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… or is it? After weeks of despair and dissension, the 4-7 Philadelphia Eagles rallied to stun the Super Bowl champion New England Patriots, 35-28. Chip Kelly outsmarted coaching legend Bill Be...

https://fishduck.com/2015/12/chip-kelly-update-everythings-good-again/

Last week the Eagles lost a tight game to a bad Miami squad, 20-19. And Eagles fans and reporters went crazy with despair. This Sunday, the team was blown out by a bad Tampa Bay team featuring a ...

https://fishduck.com/2015/11/chip-kelly-update-wailing-and-gnashing-of-teeth/

Everyone knows that Oregon goes fast. Duck football is synonymous with speed and tempo and heaps and heaps of points. This article, however, will delve into the mental aspect of the uptempo pa...

https://fishduck.com/2015/09/shock-and-awe-the-oregon-ducks-football-hangover-effect/

When Florida State quarterback Jameis Winston said after last year’s Rose Bowl that the blowout game could have gone either way, it was laughable. When Georgia State’s players and head coach ...

https://fishduck.com/2015/09/despite-lopsided-score-georgia-state-never-stopped-believing/

Two weeks into the season and as expected, the Ducks offense hasn’t faltered. Vernon Adams Jr. fought through a broken finger to throw for more than 300 yards and extend Oregon’s streak of g...

https://fishduck.com/2015/09/hope-springs-eternal-for-ducks/

“Did his head just bob? Was that a face-mask tug on Vernon Adams?” Steve Richardson, a long-time astute Oregon observer and fellow football analyst, stated aloud what I was thinking. We play...

https://fishduck.com/2015/09/incompetent-pac-12-officials-how-do-you-miss-all-this/

This week’s game against the Georgia State Panthers may not have the hype last week’s game had, but that’s why this can be a dangerous, early season trap game. The Ducks are emotionally an...

https://fishduck.com/2015/09/how-to-prevent-a-panthers-upset/

The Atlanta Falcons had the worst defense in the NFL last year, ending up 6-10 despite boasting one of the league’s best QB-WR tandems in Matt Ryan and Julio Jones. Dan Quinn was the defensive...

https://fishduck.com/2015/09/chip-kelly-update-a-kick-in-the-teeth-kiko-alonso/

Good morning, Ducks. This Saturday our boys take a break from Fingergate to play an actual football game against Georgia State. The early point spread lists us as a 40+ point favorite. I think it...

https://fishduck.com/2015/09/what-you-should-know-about-georgia-state/

News Lost in the knee-jerk reaction of this weekend’s miscue is the undeniable fact that Oregon’s secondary has turned a corner — no pun intended. Oregon’s youth in the defensive backfiel...

https://fishduck.com/2015/09/recruiting-update-defensive-backs-on-the-rise/

Saturday night stung. A loss by three on the road to a top-5 team shouldn’t eliminate Oregon from the College Football Playoff hunt (though it makes the road significantly more difficult), but ...

https://fishduck.com/2015/09/oregon-and-vernon-adams-fall-just-short-against-michigan-state/

In a tale of two games filled with back-and-forth uncertainty, there was one single moment when it appeared the dam holding back the tide of Oregon’s offense would crumble, that despite all the...

https://fishduck.com/2015/09/marcus-mariota-isnt-walking-through-that-door/

Mike Merrell’s Three-and-Out Adversity develops and reveals character much more than pleasant trips to the beach. That’s just one of the inconveniences of living on Planet Earth. So when your...

https://fishduck.com/2015/09/fans-response-tarnishes-a-solid-road-performance/

“Revenge,” “redemption” and “heavyweight fight” were all used to describe Michigan State’s much anticipated top-10 showdown with Oregon on Saturday night. “We have lost 3 of ou...

https://fishduck.com/2015/09/ducks-downed-in-east-lansing/

Look, for starters, there are hundreds of reasons why it’s OK Oregon lost. There are the “excuse-y” reasons, like how the team was on the road against one of the toughest defenses in the n...

https://fishduck.com/2015/09/take-it-in-stride-why-its-ok-the-ducks-lost/