Oregon Ducks coach Willie Taggart tackles Bryce Love v. Khalil Tate Heisman debate

Oregon Ducks coach Willie Taggart joined me on the Bald Faced Truth radio show (weekdays 12-3p on Portland's 102.9-FM and Eugene's 95.7-FM) to help me settle -- among other things -- something a lot of people in the Pac 12 are thinking about.

Who is the more Heisman-worthy player -- Arizona's Khalil Tate or Stanford's Bryce Love?

I have a Heisman vote. I asked Taggart what he would do with it.

Said Taggart: "I would say Khalil Tate. Because he makes you have to defend 11 guys on the football field. That's what makes them tough. Most defenses aren't designed to defend all 11 and the run game. They can spread guys out and run him or spread them out and be able to throw the ball and that's tough to defend. You look at a guy like Bryce Love, you turn around and hand the ball off and he's just playing backyard football. He's tough. Maybe you can split the vote."

Interestingly, it was a much different vote than Oregon State coach Cory Hall would make. He picked Love, who went for 166 yards against Washington. Listen to Hall tell you why here. 

Taggart on Oregon's up-and-down 5-5 football season:

"It's football. It's things you deal with as you go. Once you're real with yourself and understand where your team is at, you can deal with it a lot better. It's not necessarily where you want to be. It kind of sucks because you know how you could have been. But I think it's a learning process for all of us... the beauty about it is our guys did enough work early in the year to make it meaningful because we're still playing for something."

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