Breakdown Of Chris Peterson Offense

[PhillySpecial]

This article is from Sept. 07, 2015 Washington vs. Boise State. Chris Peterson was the HC of Washington.

I omitted the introduction to the story and some pictures and gifs.

https://www.uwdawgpound.com/2015/9/7/9268965/washington-huskies-offense-expained-2015

A Numbers Game
At the heart of the Petersen philosophy is the idea that athletic disadvantages can be neutralized simply by outnumbering your opponent at the point of attack. Groundbreaking sentiment, I know. However, this one principle neatly explains why Petersen is less concerned with things like having a defining tempo or a defining playing style. He wants to create situations where there are more blockers than defenders wherever it is that he wants to put the ball and he is willing to pull the levers of "formation" and "tempo" to do it.

How to create those advantages is they key question. Petersen believes strongly in keeping his options open once he gets to the line of scrimmage both in terms of play calls and alignment of personnel. One of the reasons that you see so many formations and so much shifting of formations pre-snap is because Petersen and his players are reacting to whatever it is they see from the defense in order to gain an advantage.

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[Hawkeye0202]

Did I miss something........

 

[PhillySpecial]

Did I miss something........

I'm not sure. But I'll take a stab at it. Chris Peterson was the HC at Boise State when Moore was their QB. This offense is often associated with what Moore will try to install as the Cowboys OC. Or at least use it to add some tweaks and wrinkle to the Cowboys O.

 

[Tangle_Foot]

No pic's. No gif's. No thanks.

 

[TexasHillbilly]

No pic's. No gif's. No thanks.

There was a link.

 

[TexasHillbilly]

There was a link.

Ok, I checked....sort of. This is about Peterson. It is a piece of news that accidentally got dropped in here. I thought it might have something to say about one of our players or coaches but I didn't see anything. Maybe the Philly fan meant to post it on his own sight.

 

[Sammy]

I'm not sure. But I'll take a stab at it. Chris Peterson was the HC at Boise State when Moore was their QB. This offense is often associated with what Moore will try to install as the Cowboys OC. Or at least use it to add some tweaks and wrinkle to the Cowboys O.

Yep.

 

[TexasHillbilly]

Yep.

Darn, I knew Boise sounded familiar. Should have read it a little deeper. My bad guys.

 

[SoupcanSam]

This article is from Sept. 07, 2015 Washington vs. Boise State. Chris Peterson was the HC of Washington.

I omitted the introduction to the story and some pictures and gifs.

https://www.uwdawgpound.com/2015/9/7/9268965/washington-huskies-offense-expained-2015

A Numbers Game
At the heart of the Petersen philosophy is the idea that athletic disadvantages can be neutralized simply by outnumbering your opponent at the point of attack. Groundbreaking sentiment, I know. However, this one principle neatly explains why Petersen is less concerned with things like having a defining tempo or a defining playing style. He wants to create situations where there are more blockers than defenders wherever it is that he wants to put the ball and he is willing to pull the levers of "formation" and "tempo" to do it.

How to create those advantages is they key question. Petersen believes strongly in keeping his options open once he gets to the line of scrimmage both in terms of play calls and alignment of personnel. One of the reasons that you see so many formations and so much shifting of formations pre-snap is because Petersen and his players are reacting to whatever it is they see from the defense in order to gain an advantage.

There are generally two types of advantages that Petersen is chasing. The first is a straight-up numbers advantage. By shifting a TE in motion away from the strong side of the defense over to the weak side, he can effectively create a new rushing gap for a ball carrier to run through where there isn't an extra defender. Pretty easy stuff and, frankly, pretty easy for the defense to adjust to. But, when Petersen has three players change their position pre-snap and then puts another guy in motion, the number of moving pieces are harder for the defense to follow and allow Petersen a better chance at creating an undefended gap for a ball carrier. Here is an example of some of that shifting and motion taken from Friday night.

The second type of advantage that Petersen is going for is one of leverage. Not only is he concerning himself with the number of blockers versus defenders, but he's trying to create a favorable angles to make it easier for his players to win their 1:1 matchups. Whenever you hear Petersen talking about the "details" on offense, odds are that he is talking about leverage. To establish this advantage, the post-snap movements by the blockers, the motion man and the ball carrier / quaterback all need to be in synch. If a RB takes an outward cut on a play where the blockers are trying to create an inside lane, the leverage is lost.

