duckfan96 wrote: Sun Oct 12, 2025 6:35 am
1. Indiana is a good team in both sides of the ball
2. Dante didn’t look good at all minus the one long pass. Pressured yes but he was missing open receivers.
3. Not to involve Sadiq more is odd
4. Davidson(sp) was the only rb to run hard
5. Freshman dbs are gonna be good. Got beat and some pi penalties yes but I think they are just gonna get better
6. Team energy seemed way off from the start
7. Ducks need to refocus and get to work still a lot to play for.
8’. Not blaming them but I’ve seen better refs at a 2a high school game. Across the big 10 yesterday horrible officiating. Ohio state is good but damn their dbs got away with ALOT
9. Go Ducks
Moore missed a lot of open receivers. It was hard to watch in-person. He was pressured, but as much as he was against Penn State. He hardly scrambled or created on rollouts. I wish coaches had a few more rollouts for him. Literally opposite of Penn State game.
10 We hate BYE weeks. Color me as nervous for Iowa road game.
The hardest part about this loss for me is that we got to witness pure coaching excellence… and it was happening on the other sideline.
Lanning has been a good to great coach in his 3+ years here, and if you promised me he’d stay here for another 10-15 years, I don’t know that I’d trade him for anyone. But if the IU game can be a metaphor, Lanning is to Cignetti what UO’s Freshmen corners were to IU WR Sarratt. Young, and the talent is evident, but while there are highlights to fawn over, Sarratt is moving the chains on third down.
I’m admittedly blown away by what Cignetti has done in the short time he’s been coaching in major college football. Two years ago, IU was sitting 100 years deep in football quicksand. A year in, and one CFP appearance later, Cignetti is still playing with the 75th most talented roster in cfb. They are undersized and piecemealed together via the transfer portal. And yet, against UO, they played downhill for most of the game. They responded to a missed UO chip shot FG with a quick drive and a career long FG in a hostile environment to take momentum into the half. They adjusted their defensive game plan at the half and held UO to 64 yards in the second half. They weren’t rattled by a pick 6.
If this game was played on a neutral field with equally talented rosters, I would have still felt Cignetti took Lanning to school. But despite countless UO advantages, IU still beat UO at every level of the game.
Again, I love Lanning, and I recognize Cignetti has been a head coach a hell of a lot longer than DL. I’m just hoping Lanning now knows who he wants to be when he grows up.
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duckfan96 wrote: Sun Oct 12, 2025 6:35 am
1. Indiana is a good team in both sides of the ball
2. Dante didn’t look good at all minus the one long pass. Pressured yes but he was missing open receivers.
3. Not to involve Sadiq more is odd
4. Davidson(sp) was the only rb to run hard
5. Freshman dbs are gonna be good. Got beat and some pi penalties yes but I think they are just gonna get better
6. Team energy seemed way off from the start
7. Ducks need to refocus and get to work still a lot to play for.
8’. Not blaming them but I’ve seen better refs at a 2a high school game. Across the big 10 yesterday horrible officiating. Ohio state is good but damn their dbs got away with ALOT
9. Go Ducks
#1. Agreed. They're a much better team than they were last year.
#2. Dante was under pressure constantly. IU was bringing guys from both sides and up the middle. There wasn't enough time for him to get the ball out on many plays. I'm disappointed that the Coaches and the O-Line couldn't find a solution to that.
#3. See #2.
#4. Whittington ran hard and so did Limar, but neither one got very many carries.
#5. Agreed
#6. That's hard to tell from a spectator standpoint. Could the Ducks have been overconfident? That's really hard to say. It could be that they got on the field, started getting hit back for a change this year, and had to gradually gather themselves and put on their big boy pants.
I'd love to hear on this from others who know more about Xs and Os... but my take on this wasn't just that he was under pressure, but Indiana's defense really took away his ability to scramble for positive yardage. Over the past few games it seems like Dante has carried the ball quite often when he can't find people down field, and Indiana really exploited that. Scrambles that would have been easy 5-yard gains against Penn State were almost all TFLs against the Hoosiers.
I'm waiting for Landon Tengwall to do a 'film study'. He was on SportsChat503 in the days leading up to the game and announced that he was expanding his coverage to the Big Ten and it almost sounded like Oregon has become his new favorite team...
I'd love to hear on this from others who know more about Xs and Os... but my take on this wasn't just that he was under pressure, but Indiana's defense really took away his ability to scramble for positive yardage. Over the past few games it seems like Dante has carried the ball quite often when he can't find people down field, and Indiana really exploited that. Scrambles that would have been easy 5-yard gains against Penn State were almost all TFLs against the Hoosiers.
I’m not one of those X’s and O’s Guys but QB11 did mention in his podcast Moore was seeing ghosts. He kept rolling right when he had a clean pocket to step into and throw. Not sure why he has this tendency, if it goes back to his UCLA days and having a terrible LT and maybe he doesn’t trust World as much as Harkey, but for whatever reason Moore kept abandoning a clean pocket to roll right when it wasn’t necessary.
I'd love to hear on this from others who know more about Xs and Os... but my take on this wasn't just that he was under pressure, but Indiana's defense really took away his ability to scramble for positive yardage. Over the past few games it seems like Dante has carried the ball quite often when he can't find people down field, and Indiana really exploited that. Scrambles that would have been easy 5-yard gains against Penn State were almost all TFLs against the Hoosiers.
I’m not one of those X’s and O’s Guys but QB11 did mention in his podcast Moore was seeing ghosts. He kept rolling right when he had a clean pocket to step into and throw. Not sure why he has this tendency, if it goes back to his UCLA days and having a terrible LT and maybe he doesn’t trust World as much as Harkey, but for whatever reason Moore kept abandoning a clean pocket to roll right when it wasn’t necessary.
I suspect he just feels more comfortable as a righty throwing while rolling right than left, so that's where the tendency stems from. Hell, that's my tendency when I'm playing NCAA football. So relatable!
I tend to stay off the boards after a loss. I'm just a bad loser. But my thought: Oregon was in this game until Moore limped off the field in the third quarter. He showed little mobility after that, and the passing game disappeared and the defense seemed to lose heart. Like I said, I haven't read much duck news; what's the current word on Moore's health for Rutgers?
