How many did Stanford?!I cringe to think about how many of our defensive players would get hurt against Oregon's fast paced offense.
How many did Stanford?!I cringe to think about how many of our defensive players would get hurt against Oregon's fast paced offense.
Why did those two drives stall? They weren't athletic enough against Oregon's defense. They make that FG and they are down 15-13 and give Oregon about the same amount of time to score that TD as they did. All momentum would be gone.Drives stall, it just happens. They hit that field goal, they go in down 15-13. Totally different ball game. They missed it and just gave up. They never recovered.
Tell that to Louisville's DB...Bama probably let their offense on the field. We have the speed and size on defense. They can't score if they are sitting on the sideline, though.
Why so I keep hearing this. Oregon scored in under a minute. How much time would a kickoff take away? If they had of hit the field goal, they go in down 22-13.Drives stall, it just happens. They hit that field goal, they go in down 15-13. Totally different ball game. They missed it and just gave up. They never recovered.
Even the Ducks, with all their speed stalled out drives during the game. Not necessarily. They kicked away from the top guy after the first kick off. They would have had longer to go probably. All of it is hind sight now, but to say K State didn't have the athletes is wrong.Why did those two drives stall? They weren't athletic enough against Oregon's defense. They make that FG and they are down 15-13 and give Oregon about the same amount of time to score that TD as they did. All momentum would be gone.
Well with DAT returning a kickoff 94 yards, 12 seconds went off the clock. Looking at less than 10 then. Oregon scored the TD with about 11 seconds left on the clock.Why so I keep hearing this. Oregon scored in under a minute. How much time would a kickoff take away? If they had of hit the field goal, they go in down 22-13.
Too simplistic...Drives stall, it just happens. They hit that field goal, they go in down 15-13. Totally different ball game. They missed it and just gave up. They never recovered.
Agreed. Throughout the last half of the season, Oregon was the team that worried me most. Here in North Cali where there are droves of Oregon fans, I've seen most of their games and IMHO I think our secondary might have a tough time with that offense - when schemed against our D for weeks. I think the Stanford D is a tough comparison to ours due to the way they approach the spread and their personnel grouping against it.Oregon presents two main problems for any and all defenses:
1)They can score on any given play no matter who has the ball. Team speed combined how they spread you out creates open field situations which is where they excel.
2)Tempo. The pace at which they call plays and the number of plays they get in will wear a defense down while making it difficult for the defense to effectively sub.
Because of it's scheme and players Oregon is going to create X amount of open field situations and they will score every X amount of plays. We would fare better than most vs them but if we played 10 times they might win 3 and they might win 7. A missed tackle, a blown assignment, a poor angle....all can lead to easy TDs.
Our best weapon vs them would be our physical offensive line, IMO. Keep their offense on the bench and slow down their small, quick defense. Ideally their offense would struggle to get in sync and we would be gashing their defense most of the 2nd half.
Anyone who thinks we would easily beat them or that we would not be susceptible to the occasional whipping vs them is not being very objective.
If I'm not mistaken, which I usually am, KSU got the ball back with 14 seconds left.Well with DAT returning a kickoff 94 yards, 12 seconds went off the clock. Looking at less than 10 then. Oregon scored the TD with about 11 seconds left on the clock.
Stanford has seen that offense for years now. They have the experience of how to defend it. Comparing Bama's defense to Stanford's is somewhat foolish because of their familiarity of the Oregon offense compared to Alabama's.I think the Stanford D is a tough comparison to ours due to the way they approach the spread and their personnel grouping against it.
So it is as simple as K-State giving up? Guess they gave up against Baylor, too...Yeah, but it was as simple as that.
Oh boy... Are you arguing for the sake of it?So it is as simple as K-State giving up? Guess they gave up against Baylor, too...
Couldn't be that Baylor and Oregon out-manned them or had more athletes or flat out beat them.
People just don't "quit" in the 2nd quarter after they miss a field goal, and if that is what they did then they never deserved to be in a BCS game in the first place.Yeah, but it was as simple as that.
Ok you're right.People just don't "quit" in the 2nd quarter after they miss a field goal, and if that is what they did then they never deserved to be in a BCS game in the first place.
Much is made over Oregon's speed, and with good reason, they've got a lot of it. But it's not like they've got eleven Usain Bolts and all our guys are wearing concrete blocks. Is Barner faster than anyone on Bama's D? Maybe, but if you know where to be, maintain your position, can fight off blocks, and tackle well, IOW, play fundamental football...it doesn't matter how fast the other guys are. Football is not a foot race, it's about knowing where to be and what to do when you get there. No one coaches fundamentals better than CNS.