Check out this simple example from the Cactus Bowl. On this play, you'll see two failures. After the snap, the slot receiver blocks down on the OLB. The RT is supposed to seal off the DE to create an outside running lane for Dwayne Washington. There is not a numbers advantage here, but there is a clear intent to create leverage and space with both the blocking and the Z receiver clearing out his CB with the route. But the RT can't pin is guy in. The DE wins the 1:1 and gets outside the block, thus turning Dwayne Washington back inside (failure #2) where UW has no leverage.

Details, people! There was a safety coming down, so it's not exactly clear that D-Dubs would have gone long had that play gotten outside, but it would've certainly been a 1:1 between Dwayne and the S - a matchup that fits his strengths as a RB. With that in mind, this was a good play call, but the execution failed.

There's more.

Dont want yo have a seizure reading all of that.

 

[Common Sense]

I'm not sure. But I'll take a stab at it. Chris Peterson was the HC at Boise State when Moore was their QB. This offense is often associated with what Moore will try to install as the Cowboys OC. Or at least use it to add some tweaks and wrinkle to the Cowboys O.

All of this is interesting, but I don't think I've seen anywhere yet where the team has said that they will actually be incorporating Boise St. principles into their offense. Did I miss something, or are we just taking speculation from random fan bloggers and running with it?

 

[Sammy]

All of this is interesting, but I don't think I've seen anywhere yet where the team has said that they will actually be incorporating Boise St. principles into their offense. Did I miss something, or are we just taking speculation from random fan bloggers and running with it?

 

[visionary]

All of this is interesting, but I don't think I've seen anywhere yet where the team has said that they will actually be incorporating Boise St. principles into their offense. Did I miss something, or are we just taking speculation from random fan bloggers and running with it?

Exactly
Moore won't be incorporating what he learned at Boise, he'll be incorporating what he has learned from Garrett

 

[xwalker]

This article is from Sept. 07, 2015 Washington vs. Boise State. Chris Peterson was the HC of Washington.

I omitted the introduction to the story and some pictures and gifs.

https://www.uwdawgpound.com/2015/9/7/9268965/washington-huskies-offense-expained-2015

A Numbers Game
At the heart of the Petersen philosophy is the idea that athletic disadvantages can be neutralized simply by outnumbering your opponent at the point of attack. Groundbreaking sentiment, I know. However, this one principle neatly explains why Petersen is less concerned with things like having a defining tempo or a defining playing style. He wants to create situations where there are more blockers than defenders wherever it is that he wants to put the ball and he is willing to pull the levers of "formation" and "tempo" to do it.

How to create those advantages is they key question. Petersen believes strongly in keeping his options open once he gets to the line of scrimmage both in terms of play calls and alignment of personnel. One of the reasons that you see so many formations and so much shifting of formations pre-snap is because Petersen and his players are reacting to whatever it is they see from the defense in order to gain an advantage.

There are generally two types of advantages that Petersen is chasing. The first is a straight-up numbers advantage. By shifting a TE in motion away from the strong side of the defense over to the weak side, he can effectively create a new rushing gap for a ball carrier to run through where there isn't an extra defender. Pretty easy stuff and, frankly, pretty easy for the defense to adjust to. But, when Petersen has three players change their position pre-snap and then puts another guy in motion, the number of moving pieces are harder for the defense to follow and allow Petersen a better chance at creating an undefended gap for a ball carrier. Here is an example of some of that shifting and motion taken from Friday night.

The second type of advantage that Petersen is going for is one of leverage. Not only is he concerning himself with the number of blockers versus defenders, but he's trying to create a favorable angles to make it easier for his players to win their 1:1 matchups. Whenever you hear Petersen talking about the "details" on offense, odds are that he is talking about leverage. To establish this advantage, the post-snap movements by the blockers, the motion man and the ball carrier / quaterback all need to be in synch. If a RB takes an outward cut on a play where the blockers are trying to create an inside lane, the leverage is lost.

Check out this simple example from the Cactus Bowl. On this play, you'll see two failures. After the snap, the slot receiver blocks down on the OLB. The RT is supposed to seal off the DE to create an outside running lane for Dwayne Washington. There is not a numbers advantage here, but there is a clear intent to create leverage and space with both the blocking and the Z receiver clearing out his CB with the route. But the RT can't pin is guy in. The DE wins the 1:1 and gets outside the block, thus turning Dwayne Washington back inside (failure #2) where UW has no leverage.

