Dan Lanning breaks down play of offensive line in Oregon scrimmage

Dan Lanning and Oregon are dealing with a major challenge this spring, developing an offensive line amid major turnover. There are four starters from last season who have moved on.

At a position group that is only as strong as its weakest link and relies on communication, getting the offensive line ready for the season won’t happen overnight.

Following Oregon’s first scrimmage, Lanning broke down the play of the Ducks’ offensive line.

“We didn’t have a lot of penalties up front,” Dan Lanning said. “The only thing, we had a false start early and then our snaps had been much better today than they had been. [We] have some different pieces and parts rotating, but overall I thought they operated well.”

Despite this praise, Lanning did acknowledge that there is still work to do for the offensive line.

“Still got to go to work to push the tempo and be able to go as fast as we want to go at times.”

Dan Lanning isn’t just dealing with players turning over on the offensive line, though. A’lique Terry is taking over for Adrian Klemm as the team’s offensive line coach. A former GA for Oregon, Terry is now tasked with bringing his voice to the offensive line while managing that turnover.

Will Stein on his offensive philosophy

Along with changes to the offensive line specifically, Oregon is also seeing turnover at the offensive coordinator role. Will Stein has replaced Kenny Dillingham as the team’s offensive coordinator, bringing his own offensive system.

“Well, I am a product of great coaching, from my time at Trinity High School in Louisville, Kentucky, under Bob Beatty. Then, I played for Jeff Brohm, I played for Matt Wells, I played for Mike Rowe, Sean Watson, Bobby Petrino, Charlie Strong, Tom Herman, Hank Carter at Lake Travis High School, Jeff Traylor, and now here with Dan [Lanning]. So, my background is I’ve been blessed. I’ve been around some unbelievable human beings that know how to coach the game at the highest level,” Stein said.

“And, offensively, our job is to get our best players the ball as many times as possible. It’s not — plays are highly overrated. It’s about the players and here at Oregon we have unbelievable players. Really excited to work with them. We really base out of a pro-style offense but with spread principles. RPOs, run action pass, play action pass. I like to think that we’re multiple in our personnel groupings and our formations, and we want to be an attacking offense that throws the ball down the field.”