This is the second part of looking back at plays, formations, and strategies to give my best FishDuck probability percentages as to what we will see as a Rose Bowl game plan. It’s entertaining to look at footage, ponder the possibilities, and see if we can do any better guessing what Chip is up to than the Wisconsin coaches. Let’s …
The Fish Report: Rose Bowl Game Plan #1
In this video we’re going to have some fun looking back at some plays and formations to try to figure out what Chip Kelly might throw at Wisconsin. We’ll look at game footage and determine a “FishDuck Probability” of seeing that play, formation, or strategy in the Rose Bowl Game Plan. “Oh how we love to learn about our beloved …
The FishDuck Report: Passing Game Reads…
For Oregon fans and the staff at FishDuck.com—this has been an amazing football season. We lost two games, yet remain one the nations top five teams; and for us long term fans an incredible third BCS game in a row? We began to closely analyze the Oregon Offense this year and were delighted to have all the surprises from Chip …
The Fish Report: Oregon’s New “Sweep Read”
Through this season I have often had much more interesting material to analyze than time would permit from a given game. This week is no exception as we had a number of new plays, formations, and play-action passes to enjoy looking at closely that resulted in some sweet touchdowns for our beloved Ducks. There will be more time in the …
The Fish Report: The Outside Zone Read Altered?
“All the leaves are brown, and the sky is grey.” For Oregon fans, these lyrics seem to match the Willamette Valley and our feelings after this game with USC. There has been enough written about our missed opportunities and mistakes in this game, and I salute our foe for a tremendous game plan and execution. I was surprised during the …
The Fish Report: Winning Strategies Against Stanford
What a showcase game of Oregon Football! Our young men were prepared and ready for the national spotlight as they epitomized their motto of “Fast-Hard-Finish,” on both offense and defense. We knew that Coach Kelly would pull something new out for this game, and he didn’t disappoint, as we study a new offensive strategy and examine the background components that …
The Fish Report: Something New from “Dawg” Training
Were you as disappointed as I only winning by seventeen points? We are used to blowing out the Huskies and winning by at least twenty points in the past, but alas—we must give the devil their due. They are much better and proved to me Saturday night that “they are back” as I believe they will win eight games this …
The Fish Report: Chip’s Changeups
We knew going into this season that with a new weapon in De’Anthony Thomas, and a new playbook that went from 75 plays to 200 plays—that we would see new strategies to match. What we did not expect was to see Chip changing up some of basic strategies and philosophies in attacking a defense. We have witnessed the transition of …
Fish Report: Chip’s Motives Perplexing Against Buffs
If there was ever a game to close the playbook and run our basic stuff—this was it. The Buffs are rebuilding and decimated by injuries, thus we could have just run our most rudimentary plays and won easily. Yet Chip pulled new plays out of the playbook for us to examine, and it begins to make one wonder why? Is …
The Fish Report: The Great Spread Offense Laboratory
How lucky can we be? Chip Kelly has been running the Spread Offense at Oregon for five years and I just set up the video tutorials about the basics of the Oregon Offense just this last summer in preparation for this year. The Spread Offense has become a staple of college football, and defenses are getting better in their counter-strategies, …
The Fish Report: How Chip Kelly defeats the “Cover Zero” Defense
For those of you outside of the Willamette Valley—the final warm days of summer ended about two weeks. We have the cool mornings with the occasional overcast day as the leaves are just beginning to turn on the trees. It feels like fall now, and the electric atmosphere of a night game at Autzen confirms it.
A FishDuck First! Oregon Football Highlight Video for Arizona 2011
A FishDuck First! Oregon Football Highlight Video for Arizona 2011 We have seen all the five to ten minute highlight videos out there, and I thought I would add my version to the fray. It is two and a half minutes is all, and has some good up-tempo rock behind it. My question to all of you is….could it …