I have four parts smoke to deliver today in regard to Oregon.
Number one, head coach Dan Lanning. Sir.
After the game you said “I didn’t do a good enough job of getting my guys ready to play.” You’re right. They were completely ill-prepared to do anything that resembled football for that entire football game, offensively or defensively. They looked terrible. Your game plan wasn’t terrible on offense, but we’ll get back to why that didn’t work.
Where I have some issue with Dan Lanning is, for some reason, inexplicably, at halftime, he gets an interview and he walks over and he says, “We know what we need to do to bother Stetson Bennett.”
Sir.
You did realize Stetson was going to start the game, right? It’s not as if he came in inexplicably and you was like, “Oh, you know what? We didn’t prep for this, but during the half I’ll get ’em right for Stetson.”
I didn’t do a good enough job of getting my guys ready to play.
– Oregon Head Coach Dan Lanning
He literally picked you apart for an entire half and you somehow still went into half time saying “I know how to fix this” and came back out in the second half and did the same thing.
Stop talking Dan Lanning! SIR. Just don’t talk anymore! Because now your coach speak just sounds stupid. I’m very disappointed in you, sir. You were the defensive coach against these boys. You couldn’t put a game plan together to go against the defense. You couldn’t put a defensive game plan to stop them. Don’t talk anymore.
That’s part one.
Number two. I wanna talk to Oregon fans.
The Oregon fans that told us all off season how Bo Nix is now in a better place, because “he knew what he was getting into in Auburn,” “This is the first time he’s gonna have a real offensive line” and blah, blah, blah, and this and this and that and how great it was going to look and they were gonna smash and “everybody needs to look out” and “SEC overrated…”
Oregon fans. How you feeling today?
As, uh, our guy Paul Maharry said so eloquently on Twitter, you traveled all the way across the country to kick a field goal.
Oregon fans. How you feeling today?
Because again, you told me all off season, the problem was Auburn. “He’s finally got a great offensive line.”
How you feeling? Okay.
Number three, fans of Bo Nix. I have no problem with you supporting whatever athlete you choose to support. That’s not my problem here. You can support them wholeheartedly.
My issue is you have, for three years, told those of us with two eyes and an ability to watch football that somehow every problem that existed with this young man at quarterback was everyone’s fault except for that young man. You told us somehow we were hating on Bo Nix and we should stop “because he’s an Aub-“
Bo Nix does NOT play for Auburn University right now. Last I checked the name on his jersey says Oregon. Matter of fact, I actually hope he’s successful. But you have to stop telling people with two eyes who watch the same football that you do that somehow his problems are everyone else’s issue. Which brings me to the crux of my argument here.
Bo Nix, sir…it is clear to me that you do not like adversity.
Case in point: Your propensity to run away from pressure when it’s coming in the pocket. Rarely do you stop and take a hit. Rarely. I’m not saying it never happens, but rarely do you do that. So adversity for whatever reason makes you run. I think that’s fair to say. I see parallels in that in everything that you do in regards to how you do things with your career, thus far.
You had a quarterback competition that was looming at Auburn, you decided you wanted to take your ball and move to Oregon. Then you got there behind what has been touted as one of the best offensive lines in the country, a very much experienced unit, and you couldn’t score a single point.
At some point in time you have to realize maybe the problem isn’t everybody else. “Maybe I have a few things that I need to fix.” You went from a system that was preparing you to go to the NFL, giving you NFL type looks and throws, and you decided to go to a more simplified one read system that you were more comfortable with and produced three points in your fourth year as a starting quarterback. Four years! Same guy.
Maybe there’s a guy in the mirror that’s to blame.
Just maybe.
I’m done.
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