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It could be bit like Penn State 2025 where seemingly small changes in the roster and coordinator changes lacked chemistry with the players. Maybe having Bryce Boetcher graduating took away the heart and soul of the defense. Not having him flying around out there like psycho has to be a different vibe. I'm wondering if that is why will Stratton was in for a bit, seeing if a walk on could inspire the team to play the game with heart. Tosh may not have been the best play caller, but the dude had a vibe that will make you lock in and ball. On the Offense, the struggle is real with the OL. The 3 players we lost may not have been all World (pun intended), but they were experienced and consistent and gelled with the each other. I do believe Dan Lanning is better than James Franklin and will refuse to accept this team falling apart. Mehringer's play calling seemed better to me this game and I thought I saw some adjustments at halftime that helped. It's certainly no fun to be calling plays with a struggling run game. Then again, Drew Mehringer was shut out 4 games as the OC at Rutgers in what some called the worst offensive season in the history of the school, which is kind of a lot of years. At the post game press conference, Dan said heis still not down and out enough to question the current offensive and defensive schemes that "worked well for us for years", so if you are really sick of them, you had better hope we keep losing until Dan seriously questions them.

I don't want to criticize or single out players other than to say I saw very little intensity during the game. The Ducks appeared to be sleepwalking. Even worse, the team wasn't just beaten, they looked beaten down. That's a bad situation in dire need of correction. A real coaching challenge. There's a lot of work to be done between this game and the coming one with USC in a few weeks.

Going into his 5th season, is it fair to say that's he's top-notch at recruiting and culture-building, but sub-par in game preparation and game coaching?

Coordinators matter. The turnover is a big part of this.

I don't. But I have had reservations about the scheme on defense since before Ohio State embarrassed OBD. But I think the offense isn't really that bad. I'll keep it short. It looks like Lanning is concerned about pass coverage. The scheme is built to defend passing offenses. Here's the problem. A Four man front against six in the box neutralizes all that front 4 talent. In fact, sliding your ends inside as a strategy completely opens the edges up. That scheme is a major flaw. Also, I don't subscribe to 2 linebackers and two safeties as my solution to stopping running plays. And believe me, if I see this, you bet every elite coach wants to play Oregon right now. On offense-Dante Moore plays favorites. He is not reading the field. Gaitlin Bair was open on a Mesh Rout concept and Moore threw to McClellan short (dropped pass that wouldn't have converted on third down anyway). Dante Moore has to be comfortable. He is not going to throw receivers open-he just doesn't want to. Of course I would diagram this and show tape-but nobody wants to look at OBD when we lose. Once the season settles in I will show EXACTLY what I see. It is disturbing. The strategy Lanning wants to employ is simple to solve. Coaches are adjusting to some real sophisticated and evolutionary stuff in real time. College coaches are using NFL strategy. And they are killing it. I believe Kirby Smart may be heading the same way. He doesn't have a talent issue like Lanning has (sloppy DB coverage, ineffective OL play-which just might be coaching though). Football is becoming very interesting. I see moves and counter moves Lanning is either ignoring, or he doesn't believe it effects his ability to win. That isn't the case at the elite level for sure. And believe me, there are plenty of coaches at the G6 level that grasp the evolution of the game. I will show you guys lots of things I've learned this summer. The last thing I will say is this: the players don't seem to believe they are good enough. They are wilting in the face of teams that are hungry. The coaches are assuming things will evolve to the degree they don't have to adjust to the conditions on the ground. That is a HUGE mistake. They can't throw out all they schemed for this season, but they don't seem to realize teams know just about everything they will do. OBD are simply talented enough to win plays anyway most of the time. Now remember-I'm just a hack. I have coached semi pro ball, and it was difficult to say the least. Especially since the players completely believed they could just show up and play totally unprepared. In my studies this summer, I found out why coaches approach the game as they do. That was interesting as well, It takes an extreme amount of dedication and flexibility to excel at this game.

