Dan Lanning Has Some High Praise for Dante Moore Entering This Season

In most college football circles, if the Oregon Ducks aren't slated as the favorites to win the national championship, they're not too far off the number one slot. 

They have one of the top coaches in the sport in Dan Lanning and are returning a litany of NFL-caliber talent on both sides of the football from last season. The biggest name, of course being quarterback Dante Moore. 

Moore is returning to Eugene to finish the job he started last season, and the same job that ended one game short of the national championship game. This year, he's ready to take that next step. 

There have been several quarterbacks who have come before Moore, who, while they also weren't able to bring a national championship to Eugene, had an elite grasp on the system and Lanning's offense. 

Today, head coach Dan Lanning let people know that Dante Moore is about to play on a different level mentally than we've seen from him before. 

Dante Moore didn't come back solely with the intention of pushing for a national championship. Although he was slated to be a top-five pick in this upcoming draft, he returned with the intention of growing into an even more gifted player than he already was. 

That's tough to imagine from a guy who threw for 4,565 yards and 30 touchdowns on nearly 72%% accurancy, but there were areas of improvement. Turnovers for one, but more broadly, a deeper understanding of the offense and the system he was playing in. 

Today, during media availability, Lanning was asked about Dante Moore's standings in regards to the mental mastery of the offense we saw from his last two quarterbacks, Bo Nix and Dillon Gabriel. 

Lanning's response? "He's there."

Lanning went on to reference a play from earlier in the day of practice in which Moore checked a play in practice that they didn't even have tagged with the potential for a check, but he did it solely off the look that he was given. 

Dante Moore's raw skills, paired with an apparent new elite understanding of not just the offense, but of the defenses that he's being presented with, is a scary sight. I have a feeling that Oregon fans are going to have quite a time watching Moore in this Ducks offense this season. 

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