The Oregon Ducks have gotten off to a shaky start to their season by hardly beating Idaho and Boise State. The good news is they won both games, but they haven’t looked great doing it.
Oregon came into the year with high expectations, and many big-time football analysts picked them to win it all, but after two games, they don’t even look like a team that can make the playoffs.
One of the football analysts who picked Oregon to win it all this season was ESPN’s Kirk Herbstreit, who knows the college game better than anyone, and on Thursday, he talked about some concerns with the current Ducks team.
Kirk Herbstreit Is Not Feeling This Oregon Team
Herbstreit was doing his weekly hit with The Pat McAfee Show and stated how much last year’s starting quarterback, Box Nix, meant to the team and how this year’s team doesn’t have the same fight they did last season.
“They don’t look like they have the same fight that they had last year.”
—@kirkherbstreit on his concerns for Oregon 👀 pic.twitter.com/OE2w4KEYML
— ESPN College Football (@ESPNCFB) September 12, 2024
Oregon lost two games last season to Washington, who didn’t lose a game until the national championship. The Ducks brought in Oklahoma’s quarterback Dillon Gabriel, who has been around the college game for a while and is putting up good numbers throughout the first two weeks but doesn’t have the same energy as Nix did last season.
Dan Lanning and the team have to figure out their issues now because they move into Big Ten play in two weeks after the bye, and they have to adjust to a new conference, which will not be easy.
The Ducks have about a month until Ohio State comes to town, and if they perform the same way they did in the first two games against them, it is going to be a long day in Eugene.
Oregon should be able to fix their issues, but right now, they can’t be taken seriously as a real threat like Georgia, Texas, Ohio State, Ole Miss, and Alabama.