ESPN did this game dirty. I only feel bad for OSU though. There are worse things for us than most of the nation missing that 4th quarter on ESPN News.

I just hope this is not Penn St. 2.0 (record wise, I know the coach is staying).

The team lacks cohesiveness from the top down. Back when Cristóbal was the coach I called him the Clay Helton of the north. I think DL is now the Clay Helton of the north even though Clay's gone. More talent than most teams in the nation and it's being wasted. Oregon had this issue at times last year where they came out slow but they picked up steam as the game went on. This year they don't seem to have that ability. Oregon would've lost last sat if it was in Bst. Right now 7-5 would be predicted which is hugely disappointing. On the upside there's still a lot of football left. On the downside there's still a lot of football left.

When the game got bumped to espn2 it was almost as big of a crap show as the game itself. I swear I could here them walking the camera over to midfield and the annoucers were gone.

Another weakness is QB is not a good runner.

THIS!

Both coordinators look lost. Dan needs to hire NFL coordinators next year

Not sure I can. I was in Honduras with a guy that was on the Bus when Kiffin got the tarmac. He was one of the down votes. He sitting right next to me right now, pretty much in shock at how Oregon has played up to this point.

You will not believe your eyes when you watch the replay...

Um, four of those quarters our defense pitched a shutout. JMU was totally on the scrubs. But it sure looks like the scrubs are no worse than the starters at this point. I truly wonder what the team is going through. The level of performance has fallen worse than a meteor. And the loss feels just as catastrophic as an impact on the planet. So the question is what will it take to look like they did when they bounced Texas Tech. Or better yet, how can they duplicate the performance in November 2024, but just obliterate teams. I surely hope this team plays their rear-ends off in Los Angeles. I don't even care if they win or lose. I just want to see some intensity, some nastiness, and if it takes running highlights of Dick Butkus and Ray Lewis, play those films until we see it on the field. Even if they don't push people back, I want to hear pads cracking.

Just landed in Houston from Honduras. Wow! Not sure what happened to this team but from the comments it don't look good

At this point, I just want a team I can root for win or lose. A team that competes with some fire regardless of how many stars they rate. I hope Lannng can see how bad this was. This wasn’t just a loss. It was uninspired ineptitude from the coaches to the players in full view of the world. I think he needs to at the least demote his O/C and D/C back to position coaches. Maybe shift to O/C by committee and take over D/C himself. Then, hire some real ones like he should have done last year. I’ve seen the Ducks look much worse on the field in my day but I’ve never seen them look so unprepared and rudderless. Something has to change because that was just ridiculously bad.

I sure hope EVERYBODY THAT HAS MADE A NEGATIVE COMMENT IS STILL COMMENTING IN DECEMBER. Stand by your Ducks. Horrible performance or not. What is everyone going to do if this team goes 6-6? They look horrible. Guess what, my first Oregon game was 0-63. This team is nowhere near that pit. I truly hope our fan base NEVER becomes as insufferable as other programs that win and expect national championships every year. Right now-OBD suck. Plain and simple. Who cares how good we were last year-it never transfers to the following year. EVER. So forget about the talent. Forget about what we have been the past 3 years. Don't worry about the coaches. They don't play the game. These players either believe they are elite, or they don't. It will show up in how they play the rest of the season. At this moment, scheme doesn't matter. Culture doesn't matter. Coaching doesn't matter. In case you haven't noticed, the level and excellent coaching in college football is far more elite than it ever has been. All the way down to FCS level. Oklahoma State threw stuff at OBD like Cignetti did TWICE last year. And it isn't because Dan Lanning can't coach. It is because coaches are spending maximum time figuring out how to stop these elite teams. I saw Dante Moore wince when he had a TD pass, then later throw the same pass for 20 plus yards. We saw elite WRs drop FIVE passes. One of them was simply jumping to catch the pass and score a TD. You cannot throw the passes for Dante Moore. You cannot go on the field like Woody Hayes did and punch a player. Your players have to do the pummeling. And at the moment, this team is not mean and nasty. This team is not hungry. This team isn't running through walls. Experts are calling OBD wusses. And they were being kind. You might not like the coaches, but I guarantee you, NONE OF US can go on that field and call a better game. NOT ONE. Do I want to see a different scheme-HELL YES. But it is not my team. Now I might be brash enough and start showing everything I am pretty sure coaches already know about our coaching staff-but the entire team must decide who they are and what they want to do the rest of this season. We should be there for them because FEBU is unacceptable. The team should not have to tell the fans to take a hike.

