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Football Practice Report: July 31
07/31/25 | Football
The Ducks held their second practice of preseason camp Thursday in Autzen Stadium.
EUGENE, Ore. — Preseason practice continued for the Oregon football team Thursday with a workout under the afternoon sun inside Autzen Stadium.
The Ducks will be back to work Friday and Saturday, then take Sunday off before picking up again with the first full week of workouts beginning Monday.
Following Thursday's practice, defensive coordinator Tosh Lupoi met with local media. Video of that interview is embedded below.
Some highlights from coach Lupoi …
On shaking off the rust from the offseason and gearing up for another Big Ten title chase: ""Really, the challenge for us is we want to treat every day like it's day one. So naturally when it truly is day one, there's gonna be some things your body's not used to doing. The tempo, the speed going against the offense at this type of speed. It's obviously very different than the summer approach, but that's my challenge, is every day we're approaching like day one. No focus is going to be upon the poisonous pill of success of what we accomplished last season."
On development of newcomers to the program who arrived after last season and went through spring and summer workouts: "The expectations have grown. Those guys that we're talking about that came aboard, the mistakes are not going to be acceptable now that they may have made early on, and expectations rise of those guys. We've got a group that's talented … and I think dangerous if we get their talent headed in the right direction."
On the development of Bryce Boettcher into a proven leader for the defense after originally walking on: "He came in and the A to B, explosive, aggressive physicality — very apparent. The issue on day one was that you could step right and he might go out through the tunnel, back to the baseball field by accident. So I commend him on coming in routinely and asking, 'What exactly do I got to get better at? What do I got to fix?' … You talk about the epitome of a guy that's gonna attack the process. He came in with a different mentality. And I really commend a guy like that."
The Ducks will be back to work Friday and Saturday, then take Sunday off before picking up again with the first full week of workouts beginning Monday.
Following Thursday's practice, defensive coordinator Tosh Lupoi met with local media. Video of that interview is embedded below.
Some highlights from coach Lupoi …
On shaking off the rust from the offseason and gearing up for another Big Ten title chase: ""Really, the challenge for us is we want to treat every day like it's day one. So naturally when it truly is day one, there's gonna be some things your body's not used to doing. The tempo, the speed going against the offense at this type of speed. It's obviously very different than the summer approach, but that's my challenge, is every day we're approaching like day one. No focus is going to be upon the poisonous pill of success of what we accomplished last season."
On development of newcomers to the program who arrived after last season and went through spring and summer workouts: "The expectations have grown. Those guys that we're talking about that came aboard, the mistakes are not going to be acceptable now that they may have made early on, and expectations rise of those guys. We've got a group that's talented … and I think dangerous if we get their talent headed in the right direction."
On the development of Bryce Boettcher into a proven leader for the defense after originally walking on: "He came in and the A to B, explosive, aggressive physicality — very apparent. The issue on day one was that you could step right and he might go out through the tunnel, back to the baseball field by accident. So I commend him on coming in routinely and asking, 'What exactly do I got to get better at? What do I got to fix?' … You talk about the epitome of a guy that's gonna attack the process. He came in with a different mentality. And I really commend a guy like that."
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