Caution: Extensive rant following.

I just wanted to have a post all for myself of all the things I want to tell everybody. Not just here, but to Ducks all around the blogosphere, to those who think someone died and made them the Duck football guru.

Jeremiah Masoli is a very good good quarterback. At least, at this point, he is adequate, and seemingly overachieving. He is a 5'11"... make that 5'10"... sophomore with no more experience on this team than I have of being a high schooler, or, say, JShuflunk has of being cool. 

Justin Roper is also a good quarterback. But as it stands now, we have a healthy QB who is also well fit for our system. Chip knows who he wants in place. He knows what he wants to do, and is going to do, with the QB he is given. For this reason...

Chip Kelly is an excellent coach. With Chip at our offensive helm, we haven't the need to "play the hand we're dealt" despite, for the second consecutive row and the 3rd time in 4 years, having to play down to our 3rd string QB. Chip has completely sacrificed his preferred system, and comfort zone of playcalling, for the individual skills of each of these kids. The ability to mold an offense to strength is what determines a flexible coach. The ability to mold an offense toward strengths with success is what determines the best coaches.

J-Will is J-Will. We've known this for years now. J-Will gets open better than any receiver, against oftentimes the secondary's best CB. The drops are frustrating, we know. But it's a tradeoff. Less J-Will open = more coverage sacks (Masoli cannot scamper out of a capsizing pocket everytime.). Believe it or not, I am one of the biggest J-Will... haters... out there, but it's become a fact of Oregon football lately. I have coped with it by way of finding solace in Terence Scott.

Terence Scott is one of the biggest pleasant surprises we've had in a while. Of course, aside from the emergence of Dennis Lee Dixon, Jr., Terence Scott came absofuckinlutely out of the blue, and has become seemingly the only reliable target in our receiving corps, and sometimes in our entire offense. He's got quick enough feet for reverses, good enough hands for 3rd down plays, and seems to gladly take hits.

Jeff Maehl is a trooper. He's been quiet this year for a starting receiver, but so has the entire receiving unit. I have seen since his humble beginnings last year that he takes a LOT of hits, and gets right back up. He's not yet a playmaker, but man that's gotta be dejecting to lay a TJ Ward-like hit just to see the guy get up confident as ever.

TJ Ward is the biggest badass on defense this year. That's right P-Chung, Nick, WT3, J-Byrd... TJ Ward is among the most feared safeties in the Pac-10, and the biggest hat-layer in our defense for sure. Everyone else is doing their job as it should be, but TJ Ward makes the most out of EVERY opportunity. I miss Anthony Trucks, but TJ's picked that up for me.

You can chant Fire Alliotti from a mountaintop all you want, he isn't leaving until Bellotti is. Obviously everyone here and around has figured out Nick Alliotti is the weak link. He does less with more, and has the worst of all schemes to highlight a talented secondary. A secondary with no support is completely nullified of all competitive value. But yeah. We've all heard it enough. See Rob Moseley's latest blog, he captures it well.

Matt Evensen is best suited as a Kickoff specialist. He's got the leg strength, but Morgan Flint's got the accuracy. Seems to make sense to have him at KOS and Superman Flint doing the real kicking. It's sad, as a kicker myself, to see a Senior with such a successful career up until now to be unseated... but you gotta make the field goals man.

Does anyone have anything to disagree with me about? Better yet, would you like your face pummeled in?