Ducks destined to lose 2-3 games this year a la Corvallis and UW 2022.
Biggest reason: Lanning will shit the bed again with reckless decision-making. Case in point: fake punt on own 17 against shitty Colorado. That decision was fucktarded, fueled 100% by emotion. Ducks fail there and it's a huge momentum swing with gift points for CU, which, up to that point, hadn't moved the ball in the forward direction. Dumb. Just plain dumb.
If Oregon is even able to hang with UW straight-up, Lanning will find a way to fuck it up by forcing an inane, low-probabilty call, probably on 4th down in our? own territory, per the script. Fuck.
Deboner > Lanning, until shown otherwise (probably never)
I don't see a huge disparity in talent between UW and Oregon.
QB - close enough to equal. Penix better passer, Nix better runner
RB - Bucky Irving will be the best RB on the field, and Oregon has great depth behind him. Edge Oregon
WR - UW has 3 of the top 10 WRs in the country. This is a big gap with Franklin being Oregon’s only big time WR.
TE - Ferguson is a freak. Edge to Oregon
OL - Slight Edge Oregon
DL - Oregon is improved in this area but UW is nationally great. UW with a sizable edge
LB - Oregon. The single area where I think UW is weak
CB - UW with the edge
ST - UW with the edge in the return game, and Oregon with the edge in the kicking game. Punting I don’t know, because neither team punts lol.