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Oregon is overwhelmingly a man-press defense. Very different than OSU or Bama.

In our first game against them we Waffle Housed them to death, but Becker wan't really even a thing yet. And EJ faded badly on Oregon's pick six - it was a terrible route finish that led to a disaster.

Man to man press coverage leads to single coverage somewhere. Expecting a big game from whichever poison Oregon picks. 

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2 minutes ago, Stuhoo said:

Oregon is overwhelmingly a man-press defense. Very different than OSU or Bama.

In our first game against them we Waffle Housed them to death, but Becker wan't really even a thing yet. And EJ faded badly on Oregon's pick six - it was a terrible route finish that led to a disaster.

Man to man press coverage leads to single coverage somewhere. Expecting a big game from whichever poison Oregon picks. 

It leads to single coverage everywhere and running lanes galore. Good luck with that. 

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19 minutes ago, Hovadipo said:

It leads to single coverage everywhere and running lanes galore. Good luck with that. 

Likely because of that man/press tendency, we dominated the first game statistically. 326 yards of offense , 23 first downs to 14 for Oregon, seven minutes more posession. Their other option is to play more zone packages, but that's not their go to strength.

The only two categories we were lacking in was third downs (5-14), which was in large part caused by a far and away season high of eight penalties for 45 yards. Five of those were false starts and one was a delay of game. In other words; really loud road stadium problems. This will be a quasi-home game; pretty damn sure that we won't have anywhere near that penalty problem.

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Going to the Peach Bowl! Cannot wait for Friday! I feel very good about this game. A few questions for those of you who know ATL..

We are staying near the baseball stadium. Should get to the hotel around 3:00 in Atlanta. As soon as we check in we are planning on taking the MARTA to the game. Do you recomend taking an Uber to the Station from our hotel? Or will there be plenty of parking? I'd rather avoid downtown parking. 

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27 minutes ago, Stuhoo said:

Likely because of that man/press tendency, we dominated the first game statistically. 326 yards of offense , 23 first downs to 14 for Oregon, seven minutes more posession. Their other option is to play more zone packages, but that's not their go to strength.

The only two categories we were lacking in was third downs (5-14), which was in large part caused by a far and away season high of eight penalties for 45 yards. Five of those were false starts and one was a delay of game. In other words; really loud road stadium problems. This will be a quasi-home game; pretty damn sure that we won't have anywhere near that penalty problem.

Agreed all around. I don’t have to guard against complacency so personally I’m not that worried about this game. We physically beat them to a pulp in their house before we really even got into a groove and now we get them in what will be an atmospheric home game.

We lived in Moore’s ear hole and they couldn’t run the ball to save their lives in October. If they think that will get any easier with their OC 90% consumed with rebuilding the Cayuts, well, good luck to ‘em. Hoosiers by 14. 

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7 minutes ago, Hovadipo said:

Agreed all around. I don’t have to guard against complacency so personally I’m not that worried about this game. We physically beat them to a pulp in their house before we really even got into a groove and now we get them in what will be an atmospheric home game.

We lived in Moore’s ear hole and they couldn’t run the ball to save their lives in October. If they think that will get any easier with their OC 90% consumed with rebuilding the Cayuts, well, good luck to ‘em. Hoosiers by 14. 

Them running the ball was the one (relatively) weak spot for us the first time around. If you take away the sack losses they ran for 108 on 21 carries.

They gave up on the run the first time against us. If the game is challenging it'll likely be because they don't give up on the run this time.

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Just now, Hovadipo said:

Agreed all around. I don’t have to guard against complacency so personally I’m not that worried about this game. We physically beat them to a pulp in their house before we really even got into a groove and now we get them in what will be an atmospheric home game.

We lived in Moore’s ear hole and they couldn’t run the ball to save their lives in October. If they think that will get any easier with their OC 90% consumed with rebuilding the Cayuts, well, good luck to ‘em. Hoosiers by 14. 

That’s sort of how I feel. Our D have not played better.  Our Ds best 4 game stretch was the last 4 games.  Giving up less than a TD per game. 
 

The fact Alabama didn’t run that much means Oregon didn’t really get to see how many of the adjustments we made for Daley going out.  
 

And our offense is clicking. I think Cooper going down is the only reason we didn’t find an end zone at least once more against OSU.  

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9 minutes ago, Stuhoo said:

Them running the ball was the one (relatively) weak spot for us the first time around. If you take away the sack losses they ran for 108 on 21 carries.

They gave up on the run the first time against us. If the game is challenging it'll likely be because they don't give up on the run this time.

They were getting bullied up front and had to change things up. Davison for 26 is doing some heavy lifting in their YPC.

If Stein was smart (which…even Oregon fans would tell you he isn’t the world’s brightest play caller, hence abandoning the run which I remain unworried about) he’d lean on their tempo package. That’s about the only thing they do that worries me. 

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