Dan Lanning was aggressive Saturday in Seattle, as he has been every week since taking over at Oregon.

In a 36-33 road loss to Washington, Oregon twice turned down field goal opportunities inside the Washington 10-yard-line and then failed to convert a fourth down at midfield with two minutes to play that directly preceded Washington’s game-winning touchdown.

The game ended on a pushed 43-yard field goal from the Ducks, but Lanning’s decision-making throughout the game loomed large over the result. And he took full responsibility for that in the postgame.

“You have some guys hurting in that locker room. They really wanted that one,” Lanning said. “There’s some decisions we probably could have made differently throughout that game.”

Lanning passed up on the opportunity to kick a field goal on fourth-and-goal from the UW 3 to end the first half. Oregon looked like it had a walk-in touchdown on third down, but quarterback Bo Nix missed his target. Lanning let Nix and the offense stay out on the field and swing for the momentum right before the break anyway.

The Ducks failed, and they went into halftime trailing 22-18.

Lanning told ESPN’s Holly Rowe immediately after that the Ducks want to stay aggressive.

Then, on a fourth-and-3 from the UW 8 in the third quarter, Oregon passed on another field goal attempt. At that point, they were trailing by 11.

“We felt that was an opportunity for us to get a touchdown, and obviously a touchdown changes the game,” Lanning said of the decisions. “We’re probably not talking about it if we get a touchdown.

“That being said, the one before half is really one where you can go back and say let’s take that field goal. It’s something I’m going to assess and go evaluate for me. … We liked the look and we just didn’t execute.”

On a fourth-and-3 from the Washington 47-yard-line with 2:16 to play, Oregon could have punted and tried to pin UW deep.

Against Michael Penix Jr. and an explosive Washington offense, Lanning put his faith in Nix again to make a play.

Nix’s pass fell incomplete and UW scored two plays later to take the lead for good.

“They’re an explosive offense,” Lanning said of Washington. “We don’t necessarily know if there’s a difference in them from 75 compared to 50 yards with the ability they have to put the ball down the field and stretch the field.

“We felt like it was more advantageous to be able to close the game out.”

Lanning is in the spot no coach wants to be in. The play works, he’s praised. The play fails, he’s skewered. It is a results business at the end of the day, but Lanning has always given the impression he’d rather go down swinging than play things quietly.

That approach cost Oregon last year against Washington in a 37-34 home loss. And it cost Oregon again on Saturday.

“I’ll always go back and evaluate myself and say, OK, what can I do different,” Lanning said.

Lanning said he trusts kicker Camden Lewis, who pushed what would have been a game-tying field goal as time expired. The game should not have come down to that, Lanning said.

“I think that this game is 100% on me,” Lanning said. “I don’t think you guys gotta look anywhere else besides me.

“I think every one of us can look at decisions that were made today, and… if you kick the field goal before half or you kick the field goal somewhere else, it could’ve been a different result.”