Quack Fix: Ducks at 3rd in Pac-12 with Bay Area trip this week, Rupp sets USA two-mile record

he was your uncle? that’s awesome!

can you re-post that thang for me?

As in, BJ Kelly ran the 60M dash in under 8 seconds. That is unless you think Lucas meant that somehow Han could shave distance off the run thereby folding space and time.

“….and a parsec in a pear tree.”

Chip Kelly has the balls big enough to go closer to the black hole than Han

If you recall Nash turned the ball over a lot early on, but was a scorer and a instigator in Dallas. Then he went on to win 3 MVP titles. Lin won’t go away just because Melo and Amare come back. If anything he’s going to make Amare beter, remember what he and Nash did…

If Lin disappears, it will be because Melo comes back and demands the spotlight too much, putting himself before the team. If that happens the Nicks will fall and all the hype around Melo and the failure to live up to it, will get him kicked out of NY at the end of his contract.

How does one improve on perfection?

I don’t know why I did that as a reply to you, sorry, that didn’t make much sense.

But yeah, someone is going to get a steal out of Cliff. I still highly doubt he falls as far as some think. With his talent, a few teams are going to evaluate him more closely. And, once they do so, they are going to see that yes, he screwed up bad enough to get booted off the team…but they are also going to see that he didn’t commit any violent crimes or anything.

I’m NOT justifying / minimizing / apologizing for Cliff’s behavior. What I’m saying is that NFL teams look at the kind of stuff Cliff got in trouble for and think, “well maybe we can straighten him out. He’s graded as a 1st or 2nd round pure talent, so if we take him in the X round I think it’s worth the gamble.” Then all it takes is 1 team to like what they hear from him in an interview or what Chip tells them about Cliff or whatever and next thing you know they take him relatively high.

I mean, Tebow was drafted in the 1st round as a QB ffs. All it takes is 1 team to believe in you. And when you look at what the Raiders, Cowboys, Bengals, etc have been willing to overlook when it comes to that kind of stuff, it wouldn’t shock me at all to see Cliff go around the 3rd round somewhere.

I usually don’t really care that much about the NFL draft when it comes to the Ducks. But this year there’s a lot of intrigue for us with Cliff, where LaMichael will end up going in the draft, what happens with Darron Thomas, and what happens to guys like Paulson, Kaddu, Asper, etc. And now that Chip was courted by the NFL, and we’re that much more of a proven commodity, it’ll be interesting to see how many of our guys are drafted in those later rounds versus going the undrafted free agent route like Maehl, Blount, Nick Reed, and so many others in the past few years.

They also rate Lamichael as a guy with below average durability. The guy misses all of two games with a badly dislocated elbow and they’re questioning his durability? Unbelievable. They also cite him missing a couple practices with a tweaked knee. Wow dudes, we’re just reaching there aren’t we?

The worst part is that they don’t even give him credit for having elite agility skills. They say he’s more quick than fast. They say he gets caught from behind more than you’d think. You mean, like ever? And then we keep getting the Sproles/Spiller/McCluster comparison. That’s just lazy. I swear these guys have never watched a fucking Oregon game. James is a far better between the tackles runner than CJ Spiller, Dexter McCluster, and Darren Sproles. He’s got incredible power for his size and doesn’t go down with arm tackles. And the weakest part of his game IMO is his hands. I think he can be a between the tackles runner for an NFL team, he has the power and quickness to do it very well. One thing he is not is a specialty/3rd down back. That’s not his best skill set. He’s an every down running back with great return skills.

I love you anyhow, DT.

Here’s how I see it:

1. He comes back (fixes his “mechanics”), finishes the year healthy, takes us to and assisting us in winning a BCS bowl. At or above where he’s at now. Mos Def drafted (suck it, Zima man!).
2. He comes back (fixes his “mechanics”), finishes the year healthy, takes us to a BCS Bowl and we lose. At or slightly below where he’s at now. Possibly drafted, UDFA likely.
3. He comes back (maybe fixes “mechanics”) and gets injured, earns his spot back as the starter and takes us to a non-BCS bowl. Win/loss less important. At best, slightly below where he’s at now. Less likely a draft pick, UDFA possibly.
4. He comes back, gets injured and doesn’t earn his spot back as the starter. Bowl appearance, but he gets no credit as he is not the starter. Significantly lower than where he’s at now. UDFA, if lucky.
5. He comes back and loses his spot as the starter. Bowling not an important factor in his draft status. UDFA unlikely.

The more I think about this I realize this the best decision for Darron (which we can’t and shoudn’t fault him for). We are in Chip Kelly’s capable hands; we’re going to be alright.