicle that protected drivers like never before, allowed maintenance with ease, provided …
The Coach’s Corner: Inside The Mind Of An Offensive Coordinator
A note from FishDuck.com: Today we have a unique treat, this article from a highly successful coach gives an inside perspective football fans don’t often get to see, the direct insight of football concepts from a coach in the know. This week Coach Donnie Mays joins the Coach’s Corner, the offensive coordinator at South Charleston High School in West Virginia. …
The FishDuck Minute #16: Combating the Scrape Exchange
In 2011, Southern Cal knew they had to change something up on defense against Oregon. Monte Kiffin’s game-plan included one of the most standard mechanisms to stop the Zone Read plays that teams like Oregon run called the “Scrape Exchange.” This video will go over how the scrape exchange works, and how Oregon uses a multitude of different constraint plays …
“Building a Juggernaut” Part One: The Dontre Wilson commitment
Last night, the Ducks landed a huge commitment from RB Dontre Wilson, out of DeSoto, TX. A unanimous four-star across all four major recruiting services, Wilson is one of the best backs in the country. He picked the Ducks over Ohio St. and Texas, but also held offers from the likes of Arkansas, Baylor, Clemson, LSU, Notre Dame, Oklahoma, Oklahoma …
Building a Program In the New Pac-12: It’s as Simple as Simple as Simple as Repetition
Creativity is something that is trending in the PAC-12, just look at the new hires for evidence of that, with two new coaches in the state of Arizona as well as at UCLA. Modeling Chip Kelly’s wide open spread laboratory is now a mainstream practice on the west coast, but the matchup that football strategy junkies everywhere are looking forward …
THE OREGON SPRING GAME: 7 Ducks You Need To Watch
Finally! We are allowed to go back inside!! The Annual Oregon Spring Game is upon us. Yes, you read that right, we are now just mere HOURS away! Congratulations to all of you fellow Duck fan “survivors.” As my good friend “Fitz” likes to say, we have survived the “Dark Age.” This of course comes after one of his other token phrases, “Welcome …
Fish Tutorial #5: Chip Kelly’s New Universal Formation
This is the first NEW Fish Tutorial about the Oregon Offense since last August! We reviewed changes and interesting plays throughout the season with Fish Reports, and in the off-season we have had fun learning about some new components of the Oregon Offense in bite-size shorter videos The FishDuck Minutes. However much of the important basic elements of the unique …
The FishDuck Minute #11: Oregon has a Trap Play!
Oregon has shown a number of Inside Zone and Power Plays in the past and I always kept an eye out for a classic Trap Play. I never noted one until going through games of 2011—and there it is! The Chip Kelly Spread Offense has a Trap Play in its Offensive arsenal, and it’s fun to see how it is …
The FishDuck Minute #9: Oregon’s Best No-Huddle Plays of 2010-2011
Oregon is well known for the Hurry Up, No Huddle Offense and the following plays are well known as touchdowns, but for different reasons than I credit. Rarely would any analyst look at the play before the touchdown to explain the six points, and I would assert that the major element in all three is the sparse time between plays, …
Recruiting Update: The Nation’s No. 1 Recruit and “How the !@#$ do ya’ll feel!?”
Football Recruiting: If anyone omits speed from a brief description of Oregon Football, that person needs to head to the nearest media outlet for a checkup. As far as formalities go, if someone already hasn’t beaten me to it, let’s just forgo any type of waiting and call our beloved University of Oregon, Speed-U. There’s no denying the obvious; Duck …
The FishDuck Minute #2: Oregon’s New “Dart” Play
Here is the beginning of “The FishDuck Minute” where I will take a play or concept and break it down in a short and concise way to make it easy for Oregon fans to learn, “a bite at a time” like I do! We’ll have them released on Tuesday each week, so let others know about “Video-Time Tuesday” at FishDuck.com. …
Rose Bowl Blog of a Crazed Duck Fan
January 2, 2012- 1;34 a.m: Decided on Rose Bowl attire. Going to go with white hoodie, with silver “O” and silver wings. I know we’re wearing dark, but the hoodie is undefeated this season. It did very well in taking down the Beavs. Maybe it will do the job today. 8:55 a.m: Shopping list: 2 boxes Milk Duds. Check. 2 …