Allrighty then, A very successful Non-Conference schedule in the books before conference play starts next week against Arizona. Unlike some Duck fans, I’m freakin delighted. We are the ONLY undefeated PAC 12 team in conference with the toughest schedule. Our last game was not that trying but the Ducks did what they were supposed to do, win in blowout fashion. Yet for some reason in today’s world of Duck football if they don’t beat a team by 60 points and put up 41 straight points in the first half the game can be viewed as a total failure. That’s old school, Chip Kelly, beat the holy crap outta the opposition with crappola defense thinking.
The Ducks played smash mouth defensive football and kept Stoney from scoring for 3/4 of the game. And we played our talented Freshmen for most of the game.
I am not here to say the game was perfectly played. Because it wasn’t. Oregon’s secondary gave up a few really bad pass plays in the first half, one going for 50 yards. Stony Brook had an offensive drive in the first half where they ran down Oregon’s throat. The offense was too inconsistent in the first half and the team’s final possession of the first half ended in two straight sacks to nullify any chance at a late score. The Ducks were bad on third down, converting just two of their 10 attempts on offense. They committed some pretty mind-numbing penalties that either cut short scoring drives of their own or gave life to Stony Brook.
I read somewhere, Oregon is far from a perfect product on the football field. They need to improve. Saturday night’s performance isn’t good enough to win a Pac-12 Championship and earn a Pac-12 Playoff bid, but that’s what’s awesome about football. Championships are not won in September. They are won by teams who continue to get better as the year goes on and can build off an “awful 41-point win” in September. That’s what the Ducks will be doing moving forward. Learning from this game, that some called awful for whatever reason. Duck fans smh!!!
GO DUCKS
