What are the Ducks getting in Sir Mells?

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At least publicly, all has been quiet on the recruiting front for Ducks head coach Mario Cristobal and the Oregon football program for the past two months. The last verbal commitment the Ducks picked up had been from DeSoto (Texas) three-star wide receiver Stephon Johnson, who pledged to Oregon on March 31. Since then, crickets. […]

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Postgame Post Mortem: Takeaways from the Oregon Spring Game

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Two-plus years had passed since the last time the Oregon football program held a spring football game, and while fans were not permitted inside Autzen Stadium Saturday afternoon due to local COVID-19 restrictions, it felt as if we were one step closer to returning to normalcy following a year that was wholly upended by the […]

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Spring Storylines: Are we sleeping on the Oregon secondary in 2021?

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Few things in recent memory were as protractedly loathsome across the board as 2020. And while the residuals of the past year linger to this day with COVID protocols remaining in place for most areas of the country, this spring offers a level of hope and optimism that simply did not exist at this time […]

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Spring Storylines: Is Oregon’s linebacking corp the deepest position group on the roster?

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Few things in recent memory were as protractedly loathsome across the board as 2020. And while the residuals of the past year linger to this day with COVID protocols remaining in place for most areas of the country, this spring offers a level of hope and optimism that simply did not exist at this time […]

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Burning questions for Oregon entering Week 4 at Stanford


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It’s impossible to ignore the details of last year’s game between the Ducks and Cardinal, especially when looking ahead to Saturday’s renewal of a Pac-12 North division rivalry that has only taken serious root within the last decade. Ask any Duck fan who they believe Oregon’s most hated rival is, and likely more than 90 […]

September 19, 2019

Analyzing the Adversary: Stanford


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By the time the 16th-ranked Ducks take the field in Palo Alto this coming Saturday vs. the Stanford Cardinal, 364 days will have passed since Oregon suffered one of its most infamous and inexplicable losses in program history. In case you somehow need a refresher, the game was last year’s 38-31 overtime defeat to what […]

September 18, 2019

Assessing the state of the Oregon ground game


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For a full decade (plus a year) spanning either parts or the entire tenures of three head coaches (Mike Bellotti, Chip Kelly, Mark Helfrich), the Oregon Ducks ruled the roost when it came who led the Pac-10/12 in rushing offense. In fact, from 2006 to 2016, the Ducks not only led the conference in rushing […]

September 17, 2019

WFOD’s 2020 Recruiting Big Board 7.0


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To make sense of Oregon’s recruiting landscape over the coming weeks and months, WFOD will be rolling out its 2020 Recruiting Big Board at the beginning of every week between now and the final signing period taking place in February. This weekly piece will provide a snapshot of both the recruits currently committed to the […]

September 16, 2019

Oregon’s keys to victory over Montana


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Traditionally speaking, sports fans have a reputation for being somewhat unreasonable when it comes to following and rooting for their favorite teams. Fairly or unfairly, fan expectations are always high, and when the team you root for falls short of that standard, it can be a maddening thing. However, on days like the one that […]

September 13, 2019

Burning questions for Oregon entering Week 3 vs. Montana


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One more non-conference opponent remains for the 15th-ranked Ducks before Pac-12 play begins in earnest the following Saturday at Stanford. Coming off last week’s 77-6 destruction of Nevada, Saturday’s game vs. FCS opponent Montana provides an opportunity to fine tune some things before the rubber really meets road over the next several weeks. To this […]

September 12, 2019

Analyzing the Adversary: Montana


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Fresh off a thorough 77-6 beat down of Nevada in last Saturday’s home opener at Autzen Stadium, the newly minted 15th-ranked Oregon Ducks turn their focus this week to FCS opponent Montana, which heads to Eugene this upcoming Saturday to close out the Ducks’ non-conference schedule. A top 25 team in their own right at […]

September 11, 2019