Pac-10 Week 1 Notes and Observations: Oregon Ducks
Oregon Ducks 0-1 Overall (0-0 Conference)
This Week’s Score: Boise State 19 – Oregon Ducks 8
Next Week’s Opponent: Purdue
Sam’s Take:
Obviously Thursday couldn’t have gone any worse, but now the team must find a way to regroup. LeGarrette Blount may have provided all of the headlines this week, but the Oregon offense looked completely lost long before his meltdown.
All of a sudden Jeremiah Masoli finds himself being questioned by some as the starting quarterback after an off-season where many (including myself) proclaimed him as the only sure-thing QB returning to the conference this season. The honeymoon period has ended pretty quickly for Chip Kelly, and now he must quiet his own critics who question his leadership ability and whether or not he can adequately manage the offense while also serving as head coach.
Of all the offensive problems against Boise, I was most disappointed in the lack of physicality from the O-line. While I understand that the unit will improve in time, Thursday’s performance was not even close to good enough.
The defense had some nice moments in the game, but Boise was still able to get a good game on the ground out of D.J. Harper. The D-line will need to improve at the point of attack, as it got pushed around too much Thursday. In the secondary, T.J. Ward’s health is very important and the Ducks desperately need him to come back strong as he is the intimidator of the D.
The Purdue game should tell us a lot about the leadership and emotional strength of this football team.
Dave’s Take:
About as bad of an opening week as Oregon could have suffered. You already read my take on the LeGarrette Blount situation, so I won’t rehash that here. Blount’s post game antics may have taken the national attention away from just how bad Oregon looked on the field, but as I don’t need to remind you Ducks fans, it was so-bad-if-I-wasn’t-still-paying-off-my-new-flat-screen-tv-I’d-have-thrown-my-remote-through-it bad.
What bothered me most wasn’t that they lost or even that they couldn’t get the offense going; it was the total lack of fire. Where was it? These were the guys that you were waiting all offseason to get revenge on, remember?
Whether it was Blount, Jermiah Masoli, Ed Dickson, LaMichael James, whoever, somebody needed to just say THIS ENDS NOW and get a damn first down. But no one did. The team was lost, and the first real display of emotion we saw came in the absolute worst possible way after the final score had already been decided.
What was supposed to be an easy one against Purdue just got a whole heck of a lot more interesting.
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