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I like the idea of Locksley. I hope this doesn't last more than one or two weeks.

It's JJ! What could go wrong? (🤬😧🥸) This guy has more CFB frequent-flyer miles than a United Airlines pilot. He doesn't seem to be at the apogee of his career. (DUH!) Chip brought back the Winged T, and Northwestern and QB Aiden Chiles are lighting it up. Win one for the Gipper and bring back the Single Wing? No place is finer on December 22nd than Shreveport, Louisiana, and it's only a 40-hour drive from Eugene. 😁

I read nothing in the article that felt biased. His bringing up the coaching losses and listing them really helped me understand why coaching is so poor this year. A LOT of turnover outside players transferring out.

Best of fortune to Dante Moore. A fine young man. I'd do a thorough review of the offseason and the errors made that translated into a very disappointing, bordering on a historically disappointing, regular season. In today's CFB, you cannot lose the offseason and compete for championships. Texas A&M, with its starting QB not injured, made the same kind of offseason mistakes and is also experiencing a season out of Hades. Conversely, Will Stein perfectly mined the portal, including the O-line position, and has Kentucky winning the closest of games and is on top of the SEC. As Urban Meyer and many others have noted, O-line today is the toughest position to recruit to and develop, and quality O-line starters out of the portal are gold. Three O-line players who transferred to Oregon were part of a 2025 Joe Moore Award finalist line and are on NFL rosters. Accordingly, and as others have noted above, a dual-threat QB, or at least a QB who can run the ball when necessary, is more of a necessity than a luxury. Dylan Raiola was not the answer at Nebraska, and he's not the answer in Eugene.

Always thought that one of the strengths of DL's program was a REAL connection to the wider Oregon Football community, including many former Ducks with NFL offensive experience. Now, it's hard to escape the perception that Lanning is operating as a lone wolf, and he seems to be swinging in the wind. I hope I'm wrong and there is a wealth of collaborative wisdom being shared and listened to behind the scenes of OBD 2026 train wreck. Go Ducks

In the long run this may be the best news for Dante! Time to heal is Dante's future. Getting drafted by a good team instead of a weak run organization gives Dante time to heal. And time to improve! Sometimes the speed of the college game appears ro be too much for Dante. The NFL plays at warp spees. Some NFL teams have a revolving door for coaches and QB's. So falling in the draft is not a bad thing. No reason ro get saddled with one of those poorly run organizatipns. Besides the generational money is in the 2nd contract. A QB can lift a team, however they need a team to lift. Thankful for Dante being a Duck. And wish him a full recovery. His financial future is set, his health is not a sure king.

That Beaver team would have been a huge problem in a twelve team playoff. I'd say if Lanning has not at least been in contact with J Smith or Locksley from Maryland by now, something's wrong. If either one wants the job, sign them up ASAP before the roster and recruits start looking elsewhere.

How about Jonathan Smith, the ex Oregon State coach? Good offensive coordinator at Washington, successful head coach for the Beavers. I asked AI and he doesn't seem to be currently employed after getting dumped by Michigan State. Dude played quarterback for one of the best Oregon State teams ever. I'm surprised that no one has mentioned his name.

I'm shocked that Lanning cares more about a smooth operation than putting someone else who sucks just as bad as the guy he just fired in the role. Someone else, anyone else is better than someone that has already proven they can't do it.

MSU fans are roasting us right now.

This article was written by Paolo Uggetti. He is a USC Trojan graduate in 2017. He covered the Trojans football team for two seasons. Deep down inside, he is probably stoked that the Ducks have crashed and burned.

Let’s just hope no other player gets hurt this year and we don’t lose our 2027 class. About what this season has come to, Sigh.

Before Jeremiah Masoli, before Akili Smith, I think the 'modern era' Duck QB started with the Rich Brooks' 1980 squad and Reggie Ogburn (props to Brooks for being desperate enough to think outside the then proverbial drop-back QB box). The guy was a 5'9", 190 lb dripping wet, 4.5 40, dual threat, JC transfer who came out of nowhere and shredded the Pac-10 at quarterback. He probably would have been the equivalent of a 2 star recruit. Then, a local guy who was considered highly risky recruit by the name of Chris Miller, showed up and went on to have a storied Duck career -- and a fine NFL career as well. We also, once upon a time, found a 3 star QB recruit from some island in the Pacific, that no other teams seemed to be very interested in. Then, in I believe 2016, we had some other local 3-star kid practically walk on, that no other D1 school was interested in. I believe he ended up getting a max contract in the NFL. (that's two stud QBs from Eugene's Sheldon High School that almost nobody was interested in). Looking back, I'm a bit amazed at how some of the greatest QB talent we've ever had seemed to practically drop in our laps from seemingly almost out of nowhere.

