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QB11SD
First things first, if you’re coming to PDX before the game Loyal Legion in south East is a must stop. Everything you can imagine is on tap and it’s a super cool place. They carry most of the local and regional brews and its very central.
On the game, I totally understand the perspective of a third party spectator looking at Oregon losing a 1st round pick at quarterback and thinking it would obviously be detrimental. At face value I’d make that same assumption on any team Oregon was facing as well. However, the truth is whether or not it was because he was overrated, the OC sucked or any other reason he was no more than a game manager last year. For the unlimited arm talent he possesses he didn’t stretch the ball vertically and the play calling tendencies were heavily conservative esp in down and distance situations trying to make things easy for him.
Maybe JH goes the league gets better coaching and turns it around but this was an ongoing debate all year on our boards. He was not playing well basically all year and everyone had something else they blamed. He was bottom 5 in all of college football against the blitz among other damning statistics. His comp% was great but was heavily influenced by RPO and screen game.
There really is nowhere for our downfield passing attack to go but up just because of how bad it was last year. I’m terms of the defense it was objectively really good and it’ll be better this year. We finished 9th in sp+ defense last year which is an advanced statistical model that weighs strength of opponent in its algorithm and is efficiency based. It’s such a good indicator that ESPN bought it and is using it more often than their own model FPI. We are projected #2 in Sp+ defense going into 2020 based on returning production and recruiting.
The biggest unknowns for UO are interior OL where we already know one starter but there is a competition at center and one of the guard spots. QB, although, we have a decent sample of Tyler Shough and I personally saw about a half dozen closed practices last year including scrimmages and he is going to be very good. Defensively we replace one real starter and it’s Troy Dye at Will linebacker. We have a lot of returning experience and some ridiculous incoming talent that will be here for the spring game. ILB despite the loss of Dye will be a deep unit.
If you asked me to put my fandom aside and rank ever position group at Oregon on a scale of 1-7
1 poor
2 marginal
3 adequate
4 solid
5 good
6 very good
7 elite/rare
4> you can expect to execute against good competition with consistency.
QB 4-5
RB 5
TE 5
WR 6
OT 7
OG 6
OC 4-5
DE 7
DT 6
OLB 6
ILB 6
S 5
C 6
Nickel 6
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