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Sunday, April 24, 2011

Deep and Fast, Agile and Aggressive: Oregon's defense is taking wing this season

 Rob Moseley calls Dion Jordan "the breakout player on the breakout unit this spring." Over the last two seasons, Chip Kelly has turned Nick Aliotti loose, and the Ducks now have a defense to match the offense: deep, fast and aggressive.


Used to be, Oregon would have a handful of pretty good defensive players, but no depth. By game five or six of the season there were holes to exploit as the Ducks were forced to play without key people, Teams could beat Oregon by wearing down the defense, and by the fourth quarter, what some people (never Aliotti, by the way) called "bend but don't break" defense became bent and simply broken.

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