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WAR DADDY HENRY MONDEAUX HAS BEEN A KEY PART of Oregon’s defense since becoming a Duck in 2014. His performance this season has earned him the nickname “war daddy” from head coach Willie Taggart.

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Inside Linebacker: Royce Freeman It’s been one record after another Royce Freeman in his senior Manase Hungalu for season. is will be Freeman’s fourth e senior linebacker is ranked fourth in the Pac-12, averaging 8.5 tackles per game, two spots behind Troy Dye. He had a career-high 20 tackles against Cal on Nov. 4. He will have to have another impressive game if the Beavers stand a chance in stopping the Ducks’ strong running game.

Running Back: Ryan Nall Ryan Nall is a star in an otherwise underwhelming offense. Nall is ninth in the Pac-12 with 76.9 yards per game. He has been the lead back for the Beavers since his redshirt sophomore year, and he currently starts ahead of former Oregon five-star recruit omas Tyner. In last year’s Civil War, Nall ran for four touchdowns, tying the Oregon State all-time rushing touchdowns record for one game. He also had 156 rushing yards in OSU’s first Civil War win in nearly a decade. e Beavers have had a down season, especially with head coach Gary Andersen leaving the program. But if anyone can get things going offensively for the Beavers, it’s Nall.

Civil War and final game at Autzen Stadium, and there’s no question that he’ll want to go out with a bang.

He ran for over 100 yards last year but was held without a touchdown.

Coming off of a three-touchdown game against Arizona on Saturday, it’ll be tough for the Oregon State defense to keep Freeman out of the endzone.

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Running Back: Tony BrooksJames Freeman may be the face of the Oregon football program, but Brooks-James is another vital part of the Ducks’ offensive rush. Overlooked during Freeman’s four-touchdown game against Arizona, Brooks-James had 124 yards rushing. After the win, he tweeted, “Great team win today, couldn’t ask for anything else. Next up … Beavers. Payback time.” He and the rest of the Ducks haven’t forgotten about the stinging loss in the Civil War last year, and he is ready to make a statement. Freeman can’t play every snap, and when given the opportunity, Brooks-James can make big plays as well.

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Oregon Ducks wide receiver Johnny Johnson III (80) makes a catch while falling.

When the Ducks hosted Utah on Oct. 25 at Autzen Stadium, Oregon’s offense pulled out a trick play. Quarterback Braxton Burmeister pitched the ball to senior wide receiver Charles Nelson, and after nearly going down, found Jacob Breeland in the end zone for one of Oregon’s two passing touchdowns. at was Oregon’s best highlight for the wide receivers throughout all of October and most of November.

Oregon’s wide receivers went on a drought during Burmeister’s time as the starting quarterback. With Herbert’s return against Arizona, they had significant action and should see plenty more in the future.

Against the Wildcats, the Ducks performed another trick play — a reverse flea flicker.

But this time, Nelson gave the ball back to the quarterback. Herbert fired the ball downfield, finding Johnny Johnson III a yard shy of the end zone.

“When you can only run the ball, obviously we know that was all we were going to do — everyone else knew that was what we were going to do,” center Jake Hanson said. “So having Justin back obviously took some pressure off of Royce and our other running backs and it just opened things up that we can do offensively so that was great.”

In the five games Burmeister played,

he threw the ball more than 15 times just once (27 against Washington State). Against Arizona, Oregon’s wide receivers were thrown to 21 times by Herbert.

“Justin’s an irreplaceable guy, so to have him back is great,” Nelson said. “Got a bunch of passes thrown to us.”

With Oregon’s quarterback and wide receivers and back in action, opposing defenses have to adjust to knowing that the Ducks will not simply rely on the run game as they have done this season. is gave the Ducks the advantage of forcing the Wildcats’ defense to prepare for any possible play.

“It was fantastic knowing that Justin was out there,” wide receiver Dillon Mitchell said.

“Knowing that he’s a threat to throw the ball deep. It’s been tough weeks that we’ve been playing not to have a ball thrown. Just sticking to it and knowing the game plan is key.”

