Yeah Mehringer deserves heat, but also no point in firing him now cause we have nobody capable to call plays due to Dan’s mismanagement of the offense.
For context, Drew is 38, the next oldest coach on the offensive staff is Ka’ai, who is 33. Douglas and Samples are the hot names for taking over playcalling from Drew for the rest of the season, but they’re both 31 and Douglas has 0 playcalling experience and Samples has very limited playcalling experience.
But yeah, fire Terry yesterday, we have assistants that can cover in his departure until we get a real OLine coach in the offseason, and I believe a strong message needs to be sent to the entire coaching staff and fanbase, that Dan ain’t settling.
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I meant in-season, since that’s what droop10 was referring to. Firing Mehringer now would only make things worse.UOducksTK1 wrote:Don't you have to adapt to what you have to some extent though? I believe UCLA's defense was ranked 85th nationally against very weak competition going into our game. I know the OL is in shambles, but then design the offense and play calling to work around some of the weaknesses.dthomas=ddixon wrote: Wed Oct 14, 2026 11:26 am To be clear, I don’t want Mehringer fired. I don’t think he’s an offensive genius by any means but I also don’t think it’s fair to judge him with the OL he’s forced to work with. I don’t know how you coordinate a great offense with a line that is a complete mess most plays.
I do think Terry should be fired ASAP. The state of the OL is inexcusable and Mike Cavanaugh is a proven OL already on the staff as an analyst who could step in as an interim OL coach.
We basically score 0 touchdowns until 2 minutes left in the game. The first touchdown on the 2 yard line was really a defensive touchdown if anything.
We did more with Jeff Lockie, Dakota Prukop, etc... And integration between groups also falls on the OC/Head coach. So yeah scoring no TDs against UCLA for 58 minutes is unacceptable period. Don't care how bad the OL is. Also OL pass blocking was much better than their run blocking!!! We had 34 pass attempts and 'only' 10 of those were hurries. So you can't just blame the OL. Mehringer dropped the ball against UCLA.

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Oh my bad, yes in-season fires are seldom a good thing.

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Re: #21 UCLA @ #13 Oregon (Oct 10, Sat 12:30 PM CBS)
The more I watch film, the less I blame Raiola and the more I blame the OLine. The fact that Dan hasn’t fired Terry yet is making me start to doubt Dan. If Terry is still employed next season along with the rest of the offensive coaching staff then Dan might be turning into Helf 2.0.
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