The punishment for deliberately hitting QBs and other key players to cause injury is not large enough. The only thing keeping deliberately injuring a QB from becoming common appears to be fear of retaliation on the field. This is the second year (that I can remember) the Ducks had their season derailed by a deliberately caused QB injury. The Trojans have to be greeting the Ducks QB troubles with glee. Players are looking at this as a successful strategy.

Does Ty Thompson ring a bell? Everyone was clamoring for him when MC was HC. That didn't work out very well. He transferred and still wasn't the starter. I agree let Akili take the field but I'm not holding my breath over it.

Fingers crossed. Three Things to Know About Oregon Ducks’ New Play-Caller Jay Johnson

No Timeline Oregon Football: Dan Lanning provides look at OC search timeline

It is a different landscape today than in the early years. Indiana, UCLA, USC, Miami, Notre Dame, hell even Kentucky all have transfer QB’s. Few true freshman or even RS Freshman can take you to a championship. The Ducks are going to continually recruit the portal for QB’s. Next year will be no exception. Will Mencl may never see the field until 2030. He won’t stay around that long. Just the way it is.

Agreed. I am so done with hearing that AS Jr isn't that good. If he had gone to Illinois instead of Oregon the story would have been a four star redshirt freshman QB winning the game instead of a true freshman 3 star. Why does it seem like Oregon needs five star QBs to play great when just about anybody we play can throw in back up three stars and do just fine? It is hard to believe that every QB the UO has recruited since Herbert in 2016 has sucked. How can it be that Rich Brooks in the 80's with god awful offenses could still recruit better QB's like Chris Miller and Bill Musgrave than a perennial top 10 team with outstanding offense year after year? How? HOW? Nearly every QB the Ducks recruited and started from Miller through Dennis Dixon at least got drafted in the NFL (1984-2007). Since then they have mostly relied on transfers. Something really doesn't add up.

True, but a few million to play another year at Oregon and then get the bigger amount a year later would be a nice path as well.

A good article. Painful, but good. Right now, when I think about our program, I feel like I've been rocked with a concussion.

Critiqued at Wyoming for predictable play calling. This certainly sounds a bit like same ol' same ol' to me. At least the defense is playing pretty well and should keep us in most games.

It has been mentioned many times on this site and I will throw my hat into that ring as well. I miss the days of a dual-threat QB. ASJR is just that. Why don't we see what we have there? I know we paid DR and maybe knowing that the job is his to lose will motivate him...or maybe this is just the version of DR that exists. I realize that they may be trying to preserve a redshirt, or maybe he isn't great at reading complex defenses...who knows. How 'bout we give him the ball and say, "go do what you do".

Agree or disagree, interesting points were brought up in this article. From championship hopes to rock bottom, what went wrong for Oregon?"Sometimes it's the health of the team, it's the bounce of the ball. There's some things that you really can't control," said former Oregon coach Mike Bellotti, who helped start Oregon's era of modern success with the program's first ever double-digit win season in 2000. "Yet when you have the initial ranking and the belief and you've paid [$50 million] amount of dollars for a roster, there comes to be a certain belief that, 'Wow, this is our year' but things still have to go right and they haven't." How it all started to unravelYet a closer look at what the Ducks lost from last season yielded some glaring results. While no marquee names left Eugene, Oregon, lost 27 players in the January portal who were all rotational players or backups. What's more: 23 of those Oregon transfers ended up at other Power 4 programs, despite only one of them (Jahlil Florence) starting more than three career games for the Ducks. Fifteen of those 23 players are starters for a new team this season with several starting for ranked teams, including Ole Miss outside linebacker Blake Purchase and Alabama defensive lineman Terrance Green. No loss was bigger than offensive coordinator Will Stein. His departure to be Kentucky's head coach prompted a robust staff exodus too, including Pat Biondo to be Kentucky's GM, Cutter Leftwich to be his offensive line coach, Parker Fleming to be his special teams coordinator and Dallas Warmack as assistant offensive line coach. Even more, former defensive coordinator Tosh Lupoi left his post as defensive coordinator to take the head coaching job at Cal and brought six former Oregon staffers along with him to Berkeley. https://insider.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/50286778/oregon-demise-failure-season-lanning

Meh got fired... why is everyone shocked its not another play caller behind him?