Oregon became bowl eligible with the win against Arizona, and with just the Civil War against Oregon State remaining, many are wondering what could have been.

“It’s a big win,” Nelson said after Arizona.

“It sets us up, shows us what we can do when everyone is on the field. I feel like we did a great job today. Shows what they’re gonna do next year.”

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ONE YEAR LATER, EVERYTHING HAS CHANGED BY: Cole Kundich @ckundich Following the Ducks’ 30-28 victory over No.11 Utah last year, there were many who believed that the win would allow Mark Helfrich to keep his job as head coach. e following week, Oregon dropped a 34-24 contest to Oregon State to conclude the season.

Gut-wrenching. Heartbreaking. Rock bottom.

It was a fitting way to end a disappointing 4-8 campaign. Helfrich was fired days after the loss, and soon after, Willie Taggart was brought on as head coach. In the one year since, Taggart and the Ducks have experienced many highs and lows.

While Taggart is the program’s first outside hire as head coach since 1976, he is more than aware of the significance attached to the Civil War. “It’s two teams that don’t like each other,” Taggart said. “We got that bitter taste in our mouth that we’ve had for an entire year.

“You can throw the records out in a ball game like this. You got to come ready to play.”

When Oregon takes the field on Saturday against the Beavers, much will be different than when the two teams faced off 364 days prior. e restructuring of the Ducks, which includes “swag surfin” and messages to “do something,” has added even more flair to a program already known for its style on the field.

Off the field, Taggart and his staff seem to be hitting their shots. 247 Sports has the Ducks with the No. 6 ranked recruiting class in the country. It’s an impressive feat in the year since the Civil War loss, and it speaks to the culture established in a short time frame. But while eyes are on the future, the present – specifically Saturday’s contest versus the Beavers – isn’t forgotten.

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the locker room, I think their focus quickly shifted to the game and the importance behind it,” offensive line coach Mario Cristobal said.

Entering Saturday’s contest versus Oregon State, the Ducks have already clinched a bowl game appearance with a 6-5 record. at includes a 5-1 record when Justin Herbert — who will be back next season — is in action. It’s impossible to be certain, but the season might have had a different outlook had Herbert not broken his collarbone versus Cal. While all signs point to Oregon being on the path to turning it around after hitting the reset button, the same can’t be said for Oregon State.

Following last season’s victory in Corvallis, Oregon State students rushed the field. Head coach Gary Andersen ran to midfield pumping his fists in celebration. It looked like the Beavers were celebrating a Rose Bowl win, much less the end to a 4-8 season of their own.

After years of misery, could it possibly be that the 2016 victory over the Ducks would end up being a turning point in the program’s history and lift them to bigger and better things down the line? Nope.

Oregon State enters Saturday’s game winless in Pac-12 play with a 1-10 overall record. Anderson resigned as head coach in October, trashing assistant coaches in texts.

Oregon State won on the field last season. But in the year since, the Ducks have blown away the Beavers in how they have operated off the field. ere were no championship-level expectations for the Ducks in the first year of the Taggart era. ere have been signs of encouragement for the Ducks.

No matter the situation, though, one expectation always remains the same for them: Beat the Beavers.

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You won’t find a definition for the term “war daddy” in a regular dictionary. Instead, you’d have to go to Urban Dictionary, an online crowdsourced lexicon of slang, where you’d find that it means: “A beastly defensive lineman that eats up blockers and spits them out for dinner.”

You also might find “badass” or “Henry Mondeaux,” at least if Oregon head coach Willie Taggart wrote the definitions.

Taggart went to that term last week when asked about what he’s seen out of Mondeaux, a senior defensive lineman and the defensive team captain, this year.

“Henry has been a war daddy,” he said. “ at guy

Henry Mondeaux finishes a tackle against the Arizona State Sun Devils on Oct. 29, 2016.

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has been working his butt off all year long, doing everything we ask him to do, not taking a play off.”

When asked to elaborate what that term means, Taggart simply replied “Badass.”