Details, people! There was a safety coming down, so it's not exactly clear that D-Dubs would have gone long had that play gotten outside, but it would've certainly been a 1:1 between Dwayne and the S - a matchup that fits his strengths as a RB. With that in mind, this was a good play call, but the execution failed.

There's more.

The Rams use many of the concepts that Boise St. has used.

Leverage is a big part of what the Rams did in 2018.

They use motion and play design to get a leverage advantage much like teams use play action (run fakes) to get a spacing advantage for receivers/QBs.

 

[Oz-of-Cowboy-Country]

Exactly
Moore won't be incorporating what he learned at Boise, he'll be incorporating what he has learned from Garrett

The only thing Moore learned from Garrett his how to powder his hands before clapping for three hours.

 

[PhillySpecial]

The Rams use many of the concepts that Boise St. has used.

Leverage is a big part of what the Rams did in 2018.

They use motion and play design to get a leverage advantage much like teams use play action (run fakes) to get a spacing advantage for receivers/QBs.

I don't break down film or anything. If they had the resources available 20 years ago that they have now, I'd have been right on it. Having said that, it seemed the Patriots weren't following any of the misdirection. It seems they stayed where they lined up, and attacked vertically at the snap. I don't know if that's what they actually did. It just seemed that way.

 

[GenoT]

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[BrAinPaiNt]

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Give this poster a

 

[BrAinPaiNt]

This article is from Sept. 07, 2015 Washington vs. Boise State. Chris Peterson was the HC of Washington.

I omitted the introduction to the story and some pictures and gifs.

https://www.uwdawgpound.com/2015/9/7/9268965/washington-huskies-offense-expained-2015

A Numbers Game
At the heart of the Petersen philosophy is the idea that athletic disadvantages can be neutralized simply by outnumbering your opponent at the point of attack. Groundbreaking sentiment, I know. However, this one principle neatly explains why Petersen is less concerned with things like having a defining tempo or a defining playing style. He wants to create situations where there are more blockers than defenders wherever it is that he wants to put the ball and he is willing to pull the levers of "formation" and "tempo" to do it.

How to create those advantages is they key question. Petersen believes strongly in keeping his options open once he gets to the line of scrimmage both in terms of play calls and alignment of personnel. One of the reasons that you see so many formations and so much shifting of formations pre-snap is because Petersen and his players are reacting to whatever it is they see from the defense in order to gain an advantage.

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In the future, please do not post full articles.

A couple of paragraphs and a link to the article will work.

 

[PhillySpecial]

In the future, please do not post full articles.

A couple of paragraphs and a link to the article will work.

I will take heed in the future. I wasn't aware this type of posting was frowned upon. It was such a lengthy article, I thought it would be easier to read by breaking it down into different posts.

My apologies.

 

[Floatyworm]

This article is from Sept. 07, 2015 Washington vs. Boise State. Chris Peterson was the HC of Washington.

I omitted the introduction to the story and some pictures and gifs.

https://www.uwdawgpound.com/2015/9/7/9268965/washington-huskies-offense-expained-2015

A Numbers Game
At the heart of the Petersen philosophy is the idea that athletic disadvantages can be neutralized simply by outnumbering your opponent at the point of attack. Groundbreaking sentiment, I know. However, this one principle neatly explains why Petersen is less concerned with things like having a defining tempo or a defining playing style. He wants to create situations where there are more blockers than defenders wherever it is that he wants to put the ball and he is willing to pull the levers of "formation" and "tempo" to do it.

How to create those advantages is they key question. Petersen believes strongly in keeping his options open once he gets to the line of scrimmage both in terms of play calls and alignment of personnel. One of the reasons that you see so many formations and so much shifting of formations pre-snap is because Petersen and his players are reacting to whatever it is they see from the defense in order to gain an advantage.

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Sounds about right...question is...do we have a QB smart enough to get us into the right plays. All this is predicated on having the right guy making the right reads. Kellen can only do so much from a head set during game time. It will be up to Dak to study the playbook...and game plan for the week...and know the situation...and how to combate what defenses are doing to him.