[CTcard]

Okay now you've done it. You've goaded me into doing two things I dislike: playing pop-psychologist and know-it-all coach. But here goes ...

The more I read, over and over, that Oregon thinks it's problem last year was making too much of this one game and that this year they're just treating it like any other game - the more it seems to me that Oregon is making too much of this game.

[For the 45th quotation on this topic, this from ESPN today

"We can't make it a bigger game than it is," Oregon center Hroniss Grasu said. "That's what I feel like we did last year. We were just focusing on that game way too much."

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http://espn.go.com/blog/pac12/post/_/id/...n-saturday

So, I think we're going to see the Oregon defense come in all pumped up to show that they aren't going to simply get pushed around by Stanford this time.

Here's how to take advantage of that:

1. Come out lined up in a partial Ogre-package (perhaps still one receiver so it's not too obvious). Play action to Wright or Sanders, then take advantage of the over-reaction by the duckies. My guess for best way to take advantage is have Cotton in on the line and let him release deep - but it could be Taboada. Probably not Hooper as he's caught 22 passes on the year and Oregon might key off of him.

2. Then try to actually see if we can manhandle Oregon like we did last year. If it works, that's the most straight forward way to beat them.

3. If it doesn't work, go to the stuff we tried vs OSU. It won't surprise Oregon, but their defense is poor enough it shouldn't need anything too fancy to score some points.

[CTcard]

Okay now you've done it. You've goaded me into doing two things I dislike: playing pop-psychologist and know-it-all coach. But here goes ...

The more I read, over and over, that Oregon thinks it's problem last year was making too much of this one game and that this year they're just treating it like any other game - the more it seems to me that Oregon is making too much of this game.

[For the 45th quotation on this topic, this from ESPN today

"We can't make it a bigger game than it is," Oregon center Hroniss Grasu said. "That's what I feel like we did last year. We were just focusing on that game way too much."

]
http://espn.go.com/blog/pac12/post/_/id/...n-saturday

So, I think we're going to see the Oregon defense come in all pumped up to show that they aren't going to simply get pushed around by Stanford this time.

Here's how to take advantage of that:

1. Come out lined up in a partial Ogre-package (perhaps still one receiver so it's not too obvious). Play action to Wright or Sanders, then take advantage of the over-reaction by the duckies. My guess for best way to take advantage is have Cotton in on the line and let him release deep - but it could be Taboada. Probably not Hooper as he's caught 22 passes on the year and Oregon might key off of him.

2. Then try to actually see if we can manhandle Oregon like we did last year. If it works, that's the most straight forward way to beat them.

3. If it doesn't work, go to the stuff we tried vs OSU. It won't surprise Oregon, but their defense is poor enough it shouldn't need anything too fancy to score some points.