By all accounts, it’s an accurate description for Mondeaux. e senior from Portland, Oregon hasn’t missed a game in his collegiate career, despite playing one of the most physical positions, while also dealing with Type 1 diabetes. He’s been a staple in Oregon’s defense for the past four years: He’s gone from being an eager newcomer to a seasoned veteran leader who’s played a key role in Oregon’s defensive turnaround this season.

Taggart isn’t sure where he first heard the term

“war daddy.” He thinks maybe it was back at Western Kentucky or one of his other coaching stops in his career. He isn’t completely sure, but he said that it was something that just stuck with him. He called Royce Freeman a “war daddy” after Freeman’s four-touchdown performance against Arizona on Saturday.

At his press conference on Monday this week, Taggart offered a more eloquent definition for the term.

“It’s not hard to describe: You see those guys that go all out all the time, leave everything on the field and try to get after the guy in front of them every time he has an opportunity to

do that,” Taggart said. “A guy that plays through pain and does everything he can to help this football team — a guy who is totally committed to this football team and helping it.”

Mondeaux will take that persona and intensity into the home stretch of Oregon’s season and his career — a stretch Mondeaux is looking to enjoy. As much as he wants to ignore it, he said it’s been tough facing that inevitable reality.

“You know, I’m trying to take it one day at a time, but it’s starting to come up on me that I only have two games in Autzen,” Mondeaux said ahead of the Ducks’ clash with Arizona. “So I’m just trying to take it every day and enjoy myself as much as I can.”

Mondeaux arrived in Eugene as part of Oregon’s 2014 recruiting class and was already a decorated and well-known athlete throughout the state. He excelled in basketball, football and track and field in his prep tenure at Jesuit High School. But at 6-foot-4, 250-pounds, Mondeaux gravitated toward football more than anything else. He accumulated all-state honors his junior and senior years, and in two of the three years he started on both sides of the ball for one of the premier programs in the state.

While the accomplishments were incredible, the fact that Mondeaux was dealing with Type 1 diabetes made them all the more impressive. He was diagnosed his freshman year of high school and began to monitor his blood sugar levels daily. But Mondeaux didn’t let the disease slow him down. All the accolades he achieved in high school came after his diagnosis.

To this day, Mondeaux relies on his diabetes as a source of motivation. He said he plays with other, less fortunate people in mind. He wants to be an inspiration for those who are dealing with similar issues and show them that they too can accomplish whatever they want in life, despite the odds. “ at’s what I try and tell myself before every game and every play,” Mondeaux said.

“I just try and think about doing it for them.”

With that mindset, Mondeaux is thriving.

He burst onto the scene as a freshman and has appeared in every Oregon game since — a feat stunning for anyone, but especially for a type 1 diabetic. He works with Oregon’s trainers closely, which could explain his sustainability. Or maybe it was all the extra precautions he took to maintain his blood sugar levels. Even he’s not entirely sure the source of his durability.

“I think just being lucky. I really don’t know,” he said. “I think a lot it’s luck just because this sport is so unpredictable.”

Mondeaux’s work ethic and fixture in

Oregon’s everyday rotations for the past three years made him an easy candidate for a captain role entering this season.

Oregon’s new coaching staff was searching for a player who commanded the respect of his peers. Mondeaux fit the bill and his teammates voted him the defensive team captain at the end of fall camp. “ e good thing about that, when the team picks, they know the guys better than all of us,” Taggart said back in late August.

“So they know who are the right guys and who they want to lead this team.”

While quiet by nature, Mondeaux is excelling as a leader this season. He leads by example but gets vocal if he needs to. Most importantly, when he talks, his teammates listen.

“He commands the room,” defensive line coach Joe Salave’a said.

“We look to Henry for guidance,” linebacker La’Mar Winston said. “A lot of us do. He’s always there. He’s been here before.

He’s been in these positions before. He’s played a lot of ball.”

