Quack Fix: Lokombo, Osborne and Paulson. Oh my!
by JConant on Aug 12, 2010 10:10 AM PDT
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- Bo Lokombo's name just keeps popping up everywhere - including Nate Costa's nightmares. Adam Jude of the R-G writes up the competition for one outside linebacker position made vacant when Eddie Pleasant moved to rover. Lokombo's certainly making his bid, but he'll have to beat out Josh Kaddu if he wants to start.
- Jude's Wednesday practice notes.
- Gary Horowitz of the Statesman Journal digs into the details of Eddie Pleasant's move to rover. Pleasant seems to have a great attitude about giving up his starting linebacker spot. We're all excited to see him get a 10-yard run at some ball carriers, but he'll need to play with discipline too. Pleasant seems to get that, unlike some other physical safeties...cough, cough...Taylor Mays!...cough.
- The Oregonian's Ken Goe has a great feature on Oregon assistant Tom Osborne, who has schooled up some seriously good tight ends. Oh, and any of you who want to claim Goe isn't a good writer/reporter...I've been reading his stuff for decades now and, well, you're wrong.
- Hopefully this isn't a re-post from yesterday...Goe had a chance to chat up one of Oregon's most pivotal players on offense, tight end David Paulson.
- I think we all caught Chip Kelly's egg comment yesterday regarding the QB battle between Costa and Darron Thomas. Here's Goe's take on Chip's most recent evaluation.
- Jason Vondersmith gathers player reflections on off-the-field problems, the Rose Bowl, Standford's game plan and more.
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I've heard that
His name is Robert David Paulson.
Self-anointed President of the Kenjon Barner fan club.
I just posted this on my facebook... and I'm extending it here.
New Mexico at Oregon game is coming up soon. I have great seats. I’ve got a spare ticket for this game that will go to the highest bidder. The bid starts at $30. Anything over face value will be donated to the Osteogenesis Imperfecta Foundation, plus you’ll get to sit next to me. I promise to give many high fives.
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by JShufelt on Aug 12, 2010 10:31 AM PDT reply actions 2 recs
Anyone interested should send me an email, which you can find in my profile.
it’s spelled "S-H-U-F-R-E-A-K-I-N-H-E-R-O-U-T-M-A-N"
You might want to reveal the section and seat…? And you can send folks here to use the GoDucks.com clickable seat view.
Might as well add free grub and beverages at the tailgate if the winning bidder meets up with you before the game. If they can stomach mine and Dom’s cooking, that is. Nobody died last year.
I don't deal in hyperbole.
And the tailgate is a good point too, Jeremy.
If you’re in the Portland area, or anywhere in the I-5 PDX to Eugene corridor, I can actually provide a ride down pending you are willing to get to Autzen 3 hours early.
it’s spelled "S-H-U-F-R-E-A-K-I-N-H-E-R-O-U-T-M-A-N"
Dude, you're doing it all wrong. Try this...
LIMITED TIME OFFER!!!
Act now and you have the right to bid on an exclusive seat to see the Pac-10 Champions open their season at the one and only Autzen Stadium!!!
Plus, if you bid now, I’ll throw in a free ride, 3 hours of tailgating, countless high fives and endless enjoyment from the ATQ community.
*Must be 18 years old or older to bid or have parent’s permission. Must live within 10 miles of the I-5 corridor to get free ride. All bids are final.
Act now and you have the right to bid on an exclusive seat to see the Pac-10 Champions open their season at the one and only Autzen Stadium!!!
Plus, if you bid now, I’ll throw in a free ride, 3 hours of tailgating, countless high fives and endless enjoyment from the ATQ community.
*Must be 18 years old or older to bid or have parent’s permission. Must live within 10 miles of the I-5 corridor to get free ride. All bids are final.
Hey Daisy, git me anudder one!
Addicted to Quack
by Matt Daddy on Aug 12, 2010 11:14 AM PDT up reply actions 2 recs
Sure, but does it come with a handy?
by Brian Floyd on Aug 12, 2010 10:48 AM PDT via mobile up reply actions
That depends on three factors.
Age, Sex, and how high your bid is.
it’s spelled "S-H-U-F-R-E-A-K-I-N-H-E-R-O-U-T-M-A-N"
Someone needs to post an ad for this in the "casual encounters" section of craigslist.
"Our expectations are to win every game we play. I don’t know if that’s ever going to happen .... but no one ever rises to low expectations." --Chip Kelly
Is there where you plan Quack meetups at practice?
“Looking for other young guys who want to hang all day. Must be into big sweaty guys and drooling all over (Bryan Bennett’s) tight balls. We’ll hang with Azz and the big boys and talk about sacks, then see how deep Maehl can go.”
by JonathanPDX on Aug 12, 2010 12:21 PM PDT up reply actions
My homoerotometer just broke.
