Damn

[Duckattack7]

The talking heads are bagging on our Pass D.

[buckmarkduck]

And after watching what Foles and Luck did to it why wouldn't they? That said, they are wrong Newton is no Luck or Foles throwing the ball, he's barely Katz.

[UofO8]

The talking heads are bagging on our Pass D.

Get used to it. Its going to be "lol Oregon" for the next month with everyone on Auburns nuts.

[Duckattack7]

Yeahh very true

[Zyme]

The talking heads are bagging on our Pass D.

Get used to it. Its going to be "lol Oregon" for the next month with everyone on Auburns nuts.

As long as it drives that betting line up, I'll be happy.

[Oregonian]

Newton's best passing comes on broken plays. The pressure will get there, but he'll get out of it and buy more time, and then somebody has gotten away from their defender and they'll be wide open for him. Oregon's defenses is going to have to play ridiculously disciplined and hope that our standard pass rush and put up pressure.

[buckmarkduck]

Our D just has to play him the same way we have played QB's like Locker. Force him to stay in the pocket and not give him lanes to gash us for long easy runs. It's not like the D doesn't go against mobile QB's everyday of practice, yes he's bigger so you have to tackle better, but I think our D could end up surpising a lot of people in this game.

[OreDucks01284]

I am confident that Matthews will play light out in NCG! book it!

[karlhungis]

I am sure we will give up a lot of yards. I just hope our offense is better than their defense to balance things out.

[AUtigerCourt]

The talking heads like to bag on our pass D as well.

They love to point out how all of the SEC receivers have pretty much lit up our secondary, but we're a 2nd half team and our defense makes the adjustments in the second half.

[spinseeker]

The talking heads like to bag on our pass D as well.

They love to point out how all of the SEC receivers have pretty much lit up our secondary, but we're a 2nd half team and our defense makes the adjustments in the second half.

That sounds eerily familiar.

[UofO8]

The talking heads like to bag on our pass D as well.

They love to point out how all of the SEC receivers have pretty much lit up our secondary, but we're a 2nd half team and our defense makes the adjustments in the second half.

Haha you can take that. I haven't seen one analyst pick against Auburn yet. Or many people pick against Auburn for that matter.

[Sooth]

better than Auburn's...

[AUtigerCourt]

Haha you can take that. I haven't seen one analyst pick against Auburn yet. Or many people pick against Auburn for that matter.

Honestly, the analysts have been picking against us all season...right now it is almost like they're trying to make up for all the bad publicity they've given us in the past month. It's a complete 180 from where they were about 3 weeks ago.

[pezsez1]

This is going to be a phenomenal game, and I think the experience of facing Terrel Pryor in the Rose Bowl is going to pay off. I was at that game, and we actually kept him from getting too many yards with his feet. We were -this- close to getting some key stops on his passing game, too... a few of his passes were hail marrys that his teammates miraculously caught. Our secondary is much sharper than it was last season, and our guys seem to do a much better job of grabbing INTs. I think we'll do surprisingly well against Newton. I mean, the guy will get his yards and points, for sure... but I don't see him cutting through us like butter all game long.

Our D has faced highly mobile QBs for the past several years, and Locker, Threat, Luck (when he chooses to run, he's lethal) etc. are also mobile QBs. We also had to scheme for UCLA's pistol offense. I'd venture to say that we have more experience in dealing with true dual-threat QBs than anyone else out there.

Plus, our defense is flat-out fast. Tackling that big Newton will be an issue, but he won't be able to run away from our defenders, either.