Oregon’s coaches are thrilled with Mondeaux’s performance this season. It’s the only year they’ll get to coach him, but they say he’s been everything they want in a player. ey want to use him as a metaphor for what they hope to build at Oregon and a blueprint for how they want their players to carry themselves.

“We just want to make sure that we get to utilize his presence and what he brings to the table for the younger guys who are coming in the fold now, and the brand of football that we’re continuing to mold here at Oregon,” Salave’a said.

Taggart echoed that praise.

“He’s what a senior is supposed to be,” he said.

Coaches also credit him and his leadership for helping turn around Oregon’s defense this year. He fit seamlessly into defensive coordinator Jim Leavitt’s 3-4 scheme. He currently ranks third on the team in sacks (5), fifth in tackles for loss (5.5) and his 40 total tackles this season are a career-high. Oregon’s rushing defense now ranks 29th in the country after it held Arizona, a top-ten rushing offense, to 171 yards on the ground.

Oregon State is next in what will be Mondeaux’s fourth and final Civil War. After that, Oregon will wait for its bowl game destination a year after missing out on postseason play for the first time in over a decade.

Oregon will miss Mondeaux’s presence after this season. Replacing experience and leadership is never simple, but at least now Oregon players have a blueprint for how they too can become a “war daddy.”

Henry Mondeaux lines up against the Washington State Cougars in Pullman, Wash. on Oct. 1, 2016.

Henry Mondeaux fights through defenders against the Utah Utes on Saturday, Oct. 28, 2017.

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Last season ended with Oregon State picking up their first victory over the Ducks since 2007, and the win had many in Corvallis believing that 2017 might be the year the Beavers turn the corner.

But a 31-point thrashing on the road against Colorado State to open the season, followed by a comefrom-behind victory over the winless Football Championship Subdivision Portland State Vikings and a 34-point home loss to the Minnesota Golden Gophers showed that the Beavers still had a long way to go.

After losing back-to-back games to the Washington schools by a combined score of 94-30, the Beavers lost 38-10 to the USC Trojans in what ended up being the last game for head coach Gary Andersen, who left millions on the table and mutually agreed to part ways with the program. e school then named Cory Hall interim head coach for the remainder of the season. e coaching change initially made the Beavers more competitive.

In their next two games against Colorado and Stanford, they led with under two minutes to go but ultimately lost. e Beavers opened November with a 14-point loss to California and a 21-point loss to the Arizona WIldcats.

Despite Oregon State’s struggles this season and the results from last season, Oregon head coach Willie Taggart says revenge isn’t on the mind of the players — but that doesn’t mean they’ve forgotten what happened last season in Corvallis.

“We showed them the low-lights,” Taggart said of reviewing last season’s results. “We just show them and remind them what that looked like.” e Ducks open as a 23.5-point favorite for the 121st Civil War. e largest margin of victory by Oregon in the Civil War is its 44-0 win over the Beavers in 1987.

Former Oregon State Beavers head coach Gary Andersen celebrates after last season’s Civil War victory.

“We can’t take anybody lightly,” Royce Freeman, one of 20 seniors listed on the roster to play his last game at Autzen Stadium, said.

“Finishing out the season right is definitely what we’re focused on this week.”

Offensively, the Beavers rank 83rd in the nation in passing offense and 94th in the nation in rushing offense. e defense ranks 118th in the nation, giving up 6.51 yards per play. One thing that stands out for Oregon cooffensive coordinator Mario Cristobal is the size of the players.

“A really large group of guys,” Cristobal said. “Across the front, they’re averaging 325 pounds. ey’re real long. … ey play the ball well and they understand their scheme.”

Prior to last season’s loss, it’s been a long time since Oregon players and fans felt what it’s like to lose in a Civil War game; however, the recent matchups have been close games. ree out of the last four meetings between the two schools have been decided by ten points or less, despite Oregon State finishing those seasons with four wins or less.

“We’ve got that bitter taste in our mouths that we’ve had for an entire year,” Taggart said. ”I don’t think our guys want that taste anymore. … You can throw the records out in a ball game like this. You’ve got to come ready to play.”

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