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Oregon Ducks Offensive Coordinator Drew Mehringer discusses their left tackle group. Mehringer talks about how they have a strong left tackle room and how they have good young players who have grown and worked hard. He also talks about how that position is going to be competitive.
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00:04sort of circling back to poncho at left tackle you guys you guys lost three starters on the
00:09offensive line to the nfl that can be pretty daunting from those programs but you guys didn't
00:13go buck wild in the transfer portal which is an indication that you probably like what you have
00:17can you talk a little bit about what that group looks like for you right now yeah i mean i
00:21don't
00:21think it's any secret that uh our league has done an unbelievable job with those guys i mean three
00:27times in a row joe more uh joe more word uh semi-finalists um and it's not because there's
00:32just five guys that are out there right um you know you look and we start the the sc game
00:38and
00:38fox crater starts that left tackle for us right um and how many snaps has fox played up until that
00:43point not a ton right and how does he play in that game he plays pretty well um so i
00:49think that we're
00:49at a point where we have a lot of good young players in that position that have grown and developed
00:54and
00:54worked hard um and they're ready to take a step you know um who are those guys going to be
01:00uh i'm not
01:01sure yet like we'll see like those are going to be like it's going to be very competitive at that
01:05position um ryan switzer told me a quote that he had um from mike tomlin right when he was uh
01:12vying for
01:13the slot receiver position right when he was in pittsburgh right and there's two dogs and one bone
01:18right um there's still got to be continuity right there's still got to be um uh you know power of
01:25the unit so to speak within there like they all got to support each other right but the they got
01:29to push and uh we'll see who those five are but i do think that um we do have a
01:34lot of uh good young
01:35players and i think guys that are coming on um you know uh guys that we haven't seen as much
01:42on game
01:42day but that have grown and developed and are are ready for their for their opportunities
01:48you
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