re: As the season draws closer and closer, Oregon fans get crazier and crazier

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It's amazing how playing 4 creampuffs can bump up your win-loss record. Thus you become ranked. So your conference plays each other and gets credit as being ranked teams for beating Creampuff State? So your teams are ranked because they beat creampuff state? Oh, how awesome they all must be.

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Yeah your right...LSU has played Oregon St., Arizona, Arizona St., and Washington over the past few years...we really need to stop scheduling these creampuffs...

You are correct Charles. Most of them seem to be good guys - DucksFly just was not aware :)
But he's cool.....

If you guys struggle against a North Carolina team last year that had all its best players suspended then you guys aren't beating us by 30+ as many on here seem to believe (though I have seen some rational people on here). And you guys call us crazy....

Not saying you can't or won't win. In fact I think you guys (at least today anyway) will likely win but no way in hell will it be by THAT margin.... More like somewhere between 3 and 14 points if I had to guess (both teams will be rusty/sloppy in the first game and make mistakes as most if not all teams do even against cream puffs, let alone in a game featuring two talented likely top 5 teams). The past 2 seasons in the opening game LSU theoretically should have won by at least 3 TDs against both UW (coming off 0-12, enough said) and UNC due to the talent difference (I'm sorry I know UNC was ranked but come on when all but one of their best players get suspended, you have to take advantage of that...) between both of them and you guys (the same difference in talent I've seen quite a few on here claim over Oregon) but it didn't even happen in those cases where those gaps in talent actually existed...

I'm all for rational discussion but I feel like 90% of the time (at least in threads about this game) I'm on here I see a bunch of pissing matches and stupid arguments, some started by our fans and some by yours but it's really annoying in either case....

Goducks75, did we have lunch June 24th at Spring Creek Coffee House? LOL

AUHS class of '65

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Negatory, I've never been there though I have heard good things about that place as I have family in the Milwaukie/Oregon City area (though I live in the SW Portland area). Just a tad younger too as I'm still in Eugene going to the UO right now (CCHS class of '07).

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Go ya. You just write like my friend talks. He's one of the founders of eDuck. I actually live in SW near PSU. Just sold my place and I'm retiring up near Oakridge. Moving June 13th!!

Yea, I'm a "tad" older..... LOL I remember getting electricity and indoor plumbing and went to a one room school. LOL

I've got a granddaughter that just got accepted to PSU. Tried to get her to become a Duck, she's just young and wants to be close to her "BF". Stupid reason in my opinion.

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Most people who follow LSU as I do felt that Crowton was the biggest probem on offense. He has too many packages for each formation. Too much shifting for no apparent reason. He's just too cute & he out thinks himself sometimes. This leads to plays being sent in late, causing confusion & takes time from the QBs presnap reads. Most of the time he has the better athletes....so just line up and run a play. Too much thinking takes away aggressiveness IMO. I think simplifying things will help JJ tremendously.

As far as the game goes, I expect both teams to give up at least 3 TDs. Theres a lot of talk about LSU's bad offense last year & rightly so. But Oregon has to win in shootouts. I watched ASUs offense have a field day and they werent that great last year. Oregon's D was pitful.

31-27 LSU

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Now that's an interesting opinion on the game. I personally think should LSU's QB get as good as Oregons QB (Dixon) did after Crowton left. The LSU offense will be much much better. I couldn't agree more about Crowton and his offense. It's why Oregon was getting ready to fire him when LSU bailed him out. NEVER understood that hire.

I remember LSU fans telling me at the time that once he had great athletes like LSU has his offense would crush people and the reason he failed at Oregon was a lack of talent.

Personally, I think he is a horrible QB coach. Maybe part of that is the complexity of what he trys. Still that means he should have changed something.

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Most people who follow LSU as I do felt that Crowton was the biggest probem on offense. He has too many packages for each formation. Too much shifting for no apparent reason. He's just too cute & he out thinks himself sometimes. This leads to plays being sent in late, causing confusion & takes time from the QBs presnap reads. Most of the time he has the better athletes....so just line up and run a play. Too much thinking takes away aggressiveness IMO. I think simplifying things will help JJ tremendously.

As far as the game goes, I expect both teams to give up at least 3 TDs. Theres a lot of talk about LSU's bad offense last year & rightly so. But Oregon has to win in shootouts. I watched ASUs offense have a field day and they werent that great last year. Oregon's D was pitful.

31-27 LSU

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I can definitely respect that. ASU's offense was abysmal but while ASU did better than usual that game, Oregon capitalized on Threet's HORRIBLE performance (a few of his turnovers were handed to us on a platter to be sure but a few were also forced). Oregon's defense also improved a bit as the year went on. As much credit as Auburn deserves for dominating on the DL in the NC (which they obviously did), we did do quite an effective job defensively of shutting down Cam better than even most SEC defenses did despite us not having much size. Then again, I think part of it also had to do with both the Auburn and Oregon defenses being so used to practicing against a fast paced offense every day in practice throughout the season. Both defenses played very well most the game against potent offenses....

I think that our defensive unit this year has the potential to be better than last year's defense was as we are putting in players with more physical talent and upside but I am of the belief that you can never underestimate the value of experience and we do lose a bit in that regard (Matthews, Paysinger, and Bair among others). With that said, the people stepping in for the most part had quality reps last year as we used plenty of substitutions, so it's not like we are putting in players that have never played a down at starting positions. We will need to rely on inexperienced players to get quality reps against you guys though and that could potentially be an advantage for the LSU offense.

We definitely understand the Crowton problem as we had to put up with him too. Part of me wishes he were still there rather than Kragthorpe.......

LSU's defense gave up more yards per play against Ole Miss than we did against ASU. There were like almost a 100 plays per offense. Oregon gave up 7 points in the second half of that game. Also, Oregon was melting on the field with game temp at 105. Likewise, ASU was the #29 offense, so they weren't exactly minced meat. Given all of that, it was Oregon's worst defensive performance.