Oregon Ducks discuss Offensive Coordinator Drew Mehringer putting his stamp on the offense
Oregon Ducks Offensive Coordinator Drew Mehringer discusses putting his stamp on the offense. Mehringer talks about how it is not his offense but the teams offense and how he has learned so much from them staff. He also talks about how they are seeing different pieces of the offense right now and how many things change in spring to season.
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You're taking over an offense that has been among the best in the nation for the past few years now.
How do you find a balance between, you know, not want to upset the apple cart, but also, you know, put your stamp on it now that you're the offensive coordinator, you're the play caller.
Uh, I think that like.
It's a, that's an interesting question, you know, it's kind of like, um, you know, people ask you like, what's your favorite play, right?
And I was like, yeah, whatever's gonna score, you know, like whatever we need to do in that particular moment.
Um, Do we, I think that one of the, the great things that we had with Will here previously is we saw the game very similarly, uh, not completely similar or not completely alike, but, uh, very similarly, and I think, you know, uh, I was asked a question about Will last fall camp, you know, um, and It was like, what do we think the offense is gonna look like?
And, um, I think Will would tell you the same thing.
It's, you know, every offense, every year is gonna be a little bit different, um, and regardless of who's calling plays or it's just the faces that are on the offense are gonna be a little bit different and the skills that you have on there.
There's gonna be some guys that are a year older and a little bit better.
There's gonna be some new guys that show up, there's gonna be some young guys that need to play for you.
What can they do and how can we put them in a position to be successful.
Um, You know, I think we're at a, a point right now early in spring where we're seeing, you know, where those pieces are gonna fit and who's gonna develop and um what they're gonna be able to do for us.
Um, you know, so what are we gonna be completely, uh, like in the fall?
I think it still remains to be seen.
I don't think that anybody going into, um, spring ball last year would have said that we would have been in as much two-back personnel as we were, but our running back room, Ended up being, uh, a, a real positive for us.
Um, and, you know, the two freshmen running backs for us played really, really well for us down the stretch, you know, and when we had some, we have a, we had a talented wideout room last year, we had another talented wideout room this year.
Um, but, you know, some guys got banged up, so we played in a little bit more 12 personnel.
Uh, and even you think about this time right now, last year, Jamari Johnson was not practicing because he was coming off a broken leg, you know what I mean?
So, um, I think a lot of that still remains to be seen and, and we're, you know, molding the pieces and putting them together.
Um, so, is it like the, the my stamp like thing, like, this is never gonna be Drew Maringer's offense, you know, or anything like that.
This is, this is always gonna be our offense.
There's a lot of voices, there's a lot of really smart coaches that are in this building, um, not just, uh, myself or any one particular person.
We have a , a very talented offensive staff and, um, I've learned, More football from Dan Lanning, uh, and, and Chris Hampton and those guys.
Um, so I think that there's always pieces that you can take and learn from, right?
And, uh, how can we use those pieces and that information to grow and get better and, um, allow our playmakers to go make some plays for us.