More to the point, it exploded all over me.
axemen23: the human vuvuzela
by HoodRiverDuck on Aug 12, 2010 1:13 PM PDT up reply actions
Man am I glad that I had my eggs over easy this morning...
I wouldn’t want to disappoint Chip and get The Stare!
"KENNY WHEATON'S GONNA SCORE!! KENNY WHEATON!!--Jerry Allen, 1994"
So, are there any available tickets left in the Oregon “section” at Neyland? Or am I going to be sitting with Vol fans?
AtQ's Resident Baseball Purist.
by TennesseeQuackAttack8 on Aug 12, 2010 1:52 PM PDT reply actions
Nate Costa is currently on the front page of Yahoo!’s college football section.
AtQ's Resident Baseball Purist.
by TennesseeQuackAttack8 on Aug 12, 2010 2:36 PM PDT reply actions
Delusional. This is from their Pac-10 predictions page.
WHERE DOES THIS LEAGUE RANK IN RELATION TO OTHERS?
Olin Buchanan: Third
Tom Dienhart: Fifth
David Fox: Fifth
Mike Huguenin: Second
Steve Megargee: Fourth
axemen23: the human vuvuzela
by HoodRiverDuck on Aug 12, 2010 3:07 PM PDT up reply actions
Delusional? Yes. I think one of the main reasons people think this is because we beat each other up and rarely finish with 2 10 or 11 win teams. Unfortunately, as much as people like to talk about strength of schedule at the beginning of the season, by the end of the season it doesn’t matter. If you are 10-2 with a top-10 SOS, and some Big 12 team is 11-1 with a SOS of 90, that Big 12 team is going to be ranked ahead of us 100% of the time. SOS only comes into play with tiebreakers.
1 of 2 things would have to happen to change this perception: 1) Someone convinces all the voters, all the writers, and a majority of fans that a team can have 1 more loss than another team and still be a better team with a better resume or 2) The 12 Pac moves to an 8 game conference schedule so the top teams can sometimes have that 1 extra win.
What do I prefer? I prefer to have a 9-game conference schedule. I prefer to see good match-ups and good football between highly ranked teams in the non-conference schedule. Unfortunately, we can complain until the cows come home that the rest of the country is ignorant, and that the rest of the country schedules soft. The perception may be unfair, but it is what it is, and it isn’t going to change again this year if the teams all beat up on each other and we finish with a 10-2 conference champion, and two 9-3 teams tied for 2nd. If that happened in the SEC they’d get credit for being “deep” and having “no weeks off”, but the perception for us is that there’s just no really great teams.
It sucks, but recent history has shown that the only way to avoid this is to have multiple teams with spectacular records, or to have a team like the Ducks go undefeated and dominate a BCS game against a perceived national power. The likelihood of that happening is reduced, no matter how slightly, by the 9-game conference schedule. Come bowl selection time, the teams with the best records are looked at first, and SOS only seems to come into play as a tiebreaker.
Ich liebe Amerika, aber meine Familie hat deutsche Erbe...So go Deutschland! Gewinnen die Fussball-Weltmeisterschaft!!!
by MarineCorpsDuck on Aug 12, 2010 3:32 PM PDT up reply actions
I should say that SOS does also come into play when you are comparing a team from a BCS conference to a non-BCS conference as well. But if a team from the ACC, Big East, Big 12, Big 10, or SEC is 11-1 and Cal or Oregon are 10-2, there is no chance Cal or Oregon are ranked higher.
Ich liebe Amerika, aber meine Familie hat deutsche Erbe...So go Deutschland! Gewinnen die Fussball-Weltmeisterschaft!!!
by MarineCorpsDuck on Aug 12, 2010 3:35 PM PDT up reply actions
Having your second place team get shutout and lose by 33 in their bowl game doesn’t help much.
I feel like I should say something smart.
Dienhart and Fox should be fired
AtQ's Resident Baseball Purist.
by TennesseeQuackAttack8 on Aug 12, 2010 3:50 PM PDT up reply actions
So its my birthrday today
Among others, I share my birthday with this guy.
Although by his definition, I am not yet a man.
Sigh: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3COB5g4RyYY
"Good evening Blazer fans, wherever you may be!"-Bill Schonely
Birthday bah
You’d figure by the time I turned 29 I’d know how to spell that.
"Good evening Blazer fans, wherever you may be!"-Bill Schonely
29! The last one worth celebrating!
It’s all gray hair and erectile dysfunction from here on out, man. Sorry.
But hey, happy birthday!
axemen23: the human vuvuzela
by HoodRiverDuck on Aug 12, 2010 7:50 PM PDT up reply actions
Fun day @ practice with Jconant and the guys
Saw famous duck, but none of us went to say high before he left. Re-cap and pictures up shortly.