Does not matter. Not that we lost but how we lost. Those were easier to accept until now. I am by no means writing off the year only saying that the trend line is not good. I am certainly not suggesting in any way that Dan should be on the hot seat. Just an observation on what IMHO is fact relative to the last 18 quarters. See what the future holds.

I have been thinking along the same lines as Solar, whose recent statement was fair and sensible. My observations, for what little they are worth: I grew up in Eugene but live in Atlanta. If you have never dealt with Southern heat and humidity, you have no idea how debilitating it is. This is no excuse, this is a reality. Lindy's said before the season that OK State was a dark horse contender for the Big 12 championship. Yes, they looked bad last week, but the real team is probably the one that showed up against the Ducks. Morris is a good coach who clearly has some players. To my recollection, Drew Mehringer did not commit any holds, fumble the ball, drop any passes or miss any blocks today, unlike several of his players. I doubt that A'lique Terry has forgotten how to coach. The more obvious explanation for the offensive woes is that our offensive linemen are not good run blockers. Also, I don't know what to think about Iuli. Is he a full strength or not? The results today may suggest that the time has come to take a chance on Tommy Tofi. Otherwise, I see no quick fixes. I would be interesting in hearing from Schwartz and everyone here on this. My policy is not to call out individual players, but I make exceptions in the case of bad sportsmanship. When Dakorian Moore scored his touchdown, which was an important moment in the game, he seemed more interested in doing his dance than celebrating with his teammates and actually keeping his mind on the game. The referee reminded him to knock it off. Call me old school, but I dislike this kind of display. The bigger problem is what it indicates about the player's mental preparation for the game. I blame them more than the coaches, as dealing with this generation is no doubt difficult.

Zero energy from the team. O Line looks like a Beavis team (that’s even being generous). Dante Moore looked like he wasn’t focused at all except maybe for a few minutes in the 2nd half. The defense is a straight fraud. Too many missed tackles that should have easily been made behind the LOS. Finney still looks good but he isn’t winning the game for us. Running backs atleast looks like they could be great however, see previous comment about O Line. Was always a Drew Mehringer skeptic and it’s been 100% validated. He looks like he’s just pulling Will Stein plays out of a box at random. Dante will be lucky to be a top ten pick. Atleast he may slide to a decent team but he won’t be a starter anywhere at this point. Could definitely get an NFL GM fired for sure!

"We kind of call ourselves the guinea pigs of college football.” Remember 2021 when 6 people were out with foot injuries? I blamed Nike then and this only reinforced my opinion. I remember another time when we tried out a new style of helmet and everyone got headaches, thank goodness it was just the off-season. There are pros and cons to this.

I'd like to throw out another possible correlation...the only teams Dan Lanning has ever lost to were teams that played or won the national championship or teams with orange and black jerseys with school acronyms of OSU.

I have yet to see a Ducks vs Them hype video after a loss.

Future NFL guys being paid big bucks for this? Back-to-back games where I saw ZERO enthusiasm on the field? Where is the on-field leadership? The only hope? This is how Ohio State no-showed much of the 2025 season before kicking it into gear. But Ohio State made the PO as a 2-loss team. Will this Oregon team finish 10-2? Players making lots of dough who could be in the NFL appear to be unfocused and uninterested. Where's the pride? I agree with a number of the above comments. How about less focus on the bells and whistles marketing and more attention on winning games? I'm sorry, but this includes Dan being available to participate in a pregame Pat McAfee contest. FOCUS and give a whip!