Kikahahahaha in at #4 of 25
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And Shelton distorting the pocket has directly helped Kikaha with his monster 10 sacks. So yeah, from an almost non existant interior disruptor/pass rusher who took every third play off to an absolute terror pushing up the middle who is on fire 110 % of the time. Love it.RoadDawg55 said:Shelton is easily the most improved player on the team. It's one of the biggest year to year improvements I have ever seen. Before this season he only had 2.5 sacks in his career. He wasn't a pass rusher at all. I continuously harped on the podcast that when our DE's got pressure, QB's could step up in the pocket. An interior pass rush was solely needed. I thought what we saw out of Shelton was what he would be. A solid, run stuffing DT.
This year he has 7 sacks already. He didn't get a sack against Cal or Stanford, but there were multiple plays he got pressure. He's also the leading tackler on the team with 49. He's having a monster season. -
Gotta hand it to @passion, it's been a damn good year for the formula.Swaye said:
And Shelton distorting the pocket has directly helped Kikaha with his monster 10 sacks. So yeah, from an almost non existant interior disruptor/pass rusher who took every third play off to an absolute terror pushing up the middle who is on fire 110 % of the time. Love it.RoadDawg55 said:Shelton is easily the most improved player on the team. It's one of the biggest year to year improvements I have ever seen. Before this season he only had 2.5 sacks in his career. He wasn't a pass rusher at all. I continuously harped on the podcast that when our DE's got pressure, QB's could step up in the pocket. An interior pass rush was solely needed. I thought what we saw out of Shelton was what he would be. A solid, run stuffing DT.
This year he has 7 sacks already. He didn't get a sack against Cal or Stanford, but there were multiple plays he got pressure. He's also the leading tackler on the team with 49. He's having a monster season.
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80's superiority guy.ThomasFremont said:
I know your being sarkastic, but that's actually from the movie Willow.topdawgnc said:
Time Bandits ... a classic 80's flic ...SpoonieLuv said:
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Gonna need some discipline in the two hole this week. Mariotta self tackled himself against Arizona on a run that could have gone 80 up the gut for a TD and changed that game
Stay in your lanes and keep him contained. Marriottaa is the one reason I lack a lot of confidence this week -
Shelton > Peters > Kikaha > Thompson.
In the end (that's what she said!!!!1!!), Kikaha has more noticeable plays, but Peters is a fucking stud. He gets ticky-tack PIs because he's awesome, but they just never throw his way because when they do he makes plays on the ball or the receiver. One of my favorite threads on another site was, after his freshman year, when he got burned on a double move the diagnosis that he was... wait for it... good, except for he had trouble with double moves.
@RoadDawg55 covered Shelton.
Kikaha is a menace.
Thompson is a super play-maker, but probably not quite as consistent as he should be. He's improved a metric fuck tonne though and I assume by the Apple Cup, he will be consistent and dominant (if he continues this trajectory).
All 4 are legit All-American candidates. That's pretty impressive.
I bleat for Pete and I'm dooging so hard that it has immediately occurred to me that next week all of them will seem like they suck after getting trounced by Oregon.
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Same. UW has the better team (and coach) sans Mariota. He's all that is holding Oregon from a .500 season.RaceBannon said:Gonna need some discipline in the two hole this week. Mariotta self tackled himself against Arizona on a run that could have gone 80 up the gut for a TD and changed that game
Stay in your lanes and keep him contained. Marriottaa is the one reason I lack a lot of confidence this week -
For Oregon, the Formula is different. Stanford, and I noticed Arizona doing it to, plays hard at the line with the d-linemen keeping separation but not penetration. They play laterally and keep all the play fakes in front of them. Chip was often happy to have guys blowing blindly upfield and scheme around it. Not a huge secret, but the key has been to have the defensive linemen physically capable of playing laterally without getting blown up. It's not easy to do.dnc said:
Gotta hand it to @passion, it's been a damn good year for the formula.Swaye said:
And Shelton distorting the pocket has directly helped Kikaha with his monster 10 sacks. So yeah, from an almost non existant interior disruptor/pass rusher who took every third play off to an absolute terror pushing up the middle who is on fire 110 % of the time. Love it.RoadDawg55 said:Shelton is easily the most improved player on the team. It's one of the biggest year to year improvements I have ever seen. Before this season he only had 2.5 sacks in his career. He wasn't a pass rusher at all. I continuously harped on the podcast that when our DE's got pressure, QB's could step up in the pocket. An interior pass rush was solely needed. I thought what we saw out of Shelton was what he would be. A solid, run stuffing DT.
This year he has 7 sacks already. He didn't get a sack against Cal or Stanford, but there were multiple plays he got pressure. He's also the leading tackler on the team with 49. He's having a monster season. -
Good point. The Locker year that the game was tied at 35 before UO still won by 20 plus had a play where Husky Stadium rose as one as the Duck QB got crushed. Of course he no longer had the ballGrundleStiltzkin said:
For Oregon, the Formula is different. Stanford, and I noticed Arizona doing it to, plays hard at the line with the d-linemen keeping separation but not penetration. They play laterally and keep all the play fakes in front of them. Chip was often happy to have guys blowing blindly upfield and scheme around it. Not a huge secret, but the key has been to have the defensive linemen physically capable of playing laterally without getting blown up. It's not easy to do.dnc said:
Gotta hand it to @passion, it's been a damn good year for the formula.Swaye said:
And Shelton distorting the pocket has directly helped Kikaha with his monster 10 sacks. So yeah, from an almost non existant interior disruptor/pass rusher who took every third play off to an absolute terror pushing up the middle who is on fire 110 % of the time. Love it.RoadDawg55 said:Shelton is easily the most improved player on the team. It's one of the biggest year to year improvements I have ever seen. Before this season he only had 2.5 sacks in his career. He wasn't a pass rusher at all. I continuously harped on the podcast that when our DE's got pressure, QB's could step up in the pocket. An interior pass rush was solely needed. I thought what we saw out of Shelton was what he would be. A solid, run stuffing DT.
This year he has 7 sacks already. He didn't get a sack against Cal or Stanford, but there were multiple plays he got pressure. He's also the leading tackler on the team with 49. He's having a monster season.
UO doesn't look as crisp these days on the fakes. We'll see -
I also know my midgets B-)topdawgnc said:
80's superiority guy.ThomasFremont said:
I know your being sarkastic, but that's actually from the movie Willow.topdawgnc said:
Time Bandits ... a classic 80's flic ...SpoonieLuv said: -
@AZDuck- Correct me where I am wrong. Oregon's OL is bad. WR's are young, but talented. They probably rank somewhere in the middle compared to the rest of the Pac 12. Very good RB's.
On defense, mediocre DL. Bad LB's. A pretty good secondary, but substantially worse than last year's. Pellum has been no better than Allioti.
Without Mariota, you lose to Michigan State, you likely lose to WSU, and you lost to Arizona with him. Helfrich sucks and Oregon would be .500 without him. The rest of your team isn't very good like it has been the past 6 years and you no longer have a great head coach.
