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struggled early in the season. Stan
ford was blown out in consecutive
weeks by Arizona State, Notre Dame
and Washington State, but the Car
dinal have since beaten both Ari
zona and UCLA.
But more than focusing on Stan
ford, Bellotti is worried about keep
ing his own team from falling apart
at the seams after consecutive losses
to ASU and Southern California.
“The reality is we’re 6-2. There’s
only two teams in the conference
that have one more victory than we
do; this team could win 10 games
this year, which has only been done
one time in the history of the school,
and we’re still ranked 16th in the na
tion,” Bellotti said. “There’s a lot of
things they need to look at and real
ize, we’re not 0-2, we’re 6-2.”
The Ducks’ defense — especially
the secondary — has been the sub
ject of the most criticism after giving
up 536 passing yards to the Sun
Devils’ Andrew Walter and 448
yards, along with five touchdowns,
to USC’s Carson Palmer.
So Oregon secondary coach Mike
Gillhamer attempted to douse the
fire by showing his comerbacks and
safeties a tape. The tape featured all
the secondary’s negative plays
against USC, spliced together in a
big, macabre movie.
“To see all the negative plays from
one game is pretty hard. You know
the next play is going to be negative,
you just hope it’s not you,” free safe
tv Keith Lewis said. “But everybody
knows they messed up at some
point in that game. We just need to
pick our heads up and keep going.”
“Right now it’s about pride more
than anything. Everybody’s trying to
get their pride up,” Lewis said. “It’s
one of those things — you’re going
to be ripped to pieces.”
The Oregon offense isn’t attempt
ing to lay all the blame on the defense,
by any means. The offense sputtered
against USG in the crucial third quar
ter, as Fife completed less than half
his passes for the game and running
back Onterrio Smith was held to less
than 100 yards rushing for the first
time this season. That may have been
because of a small knee injury Smith
suffered in the second quarter Satur
day - an injury that may keep Smith
from starting against Stanford.
But despite all the adversity
they’re facing this week, the Ducks
are fired up to play the Cardinal.
“Everybody wants to kick us be
cause they think we’re down, but
we’re coming up swinging this
week,” Wrighster said. “Of course,
nobody’s happy about losing two
games in a row. Nobody likes the
taste of one loss, never mind two.
But everybody’s anxious to get an
opportunity to get another victory.”
Fife put it another way.
“We talked about being in shock
after (the loss to USC),” Fife said.
“But now the shock’s over, and it’s
time to get back to business, start
kicking ass again.”
Contact the sports editor
at peterhockaday@dailyemerald.com.
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