Minnesota @ #8 Oregon (Nov. 14, Fri 6 PM Fox)

[bdkipe]

Last night’s in game board was a glorious display of our board’s always entertaining, sometimes dysfunctional but ultimately all-love atmosphere.

We should start one of those game casts like the ESPN coaches cast of CFP games.

10 of us sitting around watching a Duck game.

That my friends, would be RATINGS GOLD.

[StevensTechU]

Yea.. I'm really happy with how Tuioti has played this year, but it's a bit of a leap to try to take "multiple guys deserve playing time" and turn it into "Tuioti sucks" or whatever it is that you're seeking out.

Was good to look at that thread again, and I'll just say that if you're someone who's personally bothered by posts like this then you might just be best off muting my posts.

December 2024:
"For clarity, per 500 snaps:

Tuioti: 47.5 tackles, 5.7 TFL, 4.8 sacks, 4.4 QBH
Purchase: 27.8 tackles, 6.9 TFL, 6.9 sacks, 0 QBH
Moore: 28.8 tackles, 4.8 TFL, 2.4 sacks, 9.6 QBH
Winston: 16.4 tackles, 0 TFL, 0 sacks, 0 QBH

This doesn't really move me off of my thinking that multiple guys deserve playing time to develop."

Great game against Minnesota

[dthomas=ddixon]

What a fun game. After the recent stretch, it was nice to get back to basically everything going right. Moore was incredible, obviously, but we are also extremely deep at the skill positions. Benson and McClellan played great and we were still led in receiving by the two TEs.

I do feel like this team has a bit of “front runner” in them, in that they look and play incredible when circumstances are ideal and significantly drop off when things get tough. Obviously they’ve managed to gut out most of those harder games and get the win but as a fan it’s been jarring how different the team looks and plays week to week.

As far as Stein goes, obviously he called a near perfect game last night but I still think it’s fair to criticize his gadget plays. It’s his job to know who his personnel is and what they’re capable of, and it just seems that those plays go bad most of the time. If his players can’t execute them then at some point it’s on him for continuing to call them.

[squintsdd]

RGIII is top two analysts we’ve had this year, only other guy I’d say might be as good as him, maybe better, is Jake Butt.

He is leagues above Gary Danielson.


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Oh man RG was killing me. Seems like every drive he made the comment "we call that..." Dude had a made up name for everything

[rockthief]

That run by Whittington was an example of strength and power. Every time I watch it, and from different cameras, I am amazed. Gophers wanted the play called dead. Nah.

[GrandpaDuck]

I enjoyed the game despite the mismatch. Special tip of the hat to the announcers, they can have those two do every game.

Noah did not drop the ball early like he did that other time. It got knocked out by his hip, a freak thing which he did a nice job recatching.

The trick play also got blown up by a freak accident of Harkey running into Cooper. They probably ran that play 20 times in practice without anything close to that happening. Hill was the perfect player for being the finisher on that play, he had a good chance of housing it. The game was already in hand as the 14 point lead looked like and was more than the Gophers could make up. The play was called to make the ESPN highlights and the window dressing for the pollsters.

[pezsez1]

The trick play also got blown up by a freak accident of Harkey running into Cooper. They probably ran that play 20 times in practice without anything close to that happening. Hill was the perfect player for being the finisher on that play, he had a good chance of housing it. The game was already in hand as the 14 point lead looked like and was more than the Gophers could make up. The play was called to make the ESPN highlights and the window dressing for the pollsters.

In hindsight, though, it never had a chance of competing with Whittington's beast run!

[73duck]

> Noah did not drop the ball early like he did that other time. It got knocked out by his hip, a freak thing which he did a nice job recatching.

He's coached to carry the ball on his hip?
Somebody made a youtube video showing people dropping the ball as they cross the goal line. Amazing how many players do it. Whittingham might be the first to do it twice, though.

[squintsdd]

> Noah did not drop the ball early like he did that other time. It got knocked out by his hip, a freak thing which he did a nice job recatching.

He's coached to carry the ball on his hip?
Somebody made a youtube video showing people dropping the ball as they cross the goal line. Amazing how many players do it. Whittingham might be the first to do it twice, though.

He definitely was celebrating early, but it's hard to tell if he dropped it, or if his hip knocked it out

[droop10]

> Noah did not drop the ball early like he did that other time. It got knocked out by his hip, a freak thing which he did a nice job recatching.

He's coached to carry the ball on his hip?
Somebody made a youtube video showing people dropping the ball as they cross the goal line. Amazing how many players do it. Whittingham might be the first to do it twice, though.

He definitely was celebrating early, but it's hard to tell if he dropped it, or if his hip knocked it out

100% was accidental and hip knocked it out. He wouldn’t have had that panicked look in his eye if he had intended to drop it. That’s why I don’t view it the same as the kick return last year. Alas, it didn’t matter in the end, so I don’t feel like we need to nitpick it.

[UOducksTK1]

RGIII is top two analysts we’ve had this year, only other guy I’d say might be as good as him, maybe better, is Jake Butt.

He is leagues above Gary Danielson.


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Oh man RG was killing me. Seems like every drive he made the comment "we call that..." Dude had a made up name for everything

Ya RG triggers me too, I wish TV would have an option to turn commentators off. I’d pay $5 more a month.

[dd10snoop28]

Takeaways:

1- RG3 is annoying
2- our RB's are really good
3- 2 big games left

[OregonFan4Life]

I must have a unique taste in sports analysts cause I really enjoyed Bill Walton and I know he wasn’t popular amongst duck fans.


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[dd10snoop28]

Bill Walton came off as genuinely hilarious in a kooky and lovable sort of way.

RG3 isn't funny and his commentary is forced.

[greenyellow]

I must have a unique taste in sports analysts cause I really enjoyed Bill Walton and I know he wasn’t popular amongst duck fans.


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I grew up listening to him call NBA games in the 90s/early 00s so was used to his quirks. Even if he wasn't on topic, he was more entertaining than most other commentators, especially in blowouts.