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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!

I think it's a little of column A, a little of column B, you're right, the whole operation failed today, and it does start at the top. I do think the players need to be held accountable.

I'm not sure the hype videos are the rat poison, and those are still great for recruiting.

Losing 2 of the last 3 is a sobering thought, but I am certainly not ready to jump on the “Can Dan Train” yet.

Good call Mr Fischer. Looking forward to getting right next week.

On top of that the run wasnt working and neither the short passes, so why not take your chances on some long passes and build some momentum?

You're free to define a trend across the last few games of one season and the first two games of the next season in college football, but there are too many variables for me. It's too early in the season to write us off as being capable of being a good team.

Starting with JMU up to now… Defense last two quarters vs JMU Four quarters vs Indiana Four quarters vs BSU Four quarters vs Ok. State Offense… Four quarters vs Texas Tech Four quarters vs Indy Four quarters vs BSU Four quarters vs Ok. State Lose last two out of three… After today did not hear Lanning say he needs to coach better. This team could win 11 could win 5. USC is the make or break. Have to win BIG to get to CFP. Doubt it happens. Downward trend…

I think it is the coaches that need to have their perks stripped and not the players. I thought the players played hard but the coaches failed them. A coach should put their players in the best possible situations to win and coach Lanning did not do that today. His decision to go for it while deep in our own territory was just plain stupid.

It's never as bad as it looks either. There is a world where Ok State is in the B12 title game and Finishes in the top 20 right beside Boise State. It's flat out unfair for players with bodies conditioned to 60-70 degree dry air to suddenly play in 97 degree ultra high humidity air. It melts your brains and turns your muscles to jello. They were out in it way too long with the lightning delay to boot after getting up at 4am. Remember all the bad games against Arizona teams in November in the PAC12 when it was summer weather in AZ but we were used to fall weather? I believe it's harder to play good going from mild to too hot l, than going from mild to super cold. The game is over and so yes I'm making excuses, but this horrible loss is not inexplicable. We certainly have issues to fix with the inexperienced players, but if BSU and Ok State are really good and the weather impacted our players as badly as I have experienced before, there is still a possibility for this team to be really good this year. Natty? no, but playoffs? still possible. Next game.. Lastly I hope Carl Williams is okay, they showed him getting knocked out cold and he could barely even walk after he woke up. Tough to see.

The real weaknesses of this team are the Lines. I cant believe how bad the D line is considering the experience and the O line is just awful. My Grandma could get through them but our backs cant find a hole.

Actually, the social media stuff was really good this week, and the uniform reveal was to die for.

He's had 4 years to learn when to go for it on 4th down, he still consistently gets it wrong, we haven't completed one I believe this year, that's atrocious, he isn't going to learn. I do think he still is the best guy for the job, because I don't think we can get better. I don't think anybody is advocating for Lanning to be looked at the end of this season, but it would be nice to see him realize he can't always be this aggressive, and I would also like to see him take over some responsibilities when it comes to defensive play-calling. He needs to own that side of the ball.

I liked a few of them when they were new, but I don't watch a single one at this point, it's all fluff, it would be nice to actually care about the whole "bring a lunchpail". If I was Lanning I would strip the players this week of every perk they get. Have the meetings in some cafeteria on campus using the little school seats with the desks attached to them, make them change in the visiting locker room or even better make them go to student rec center, make them actually have to earn those perks back, but I'm sure it'll be business as usual, there won't be any consequences for this, they'll just complain that it was hot and it was early start.

He's as good as we can get for now. He's still young, so question is if he will learn from mistakes, or has he peaked? I think he will get better.

I expected to see progression from last week. Instead, I saw regression everywhere, except special teams. Thats coaching. Unfortunately, I suspect we've seen DL's ceiling.

Once upon a time we lost to PSU game one and went to the Rose Bowl. This team, hmm, just so much wrong.