Duck Stuff: Morning Mud

• Dale Newton looks back and grades the Oregon Defense for 2010 and gives them a B+. He included my videos of the defensive highlights which I have included here.

The 2010 Duck defense was stingy and opportunistic. They erased their mistakes with aggressiveness, and made far more big plays than they gave up.

• Dale also grades the 2011 defensive unit to this point and gives them a D-, mostly due to off-field issues the Ducks will have to overcome before the regular season kicks off against LSU. He ends his story with this:

"The Ducks fully believe their coach when he tells them that "luck favors the prepared mind."  In two years they've established themselves as a group that won't give in to adversity.  Now it's the defense's turn to overcome a seemingly impossible combination of graduation, attrition and stupidity."


GO DUCKS!