"Our expectations are to win every game we play. I don’t know if that’s ever going to happen .... but no one ever rises to low expectations." --Chip Kelly
How did you know he was high?
axemen23: the human vuvuzela
by HoodRiverDuck on Aug 12, 2010 6:58 PM PDT up reply actions
Well...
there has been a time or two when reading his posts that I’ve asked myself…
ATQ's #1 HRD fan
Hey....That's a confession if I ever heard/read one. Asking yourself? What? What were the answers? Well, some of them..
And, I wore my Brian Butterfield jersey with Famous Duck on the back so you could know who I was cuz I got no ID who you iz….. I mean, I been outta my wheelchair offn’on for some months now, I get out and then get treated like I had a ‘W’ on my forehead. Sheeesh…
"If you can't copy 'em, don't imitate ''em."
YOGI BERRA
We were tempted to go figure out what sort of "Famous Duck" you were
but by the time we got around to it, you had bailed. Prolly to go smoke a joint with one of the equipment guys.
"Our expectations are to win every game we play. I don’t know if that’s ever going to happen .... but no one ever rises to low expectations." --Chip Kelly
Wiltjer says Oregon is out of the running
according to a tweet by Prehm.
This isn’t going to be an easy fix, guys
--Dave
Addicted to Quack, your friendly, neighborhood Oregon Ducks blog
Ed Dickson looked good tonight
He had 2 catches for 26 yards, and 4 total targets, all coming from Mark Bulger. On Bulger’s TD pass he had Dickson running down the seam which pulled the coverage over and opened up the WR in the end zone. There was quite a bit of talk about Dickson’s speed and how good he looked, they said he should open things up in the secondary and that he can really run.
He was also playing on special teams, he was lined up on blocking duty for every punt. The most interesting thing to me was where they used him in the second half; lined up in the backfield next to the QB in the shotgun. Normally you’d see a second back there, and I don’t know if it was just filling in for the main guys, or if he’ll line up there during real games. Very odd place for a tight end, but it makes sense because he can roll out or stay in to block. I doubt they’d hand it off to him but maybe he’ll be a lead blocker on sweeps? I don’t think any of his targets came from that formation, but it looks like he stays in at least sometimes in 4 wide sets, moving into the slot instead of tight on the line. I can’t wait to see how they use him in real games, and how Flacco learns to find him.
Dixon and Blount both play on Saturday.
I hope that he develops into a great target in Baltimore.
Because of our old QB that couldn’t see five yards over the middle of the field, I always felt that Dickson was rarely being used to the fullest of his abilities.
Self-anointed President of the Kenjon Barner fan club.
Dixon and Blount both play scrimmage on Saturday.
"Our expectations are to win every game we play. I don’t know if that’s ever going to happen .... but no one ever rises to low expectations." --Chip Kelly
They are saying Dixon could play most of the game on Saturday. I sure don’t want to jinx him, but it would be awesome to see him put up big numbers and put more pressure on Tomlin to give him a shot.
by JonathanPDX on Aug 12, 2010 9:51 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
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The rest of the off season can get the fuck off my lawn.
by Bill Musgrave on Aug 13, 2010 4:58 AM PDT up reply actions
Yay former ducks!
@DuckFootball: RT @RAIDERS: Jerome Boyd with the pick-6 – Raiders lead 16-9 extra point coming up
"Our expectations are to win every game we play. I don’t know if that’s ever going to happen .... but no one ever rises to low expectations." --Chip Kelly
How the hell did we miss these all day
Stupid football…..
Matt Court will officially open January 13th
Rather than the final contests at Mac Court being nonconference games, Arizona and Arizona State are now expected to be the last opponents to experience the simultaneous charm and horror of playing in the place that’s become known as The Pit.
ESPN feature story on Dana Altman’s transition to Oregon
Altman said he likes what he has seen of the team thus far, but truly won’t be able to evaluate what’s left of it until Thursday, when the team begins practice in preparation for a scheduled preseason tour of Italy that will double as a getting-to-know-you trip.
hopefully these both get into the Quack Fix tomorrow morning so we can discuss further.
"Our expectations are to win every game we play. I don’t know if that’s ever going to happen .... but no one ever rises to low expectations." --Chip Kelly
This isn’t football. Why are you talking about it?
FOOTBALL!!!!
by JonathanPDX on Aug 12, 2010 11:58 PM PDT up reply actions
You been playin the fooooosball behind mah back?
Ich liebe Amerika, aber meine Familie hat deutsche Erbe...So go Deutschland! Gewinnen die Fussball-Weltmeisterschaft!!!
by MarineCorpsDuck on Aug 13, 2010 5:01 AM PDT via mobile up reply actions
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