Dan Lanning met with reporters on Tuesday following Oregon’s 11th practice of fall camp. He said he was encouraged with the situational work the Ducks were able to get accomplished on Tuesday — despite being forced indoors by poor air quality outside — and said the end-of-game work was handled well.

The second-year Oregon head coach

Here’s what he had to say, with select quotes below:

On his takeaways from the team’s first scrimmage:

“There was a ton of things looking back. We want to tackle better. We’ve gotta take care of the ball better. A lot of things that I walked away with saying right after the scrimmage still hold true. Situationally, you’ve got to play a little bit better situational ball, red area, two-minute, for both sides of the ball. We have to stop the run better defensively and have to do a better job in those situations offensively.”

On what he has liked from practice so far:

“Energy. Competitive toughness. There’s the physicality, you know. Our guys are playing physical. More than anything, our guys are bringing good juice.”

On the competition at the STAR position:

“Competitive. I’d describe it as really competitive. Again, it’s more for me finding how many guys do we feel can play, not just one guy that can singularly play. We want more than one. You never play a season with the same guys out there — all 11 on D, all 11 on O. That changes consistently. Trying to find as many as we can that can be competitive there and we have competitive competition.”

On when they move away from cross-training and focus on specific spots for players

“We have focus already. But that doesn’t mean you don’t know something else or you’re not aware of something else.”